June 2011 - Thoroughbred Owner and Breeder Magazine

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Royal Male Can Carlton House deliver the Derby to The Queen?

Plus • Marcus Tregoning talks exclusively about life after Sir Percy and Makfi • Olivier Peslier: globetrotting jockey and paintball fanatic is riding high • International runners prepare to take on Frankel at Royal Ascot

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ORATORIO (First crop 4YO’s)

Proven Group 1 sire of Dewhurst Stakes 1-2 BEETHOVEN and FENCING MASTER, dual Group 2-winning 2YO KING TORUS, triple Group winner LOLLY FOR DOLLY etc.

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (First crop 3YO’s)

Already in 2011, dual Group winner BANIMPIRE, Group winner SANDSLASH and Tetrarch Stakes-L.R. winner IMPERIAL ROME etc.

STALLIONS FOR 2011 • ALFRED NOBEL • AUSSIE RULES • CHOISIR • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MONTJEU • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • RIP VAN WINKLE • • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • STRATEGIC PRINCE • THEWAYYOUARE• YEATS •

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AUSSIE RULES (First crop 3YO’s)

Already 6 Stakes winners including Listed winner and Italian Derby-Gr.2 runner-up CAZALS, unbeaten Group-winning 2YO DJUMAMA, smart sprinter DINKUM DIAMOND etc.

DYLAN THOMAS (First crop 2YO’s)

His first runner SNOWFLAKE DANCER was a winner over 5 furlongs for Jim Bolger.

Banimpire (HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR) defeats the colts in the Ballysax Stakes-Gr.3 before adding the Victor McCalmont Memorial Stakes-L.R. and the Blue Wind Stakes-Gr.3.

Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382.

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne or Mathieu Legars.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156.

E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com

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Royal Male Carlton House is Derby favourite for The Queen

Plus • Marcus Tregoning talks exclusively about life after Sir Percy and Makfi • Olivier Peslier: globetrotting jockey and paintball fanatic is riding high • International runners prepare to take on Frankel at Royal Ascot

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Cover: The Queen’s Carlton House wins the Dante Photo: George Selwyn

EDWARD ROSENTHAL

Royal fervour set to hit concert pitch at Epsom C

an the Queen win the Derby after almost 60 years of ownership? With the other home Classics in the bag, the task falls upon impressive Dante winner Carlton House to complete the set for Her Majesty.

The prospect of a royal runner, let alone hot favourite, competing in this year’s blue riband looked unlikely 12 months ago, when we ran a feature looking at the monarch’s involvement in racing and breeding.

John Warren, her bloodstock and racing advisor, said at the time: “People often ask me why the Queen hasn’t won the Derby. But even the big owner/breeders don’t have a runner every year. There are all sorts of other pleasures she takes from the sport.”

While this statement may be true, it would surely mean everything to the Queen to see her famous silks pass the post first on June 4, albeit with a horse not bred by the Royal Studs, but received as a gift from Sheikh Mohammed.

And what a boost it would give to racing. This Flat season has been set alight by the brilliance of Frankel; a victory for the Queen in the Derby, with all the media attention that goes with it, would provide the sport with its dream scenario at a time when it is trying hard to engage with a wider audience.

The Derby theme runs unmistakably through this issue, from the cover shot of Carlton House, to the Great Owner/Breeders article on Paul Mellon, to features with Marcus Tregoning, Olivier Peslier and Bernard Kantor, to the back page image of Shahrastani defeating Dancing Brave in the 1986 renewal.

Marcus Tregoning, who served his apprenticeship with the late, great Dick Hern during the years of Nashwan and Dayjur, enjoyed Epsom glory with Sir Percy in 2006.

Whilst his winners’ tally has remained respectable since, the lack of top runners – a situation compounded by the sale of Makfi, subsequently successful in the 2,000 Guineas and Prix Jacques le Marois, unraced from his stable – has made for a challenging period at Kingwood House.

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Yet Tregoning is to be found in defiant mood as he looks forward to the rest of the campaign, refusing to dwell on what might have been, and taking inspiration from his former mentor.

“If things were going wrong and everything was against him, with a yard full of viruses and difficult owners, he was absolutely brilliant – almost better backed into a corner than when things were going well,” he tells Chris McGrath (pages 44-47).

“We’ve had a time of deep recession but I’m not a doomand-gloom person – never have been. Yes, we’ve had a couple of quiet years, and our numbers are down. But it is only five years since we won the Derby, for goodness sake.

“We’ve had some very good horses and hopefully we’ll get them again. I think it’s a matter of making [ownership] entertaining and fighting your corner.”

One man you would want in your corner at Epsom is Olivier Peslier, who has become something of a ‘go-to’ jockey in the big races.

French riders have not always been very popular on these shores but Peslier’s fan club – Sir Michael Stoute, Luca Cumani and Ed Dunlop are all paid-up members – seems ever-growing.

High-Rise’s 1998 Derby victory remains one of Peslier’s most treasured racing memories, not only because of what it meant to him, but also the much-maligned image of his fellow countrymen.

“Winning the Derby is my best memory of racing in England,” he says to Julian Muscat (pages 38-42). “It was my first Derby in Europe but, more importantly, it was very hard for French jockeys to get a ride in the race at that time.

“Trainers in England never used us, so of course it made me very proud.”

Also this month, Bernard Kantor, founder of Derby sponsor Investec, talks to Tim Richards about his vision for the race (pages 35-37), we look at the overseas challenge at Royal Ascot (pages 49-51) and recognise the stud achievements of the great Sadler’s Wells (pages 10-13).

“Victory for Carlton House, with all the media attention, would be the sport’s dream scenario

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CONTENTS JUNE 2011

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NEWS & VIEWS

FEATURES

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ROA Leader ’Right to bet’ a popular move

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TBA Leader The Queen is racing’s star asset

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News Whip review under way

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Changes Your monthly news wrap-up

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Olivier Peslier The man the top trainers turn to in the big races

The Big Picture Frankel is fantastic

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Talking To...

Investec’s Bernard Kantor

Sadler’s Wells tribute The greatest sire in recent times

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Great Owner/Breeders

Marcus Tregoning Derby-winning handler on the challenges ahead

Paul Mellon

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Royal Ascot Preview Overseas raiders in focus

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Tony Morris Privileged to watch Frankel live

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Sales Circuit Breeze-up and jumping sales

James Willoughby Sectional timings much needed

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Flashback Shahrastani’s 1986 Derby

INTERNATIONAL SCENE 28

View From Ireland Irish National Stud future debate

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Continental Tales Gary Carter’s career revival

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Going Global Kentucky Derby highs and lows

Bernard Kantor (right) is hoping for a royal winner in the Investec Derby (p.35)

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Vet Forum

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Racing Welfare

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ROA LEADER

PAUL DIXON President Racehorse Owners Association

Government must close offshore loophole Primary legislation will be required to change racing’s funding system

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ow much is British racing losing as a result of bookmakers and betting exchanges moving offshore? It was assessed at £10 million before Betfair’s recent move. Now the annual projected loss to the levy is thought to be around £16m and growing.

The increasing offshore effect means the government’s projection of racing’s annual income from the levy of between £75m to £80m is already looking optimistic.

Making bookmakers pay another 0.75% on the levy was a thin crust for the government to throw in the last levy determination and now it seems to have been a poisoned one, providing even more encouragement for members of the betting industry to move their online and call centre operations overseas.

Although we know the problem is growing, no in-depth research seems to have been undertaken to assess the exact level of the decline, or to identify those bookmakers who have gained most from exploiting this loophole to avoid their tax and levy commitments on UK horserace betting. This work is long overdue. It is surely a document that DCMS and Treasury officials would comb through with increasing alarm, if only because of the effect on their tax revenues.

The problem has reached such a pitch that, even if a bookmaker doesn’t want to move overseas, he would surely now take the view that his offshore rivals are enjoying such a competitive advantage that he has no option. And from a purely commercial perspective, you have to ask, who can blame him?

Unfortunately, there is no legal sanction to prevent bookmakers or the exchanges from conducting their businesses in this way.

It is partly because of concerns surrounding this extraordinary growth of remote gambling that DCMS has launched a pre-consultation exercise into the levy, acknowledging at last that the Levy Board, which is enshrined in 1960s legislation, can continue to be effective only if significant changes are made to its

underlying principles – or it is replaced with a completely new funding mechanism. Either way, the fraught and time-consuming exercise of introducing primary legislation is something that racing will have to face up to if it is to achieve a fairer system for funding the sport.

Of the three options recently proposed by government, the one being most enthusiastically received by racing is, of course, the very same one that bookmakers will use all the might of their lobbying machine to get rejected.

The proposal of establishing a statutory ‘right to bet’ for British horseracing is gaining momentum, while the betting industry continues to push for a supply-anddemand commercial relationship which would allow them to pay only for the right to use pictures in betting shops and nothing else.

Racing can take some comfort that the government has acknowledged ‘right to bet’ as a possible route for the future. The scheme would mean that racing is granted a property right – similar to that which now exists in the music business – which it could sell to the betting industry in a form of licence. Without this licence, it would be illegal for any betting operator to take bets on British horseracing.

One of several attractions associated with ‘right to bet’ is that it would create a level playing field between offshore and onshore betting, and between traditional bookmaker and exchanges.

Whether a bookmaker operated from Gibraltar or the West Indies, he would have to pay for the right to take bets on British horseracing, although, admittedly, the policing of this would create some difficulties.

Once enshrined in law, ‘right to bet’ would create a sustainable long-term funding solution for racing and allow the government to remove itself from any further involvement. British racing could then live up to its magnificent overseas reputation by establishing itself as the predominant world-wide betting medium and enjoy the huge benefits to flow from that position.

“The ‘right to bet’

option would create a sustainable long-term funding solution for racing

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Beginning in 2011, for 50% of the stallion’s advertised fee, European stallion managers can ensure that their stallions’ entire foal crops for 2011 and 2012 will be nominated for free to the Breeders’ Cup’s $30 million (U.S. Dollars) racing programs, including the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

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TBA LEADER

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

A royal Derby winner is an enticing prospect All eyes will be on Carlton House to provide a result for us to savour

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he end of April and early May produced some breathtaking results on the racecourse. Frankel’s 2,000 Guineas win must rate as the highlight and, whilst we eagerly anticipate his next engagement, the prospect of his eventual retirement to Newmarket would boost British breeding at a time when it is essential that we continue to produce world-class performers and attract investment to our industry.

The breeding industry cannot do this single-handedly and we must educate elements of the racing industry as to the need for a well-funded race programme, devised to incentivise and reward the best to support owner/breeders who are fundamental to the success of our sport.

Support for the Pattern and our top-class races is essential.

The TBA intends to continue to play a prominent role in ensuring that British racing remains competitive on the international stage.

As this magazine went to press, the field was being finalised for the Derby, which is again generously sponsored by Investec. The prospect of a royal winner in Carlton House, who won his trial in the Dante Stakes at York in such taking fashion, would mark as one of the greatest attractions Epsom has to offer the many racegoers that will head to the Downs for the greatest Classic.

The patronage given by Her Majesty The Queen to racing and breeding is probably the most compelling attraction that our sport possesses and her obvious delight for her horses is inspiring. Her support does more for our sport than any amount of inventive marketing.

We are indeed fortunate to have the Queen as patron of the TBA and I’m sure I am not alone in hoping that she enjoys a successful season.

May also marked the formal commencement of the discussions regarding the restructure of British racing.

The TBA welcomes the progress being made by the Horsemen’s Group and the Racecourse Group over fixtures and the racing programme, but continues to be

concerned over the future of quality racing and the retention of the Pattern.

The Horsemen’s Fixture and Race Planning Committee, on which the TBA is represented by Julian Richmond-Watson, must work closely with the Racecourse Group to ensure that a suitable mechanism is found to safeguard the integrity of the Pattern and make sure that in the new commercial world modernisation enhances the Pattern and its status.

Central funding will be essential in supporting those races, which can often attract fewer runners but which are so important to the breed.

The Levy Board’s recent proposal to increase its Quality Support Fund in 2012 is welcome news, but this increase must be sufficient to make a material difference if we are to maintain quality in Great Britain.

Careful financial management has enabled the TBA to provide prize-money to support a number of these career progression races which have suffered as a result of the cutbacks to the Quality Support Fund.

Whilst the TBA’s sponsorship will be modest in commercial terms, we will be working with the BHA and our racecourse partners to deliver this by the most effective means in the second half of the year.

I am also delighted to announce that the TBA has extended its commitment to veterinary research in 2011.

Working with the Levy Board’s Veterinary Advisory Committee, the Levy Board and TBA have recently advertised for applications for a three-year Veterinary Research Training Scholarship in equine reproduction, providing an annual grant of £30,000, open to UK-based PhD research scholars (see page 68).

The TBA Annual General Meeting takes place on June 28 at Tattersalls and with such a number of crucial issues facing our industry I do hope that members will support the Association with their attendance. We look forward to seeing you there.

“The Queen’s support

of racing and breeding is probably the most compelling attraction our sport possesses

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SADLER’S WELLS TRIBUTE

“The most unbelievable stallion we could ever have wished for”

EMMA BERRY

Sadler’s Wells (USA) (Northern Dancer – Fairy Bridge (Bold Reason)) April 11, 1981 – April 26, 2011

Sadler’s Wells pictured last September, aged 29, in his paddock at Coolmore, where he had lived since retiring to stud in 1985

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trainer Horatio Luro – and El Gran Senor did indeed appear such a horse.

Having won the 1983 Dewhurst, El Gran Senor began the season under a weight of expectation, with Sadler’s Wells merely one member of a strong supporting cast. While lacking the obvious star quality of his paternal half-brother, however, Sadler’s Wells brought tremendous toughness and courage to the table, alongside his ever-more-apparent ability.

Having surprised his connections by winning the Irish 2,000 Guineas at 10-1 with veteran jockey George McGrath wearing Sangster’s second colours (Pat Eddery having preferred to ride Capture Him in the race), the little fighter went from strength to strength as the summer progressed. Come the autumn, he had trebled his tally of Group 1 victories,

SIRE OF SIRES Though initially there was a question mark over Sadler’s Wells’s claim as a sire of sires, the likes of Galileo and Montjeu in particular have long since erased any doubts.

His sons can be found the world over but Coolmore arguably hold the crown jewels in the aforementioned duo and High Chaparral. It was fitting that in the week following his death, the two horses to set the racing world alight were his grandsons Frankel and So You Think, sons of his Derby-winning duo Galileo and High Chaparral.

The international influence of Sadler’s Wells: SIRE (country where most successful)

GALILEO (IRE/AUS) MONTJEU (IRE/NZ) COOLMORE

hirty years ago, if an owner or trainer wished to give himself the best chance of buying a yearling with genuine pretensions to winning the Derby, he was obliged to head to Kentucky for the Keeneland July Sale. While Britain was still home to a handful of established owner/breeders’ studs which collectively produced a few Classic prospects each year, the world’s best stallions were located in Kentucky, and the American yearling sales were thus the place where Europeans might find their Classic prospects.

Those days now seem a lifetime away. That is, of course, because they are a lifetime away: Sadler’s Wells’s lifetime. And it was largely the achievements of Sadler’s Wells during his glorious 30-year life which made the difference.

Sadler’s Wells, who died at his home at Coolmore Stud on April 26, almost singlehandedly repaired the damage which had been done to Europe’s stallion ranks by the decades which had seen the pick of Europe’s Classic colts and stallions exported westwards. What the great Anglophile Paul Mellon had started when steering Mill Reef towards the British National Stud, Sadler’s Wells completed: the leading studs of Britain and Ireland are once more the home of the Classic racehorse.

Bred by Robert Sangster in America, Sadler’s Wells was one of a batch of impeccably-bred colts to arrive at Ballydoyle in the autumn of 1982. A little dark bay colt very much in the mould of his father – with a sturdy body, strong legs and a bold but kind white face – Sadler’s Wells did not really stand out among Vincent O’Brien’s two-year-olds during the following year. Easily the star of the show appeared to be El Gran Senor, as his name implies. Sangster had come to share O’Brien’s

“Ultimately his first crop proved to contain six Group 1 winners”

reverence for Northern Dancer, the legendary Irish trainer having been introduced to the great stallion’s magic by the brilliant majesty of his second-crop son Nijinsky, whom he had trained to win the Triple Crown for Charles Engelhard in 1970. O’Brien and Sangster had vowed that, when they came upon Northern Dancer’s perfect son, they would name him ‘El Gran Senor’ in honour of the great horse’s THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE/NZ) IN THE WINGS (IRE, deceased) courtesy of hard-fought wins in the Eclipse Stakes (beating Time Charter) and the Phoenix Park Champion Stakes, and he had shown equal merit in defeat, splitting firstly Darshaan and Rainbow Quest in the Prix du JockeyClub, and then Teenoso and Tolomeo in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.

Despite the admirable racing record which Sadler’s Wells had compiled by the end of the year, El Gran Senor was still the one who radiated star quality, having recorded easy victories in the 2,000 Guineas and Irish Derby on either side of his famously agonising defeat at Epsom. He was duly sent back to the land of their birth to start a stud career which would be severely hampered by below-par fertility, while Sadler’s Wells took the short drive down the road to Coolmore Stud, where he would remain for the rest of his life. Thus began the most prolifically successful stud career which Europe has ever seen.

As a Group 1-winning son of Northern Dancer from a top-class half-sister to Nureyev, Sadler’s Wells was favoured with good mares right from the beginning, as his first-season stud fee of IR£125,000 implies. There is, however, the world of difference between being given opportunities and being able to capitalise on them – but as soon as Sadler’s Wells began to have runners during the

BARATHEA (IRE/AUS, deceased) EL PRADO (USA, deceased) SCENIC (AUS, deceased) CARNEGIE (AUS/JPN, retired) POLIGLOTE (FR/ARG) ALNASR ALWASHEEK (IND) FORT WOOD (SA) OPERA HOUSE (JPN) DUSHYANTOR (CHI) STAGECRAFT (CHI) SADDLERS’ HALL (GB, deceased) SHOLOKHOV (GER) And some grandsons to follow: AUTHORIZED HURRICANE RUN KITTEN’S JOY MEDAGLIA D’ORO NEW APPROACH TEOFILO

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SADLER’S WELLS TRIBUTE >> summer of 1988, it was clear that he was more BROODMARE SIRE Sadler’s Wells was champion broodmare sire in Britain and Ireland from 2005 to 2010 inclusive, and he looks sure to remain amongst the most successful in this sphere for at least another decade.

DAM (Group 1-winning progeny)

SOVIET MOON (Workforce) PLUM FAIRY (Stand To Gain) VISIONS OF CLARITY (Pathfork) RING OF MUSIC (Campanologist) CHIANG MAI (Chinese White) WELL HEAD (Conduit) QUEEN TITI (Beethoven) NOTE MUSICALE (Musical Chimes, Music Note) INTERIM (Midships) LADY ELGAR (Grand Couturier) SEQUOYAH (Henrythenavigator)

SIRE OF JUMP SIRES

than worthy of so high a fee. By winning at Chantilly that June, In The Wings got the production-line rolling. By dead-heating in the Dewhurst, Scenic and Prince Of Dance then ensured that Sadler’s Wells ended the season already established as a sire of Classic prospects – and the rest is pretty much history.

Ultimately that first crop proved to contain six Group 1 winners, headed by the widemargin Prix du Jockey-Club and Irish Derby winner In The Wings, while Sadler’s Wells’s second crop contained two more, including Salsabil. That wonderful filly, so much her father’s daughter, won four Group 1 races during her Classic campaign in 1990, including the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and Irish Derby, thus doing much to help crown Sadler’s Wells as the champion sire of Britain and Ireland for the first time. This began an astonishing sequence: Sadler’s Wells was champion sire in 14 of the 15 years from 1990, the only exception coming in 1991 when Generous’s feats took fellow Coolmore resident Caerleon to the top of the table. To date, he has sired 73 Group 1 winners and, having been retired from active stud duties in 2008, his final crop of runners are three this year.

In the modern era, one hurdler stands head and shoulders above all others: Istabraq. A Sadler’s Wells half-brother to the 1984 Derby winner Secreto, clearly he was intended for greatness on the level, but after a Flat career which garnered two wins and four seconds from 11 starts, Istabraq was switched to hurdling with devastating effect.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained gelding (he had been trained by John Gosden on the Flat) won the Royal & SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham before annexing three consecutive Champion Hurdles, being robbed of a chance to secure a record fourth win in the race in the year of the Festival’s abandonment during the foot and mouth crisis. He also won Ireland’s Champion Hurdle three times. In total, he was successful in 23 of his 29 races over hurdles and was runner-up on a further three occasions.

The name Sadler’s Wells has figured fairly prominently in the jump sires’ tables over the last decade – most recently with 2010

SADIMA (Youmzain, Creachadoir) MARYINSKY (Peeping Fawn, Thewayyouare) GOSSAMER (Ibn Khaldun) CLEPSYDRA (Passage Of Time) SKY SONG (Laverock) ROSE OF TRALEE (Serenade Rose)

Wells era. All of us lucky enough to have seen and touched the great horse will forever remember him.”

BADIUS (Bad Girl Runs) FIRST ACT (Heavenly Romance) CORALINE (Reefscape) IMAGINE (Horatio Nelson) GEORGE SELWYN

MYTH TO REALITY (Divine Proportions, Whipper) KIROV PREMIERE (Cesario) LEGEND MAKER (Virginia Waters) MEMORY (Verbena Rak) WELLS FARGO (American Post) THAWAKIB (Sakhee) SADDLERS GAL (El Condor Pasa) ARVOLA (Diktat) DANCE OF LEAVES (Medaaly) OH SO WELL (Dark Moondancer) REEM ALBARAARI (Morshdi) ITQAN (Hello) SWELL TIME (Sumati) MINUTE WALTZ (May Ball)

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Tributes from breeding industry experts: Kirsten Rausing: “Sadler’s Wells was more than a legend. He formed the basis of Coolmore’s enormous success but in so doing also formatted the European and, to an extent, worldwide development of the thoroughbred breed in the late 20th century. His influence in the thoroughbred industry will, of course, be everlasting, equalled so far only by St Simon in the 19th century and by his own sire Northern Dancer, contemporarily.

“All modern thoroughbred breeders will be grateful to have lived through the Sadler’s

Andrew Caulfield: “Superlatives are greatly overused in the world of sport, but no-one could begrudge their being used about Sadler’s Wells, with his phenomenal record of 14 sires’ championships in the space of 15 years. No stallion has come close to such dominance in Britain and Ireland – not even the legendary stallions which operated during the much less competitive eras of the 18th and 19th centuries.

“He was also dominant in that it was usually easy to spot one of his progeny. A dominant bay who sometimes passed on his prominent blaze and a sock or two, he also became synonymous with soundness and dependability.”

Alex Scrope: “Sadler’s Wells has the ability to become one of the rarest of influences in the thoroughbred breed. Already he has proved himself to be a sire capable of siring sires as good as himself and daughters who have repeatedly raised him to the top of the broodmare sire lists. There are those great

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Welsh National winner Synchronised – and Montjeu sired two winners at this year’s Cheltenham Festival: Champion Hurdle winner Hurricane Fly and Noble Prince.

But the National Hunt stallion list is inundated with sons of Sadler’s Wells specifically advertised under the jumping banner, with King’s Theatre and Oscar having been his most successful flag-bearers in the 2010/11 season, the former being responsible for Riverside Theatre, Captain Chris, Menorah and Cue Card, and the latter for Big Zeb, Peddlers Cross, Oscar Whisky and Oscar Time.

Most successful stallion sons under National Hunt rules: ACCORDION

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BRIAN BORU

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equal stature as sires and superb broodmares, and to create a genuine dynasty.

“Phalaris was foaled in 1902 and by 2010, 34 of the 36 individual European three-yearold Group 1 winners during the season descended from him in tail male line. Thirty-

John Magnier (speaking exclusively to Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder for our feature on the legacy of Northern Dancer last October): “Sadler’s Wells was the most unbelievable stallion we could ever have wished for. He brought Coolmore to a completely different level. We have a lot to be grateful to him for and are delighted to have four of his very best sons standing here.” ■

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stallions which produce horses as good as or better than themselves on the racecourse but whose influence at the highest level lasts only for their own lifetime. There are very few who pass on the ability not only to race to the highest level but also to produce both sons of

one of the 34 descend from his grandson Nearco. Nearco was foaled in 1935 and died in 1957. Nearco has taken over as patriarch of the breed in Europe half a century after his own death and from this point in history it appears that Sadler’s Wells may prove to be the next of these illustrious rarities. Time will tell.

“The great horse may have died but his influence is far from gone from our lives.”

A simple tribute at Coolmore Stud, where a stretch of paddock rails display the names of Sadler’s Wells’s 73 Group 1 winners

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NEWS Stories from the racing world

BHA goes global in whip research Initiative with USA and Hong Kong will inform current review The British Horseracing Authority has joined forces with the US Jockey Club and Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) to try to harmonise horserace whip specifications worldwide.

As the BHA conducts a review into the whip set to be published in October, an international research project is underway that aims to produce a uniform whip specification that will guide all racing authorities.

Coordinating that project is Professor Tim Morris, Director of Equine Science and Welfare at the BHA “The current whip is approved by the BHA, the PJA and the RSPCA but we want to move beyond the simple specifications of size and thickness,” Morris revealed. “We want a functional specification of what the whip should do, i.e. how bendy it should be, how the padding should absorb energy. This requires engineering expertise.

“Researchers at the University of Nottingham have been working on the whip.

They have found that the degree of stiffness and the energy absorption of the foam is just the type we want; if anything it might be a little too flexible. But you have to be very careful about strengthening the whip because then it might lead to injury.

“At the same time, the US Jockey Club, with the University of Maine, was looking at their different whips and looking for a defined test, like a British Standard or Kitemark, which they could use to create a whip specification.

“The HKJC is also considering starting research into the whip, measuring things like the acceleration force of a forehand and backhand.

These three pieces of research are synergetic so it makes sense to work together. In addition, it also shares the costs involved.

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“Ultimately, we want a whip specification that is advised by sound understanding of the science of its use, coupled with a clear policy on its acceptable use. If we do that, we can go to the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities’ Welfare Committee to propose a functional standard for whips globally.

“We hope that the US research will lead to a ‘how to test’ specification so racing authorities everywhere can use it. It’s like saying bumpers on cars must absorb a certain amount of energy, so that they can be used by Ford or Mazda or Rolls Royce or any manufacturer, for example. Setting a broad international standard is the objective of this research.”

Morris said he also hoped to include as many findings as possible from the study into the current whip review.

“Clearly, this is very relevant to the work that is ongoing at the BHA. We’ll move as fast as possible – there are limitations on how quickly you can get results. But we’re trying to make sure that the science informs our policy.

“Does anything need to be done about the design of the whip? No, not until we really understand the results of this research.

Any changes will be based on an internationally-coordinated programme of research.”

The BHA, which has held a number of internal meetings regarding the whip review, will now enter into discussions with a number of external stakeholders, including the Racehorse Owners Association, Professional Jockeys Association and Racecourse Association.

It will also seek talks with prominent veterinarians, Britain’s racing schools and charities including World Horse Welfare and the RSPCA, which has called for jockeys to be banned from using the whip in the forehand position “where a high level of force is applied”.

Tim Morris: “cooperation makes sense”

Jamie Stier, the BHA’s Director of Raceday Operations and Regulation, said: “There’s been no policy formulated yet – as well as talking to racing’s stakeholders, we’re assessing lots of data regarding whip offences since 2004 and the myriad of statistics that comes with it.

“We’re well under way with the review and intend to get through most of it by midAugust, providing we have cooperation from all the external groups we want to consult.

“In addition, we need to speak to individuals – jockeys and trainers – and courses like Towcester, which is not represented by the Racecourse Association.”

A separate BHA review into the Grand National, which this year claimed the lives of two horses and saw winner Ballabriggs require water and oxygen after the race, is also ongoing and has a similar timeframe.

“We’ve got a team working on the National. It won’t need consultation from as many parties as the whip review, but we have already spoken to Aintree,” Stier said.

With jockeys under scrutiny more than ever before over their use of the whip, PJA Chief Executive Kevin Darley feels a sense of perspective is needed in the debate.

He said: “Jockeys appreciate the public perception of hitting horses but there are rules in place and if you break the rules, you get punished.

“Yes, it doesn’t look good when the whips are flailing but I don’t think we need to make any radical changes. People are pointing the finger at racing but let’s not forget other sports use the whip also, like showjumping and eventing.”

Darley added: “You couldn’t expect any rider to sit on a thoroughbred without the assistance of a whip. It does make a popping sound when used but it doesn’t hurt the horse – it’s simply used to keep the horse focussed.”

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National Stud celebrates 25 years of diploma course with reunion A reunion for all graduates to mark the 25th anniversary of the National Stud’s diploma course has been planned to coincide with the 2011 diploma graduation ceremony on June 24 in Newmarket.

“Graduation is always a big day for us as it marks the achievement of each student cohort and this year it seemed logical to combine the event with the 25th anniversary celebrations,” said National Stud Chairman Christopher Spence.

As students on the current course are preparing to move on, applications are already being invited for the 2012 course, for which interviews will be conducted in October. The diploma course, which runs annually from February to June, combines a practical and theoretical study programme for young people eager to pursue a career in the thoroughbred breeding industry. The course is unique in funding students through a vocational programme that has an excellent employment record for its successful graduates.

Graduates of the National Stud course have a great start in the breeding industry

A notable recent achievement has been that of Stephen Heath, who graduated in 2009 having arrived on the course with no practical bloodstock experience but has subsequently been accepted for the prestigious Darley Flying Start programme.

“The diploma course gave me the best possible start in this industry,” said Heath. “It

took me from a complete novice to a position where I was able to do yearling prep for Voute Sales then work for Lane’s End and Newsells Park before applying to Darley.”

Graduates of the course who would like to attend the reunion can contact Leaya Slater on Leaya.slater@nationalstud.co.uk or on 01638 675922 for further details.

Lady riders boost Racing to School project

Sally Rowley-Williams (right) presents the cheque on behalf of Women In Racing

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A charity ladies’ race at Ascot organised by Women In Racing raised £11,000 for Racing to School, an education programme devised by the British Horseracing Education and Standards Trust (BHEST).

Emma Littmoden rode the Gay Kellewaytrained Burning Stone to victory in the mile race, with Kelleway second aboard another of her charges, Hawaana.

Chairman of BHEST, Rhydian MorganJones OBE (pictured), said: “We are very grateful to Women In Racing for organising this charity race.

“Racing to School is racing’s free education programme; it offers practical learning that enriches school subjects from maths and science to art and design. Last year over 10,000 pupils attended a Racing to School day and increased their problem-solving skills, confidence and their knowledge of their school subjects.

“I would like to thank Women In Racing, the riders and Ascot racecourse. Their hard work and support will enable us to inspire many more young minds.”

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Tweenhills-based stallion, a dual Group 1 winner, will shuttle to Westbury Stud in New Zealand for the southern hemisphere breeding season Promising juvenile in Australia in 2008 to stand first season at Bullarook Park Stud in Victoria; the son of Royal Academy’s fee is A$4,400 Multiple Grade 1 winner is retired from racing and sold to Aaron and Marie Jones Grade 2-winning shuttle stallion is purchased by Hernan Ceriani’s Haras La Quebrada to stand permanently in Argentina First-crop yearling sire will not cover again in 2011 after sustaining leg injury in April Dual Group 1-winning son of Polish Precedent is added to the roster at Longford House Stud in Co Tipperary Hamdan Al Maktoum purchases daughter of Galileo and her sister Gile Na Greine; both were placed in Group 1 company Son of Vindication, twice successful at Group 3 level, will stand at Jim Bolger’s Redmonstown Stud in Co Wexford Two-year-old son of Soviet Star, a possible Royal Ascot contender, joins Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni from Paul Cole Dual King’s Stand Stakes winner will shuttle to Swettenham Stud in Victoria, Australia from his base at Newsells Park Stud

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The rest nowhere Hype is not often lived up to, let alone surpassed, but Frankel was even more than everything we hoped he’d be in the colts’ Classic at Newmarket, winning in a manner and by a margin – six lengths – that was better than anything seen since 1947.

Next stop is Royal Ascot for the St James’s Palace Stakes Photo George Selwyn

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THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORE COMMENT

Tony Morris A real sense of history enables you to recreate in your imagination races like The Flying Dutchman v Voltigeur, but there is no substitute for being there – so thank you, Frankel

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have often wondered whether having a sense of history should be regarded as a blessing or a curse. The fact is, I was born with one, although those who taught the subject at my school failed to recognise it, and Eric Halliday, the master responsible in my ‘O’ Level year, was genuinely mystified that I not only passed, but passed with a high mark.

It wasn’t his fault that the period we had to study – roughly between the loss of the American colonies and the first Reform Bill – was not one that filled me with excitement, and it was understandable if he thought that I really wasn’t interested and was guaranteed to fail. What he hadn’t reckoned with was the fact that I had my own points of reference for that period. Remembering dates was easy, placing events in context was a doddle.

America’s Declaration of Independence came in the year of the first St Leger, the storming of the Bastille in the year of Skyscraper’s Derby. The Prussian general whose forces helped Wellington out at Waterloo was Blucher, namesake of the 1814 Derby winner.

Wellington became Prime Minister in the year of the famous dead-heat in the Derby between Cadland and The Colonel, 1828.

His government collapsed in Priam’s year (1830) and his party returned to power in 1834, the year of Plenipotentiary’s Derby and Touchstone’s St Leger.

Aged 14, already an enthusiastic student of racing history, I knew all the important facts of that era; it was just a case of linking them with the dull events that happened at the same time in the outside world. Still, it was an odd sort of school I attended. We even had a Classics teacher who spouted in Latin and Greek, never once referring to Newmarket, Epsom or Doncaster.

My formal education seemed to me to be wholly inadequate, particularly in history, a subject in which I came to excel largely because I was self-taught. I read avidly,

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particularly relishing the works of Henry Hall Dixon, the greatest racing writer of his era, and, I still believe, of any age. Writing under the pen-name of The Druid, Dixon (who died in 1870) transported me back to that period when racing was the King of Sports as well as the Sport of Kings.

While cricket was still in its infancy, football was a pastime with no formalised rules, and tennis had yet to be invented, racing ruled supreme.

It was a diversion enjoyed by the masses,

“Dixon transported me back to that period when racing was the King of Sports as well as the Sport of Kings” peopled by fascinating characters, and in the background was the breeding industry, with horsemen building on the work of those who had created the thoroughbred, striving to improve it, and thanks to the General Stud Book it was possible to monitor its progress, tracing the continuity through pedigree.

That was the history that most appealed to me and sparked my imagination.

You can picture the scene With a sense of history and a lively imagination, aided by the descriptive talents of eye-witnesses or sometimes inspired by legend, events of the distant past come alive and it is possible to picture oneself there at the scene of momentous events.

Did Dennis O’Kelly really predict: “Eclipse

first, the rest nowhere” after the first heat of that horse’s Epsom debut in 1769? I would like to think so. And wouldn’t it have been great to be there to see the prediction fulfilled, as the nonpareil of the 18th century distanced his opponents?

That is how a sense of history can sometimes seem a curse. There was a magical moment in the annals of racing, a seminal moment in the development of the breed; it’s possible to picture it, in the mind’s eye, but there could be no real substitute for being there, witnessing it at first hand, and recognising its significance.

And in my imagination there are so many other events, distant in time or place, that I would love to have attended, had I been able.

What would I have given for the opportunity to be present at York in May 1851 for the great match between The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur, each a winner of both Derby and St Leger?

The race of the century, the Sporting Magazine called it, “between the best horses the modern turf has seen”. It was an event that The Druid celebrated in poetry rather than his usual prose, a vivid account of an occasion that surely surpassed any other that the sport had provided up to that point.

I should also have been at Newmarket in April 1886, when Ormonde ran clean away from Minting in the 2,000 Guineas to hint at what he went on to prove – that he was not just the champion of his generation, but the greatest racehorse of the 19th century.

Just think of it – a Triple Crown hero who came back at four to win the July Cup and retired unbeaten after 16 races. Ah, well, at least I have one of the shoes he wore when he won the Derby.

And it was a sin to have missed the Eclipse Stakes of 1903 and its titanic struggle between the previous year’s Derby winner Ard Patrick and Sceptre, the great filly who had won all four of the other Classics in 1902. There was just a neck in it at the end, THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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with the colt on top, and three long lengths behind came Rock Sand, then two-thirds of the way through collecting his Triple Crown.

Of the races in my own lifetime that I would most like to have seen, the 1956 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has to rank highly – Ribot going out in a blaze of glory, winning the race for a second time, matching Ormonde’s 16-race unbeaten sequence with an imperious display.

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Oh to have seen Secretariat’s Belmont blitz And how I envy those who were present at Belmont Park in June 1973 for Secretariat’s day of days. Completing the first US Triple Crown in a quarter of a century wasn’t the half of it. Sprinting a mile and a half, winning by 31 lengths, breaking the world record for 13 furlongs as his jockey tried to pull him up; that was what made that Belmont Stakes a never-tobe-equalled occasion.

There was one other race, closer to home, I would love to have witnessed, but I long ago became reconciled to the idea that it was a performance that would never be replicated, so I should accentuate positives and recognise those occasions when I had been incredibly lucky, being present for moments that were landmarks in the annals of the Turf.

There were plenty of them, including Sea Bird’s Derby and Arc, Nijinsky’s Triple Crown, the Brigadier’s Guineas win over Mill Reef, and Mill Reef’s own outstanding performances; then there was that epic Grundy-Bustino duel at Ascot, Shergar’s exceptional Derby display, Sea The Stars on his glory days, and a host of others too numerous to mention.

So perhaps it was really no big deal that I hadn’t been there for Tudor Minstrel’s 2,000 Guineas, when he had all his rivals stone cold at halfway and came home alone. I’d heard about it from those who were there, read numerous accounts of it by awe-struck eyewitnesses, seen the photos that proved the incredible.

But that Tudor Minstrel performance has now been replicated in the same race over the same course. I no longer have to envy those who were present on that April afternoon in 1947, because exactly 64 years later, to the day, I was there, truly blessed, for the landmark in racing history that Frankel delivered.

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JAMES WILLOUGHBY COMMENT

Our columnist is saddened by the fact he had to time Frankel’s splits himself, but the effort was worth it as they reveal an outstanding miler, not a sprinter

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hen Frankel won the 2,000 Guineas, his split-times for each successive quarter-mile were :25, :22, :24 and :26.3. How do I know this? I measured them myself, using a special video which takes some of the guesswork out of estimating the position of furlong-markers.

Of course, I shouldn’t have to do this: the information should be provided officially. It is 2011, for goodness sake.

After the Guineas, I was asked by many people if I knew Frankel’s sectionals. This surprised me: sectionals had been perceived as interesting only to geeks, but suddenly the Guineas gave them mass appeal. Frankel’s outlandish performance from the front begged the question of how fast he had gone. Had the others laid back too much? How much did the winner tire inside the final furlong?

When Frankel lines up for the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, he will be virtually unopposed in the betting. But I guarantee you many racing professionals will be watching him with a degree of suspicion.

I have kept hearing the same idea: Frankel ran off with his jockey Tom Queally at Newmarket and, once a horse takes charge, the tendency is ingrained. There are several trainers who have told me they have had horses like this who never progress.

So, did Frankel jump or was he pushed? We will find out more about his tractability at Ascot, but the way he ran in the Guineas was at least some function of the plan his trainer Henry

Frankel was aggressive in the Guineas

Cecil conceived and Queally tried to execute – a shade too aggressively, perhaps.

Frankel’s Guineas sectionals describe deceleration (his first quarter-mile of :25 is slowed because of a standing-start.) When you take into account that they were achieved into a stiff wind, his first six furlongs were the equivalent of 1:09 – the clocking of a good sprinter but not a world champion.

Frankel would not be in the same league as the great Australian filly Black Caviar over six furlongs. She can run 1:07 for fun. I don’t think Frankel’s 2,000 Guineas performance proved he could win the July Cup; I don’t think he is a specialist sprinter at all.

Instead, the sectionals describe to me a top-

class horse who merely ran aggressively over a mile. The visual impression Frankel created was not down to him being a runaway, but instead the relativity created by overmatched rivals. We are just not used to watching the best horse in the Guineas ridden like that, as more conservative tactics are the norm in turf racing.

But here’s the thing which is really frustrating: if the St James’s Palace were run in many other countries, the viewer could see his split-times on the screen at Ascot and ally them to the visual impression of his rider’s efforts to conserve his energy. Can you imagine how much more exciting and interesting the race would be to watch – even in such an apparently one-sided contest?

Nowadays, the racing fan of cosmopolitan taste can watch live racing on the television and internet from all the major countries. Personally, I have learned so much by watching the big meetings in Australia over the last year.

As a result, it becomes evident that racing fans in these countries have benefited from better technical information to learn all manner of deeper truths: how the pace a horse runs at affects its overall time; how the extra ground covered on bends affects a horse’s speed; how workouts affect typical first-quarter clockings; even how a horse’s stride-length correlates to the ability it shows.

British racing is the most colourful and historic in the world. It is sad that it is still a third-world nation in the provision of technical information.

Training methods the key to Australian Ascot success It is fantastic to see Royal Ascot has received entries from 11 countries. Its increasing internationalisation is fundamental to its growth, as well as providing the chance to see horsemen from all round the world at work.

It is sad Black Caviar will not be among the raiders, but Australian trainers still have two horses in the Group 1 sprints – notably Star Witness, a Grade 1 winner who got within four lengths of Black Caviar last November.

Australian-trained horses have won the King’s Stand and Golden Jubilee five times.

Why? One theory is that we don’t try to breed great sprinters any more, unlike the post-war era in which Abernant was champion sire.

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But I’m yet to be convinced by the heritability of supreme sprinting ability, especially after learning how Australian sprinters are trained.

If you remember the row sparked by Takeover Target’s participation at Royal Ascot in 2008, you might think I am about to claim it is all down to illicit medication.

I don’t know about that, but I have learned about the effect of naturally occurring chemicals and their monitoring – lactates.

Longstanding research at the University of Sydney suggests that “blood and plasma lactate concentrations two and five minutes after exercise [are] all significantly correlated with Timeform rating”.

In other words, lactates provide a biochemical marker of expressible ability.

Though this is nothing new to scientists, it is exciting that they have also postulated that the careful manipulation of lactate levels could lead to significant improvement in racehorses.

Guess one major difference between the Australian approach to training and that prevalent in Europe? While trainers in Britain and Ireland are just waking up to the full implications of lactates and still using them sparingly for treadmill tests, Australian trainers tell me that many of their best horses have lactates measured routinely at the end of every gallop.

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THE GREAT OWNER/BREEDERS

By JEREMY EARLY

PAUL MELLON

The Anglophile who gave so much to the nation he loved

TREVOR JONES

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Paul Mellon with his Cheltenham winner Crystal Spirit and Ian Balding at Kingsclere

Anthony, Mellon sent Drinmore Lad to join Anthony. The gelding dead-heated with Golden Miller at Gatwick.

After breeding jumpers from a handful of mares at his Rokeby Stables and becoming

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mong a select band of Americans with an abiding passion for the British turf in the last century, Paul Mellon was the most fervent Anglophile of all. That alone inspires enthusiasm and on the 40th anniversary of his brilliant colt Mill Reef’s triumph at Epsom it is appropriate to assess Mellon’s success as an owner/breeder.

With his father and grandfather having run the Mellon Bank, funding was always there for racing as well as the many good causes, principally scholarly and artistic, that Mellon espoused. In 1957, when Fortune magazine produced its initial list of America’s wealthiest citizens, Paul, his sister and two cousins were all among the top eight people named.

Mellon studied at Yale and at Clare College, Cambridge, and his first interest in the turf was with hunting and steeplechasing.

He notched his first win as an owner with Irish-bred Drinmore Lad in a timber event in the mid-30s.

Influenced by fellow Virginian Ambrose Clark, whose wife had won the 1933 Grand National with Kellsboro Jack, trained by Ivor

Only Mill Reef has won the Derby, Eclipse, King George and Arc in the same season

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champion jumps owner in the States in 1948, Mellon determined to move into Flat racing. Between them his initial trainers, Jim Ryan and Jack Skinner, bought a number of well-bred fillies, including Blue Banner ($14,500) and Tap Day ($16,500) as yearlings, and Red Ray as an unraced twoyear-old for 12,000gns in 1949.

Among other shrewd buys later on were Admiring, First Feather and All Beautiful.

Mellon never had a gigantic band of broodmares, averaging around 40, and they certainly did him proud.

His American-raced runners with Elliott Burch, then Mackenzie Miller, landed him two Eclipse Awards as outstanding breeder.

They included Horses of the Year Arts And Letters (out of All Beautiful) and Fort Marcy (grandam Blue Banner), and Eclipse Award winners Run The Gantlet (out of First Feather) and Key To The Mint (grandam Blue Banner).

Others to have shone were Hero’s Honor (grandam Admiring), Java Gold, Key To The Kingdom (grandam Blue Banner) and Classic winners Quadrangle (out of Tap Day) and Sea Hero (grandam Admiring). Sea Hero’s victory in the 1993 Kentucky Derby placed Mellon in a list of owners of Derby and THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Kentucky Derby winners that now stands at four.

Tap Day was also dam of a first-rate runner in Britain, Secret Step.

Mellon had around 20 horses in training each year at Kingsclere, first with Peter Hastings-Bass then from 1964 with the latter’s sonin-law Ian Balding.

Hastings-Bass trained Secret Step to win the July Cup and Balding saddled Silly Season to win the Dewhurst Stakes, St James’s Palace Stakes and Champion Stakes.

It was Red Ray’s descendants that really hit the heights, though her premature death, aged six, from colic meant there wasn’t much to go to war with.

The filly Virginia Water, foaled the year Red Ray died, was the saving grace since she produced Berkeley Springs, winner of the Cheveley Park Stakes in 1965 and runner-up in the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks, and once-raced Milan Mill.

Milan Mill’s record as a broodmare wouldn’t have been too bad even without Mill Reef, since she is ancestress of such as Falmouth Stakes winner Ronda.

Mill Reef, foaled in 1968, was by Never Bend. He stood only 15.3 hands but lack of stature didn’t stop him developing into one of the best horses to race in Britain in the 20th century. He earned Timeform ratings of 133 at two when he easily won the Gimcrack Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes, 141 at three and 141 at four.

Mill Reef’s Classic campaign included a reverse at the hands of another exceptional colt Brigadier Gerard in the 2,000 Guineas, but he then used his blistering acceleration to notch the Derby, Eclipse Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe by an aggregate margin of 15 lengths.

He remains alone in landing those four races and he made some very good horses, such as Caro in the Eclipse and champion filly Pistol Packer in the Arc, look distinctly ordinary.

Mellon, with predictable élan, decided to keep Mill Reef in training, but although the colt won the Prix Ganay in a canter he had to work harder for victory in the Coronation Cup when affected by a virus. Then disaster struck on the gallops in August when Mill Reef broke the cannon bone and shattered the sesamoids in his near-fore.

Astonishingly, Dr Jim Roberts was able to repair the fracture in an eight-hour operation at Kingsclere and Mill Reef, fitted with a fulllength plaster cast, behaved impeccably to allow a complete recovery.

As a sire, Mill Reef provided Mellon with two good servants in the brothers Diamond Shoal and Glint Of Gold, who won nine Group 1s between them. Mellon also did well with another he had raced, Key To The Mint, sire of triple Group 1 scorer Gold And Ivory.

The last top-flight British-trained winner for Mellon on the Flat was Forest Flower, who won the Mill Reef Stakes in 1986 and the Irish 1,000 Guineas in 1987. She was also disqualified from first in the Cheveley Park Stakes.

However, emphasising Mellon’s enduring enthusiasm for jump racing – Drinny’s Double had won him two Champion Chases in the 1960s – Crystal Spirit, a half-brother to Diamond Shoal and Glint Of Gold, landed the 1991 Sun Alliance Hurdle. >>

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Paul Mellon, who was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in 1974, died in 1999 and left financial, artistic and equine legacies to the turf.

As well as being a significant benefactor of the British Racing School, he bequeathed $2.5 million to the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation in the USA. When alive he had enthusiastically supported their work, commissioning rigorous scientific investigation into vital veterinary matters.

Mellon, owner of a huge collection of works of art, also assisted the creation of the British Sporting Art Trust and its Vestey Gallery in Newmarket by gifting 30 paintings, including by Sir Alfred Munnings.

His greatest legacy to British racing and breeding was Mill Reef, since rather than selling the colt for a fortune to go abroad he accepted an offer for him to stand at the National Stud in Newmarket.

British breeders repaid the generosity by patronising Mill Reef with enthusiasm and his influence, principally in races at a mile and a quarter or more, endures to this day. He has

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Mill Reef’s grandson Darshaan beats Sadler’s Wells and Rainbow Quest at Chantilly

left much more of a mark than any of Rokeby Stables’s American-raced horses.

Mill Reef, who died in 1986, sired 63 stakes winners from 378 named foals, equating to just over 16%, a fine figure. Eighteen of his offspring were successful in Group 1 company and he was champion sire in 1978, when Shirley Heights won the Derby, and 1987, when Reference Point repeated the feat and notched the St Leger too.

Acamas won the Prix du Jockey-Club in 1978, while other top-flight winners by Mill Reef included Behera, Doyoun, Fairy Footsteps, Ibn Bey, Lashkari and Milligram.

His daughter Bahamian founded a sensational family for Juddmonte.

Shirley Heights got a Derby winner in Slip Anchor and a Prix du Jockey-Club winner in Darshaan. Darshaan was champion sire in France; his progeny included Mark Of Esteem, Dalakhani and US Horse of the Year Kotashaan. Shirley Heights’s son Elegant Air got German champion sire Dashing Blade.

The influence of this line as broodmare sires, especially linked with Sadler’s Wells and his sons, is remarkable. Mares by Shirley Heights have foaled such as In The Wings, Fame And Glory, Lady Carla and Alexandrova, while those by Darshaan have produced Alborada, Darsi, Ebadiyla, High Chaparral, Islington, Marienbard, Milan, Yesterday and Zainta.

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VIEW FROM IRELAND

By LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

Irish National Stud sale proposed

PETER MOONEY

Strong rejection of report which recommends government disposes of Kildare operation

Invincible Spirit’s home, the Irish National Stud, will be the subject of fierce debate

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he bloodstock industry in Ireland reacted with horror at the recent recommendation in the report of the Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities that the Irish National Stud should be scrapped by the Government. The group was established in June 2010 by the then Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan, to advise on how commercial state assets could be better deployed or disposed of in order to support economic recovery in Ireland.

Two of the bodies that came under its remit were the Irish National Stud (INS) and Horse Racing Ireland (HRI), and the group, chaired by Colm McCarthy from the School of Economics at University College Dublin, showed little sympathy for the INS. It also recommended that HRI should dispose of its interests in Fairyhouse, Leopardstown, Navan and Tipperary racecourses, as well as its interest in the Tote (which has no high street presence), if commercially satisfactory terms were to become available.

There has not been the same furore about the proposals for the racecourses and Tote, most likely because few believe that the same ‘satisfactory commercial terms’ exist now or are likely to in the near future. However, the note in the report that HRI is essentially a regulatory body for the industry and that it is not clear that ownership of racecourses is central to its

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mission will doubtless create a debate in the coming months.

Of much more immediate concern was the group’s simple recommendation that the INS be disposed of, with no rider that it should be even subject to suitable terms being available. The greatest weakness in the argument for selling the stud farm was that the group, which also comprised a Second Secretary in the Department of Finance and a professor from the Department of Economics at Trinity College

Simon Coveney: stud sale is “unlikely”

Dublin, was that they placed no value on the intangible assets of the stud.

The value of the INS as a promotional vehicle for Ireland’s thoroughbred breeding sector, the influence exerted worldwide by the graduates of its stud management course, the tourist value of the stud, which attracts upwards of 115,000 visitors annually to Tully in Kildare, and its success with stallions, the broodmare band and at the sales all seemed to be ignored as future prospective assets, despite an acknowledgement that the stud “has played a critical role in the development of the Irish thoroughbred industry since its acquisition by the government in the late 1940s”.

While the report was commissioned by a government led by Fianna Fail, the new coalition administration led by Fine Gael has shown a good understanding of the industry and the breeding sector, and the new Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, has already indicated that he believes that the sale of the INS will not happen.

Speaking at the Irish Grand National meeting at Fairyhouse, Coveney said: “I think it is unlikely that the Irish National Stud will be sold, but it is my job to discuss it with the industry and see what would enhance our industry and what would damage it. I will do that over the summer months and make a decision at the end of that process.”

Speaking to Ryan McElligott in The Irish Thoroughbred, he continued: “I have to say that the thoroughbred industry is one where we are world leaders and I believe that there is a place for a state-owned National Stud in order to showcase our abilities and achievements to the world.”

Further acknowledgement of the status of the INS came in the form of a visit by Queen Elizabeth to the stud during her visit to Ireland in mid-May. The fact that Minister Coveney has taken direct control of racing and breeding in his portfolio is a major shot in the arm for those employed and investing in these sectors.

Conscious of the need for a proper financing model, he has indicated that the current tax rate of 1% on betting is unlikely to remain as such.

Coveney added: “To my mind – and this is a personal view, not a government one – a 1% tax on betting is not appropriate. It’s not so long ago that we had a 10% tax on betting but, as a result of the last government, that is no longer the case.”

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In Brief

Champion jockey Paul Townend

CAROLINE NORRIS

The jumps season ended at the conclusion of the Punchestown festival. Title winners were Willie Mullins (champion trainer for fourth consecutive time), Paul Townend (champion jockey for first time), JP McManus (15th champion owner title), Patrick Mullins (amateur) and Bryan Cooper (conditional).

Attendances at racecourses – Galway is pictured here – is a focus of the SMG report

Attempts to revive industry The Strategic Marketing Group was established

by Horse Racing Ireland to report on ways to improve attendances at Irish race meetings and it published its finding just after Punchestown.

The chairman of the Group was Jim Nicholson, a board member of HRI and chairman of Down Royal racecourse.

On behalf of the Group he acknowledges that there is no magic instant formula but he hopes that the recommendations, which are focused on the needs of the paying customers and the wider public in general, will pay dividends in the long term.

Believing that the downward trend in attendances can be reversed, he was keen to make a number of points that are key to moving the industry forward. The need for secure funding is a key to the survival of racing and he will be hoping, like many, that this will be put in place in the coming months.

The group met with various stakeholder interests – jockeys, trainers, breeders, owners, racecourses and media – and Nicholson believes that a more unified approach from these groups will lead to a more efficient industry. On the marketing side, he says that it needs to be dynamic, modern and engaging.

Finally, he urges all groups to innovate, energise, reduce costs and engage more meaningfully with owners, racegoers and punters. He believes that the findings of the report are signposts to how this can be achieved.

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Western Bound’s win at Perth on April 28 was hardly the most memorable racing moment of the season, but it was hugely significant for Gordon Elliott as it was his 100th winner of the jumps season. It is not so long since the Meath trainer won the Grand National, a feat he achieved before he had saddled a winner in Ireland.

The report identifies three key goals: • to create a customer-focused racing product • to restore and grow the levels of attendance by the betting customer at the racecourse • to grow the fan base by increasing levels of interest in the sport The group carried out market research to find the level of interest in racing compared to other sports. They also identified what drives interest in racing and what the barriers to participation are.

The report makes clear the central role of betting in attracting and retaining fans and calls for the elimination of all restrictive practices in on-course betting and the inclusion of online and exchange options at the tracks.

Other key recommendations are the creation of a two-tier fixture list based on premier and standard racedays; to establish a combined national racegoer database and ticketing system; to agree a rating scale for racecourses; to use racehorse ownership as a promotional tool to stimulate interest in racing through clubs, pubs and third-level colleges; and to facilitate and promote the use of social media in all areas of racing communications.

The report can be accessed on www.goracing.ie/smgreport

What a victory in the Ladbrokes Irish Grand National for Organisedconfusion.

Bred in partnership by Arthur Moore with Tim Murray, his first owner when he started training, Moore trains the winner for Alan and Grace Dunlop, his second owners at the start of his career. To add extra joy, Organisedconfusion was ridden

by Moore’s niece Nina Carberry, daughter of Arthur’s sister Pamela and husband Tommy Carberry. Carberry snr and three of his children have now won the Irish Grand National, as did Arthur Moore’s father Dan. Quite a family tradition.

An early date for your diary: the 2012 Expo will take place at Leopardstown racecourse on February 24 and 25.

Thady Windham Thomas Wyndham Quinn, 7th Earl of Dunraven and MountEarl, has died. Wheelchair bound after catching polio at 15, he lived a fulfilling life and enjoyed a great deal of success as an owner. Notable performers were Katie Cecil (with Henry Cecil), Lady Olein and Mountain Stage (Jessica Harrington), Iskareen (Vincent O’Brien) and Aunt Florrie (Phonsie O’Brien). He is survived by his wife Geraldine and daughter Ana.

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By JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

Slap Shot ‘wins’ the 2002 Abbaye...oh no she didn’t; the judge decided 15 minutes later she’d been beaten by Continent (far side)

Sandslash puts unlucky trainer in lights Nine years after the Slap Shot trauma, Luigi Riccardi is back on track with her daughter

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he unbeaten exploits of the Holy Roman Emperor filly Sandslash mean that, nine years on, agonising memories of the narrowest of big-race defeats may be about to be overshadowed.

It was one of the most amusing incidents on the international racing circuit of recent times.

Or, if you were on the wrong end of it, embarrassing rather than amusing.

Cast your minds back to Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe day, October 6, 2002, and Slap Shot has apparently just won the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp to give his Italian trainer, Luigi Riccardi, his first Group 1 success.

Mirco Demuro performed a flying dismount in the winner’s enclosure and Riccardi gave a triumphant television interview.

But there was just one small problem – Slap Shot had been beaten! Fully 15 minutes after she crossed the line, once the judge had studied the photo finish print with his magnifying glass, it was announced that the Dandy Nichollstrained Continent had, in fact, won by a nose.

Almost a decade on and Riccardi, who is still searching for his initial top-level victory,

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has bred, owns and trains a filly called Sandslash who might be able to help put his Parisian trauma behind him. What is more, Sandslash is the third foal of none other than Slap Shot herself.

Sandslash twice failed to achieve her reserve at yearling sales and, when Riccardi’s Romebased string was ravaged by a virus in 2010, missed her entire juvenile season.

But she has since made up for lost time, winning three Rome sprints, most recently the Group 3 Premio Carlo Chiesa against older horses.

Riccardi is more than hopeful that she will stay further, so the next target was the Italian 1,000 Guineas. That plan was scuppered when she began coughing in the week before the Classic, so her sights have been moved to Chantilly, and another mile contest, the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham on June 5.

“She does not have the same size as her mother,” Riccardi said, “but she is not as difficult in the mornings, which means that we can ride her from behind which will help her stay.

“I am a bit concerned that she seemed to

get very wound up by the travelling when we sent her up to Deauville as a yearling. So, if she is ready in time, I will take her to France 20 days before the Sandringham to allow her to settle in.”

As for a revenge mission in the Abbaye, Riccardi concedes that she will return to sprinting if her stamina is found lacking and admits that it is a race he likes (he saddled Black Mambazo to finish eighth in 2008 and fifth in 2009).

“But it is possible that she could be sold before the autumn and the place I would really like to see her run is the USA,” he continued.

“She has the speed to do well there, there are a lot of races that would suit her, and she should get her favoured fast ground.”

If Longchamp is not on Sandslash’s travel agenda, her mum, who is based at Leaf Stud in County Wexford, Ireland, could yet produce something to banish those unhappy Abbaye memories. The Riccardi family owns her Rock Of Gibraltar yearling colt and her Duke Of Marmalade colt foal, while she has recently been covered by Lope De Vega.

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Bidgood gets Carter amid venture

Gary Carter, the dual former champion apprentice jockey, is bidding to resurrect his career in France.

Leaving wife Louise and their two children, Charlotte, 9, and Isabella, 7, back at their home of six years in Alhaurin in southern Spain, Carter has teamed up with another expat, Jenny Bidgood, as she expands her already sizeable training operation in Normandy.

It is 28 years since Carter’s first riding success, aboard Another Hit at Ripon on June 1, 1983.

He was then instrumental in the early development of the three-time Group 1 winner Marling, won six Royal Ascot races and lists partnering Braiswick to lift the 1989 EP Taylor Stakes in Toronto, Canada, as a professional highlight.

He went on to ply his trade for spells in Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore, and at home was still regularly hitting the 50-winner-per-season mark at the turn of the century.

Rides then began to dry up and in 2005, having already emigrated to Spain, he announced his retirement, leaving his domestic winners’ tally at an impressive 1,060. His association with warned off betting exchange punter Christopher Coleman was public knowledge by then and he was shortly to receive a five-year riding ban from the BHA. Carter made no attempt to flout the suspension by continuing to eke out a living within racing. He instead provided for his young family through a variety of jobs, such as building, estate agency and managing an animal rescue centre.

However, once his time was up he made the short trip to the racecourse office in Mijas to enquire about a new licence and happened to bump into John Spouse, long-serving former travelling head lad to Clive Brittain.

Spouse, who is Bidgood’s partner, used to share an occasional pint with Carter at the Wellington pub in Newmarket way back when and he was quick to suggest that his old mate make the 1,000 mile relocation from the Costa del Sol to the Normandy coast.

Despite the distance (Carter goes home to his wife and daughters for ten days every two months) and some bad luck on the track (three photo-finish defeats mean that he has gone over 20 rides without finding a comeback winner), things could not have worked out better.

“I only wish that I had moved here 20 years earlier,” he said, from Bidgood’s Haras de Boquetot base some ten miles from Deauville. “I am fitter than I’ve ever been, I can ride at 53 kilos (8st 3lb) no problem and I’m not sitting in a car all day driving up and down the country.

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Gary Carter has resurrected his career

“I was sick of all the travelling in England – you could spend all day in the car, ride a winner and end up richer by as little as £100.”

The severity of his punishment, plus the fact that he has been advised not to reapply for a British licence, clearly still rankles but he remains remarkably upbeat about the situation.

“It’s the only way of dealing with the fact that I got five years [ban],” he stressed. “I should have gone down to face the Jockey Club and appealed, I would have got it reduced. But good things have come out of it.

“I wanted to live abroad anyway and it just

gave me a bit of a push. The girls have a fantastic life, with a lovely house, a swimming pool and riding their ponies all year round in great weather.”

He is most grateful to Yorkshire-born Bidgood, who in return gushed: “We are so lucky to have Gary. His knowledge is really valuable and he is a very hard worker.”

Barely a year after moving to France following seven years based at Mijas, Bidgood has made enough money to buy the Chateau de Gassard and 43 surrounding hectares just a few miles away from Bouqueteau.

“We are in the process of building 73 boxes, together with an indoor school and a Martin Collins all-weather gallop, and plan to move the string there in October,” she said.

Bidgood has done very well, notching 30 winners, since becoming a Norman. The earnings she has gleaned combined with the strength of the euro against the pound – most of the building work is being performed by British contractors – has financed the move.

“The prize-money, the premiums and the fact that travel expenses are reimbursed makes this a very attractive place to have a horse in training,” she said. “Our aim now is to attract better quality horses. I currently own some 30% of the horses myself, which is not unusual for a French trainer. You can make it pay – for instance we bought Trewarthenick from Andrew Balding for 9,000gns last July and he has won €25,800 (around £22,500) for us since then despite running mainly in claimers.”

You don’t hear too many British trainers commenting that they can make ends meet by filling their yard with claiming horses.

La Segnora gives Porzier big win Continuing the theme of returns from long suspensions, Yann Porzier adopted a diplomatic tone after he landed the French race that can be most closely equated to our Grand National, the Prix du President de la Republique.

After Porzier’s La Segnora had defied the Laurent Viel-trained pair of Tomeho and Mick Passoa to take the £87,284-to-thewinner handicap chase, the winning handler shared the podium with Hubert Monzat, Director General of France Galop, the governing body of French racing.

But he passed up the chance to criticise the authorities who withdrew his licence for

more than four years on suspicion of using prohibited substances, despite none of his horses ever failing a dope test. Porzier even spent a few days in Alencon prison after he refused to pay a sizeable bail fee.

Just a five-year-old, La Segnora provided redemption for Porzier in becoming the first mare for 35 years to land this famous prize.

She also rewarded the opportunism of her owners, Paul Sebag and Guy and Michel Hanouna, who bought her for €19,222 (£18,662) after she had finished a modest seventh in an Auteuil claiming hurdle in September 2009. She has now refunded their original outlay almost ten times over.

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GOING GLOBAL

MICHELE MCDONALD

By MICHELE MACDONALD

Animal Kingdom, a distinctly cosmopolitan winner of America’s most prestigious race

International appeal of a truly memorable Derby Animal Kingdom compensated for the loss of the injured Toby’s Corner by providing Classic success for Motion

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here has never been a more international storyline in the 137-year history of the Kentucky Derby than the drama that unfolded on May 7, when the lightly-raced Animal Kingdom roared down the famed stretch at Churchill Downs.

The exotic background of the chesnut son of Brazilian-bred sire Leroidesanimaux and German-bred Group 3 winner Dalicia, by Acatenango, was discussed in last month’s timely Big Interview with Team Valor’s Barry Irwin in this magazine. Irwin subsequently noted, while basking in his most significant win in 25 years of managing racing partnerships, that the international links were no accident.

Known for his shrewdness, Irwin brokered the deal that sent Leroidesanimaux to stud and he bought Dalicia at a German auction in 2005 before reselling her to Teruya Yoshida’s Shadai Farm at Tattersalls four years later.

“We’ve not done enough importing of horses and bloodlines from other places where horses don’t run on drugs and horses’ legs are not manipulated and horses, basically, are bigger, tougher, stronger and sounder,” Irwin declared.

Ironically, the 2007 mating that produced Animal Kingdom was not what Irwin initially planned for Dalicia. He had selected Kingmambo but was forced to jettison the

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idea when the top sire was sidelined by back issues, and his partners Audrey and Richard Haisfield suggested second-season stallion Leroidesanimaux as a replacement.

Irwin, who arranged the sale of both that stallion and Medaglia d’Oro to the Haisfields’ Stonewall Farm, agreed in what became the first in a series of history-making moments.

“I like to try to make history if I can and we made a lot of history today,” Irwin said after watching Animal Kingdom become the first horse to win the Derby having never previously raced on dirt.

“This is the first horse that came to win this race with only four previous races since Exterminator in 1918 and the first horse to win after a six-week layoff since Needles in 1956, so that means a lot to me.”

Without precedent Medaglia d’Oro, purchased by Darley for a reported $40 million in 2009, also made some history on Derby weekend by becoming only the fifth stallion to sire two Kentucky Oaks winners in the last 50 years. Plum Pretty won for the Peachtree Stable group managed by John Fort, following 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra’s record-breaking 20-plus length victory.

Despite the intimidating historical precedents Animal Kingdom faced, his Britishborn trainer Graham Motion said he was confident, even though he arrived at Churchill Downs heartbroken after his Grade 1-winning Derby prospect Toby’s Corner incurred an injury and could not race. Motion made it clear he did not consider Animal Kingdom to be a “second-tier” starter, as suggested by media who noticed only a Grade 3 win on the colt’s stakes résumé.

“He’s been an extraordinary horse to train in the mornings,” Motion said, adding that the colt flashed his talent while working with Team Valor’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Pluck. “I told Barry that I liked Pluck, but this one was special.”

Motion downplayed his European background as an influence in his training.

Born in Cambridge, he moved to America at 16 when his father, Michael, was sent as Tattersalls’ representative, and he credits American Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard as his mentor.

Motion worked with Sheppard from 1985 to 1990, when runners as varied as juvenile star Storm Cat and three-time champion steeplechaser Flatterer were in the stable, and he went out on his own in 1993 after a stint in France with Jonathan Pease.

Softly spoken and respected for never having had a runner test positive for prohibited drugs, Motion joined Irwin in making the tough decision to replace jockey Robby Albarado, who has won more than 900 races at Churchill Downs, on Animal Kingdom for the Derby.

Albarado was kicked in the face and missed riding on the day before the Derby, sparking the dramatic late shift to Puerto Rican native John Velazquez, who suddenly became available when 2010 juvenile champion Uncle Mo was scratched due to ongoing problems with a gastrointestinal tract infection.

“I guess it was meant to be,” said Velazquez, a two-time Eclipse Award winner as America’s outstanding jockey who had not previously won the Derby. “It’s a feeling you can’t describe.

It’s amazing.”

Perhaps Velazquez’s best tribute to Animal Kingdom was his comment that he would not be inclined to return to Uncle Mo if the two were to race against each other soon. “It would be a very hard decision to get off this horse,” Velazquez said. “He does everything great.”

With Animal Kingdom set for the Triple Crown challenge, encompassing the Preakness and Belmont, Velazquez and Irwin said they were going to give Albarado matching payments in an attempt to assuage his disappointment. But no matter how much the cheques might total, they will not cover what he lost, for this was a Derby to remember.

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Not long after the last of 19 runners in the Kentucky Derby struggled past the finish line, the telephone at Stonewall Farm Ocala began ringing. Less than 48 hours later, the farm had fielded what bloodstock consultant Michelle Hemingway described as hundreds of calls about Derby winner Animal Kingdom’s sire, Brazilianbred Leroidesanimaux. And in a scenario typical of the vagaries of thoroughbred breeding in these times, the son of Candy Stripes, who sired fewer than 40 live foals in each of his crops born in 2009 and 2010, is expected to cover around 200 mares by the time the 2011 breeding season ends — or 131 more than he bred last year.

“We’re having to be very selective,” said Hemingway. “‘Leroy’ loves it here in Florida and everybody loves him.”

Standing his first season in Ocala, Leroidesanimaux arrived unceremoniously after Stonewall’s operation in Kentucky went bust.

Marc Haisfield, son and stepson of Stonewall owners Richard and Audrey Haisfield, headed a group to pay $715,000 for Leroidesanimaux at a bankruptcy sale in November.

The American champion turf male for 2005, when he won Grade 1s in Canada and the US while trained by Bobby Frankel, Leroidesanimaux began his stud career for an

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Everybody (now) loves Leroidesanimaux

Leroidesanimaux in action (centre)

advertised fee of $30,000. Despite less than perfect conformation, he covered 110 mares in his initial season and got 72 live foals; the following year, he covered 107 mares and got 66 live foals, including Animal Kingdom.

In many ways, Leroidesanimaux could be a poster boy for international racing and breeding.

Goncalo and Regina Borges Torrealba of Brazilian-based Stud TNT bred and raced Leroidesanimaux and he, along with 2006 American Horse of the Year Invasor, might spark a renaissance of the Blushing Groom sire line

through that champion’s French classic-placed son Candy Stripes, who stood most of his life in Argentina.

Leroidesanimaux carries the blood of one of Juddmonte Farm’s most brilliant international families through his British-bred dam Dissemble,

by Ahonoora. Dissemble is a half sister to Hasili, Broodmare of the Year for producing English champion and top sire Dansili, US champion Intercontinental, English, French and American champion Banks Hill, and Canadian Horse of the Year Champs Elysees, not to mention Grade 1 winners and millionaires Heat Haze and Cacique.

This immediate female family boasts other stars, including English juvenile champion Three Valleys and Broodmare of the Year Arrive, and in addition to Leroidesanimaux, Dissemble also produced Brazilian Group 1 winner Uapybo.

Drawing on the strengths of that pedigree, Leroidesanimaux is “one of the only threedimensional sires in this country,” Hemingway said. “He has sired graded stakes winners on dirt, turf and synthetic surfaces, and his offspring can sprint or go long. He does everything.”

From 140 foals in his first two crops, Leroidesanimaux sired 49 winners and three stakes winners, including multiple Grade 2 winner Always A Princess, up to early May.

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Stance against drugs hardens

Michael Baze In a tragic conclusion to the Kentucky Derby, prominent young jockey Michael Baze was found dead in his car on the backstretch at Churchill Downs three days after the big race.

The leading rider at Arlington Park last year, Baze, 24, had become the youngest jockey since the legendary Bill Shoemaker to win a riding title at Hollywood Park, which he accomplished aged 20. A cousin of California-based jockey Tyler Baze and from the same extended family as Russell Baze, the all-time leading American rider with more than 11,250 wins, Michael Baze had also won the Del Mar riding title in 2007. Police do not suspect foul play.

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Several prominent American-based owners and breeders with international interests stepped forward in early May to fuel the movement to prohibit the use of drugs in North American racehorses.

In a letter on Arthur and Staci Hancock’s Stone Farm stationery that also was signed by George Strawbridge and Roy and Gretchen Jackson, and dispatched widely, the group warned that the United States has become a “rogue nation” with permissive drug rules that have caused a “terrible blight” on the sport.

The letter declared: “With precipitous declines in both attendance and wagering at our tracks, compounded by plummeting bloodstock sales, it is apparent that thoroughbred racing is at a crossroads…

Countless reports of trainers being charged with doping their horses, coupled with the destruction of horses due to horrific injuries on the track, cast our sport as something other than beautiful and noble. Today, prominent families and businesspersons who have historically supported the industry are not

interested in being associated with the abuse of animals and widespread cheating by the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

“In addition to losing our fan base, we are witnessing a decline in interest in our bloodstock sales from the Europeans and the rest of the world. These investors are not confident that horses purchased in America will be able to compete in international venues. With six or more generations of heavily medicated American horses racing on drugs, we are now often being referred to as breeders of the ‘chemical horse.’”

Strawbridge joined the Hancocks and Jacksons in stating that the newly proposed Interstate Horseracing Improvement Act would successfully bar all drugs in racing by making them illegal in any races simulcast for wagering. About 85% of turnover revenue earned by racetracks comes from simulcasts.

The legislation, introduced in Congress on May 4, would set up a system of penalties, including a 180-day racing ban on any horse that yielded a post-race drug positive test.

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TALKING TO...

BERNARD KANTOR

Investing in THE DERBY Bernard Kantor, boss of Classic sponsor Investec, is keen to extend its backing beyond the current term as the firm seeks to rebuild the blue riband into the greatest race in the world

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

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hat is it that makes the Derby and Investec such a good fit?

Paradoxically, it is the fact that we are so opposite. We are not a blue-blooded British organisation and our origins come out of South Africa. However, from Investec’s perspective, it is an opportunity in a million. Our care and love of the Derby will help us rebuild the Derby into the greatest race in the world, with all the pride, feeling and emotion that makes an event of this calibre so important to the British people and our racing calendar. You can see evidence of this in the recent attendance figures and the international demand for this incredible day and THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

event. From the Derby’s point of view, they could not have wished for a more passionate, dedicated and proud sponsor. We are a likely couple and good fit.

Could you see Investec continuing this sponsorship beyond the initial fiveyear term that ends in 2013?

Investec are not short term in their approach, and certainly when it comes to our brand, we commit, in a sense, in perpetuity. We associate with the best and will do everything in our power to maintain and continue the sponsorship beyond the initial five-year term.

Sadly, this event will grow to a point where it

will become a trophy event. At that point we may not be able to afford this extraordinary racing extravaganza.

In various forms, Investec has sponsored football (Spurs), rugby and cricket as well as the Derby and Oaks.

What do these sports have in common that benefits Investec?

We will take on sponsorships only where we can build our brand, reputation and credibility over time. When you talk of the Autumn Series in rugby, Tottenham Hotspur in football, Lord’s in cricket and the Investec Derby at Epsom, we are mixing with the best.

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Sea The Stars’s thrilling victory in the 2009 Investec Derby was sponsor Bernard Kantor’s most memorable moment in racing

>> How did your fascination with horseracing start?

About 30 years ago my brother emigrated from South Africa and prior to his departure he advised me that he had invested in a single horse, the liability of which I would have to take over. I had absolutely no idea what I was in for. Subsequently, I have been privileged to meet some wonderful people and have had some incredible horses and winners. As you all know, this comes with a huge amount of disappointment as well.

I have had many successes in Singapore with my friend Patrick Shaw, many more in South Africa with a selection of trainers, especially Michael De Kock. And most memorably with William Haggas in the form of Count Dubois, Dupont, King’s Apostle, Kalk Bay and many others. William remains a thorough gentleman and a friend, tolerating my madness week in and week out, ably assisted by his wife, Maureen. Winning is wonderful but winning with horses that you have bred is indescribably exciting. It is almost as if they are your very own.

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How heavily involved in racing are you, both here and in your native South Africa?

I would say that I am reasonably involved in racing, breeding and administration, both here and in South Africa. In South Africa I am involved in a stud farm which includes

“My family indulge

me and support me, as long as I stay out of their hair” approximately 250 mares and 11 stallions, including Count Dubois, Dupont and King’s Apostle. My family think I am a little bit crazy, but they indulge me and actually support my hobby as long as I stay out of their hair.

In how many countries are you registered as an owner?

I am registered in South Africa, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the UAE and America. All my horses excite me.

King’s Apostle, Count Dubois and Dupont have won top European races and now stand at stud in South Africa.

Would you like to stand a stallion in Europe?

Standing a stallion in Europe would be too difficult for me; it takes a lot of time, influence and money to prove a stallion. I would rather focus my limited time on the proven stallions we currently have.

How did you transform South African racing with your involvement in your company Phumelela?

Phumelela was born out of the merger between various racing clubs that existed in South Africa at the time. There was a team of executive and non-executive directors that worked on the corporatisation of racing, of which I was a THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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What is the answer for British racing in its current parlous financial state?

Could the South African model work here?

I would encourage the UK to follow the South African model, which is very similar to that in Australia. Only then will the UK realise its maximum potential and restore UK racing to its rightful position as a world leader.

We need to apply a little ‘out of the box’ thinking, look to the future and simplify the entire racing structure. This would mean the clubs, racetracks, the intellectual property, television rights and so on falling under one highly motivated corporate structure, which operates primarily for the benefit of its shareholders, with racing entrenched in the constitution. Until we do that, we will not maximise our value and our potential global positioning as the greatest breeding and racing destination in the world.

Having raced all over the globe, what is the big difference between the sport here and the rest of the world?

Prize-money, which in the UK is pitiful. If you are lucky enough to own a good horse, its value would be enhanced by the huge amount of buyers that swamp our shores in search of beautifully bred equine stock.

Can you explain what racing gives you that you don’t get out of your professional life?

In the words of my late friend Laurie Jaffee, the great South African owner/breeder whom many people will remember: “One needs a ‘counter-irritant’ in life.”

Who is your racing hero, either here or in South Africa?

I have been touched by so many wonderful people through racing that there are just too many for me to recall all of them. But overall I would say the late Laurie Jaffee, and a dear friend and trainer in Singapore, Patrick Shaw.

Patrick has been a close friend and advisor for the last 30 years. In my mind he is one of the great trainers of our time, as evidenced by the performance of horses like Rocket Man and many other Group winners around the world.

Where horses are concerned, I need not look further than the likes of Giant’s Causeway (the iron horse), Galileo and even Fantastic Light.

With regards to stallions, I am absolutely mesmerised by anything to do with Kingmambo and Nureyev.

Has the Queen, as owner of the hot favourite Carlton House, achieved more in promoting the Investec Derby than any advertising agency could have done?

Her Majesty’s involvement with the sport of horseracing brings honour, lustre and prominence to the entire global industry whether breeding or racing. What we would all be delighted to see is Her Majesty as a deserved winner of the greatest race in the world. From Investec’s point of view, this would be a fantastic moment. We could not wish for a better outcome.

Are you a supporter of the Horsemen’s Tariff?

Yes. However, once we have a serious and corporatised structure in the UK we will get all these tariffs and levies right. I would not support anything that does not ultimately aim at putting racing in the UK under one roof.

Is there too much racing in the UK? Absolutely – and without doubt when you consider the amount of prize-money available.

I know I sound like a broken record but we will achieve a win-win for all stakeholders only after we have the structure right, the resulting appropriate programming and the eradication of competition between clubs and independent operators.

You must have an ambition as an owner/breeder – what is it?

I don’t think I have to think too hard about that one as a sponsor of the great Investec Derby.

CLOSE UP AND… PERSONAL When I was young I wanted to be … old I get irritated by… stupidity My worst habit is… not listening to my trainers I like to relax by… rising early and walking the streets of London in search of coffee and watching the city wake up My favourite film/actor is…

Secretariat

CLOSE UP AND… PROFESSIONAL My favourite racecourse is…

Epsom, followed by Ascot, Greyville in South Africa and Kranji in Singapore British racing can attract more fans by… listening My most exciting moment in racing was… watching Sea The Stars winning the 2009 Investec Derby I feel the pressure when… they are lining up The best horse I have seen is…

Nureyev – to this day he brings tears to my eyes King’s Apostle won the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville for Kantor

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OLIVIER PESLIER

Hooked on ADRENALIN Olivier Peslier is a world-class jockey with riding contracts in France, Japan, Dubai, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and when he’s not indulging his first love, he’a a paintballing fanatic Words Julian Muscat • Photos George Selwyn

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fter finishing third behind Frankel in the 2,000 Guineas, Olivier Peslier looked directly at the clerk of the scales on weighing in and exclaimed loudly: “Objection! Objection!” The clerk, plainly startled, raised an eyebrow and asked Peslier to elaborate. At which point the jockey’s stern features dissolved into an impish smile. “The winner went too fast,” he replied.

As self-portraits go, it was the work of a celebrated artist – which accurately reflects how Peslier is seen in the saddle. At 38, he

marries experience to precious talent. He is in universal demand, his harmony with the horse recognised the world over. Yet first and foremost, Peslier just wants to have fun.

It’s a trait he shares with Frankie Dettori, whose career has unfolded along remarkably similar lines. If Peslier is known on this side of La Manche as “the Dettori of France”, Dettori is described in France as “the Peslier of England”.

Both men have won practically everything worth winning, yet one thing

sets them apart. In contrast to Dettori’s role with Godolphin, which occupies him throughout the year, Peslier’s affiliation with the Wertheimers affords him plenty of time to engage in the delights of travel. He is always on the lookout for decent sport, not all of it aboard quadrupeds.

Peslier also has riding contracts for owners based in Japan, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Qatar; it is this diversity that keeps him motivated throughout the year. Few other jockeys are as truly “international”. The experience has so broadened his horizons

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that he has no desire to supplement the four Cravache d’Or titles he won between 1996 and 2000. Life, he believes, is there to be savoured. Every passing minute.

“I could not be much happier,” he maintains. “I ride good horses in France and leave for Japan in October. I ride all over the world in winter and now I can ride more in England and Ireland in summer. You can win ten races at your local track, but it’s more important to win big races in different countries. You can travel, see the lives of the people there. It’s more exciting, no?”

“Trainers in England

never used French riders, so I was proud to win the Derby” It becomes evident as Peslier talks that he is hooked on adrenalin. Like Dettori, he is inspired by the big occasion. They come no bigger than in Japan, where crowds in excess of 100,000 are far from unusual. An instant convert from his first visit 16 years ago, he has now ridden 480 winners, 12 of them in championship races.

“In Japan you can feel the excitement in your heart,” he says. “I really enjoy that the fans have a passion for horses. They cheer for them with flags and posters. There is a lot of atmosphere there.”

How, then, does that square with his selfprofessed love of riding in Britain? “It’s different, but the same,” he smiles. “In England a lot of people come with their families but still, they watch in the paddock.

There are more young people; at (Royal) Ascot, it is like a party. They give energy. As a jockey, you feel this for sure. They are happy and this makes me happy. And they clap for you even when you finish third.”

Peslier’s affection for riding in Britain dates back to 1996, when he landed the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot aboard Shake The Yoke. The anonymous 23-year-old displayed remarkable poise on a filly he had never previously ridden, delaying his challenge until very late before winning by a neck – “comfortably” said the form book.

That victory opened the floodgates. By the time he closed the following season with victory aboard Xaar in the Dewhurst, he’d ridden subsequent Derby winner Benny The Dip to win the Dante and posted a Grouprace double for Sir Michael Stoute. A seed was sown right there. Then, in 1998, he partnered High-Rise to win the Derby for Luca Cumani.

“Winning the Derby is my best memory of riding in England,” Peslier reflects. “It was my first Derby (in Europe) but, more important, it was very hard for French jockeys to get a ride in the race at that time. Trainers in England never used us, so it made me very proud.”

Back then, French jockeys at Epsom were akin to coconuts in a shy. Their reputation wasn’t entirely undeserved as they toiled over the undulations. Perhaps the true litmus of Peslier is that he brought French jockeys back into vogue. His deeds certainly inspired the likes of Belgian-born Christophe Soumillon and Christophe Lemaire – both of whom spent formative seasons with Andre Fabre when Peslier rode as stable jockey.

That strand runs right through to Mickael Barzalona, France’s teenage sensation who is also Peslier’s understudy with the Wertheimers.

Peslier rides High-Rise to win the 1998 Derby; and on Arc hero Peintre Celebre

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“Mickael has become a good friend,” Peslier avers. “I have talked to him a lot, tried to help him. He has a good mind and he listens, even when someone criticises the way he rides. He is polite and has respect, which is very important for a young jockey.”

Peslier flaunts the popular blend of American and European riding styles favoured by Dettori, among others. He was very much of the old French school during his apprenticeship with Patrick Biancone, to whom he stresses his debt, but streamlined his technique after spending a winter with Christophe Clement in America in 1993.

“At that time Cash Asmussen was a big help,” Peslier relates of the American who rode for Fabre before him. “I watched him, asked questions all the time and all the time he explained everything to me. I never forgot that. I do the same now with young jockeys who ask me questions.”

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Aboard Goldikova, Peslier’s favourite horse; and it’s time to relax at Clairefontaine

Peslier eventually succeeded Asmussen at Fabre’s, although the association came about through his retainer with the volatile Daniel Wildenstein, for whom Fabre trained. It was Wildenstein, Peslier maintains, who gave him the taste for the international scene.

“We had some great seasons,” the jockey reflects. “We won the Prix du Jockey-Club and the Arc together (with Peintre Celebre), and we travelled the world. Then, when the (Wildenstein) horses left Fabre (in 2001), I stayed with Fabre.”

Peslier: born to win Born: January 12, 1973, Chateau Gontier, France Apprenticeship: With Patrick Biancone First winner: Rouen, March 12, 1989 Classic wins: Derby (1998 High-Rise), 2,000 Guineas (2007 Cockney Rebel), Irish Derby (1995 Winged Love), Irish 2,000 Guineas (1998 Desert Prince, 1999 Saffron Walden, 2007 Cockney Rebel), Prix du Jockey-Club (1997 Peintre Celebre), Poule d’Essai des Poulains (2008 Falco), Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (2004 Torrestrella, 2011 Golden Lilac), Deutches Derby (1997 Borgia, 2003 Dai Jin) Other major wins include: Arc de Triomphe (1996 Helissio, 1997 Peintre Celebre, 1998 Sagamix), Breeders’ Cup Mile (2008, 2009, 2010 Goldikova), Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (2001 Banks Hill), Japan Cup (2001 Jungle Pocket, 2004 Zenno Rob Roy), King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2010 Harbinger), Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1997 Air Express, 1999 Desert Prince), EP Taylor Stakes (1997 Kool Kat Katie), Ascot Gold Cup (2005 Westerner), Irish St Leger (2010 Sans Frontieres) French champion jockey: 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000

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The new millennium dawned at a turbulent time in Peslier’s life. His natural exuberance manifested itself on the failure of his first marriage and, while Fabre exercised a degree of patience, his methods have always been anchored in discipline.

Two years after he fought to keep Peslier over the split with Wildenstein, Fabre gave his consent when Peslier was approached to ride for the Wertheimer brothers in 2003. “He told me it was a good opportunity, they are good owners and I would win big races with them,” Peslier relates.

Their parting would not be absolute, since the Wertheimers had horses with Fabre. “I learnt a lot from Andre,” Peslier reflects. “He completely understands horses and thinks only for their good. People in France don’t like it when he doesn’t speak to them, but when he comes to England he speaks to everybody. Obviously, sometimes he is not happy if the race has gone badly, or when you ride badly, but that is normal if you are completely professional. You can explain your opinion and he will listen. Sometimes he will not agree, but after everything is normal.”

Open the boot of any jockey’s car and you will find a set of well-worn golf clubs. Open Peslier’s and you will find an array of guns, goggles, body armour and pellets that telegraph his other passion. Peslier is an avid paintballer, fully signed up to Redball Paris, who play in Division 1 of the Millenium Series League comprising teams from cities across Europe.

Mention paintballing and Peslier is away,

regaling you with details of how Redball Paris finished third of 26 teams in the season’s opening joust at Longchamp in April. He plays among semi-professionals. A veteran of 20 years’ standing, he never goes anywhere without the equipment for an impromptu shoot-out. He has even built a playing field at his home.

“It is like riding in a race because you have to make decisions very quickly,” he says of paintballing. “That is why I like it. There is a lot of adrenalin and you need good reactions but, also, you must communicate very well with your team. I’ve played all over the world: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, the United States.”

America has afforded him plenty of opportunity. In the last three years he has ventured forth every autumn with his favourite horse, Goldikova, who has returned home each time with the Breeders’ Cup Mile garland. While there is no denying Goldikova’s talent, Peslier’s intuitive handling of the feisty mare is what defines the partnership.

“What can you say new about her?” he asks. “She has won 12 Group 1s and, I hope, some more will follow. For a jockey, the best thing is that you can ride her in different ways, depending on how the race is run.”

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Goldikova’s enduring prowess obliges Peslier to place her ahead of Peintre Celebre in his affections. Yet something more than family loyalty encourages him to believe that her half-sister by Galileo, Galikova, could make an impact this season. “Galikova showed me something last year and she is stronger now,” Peslier says. “I think, I hope, she will be my new star.”

Isn’t it too much to expect a second strike of lightning? “For sure it will be hard for her, because of Goldikova. But if she is only 50% of Goldikova, it will be enough.”

As we debate Galikova’s potential Peslier suddenly sits bolt upright. “You see, that’s what I love about racing. Every year the horses change but the dream is the same. You start looking for the new pearl. Every year there are new questions. It’s not like you wake up to do the same job every day.”

Those sentiments underline that Peslier is in the prime of his professional life. The occasional excesses of his youth have given way to recognition of the good fortune bestowed on him at birth.

The question of retirement is increasingly raised as he approaches his 40th birthday, but he is having none of it. “For the moment, I don’t know,” he shrugs. “I’ll ride for as long as I’m happy and enjoying it. It’s like Frankie: he is riding good horses, he travels everywhere and he is happy. The job is like a hobby to us. Why would we want to stop?”

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Peslier, on Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Ouija Board, is in big demand at Royal Ascot, with British trainers unanimous in describing him as world class

The royal meeting ‘go-to’ jockey Olivier Peslier will be much in demand at Royal Ascot. The Frenchman has savoured high-profile success in his role as the ‘go-to’ jockey for so many British trainers – in particular Sir Michael Stoute, who turned to Peslier when Ryan Moore plumped for Workforce ahead of Harbinger for last season’s King George.

The union of Stoute and Peslier dates back to 1997, when the jockey rode Delilah and Whitewater Affair (dam of Dubai World Cup winner Victoire Pisa) to win a pair of Group races in Britain. “Over the years I have frequently attempted to employ Olivier in the big races,” Stoute says. “Not only is he a pleasure to work with, he is a world-class rider.”

Ed Dunlop, for whom Peslier rode Native Khan into third place behind Frankel in the 2,000 Guineas, is another devotee. “I know Olivier rode Harbinger in some work before the King George but he’d never sat on Ouija Board before the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (in 2006),” says Dunlop. “She was stunning for him that day, but then, you can only have the utmost faith in him. He is among the top

half-dozen jockeys in the world.”

John Gosden concurs, having turned to Peslier for Benny The Dip’s pre-Derby victory in the 1997 Dante Stakes. “I have always used Olivier when circumstances permit,” he says. “He is a brilliant jockey with a great touch and wonderful hands.

“The genius of some riders is that they are very quick to feel and understand a horse, and Olivier has always had that extraordinary ability. He gets the best out of horses he has never seen before. In my opinion he is definitely in the world’s top five jockeys.”

Luca Cumani, who sent Peslier’s stock soaring when deploying him for the winning ride aboard High-Rise in the 1998 Derby, alludes to Peslier’s unflappable temperament. “His biggest quality for me is his sang froid,” Cumani says. “He is a very cool rider on the big occasion. He’s got a good head and he instinctively delivers the horse at the right moment.”

All trainers turn to one phrase in their efforts to describe Peslier. They say he is world class. That says it all.

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Look forward NOT BACK Marcus Tregoning has endured a challenging few years since Sir Percy lifted the Derby yet his grounding with the great Dick Hern has taught him to retain a positive outlook on life Words Chris McGrath • Photos George Selwyn

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ou can imagine him portrayed on one of those cigarette cards of the 1920s or 1930s – this scrupulously neat figure, his trilby sharp as the bow of a clipper, binoculars slung over the shoulder. A faithful caricature, however, would unmistakably place Marcus Tregoning in the present day.

His eye would be too bright, his aspect altogether too benign, to accommodate him among the ruthless sticklers of a bygone age.

At the height of the racing summer, mind you, he will gladly acknowledge himself a bridge to the past. In its sunny parade rings, at Epsom or Ascot or Goodwood, he will always cherish his debt to one of the greats of that old school. For a conversation with Tregoning is reliably strewn with the lore he learned under Dick Hern. But it also discloses the engaging and engaged character who has himself, in his understated way, become a familiar, comforting presence on the British Turf.

He spent 14 years with Hern; and now, in his 14th season since, he is trying to harness a bleak economic wind to launch a new phase of his career, having just switched from employee to tenant at Sheikh Hamdan’s Kingwood estate, high above Lambourn. Last year, moreover, he had the excruciating experience of watching Makfi, culled from his string, win the 2,000 Guineas for another trainer. Either of these trials might nourish self-doubt, or self-pity. Only a man so immune to arrogance – and its besetting habits of protest and resentment – could instead approach them with such calm. “I’ve THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

never doubted,” he shrugs. “I always thought that if I could get 30% of what Dick Hern could do, and what he knew, then I’d have no problems.”

Sir Percy’s success in the 2006 Derby proved curiously infertile, measured by new patrons for the stable; and that injustice has since been compounded by one or two crops blighted by virus or mediocrity. But it stands immutably on his record: the yearling reject who became a champion juvenile, and Derby winner. Even if his achievements for Sheikh

“Sir Percy won the

Derby through sheer class; it’s speed, not stamina, you need” Hamdan – from the sumptuous Nayef, to the indefatigable Mubtaker – were admired only grudgingly, then how would you explain Sir Percy, an animal within reach of even the smallest pockets among big talkers?

“It was the most magical story,” Tregoning says. “That he was an orphan foal, and then the foster mother died; that he only cost 16,000gns, and all offers boldly refused by the owners. Victoria Pakenham said: ‘Marcus, if we sell, you won’t have a chance to train a Classic winner.’ I’ll never forget that.”

And, whatever happens now, they can’t

take that away from him – the cooling drive home through a hot, heady evening; the arrival at the party of the Pakenhams, freed of their hats and finery; and, finally, the paling of the sky, the first dawn of the rest of his life as a Derby-winning trainer.

At the time, like your wedding day, it had been too much of a blur. The press conference made them late for the monarch.

From where he was standing, moreover, Tregoning had initially feared the colt beaten.

“People were saying Martin [Dwyer] had given him a wonderful ride,” he says. “But if it had gone wrong I don’t think I’d ever have got over it, to tell you the truth. It was bad enough, almost, winning a short head. I knew I had the best horse in the race, quite honestly. If he’d got beat, it would have been just awful.”

Conviction, in such a man, is never mere orthodoxy. For instance, he now holds that Sir Percy did not really stay beyond a mile.

“It’s an extraordinary thing to say, now, I know,” he says. “But I think probably I read the book wrong. Don’t forget he had enough speed to be second in the Guineas, enough speed to win twice over six furlongs as a twoyear-old. I’ve had lots of quizzing sessions with Willie Carson about what you need to win the Derby. And I don’t think it’s stamina.

It’s speed. He’d tell you Nashwan probably didn’t get a mile and a half. Hawk Wing, without High Chaparral, would have been a very easy Derby winner. I think you can get hoodwinked – by pedigrees, by all sorts of things. I think Sir Percy did it by sheer class.”

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Trainer felt “devastated” after Makfi remarks In terms of the one that got away, it really was a 64lb salmon. Mortifying as it was, however, Marcus Tregoning reflects on the sale of Makfi with commendable perspective.

He has been encouraged, in this, by the fidelity of Sheikh Hamdan, who included the colt in his annual cull – discarding him for just 26,000gns at the Horses-inTraining Sale – only to see him develop into one of the top milers of his generation for Mikel Delzangles, in France. And Tregoning is generous enough to accept that “it was a fantastic thing to happen for a new trainer”.

He was vexed, however, by those who implied that he had made a culpable misjudgement. “I was more devastated than one should have been, by some of the remarks made after he’d proved himself a good horse,” he says. “It had been a very dry summer here, and the horse had very round joints, and splints. Hence he wasn’t taken to Dubai with the other yearlings.

“He had too many problems to train through the summer, immaturity problems as they turned out to be. It wasn’t until the autumn, with the entries for the sales having been made, that he started to go. Don’t forget he ran within a month of leaving here, and won.”

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The colt was by a flourishing young stallion, in Dubawi, out of a half-sister to Alhaarth. Given the limited evidence, it was quite a risk to sell.

When the dust settled, however, Sheikh Hamdan told Tregoning: “I’m going to sell 80 horses, whether you like it or not – and the chances are we’re going to sell a good one every now and then.”

Could he have told his patrons that Makfi was going to be special? “How could I?” he asks. “He hadn’t seen a racecourse, and all his work was done in the few weeks before the sale.”

The drama might well have become a crisis, but for the affinity between Tregoning and the Sheikh. “When we’re on our own, we have great fun – we can talk very directly about anything,” he says.

“It doesn’t have to be racing, it might be politics or football. He has a very good sense of humour.”

After the Guineas, Tregoning remembered chatting with someone at the races the previous summer about the sales.

“And he told me he would never buy anything from me, because in the past they’d never been able to improve anything,” Tregoning says wryly.

“Perhaps he jumped off a bridge. But I’m still going.”

Tregoning also parts with convention in his view of perhaps the most maligned ride in Derby history – by Greville Starkey, in 1986.

“We all know Dancing Brave should have won,” he accepts. “But watch him making the descent. Like a lot of horses, he wasn’t handling the track. And Greville, knowing the horse, felt that if he let him get on an even keel, he’d have the brilliance to win anyway.

And he only just got touched off. That was enough to sacrifice a man’s whole career – which, to me, was absolutely appalling. I remember Dick Hern saying a man who never made a mistake, never made anything.”

The axiom, inevitably, takes him back to the Major. Asked about adversity – how he deals with a virus, or with the Makfi business – Tregoning remembers the military stoicism of Hern, when confined to a wheelchair by a hunting accident. “If things were going wrong, and everything was against him, the yard was full of virus and the owners getting difficult, he was absolutely brilliant – almost better, backed into a corner, than when things were going well. Once someone rang him because his father was depressed, and could he give him a ring? ‘Depression, Marcus, what is this depression thing?’ And I said: ‘Thank God you don’t know.’”

Tregoning reckoned his mentor a still better trainer after his accident. The intensity, then, was almost frightening. Of course, he also saw a less formidable side. He heard the old army choruses with friends at West Wittering, where Hern stayed for Goodwood. He marvelled at the memory and relish for rhyme, and ribald stories. Whenever the yard had success, at whatever level, the Major would shout: “Winner!” And champagne would be opened. Likewise, though his assistant seldom had a day off, every Sunday at noon Hern would dependably say: “Shall we go and find a bottle, Marcus?”

But he never wanted to reminisce, to reprise tales of Brigadier Gerard and the rest.

“That was his army way,” Tregoning says.

“Never look back, got to look forward. Like those old soldiers, who never talk about war.

And it’s true, the things they saw, the smell of burning flesh, we can’t begin to imagine. He always said don’t ever rush past people begging in the street. A lot of them would have been shell-shocked, war-battered.”

Hern’s greatest legacy, however, was in the yard. If a horse was unsound, he would say: “Go and get Marcus.” Tregoning would arrive, terrified by the certainty that he would have to trot up and down the yard, before a rider who had trained the British Olympic team to win a gold medal at Helsinki in 1952.

“Where’s he lame, Marcus?” It was all drilled into Tregoning, who remains amazed by how many experienced people can stand watching a horse and not answer that question.

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MARCUS TREGONING approach, touring the yard daily; and hence, too, the absolute faith and gratitude he reserves for his core staff, many of them here since Hern’s day. Without these, Sir Percy would never have made it to Epsom, having returned sore from the Guineas. Tregoning swears by his vet, Nicole Nelson; and physiotherapists, Sarah Daireaux and Jose Gomez-Garcia. Then there is the head lad, Vic Chitty, and his deputy, John Lake, who broke in Nashwan and Dayjur, as well as Sir Percy; and the whole chain of command extending to Katia Scallan, the stable apprentice.

A special place to train At 51, it is with this intimate, professional family in mind – not to mention Arabella and their four children – that Tregoning is determined to make a success of the new regime. The change is akin to that undertaken

by Ed Dunlop, again after beginning his career working for the Maktoums. “But Ed bought his own yard,” Tregoning notes. “I can’t to do that at the moment. Obviously you’d rather not be paying large rents. Having said that, I’ve been instrumental in a lot of the work that’s been done here. It’s a very special place to train horses, albeit expensive to run.

But anyone who ever comes in will tell you there are no corners cut.

“And I can’t emphasise enough what a good team we have. Some I’ve worked with for 30 years. So I do want it to work for them, as well. We’ve had a time of deep recession but I’m not a doom-and-gloom person – never have been.”

If the environment is changing – both in his own career and for the industry overall –

Tregoning is staying fast to the bedrock.

He sees how Sheikh Hamdan, with horses worldwide, adores racing here; and how the same heritage now intrigues Nurlan Bizakov, ambitious new owner of Hesmonds Stud.

“People still want to race here, no question,” Tregoning says. “Everyone asks how we can possibly attract people, with prize-money the way it is? But look at people like Mr Bizakov, and the new Qatari investors.

“This country has

something nowhere else has; people still want to race here” Racing here has so much prestige and variety.

I think there’s an analogy with the royal wedding. Whatever you think of the monarchy, that was a great show, brilliantly done. You can’t knock the fact that this country has something nowhere else has. And we’ve something similar in racing. Obviously we have to refine the product a bit – we need to get rid of a lot of those lower-tier races.

And it’s not just prize-money. When owners go racing they want to have a really good day.”

When he took Bizakov to see Askar Tau win the Sagaro Stakes, they could barely communicate over lunch because Derek Thompson was booming over the PA, an adjacent speaker blasting their table. The food was slow, too. Hern would have been aghast.

Even so, Tregoning is relaxed about the idea that the sport needs to be, well, more relaxed. He remembers watching people quake before the Major, and vowing not to be the same. “I didn’t want people to be terrified of me,” he says. “His generation could be quite Dickensian, quite aloof. Things were never anybody else’s business. But I don’t want to be a bullshitter either. I’m not, I don’t think. Owners must get encouragement. I like them to come down as much as they can, to enjoy the development of their horses. They can ring me every day if they want to.”

Receptive and loquacious, Tregoning is no throwback. He is a civilised creature, too, one of few trainers with whom you might discuss Giant or On The Waterfront as readily as pedigrees or conformation. Yes, he finds himself at something of a crossroads. He could do with another champion, to give impetus to his new regime. But such imperatives will never exhaust a pristine sense of privilege in his vocation.

“I’ve been very lucky to start training here,” he says. “I had a great grounding, and Sheikh Hamdan has been incredibly loyal. The world has changed, and you don’t know what’s going to happen. But so long as people still want me, I’ll train, because I have a huge passion for what I do, and love the people I work with.

“Yes, I’ve had a couple of quiet years, and our numbers are down a bit. But it was only five years ago that we won the Derby, for goodness sake. We’ve had some very good horses, and hopefully we’ll get them again. I think it’s a matter of making it entertaining, and fighting your corner.”

Tregoning greets his 2006 Derby victor Sir Percy; the Lanwades sire is already off the mark with his first runners this year

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oldikova and Overdose, the two highest profile European raiders for the 2011 Royal meeting, are set to join Frankel on what should be a blockbuster opening day.

Goldikova, who has won more European Group 1 races than any other horse in history, will bid for back-to-back triumphs in the Queen Anne Stakes.

Her season is being tailored around a tilt for a remarkable fourth Breeders’ Cup Mile win in Kentucky in November, so do not be too surprised if she gets turned over on her reappearance in the Prix d’Ispahan. That Longchamp event tests her stamina to its limit and Ascot’s straight mile is much more her cup of tea, always presuming that she gets her required fast ground.

Overdose is the hero of Hungary and it would be wonderful if, in compliance with the strict dress code, the horse’s connections swarmed into the winner’s enclosure following the King’s Stand Stakes sporting Magyar national dress.

The British-bred son of Starborough is still best known for his runaway success in the 2008 Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp on Arc day, only for the race to be declared void because of a stalls malfunction. In truth, he has achieved little since then other than a ten-length score in an Italian Group 3 a few weeks later.

The next two seasons saw Overdose run just four times owing to a recurring foot problem.

And, worryingly, given the pomp, pageantry and prodigious crowd he is sure to encounter at Ascot, he has developed a tendency to boil over before races and resent going into the stalls, hence his only defeat in 16 starts at Baden-Baden last August.

Nevertheless, he will have an experienced international pilot aboard in the shape of Andreas Suborics and a recent win in Berlin suggests that some of the old ability remains.

His King’s Stand opponents should include War Artist, the 2008 Golden Jubilee runnerup who has recently moved to his sixth different trainer, the little-known 35-year-old German Markus Klug.

As for continental rivals for Frankel in the St James’s Palace Stakes, we are likely to get the chance to compare the merits of the respective versions of the 2,000 Guineas on opposite sides of The Channel. Tin Horse, the comprehensive winner of the French equivalent, is set to be a first runner on this side of the water for trainer Didier Guillemin.

Havane Smoker, who cruised into the lead before appearing not to stay when second to Tin Horse in that Classic, is wisely being aimed at the Jersey Stakes over a furlong shorter.

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French benefit of late and there is good reason to expect that, following the wins of Byword, Vision d’Etat and Manduro, ‘Le Tricolore’ will be hoisted above Berkshire for a fourth time in five years.

Byword is likely to defend his crown and should be joined by Planteur, who is really beginning to thrive now that he is being kept to this mile-and-a-quarter trip rather than stretched over an extra two furlongs. His wins in Longchamp’s two April showpieces, the Prix d’Harcourt and Prix Ganay, have both been registered in some style.

By contrast, the French have had a pretty thin time of things in the Gold Cup in recent years, with just one success since Sagaro completed his hat-trick in 1977. Francois Doumen is better known for his exploits in the Cheltenham equivalent, but he is more than capable of readying a top Flat horse and he has a live outsider in the shape of former hurdler Kasbah Bliss, who needs fast ground and has to be delivered at the last possible moment.

Not many people will have heard of Vanjura, but she is the best horse to have come out of Berlin for many a long year and has already proven herself on the international stage, winning in Istanbul and getting touched off by Rio De La Plata in Milan last October. She is being aimed at the Windsor Forest Stakes and there is every reason to expect her to improve upon the third place achieved by her former stablemate Antara 12 months ago.

Amico Fritz, who is trained in France by Alex Pantall for Austrian owner Alexandre Pereira, will be back for a second crack at the Golden Jubilee Stakes in which he finished fifth last year.

He may be joined in that field by the Italian three-year-old Blu Constellation, who won the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte by six lengths in France last autumn but faces a race against time to get ready, having taken a long time to recover from a cut he suffered in his easy comeback win in Milan in April.

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nspired by the remarkable performances of several American-based horses at Royal Ascot since 2009, a team as large as a dozen American runners might travel across the Atlantic this year to take on European competition. The group is expected to include a trio of first-ever Royal Ascot starters from the stables of four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher.

“Right now, we are still planning on all three going,” Pletcher said on May 10, referring to graded stakes winners Stratford Hill, Bridgetown and More Than Real.

Owned by Eugene Melnyk, Stratford Hill and Bridgetown are nominated to the King’s Stand and Golden Jubilee, while celebrity chef Bobby Flay’s More Than Real, winner of the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, is aiming for the Coronation Stakes.

“Both owners expressed interest in participating if everything develops according to plan,” said Pletcher, who attended the 2000 Royal Ascot meeting as an observer.

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“American horses tend to do well in sprint races and we’re hopeful they can compete over there.

“It’s a serious challenge, obviously, shipping over and running against those type of horses.

We’ll have to be at our best, but we’re very pleased with what the horses have been able to do so far.”

Stratford Hill, a four-year-old son of AP Indy, won the Grade 3 Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland on April 16 over an extended five furlongs on yielding turf for his fourth consecutive victory. The other three races were all won at five furlongs.

Bridgetown, a son of Speightstown, has won two five-furlong turf sprints in 2011 and finished second in the Grade 3 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes on May 7. Last year, Bridgetown won the Gilded Time Stakes at Monmouth Park in a course record 1:00.67 for five and a half furlongs.

While the Pletcher runners are sure to be focal points of attention, ground-breaking trainer Wesley Ward plans to start as many as nine horses at Royal Ascot. Ward became the first American trainer to win at Royal Ascot when he swept the 2009 Windsor Castle and Queen Mary Stakes with Strike the Tiger and Jealous Again respectively, and saddled Cannonball for a strong runner-up effort in the Golden Jubilee.

“I learned from the experience of going over there and I’m always trying to figure out how to do better,” Ward said. “We got it done before and we’re hopeful we can do it again.

I’m doing everything in my power to get them there first.”

As of early May, three of Ward’s juvenile trainees were already in Europe and each had scored a victory in France. Judy The Beauty, a daughter of Ghostzapper, and Everyday Dave, a Canadian-bred gelding by Weather Warning, each won at Chantilly on May 2 to remain undefeated in two starts, while the Tiznow filly Tiz Terrific won for the first time in her career at Longchamp on April 30.

“You always expect them to run well – you

Japan’s Grand Prix Boss is on course to clash with Frankel in the St James’s Palace

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Holiday For Kitten (left) could be part of Wesley Ward’s team at the meeting

“I look forward to competing with the ‘monster of gallop’,” he added, referring to 2,000 Guineas winner Frankel.

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don’t go to all the expense of shipping them over there to lose,” Ward said. “I was elated they ran up to expectations.”

Ward’s other Royal Ascot candidates include the three-year-old filly Holiday For Kitten, who set a Keeneland Polytrack record of 1:02.78 for five and a half furlongs when she won the Giant’s Causeway Stakes on April 23. Holiday For Kitten was bred by and races for Ken and Sarah Ramsey, who campaigned Cannonball, and is pointed to the King’s Stand.

Japan also could be represented by two major Group 1 winners. Grand Prix Boss, the 2010 champion juvenile male, is aimed at the St James’s Palace Stakes after a win in the Group 1 NHK Mile Cup at Tokyo on May 8, and Oka Sho (Japanese 1,000 Guineas) winner Marcellina may run in the Coronation Stakes.

First, however, the daughter of Deep Impact was to start in the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) on May 22, with a final decision on Royal Ascot pending.

Trainer Yoshito Yahagi said: “It has been my dream to have a runner at Royal Ascot. As Grand Prix Boss is powerful and has trained very well on the uphill track at Ritto (training centre), I believe he is a suitable horse to send to Ascot.

his year Australia will be relying on highly performed three-year-olds Star Witness and Hinchinbrook to continue the nation’s success story at Royal Ascot. The pair are booked to be flown to England on June 1.

However, while Star Witness is a definite starter in the King’s Stand Stakes, Hinchinbrook’s trainer Peter Moody is still to finally decide on the trip.

“Our intention is to run him in the Golden Jubilee,” said Moody, who has had previous experience at the Royal meeting with King’s Stand third placegetter Magnus. “But we won’t finally decide until he trials a few days before the departure date. As long as we are happy with him after that he’ll go.”

A multiple stakes winner by Fastnet Rock,

Hinchinbrook registered his fourth Group 1 placing when a last-start second to Hay List in the All Aged Stakes (1,400m) at Randwick.

“I was really pleased with his performance in the All Aged,” said Moody. “We freshened him up after that and he has done very well since, so everything is on schedule.

Luke Nolen, who is the rider of Moody’s superstar sprinter Black Caviar, will partner Hinchinbrook at Royal Ascot, while Steven Arnold will be aboard Star Witness.

One of Australia’s tallest jockeys, Arnold demonstrated his ability in the saddle when he rode Scenic Blast to victory in the King’s Stand two years ago, so he knows what will be needed on Star Witness. A handsome chesnut son of Starcraft, who followed Group 1 wins in Australia and New Zealand with triumphs at the elite level at Newmarket and Longchamp, Star Witness is a dual Group 1 winner.

After scoring a brilliant win in the Blue Diamond Stakes as a two-year-old he confirmed his stallion potential by capturing the Ascot Vale Stakes during last spring’s Melbourne Cup Carnival. It was then that trainer Danny O’Brien devised a plan aimed directly at Royal Ascot.

“We deliberately gave him a light autumn campaign with England in mind,” O’Brien said of Star Witness. “He is showing the benefit of that now.

“He has been working in super style and, in my view, he is going better than ever. Added to that he is a Group 1 winner and Group 1-placed down the straight at Flemington, which should mean he is very much at home at Ascot.”

O’Brien added that there is a possibility Star Witness will also be saddled up in the Golden Jubilee five days later.

“Obviously that will depend on how he performs in the King’s Stand and how he progresses after the race,” O’Brien said. “But at this stage we are thinking seriously about backing him up.”

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deductions made for Pay As You Earn ( PAYE) tax and National Insurance (employersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; NI). Similarly, the payment should go through the payroll as salary and be shown on the relevant weekly or monthly payslip.

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BREEDERS’ DIGEST

By EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

Our coverage this month includes:

• Sales Circuit: reports and analysis Wrapping up the spring breeze-ups and jumping sales – pages 56-59

Australian cups brimming with European stars

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he potential for a royal winner at Epsom has added an extra gloss to the race that remains, rightly, the most important of the Flat calendar.

Whatever the outcome of the Derby, the Queen has a thoroughly exciting prospect on her hands in Carlton House, who was a gift to her from Sheikh Mohammed.

Despite the sheikh’s constant quest for top-flight success, a Derby winner in Her Majesty’s colours will almost certainly give him a great deal of pleasure, not least because Carlton House is by one of the Darley operation’s biggest stars, Street Cry. In his relatively short career at stud, Street Cry has already delivered a Kentucky Derby winner, a Melbourne Cup winner and Zenyatta, whose celebrity status helped to propel racing from the back pages to the front pages of newspapers across the States in the build-up to her swansong in last season’s Breeders’ Cup. In a year when there is renewed royal fervour thanks to the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Wills and Kate, Carlton House is a horse who could do the same for British racing.

Though the Queen is not the breeder of the colt, she has enjoyed Group 1 success in that sphere already this year courtesy of Kingdom Of Fife (now racing as My Kingdom Of Fife) in Australia. He was the appropriate winner of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick in April and has also won the Group 2 Hollindale Stakes (beating fellow former Freemason Lodge inmate Glass Harmonium by a neck) and the Group 3 Doncaster Mile Prelude since being bought by Alastair Donald for 60,000gns at last year’s Horses In Training Sale at Tattersalls.

My Kingdom Of Fife is but one of an increasing army of talented stayers from Chris Waller’s Sydney stable who have found their way to Australia from Britain and Ireland. On the same day as his Group 1 triumph, Waller also landed the Sydney Cup with the Irish-bred Stand To Gain, while in South Australia the former Alan Swinbank-trained Stanstill, now with Mick Kent in Cranbourne, won the principal race on Oakbank’s card. Since then, two more of Waller’s Tattersalls purchases,

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Wazn and Old Bill (formerly named Aneel) have also highlighted their long-term potential with victories at Warwick Farm, with the trainer saying of Old Bill: “He’s got a bright future – not this preparation, next preparation – so watch out for him.”

Adding a line which British Bloodstock Marketing may well want to adopt as its slogan to encourage overseas purchasers, Waller, who boasts 25 winners from his Newmarket purchases in recent years, said: “The best part of the English horses is the best is yet to come.”

Cross-hemisphere raiders The thought of a battalion of British-bred stayers quietly winding up to a tilt at this year’s Melbourne Cup may offer some solace to those proud Poms who have not enjoyed the now regular raiding parties from down under for the big Royal Ascot sprints and July Cup. Though we are not being treated to a visit from the superstar mare Black Caviar, or even her brilliant understudy Hay List, we’re likely to see Star Witness and Hinchinbrook in action here this summer.

The May issue of Australia’s Inside Racing dropped through my letterbox recently and though Black Caviar justifiably has the cover to herself for the second time this year, a doublepage spread within is devoted to a ‘wish list’ of horses that Racing Victoria’s international consultant Leigh Jordon would like to attract to

this year’s Spring Carnival. It includes Wigmore Hall, Gitano Hernando, Redwood, Mikhail Glinka, Monterosso and Rewilding.

To Jordon’s list I would add, right at the top, a favourite dual-purpose galloper, Overturn.

How many trainers could even hope to aim at winning the Grand National and Melbourne Cup in the same year? Though Donald McCain’s feet are planted firmly in jumping country, with a legitimate contender in the versatile seven-year-old Chester Cup winner, the possibility of adding another of the world’s most famous races to the McCain roll of honour is surely an opportunity not to be missed.

Last year’s Spring Carnival revolved largely around one horse: So You Think, a son of the Derby-winning shuttler High Chaparral. Much to the dismay of many Australian racing fans, we now have the pleasure of seeing this outstanding individual racing in these parts.

Aidan O’Brien has successfully converted two Australian imports into dual-hemisphere Group 1 winners, with Haradasun winning the Queen Anne Stakes in 2008 and Starspangledbanner completing the Golden Jubilee/July Cup double last year. Barring a setback, Ascot will also be on So You Think’s itinerary.

Wherever he runs, make a point of going to see him. His trademark long-flowing mane from his days at Bart Cummings’s stable may be gone, but in the flesh this near-back stallion is every inch a superstar.

My Kingdom Of Fife, British-bred by the Queen, is now a Group 1 winner in Australia

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SALES CIRCUIT

By EDWARD PROSSER

Spring trade throws mixed results A packed calendar has Flat two-year-olds vying for attention with proven young jumpers

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raditionally it is as the Flat season reaches full swing that jump buyers begin restocking their stables for the future, principally shopping for unbroken stores.

But it is a rapidly evolving marketplace and by the time the long-standing starting point to the summer National Hunt auction campaign, Doncaster’s Spring Sale, got underway, more than £8 million has been spent at the burgeoning boutique form horse sales already this year, with 26 lightly-raced jumpers selling for six figures.

Cheltenham’s April Sale remains the market leader by some way, with 13 £100,000-plus lots this year, but its new rivals are intent on getting a share of the business. While Tattersalls Ireland’s new sale before the Punchestown Festival saw only eight horses sell for €314,000, Goffs’ first event during Ireland’s main National Hunt meeting could scarcely be deemed a failure. In less than an hour the sale grossed more than €1m for a small collection of Irish point-topointers and bumper performers as buyers continued to show a preference towards form horses over stores.

But it is trade for those untested three- and four-year-olds that will come under the limelight in the coming weeks. As we went to press, DBS’s Spring Sale was underway and the National Hunt breeding industry needs to see a better trade than 12 months ago. DBS’s store catalogue is the smallest in the modern era, trimmed to 219 lots from 316 last year, while the Goffs Land Rover Sale on June 9 and 10 is also down to 455 lots, compared to 853 catalogued in 2008.

The reduced numbers will assist this diminishing marketplace in which vendors can at least take heart that there will be no shortage of Irish point-to-point trainers shopping for lots to resell next year.

The Flat breeze-up scene also had a couple of new additions to keep the longer-standing fixtures on their toes. There would be scope for improvement at Tattersalls Ireland’s event in late April, while Brightwells’ Ascot Sale fared slightly better but was still a long way off the established market leaders.

DBS Breeze-up Just as at the preceding domestic breeze-up sales at Kempton and Newmarket, Doncaster’s twoyear-old auction in April was dominated more than ever by Irish vendors. At none of the three sales was any of the dearest ten lots sold by a British consignor and it was Willie Browne’s County Tipperary-based Mocklershill operation

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Sold

Clearance

Aggregate

Average

Median

Top Price 100k+

TATTERSALLS CRAVEN 164

112

68%

7,987,000gns (-4%)

71,313gns (-11%)

60,000gns (-14%)

320,000gns

22

114

80%

€7,096,000 (+27%)

€62,246 (+21%)

€50,000 (+25%)

€260,000

20

109

69%

£3,183,500 (-2%)

£29,206 (+10%)

£20,000 (+1%)

£140,000

3

78%

£1,600,500 (+85%)

£25,008 (+56%)

£20,000 (+60%)

£130,000

1

£567,400

£16,211

£10,000

£100,000

1

€294,100

€8,403

€5,000

€45,000

0

ARQANA 142 DBS 158

KEMPTON GOFFS 82

64

BRIGHTWELLS ASCOT* 52

35

67%

TATTERSALLS IRELAND* 63

35

56%

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Sold

Clearance

Aggregate

Average

Median

Top Price 100k+

£3,555,000 (+55%)

£63,482 (+21%)

£37,000 (-3%)

£250,000

13

£21,147 (+52%)

£12,000 (+60%)

£125,000

1

£1,071,300 (+2%)

£36,941 (+10%)

£25,000 (+79%)

£130,000

3

70%

€1,013,000

€72,357

€50,000

€200,000

4

45%

£900,000

£64,285

£40,500

£150,000

5

53%

€314,000

€39,250

€40,000

€80,000

0

BRIGHTWELLS CHELTENHAM APRIL 73

58

80%

BRIGHTWELLS CHELTENHAM MAY 116

70

60%

£1,480,300 (+38%)

BRIGHTWELLS CHELTENHAM JANUARY 44

29

66%

GOFFS PUNCHESTOWN* 20

14

DBS NEWBURY* 31

14

TATTS IRE APRIL* 15

8

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which topped each of the trio.

At Doncaster that feat was achieved by a £140,000 first-crop colt by Hard Spun, who shot up in value from his $15,000 yearling cost and, now named Red Duke, is in training with Malton handler John Quinn for Maxilead Ltd. Yorkshire trainers proved competitive at the market’s top end and Richard Fahey received a £110,000 Teofilo colt knocked down to his assistant Robin O’Ryan and a Dubawi half-sister to Nell Gwyn Stakes winner Barefoot Lady bought by that filly’s Naas-based owners Norman and Helen Steel for £80,000.

Sheikh Fahad Al Thani flew into Doncaster for the sale and paid £105,000 for a Shamardal colt and £90,000 for a son of Compton Place to race under the Pearl Bloodstock banner.

Agent Charlie Gordon-Watson reckoned it

was 12 years since he was last at Doncaster and – acting for an unidentified owner with Roger Charlton – he paid £80,000 for a firstcrop son of Lawman consigned from Norman Williamson’s Oak Tree Farm.

Sir Robert Ogden was another rarely-sighted visitor to DBS although his impact was relatively subdued compared to Tattersalls, where he bought the two dearest lots. He paid £68,000 for a Royal Applause colt sold, like his Newmarket purchases, by Mocklershill, who grossed £531,000 for 11 lots sold.

This is a sale that has achieved a clearance rate of 80% or higher in past years although the market proved selective this year and only 68.9% of those offered found new homes. But other key indicators showed advances with the £29,206 average rising by 9.7% and the THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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£20,000 median going up by £250, although the £3,183,500 turnover fell by 1.9%.

DBS Breeze-up Top lots

Tattersalls Ireland Flat Breeze-up Tattersalls Ireland’s new breeze-up replaced the Guineas fixture previously held by its sister company in Newmarket, but it has some way to go before making a dent in the side of its Anglo-Irish rivals.

The catalogue featured 73 lots, of which 35 were listed as sold, for a modest turnover of €294,100. The €8,403 average and €5,000 median suggested that few of those offered made significant profits at a sale where just three lots realised over €14,000.

Newtown Stud, run by the late Brian Grassick’s widow Sheila and daughter Cathy, provided the two dearest lots. The pick of them was a €45,000 Dalakhani filly, who was bred jointly by Newtown, and bought by Cathy Grassick on behalf of client Yvonne Jacques, a member of the Highclere syndicate who owned Harbinger and a major yearling investor last year. Bobby O’Ryan paid €40,000 for a Rock Of Gibraltar filly who has joined Kevin Prendergast.

Sex/Breeding

Vendor

c Hard Spun-Saudia (Gone West)

Mocklershill

140,000

Sean Quinn

c Teofilo-Mamela (Protektor)

Harefield Lodge

110,000

Robin O’Ryan

c Shamardal-Genoa (Zafonic)

Meadowview Stables

105,000

David Redvers B/S

c Compton Place-Our Little Secret (Rossini)

Yeomanstown Stud

90,000

David Redvers B/S

c Clodovil-Forest Storm (Woodman)

Mocklershill

88,000

Peter and Ross Doyle

Brightwells has made Cheltenham racecourse into one of the principal National Hunt sales venues in a short time and it will be interesting to see if similar inroads can be made at Flat racing’s most famous arena, Ascot.

While the multi-purpose Herefordshirebased company has long held low-key auctions at Ascot’s stables, it broke new ground when staging a breeze-up sale on the racecourse after racing on May 7. Consignors praised the facilities and, although there was one six-figure lot, a broader clientele would help the sale grow.

There was a turnover of £567,400 for 35 lots sold at a clearance rate of 67%.

Just as at Kempton, Doncaster, Tattersalls and Arqana, Willie Browne’s Mocklershill Stables consigned the sale-topper, a £100,000 first-crop Lawman colt who cost €35,000 at Goffs in October. Tom Malone made the successful bid for trainer Alan McCabe.

Meanwhile, Anne Cowley, whose best horse The Rectifier came from Kempton’s breeze-up, paid £55,000 for an Invincible Spirit sold from Ger Kennedy’s Sherbourne Lodge to join Seamus Durack. Originally bought for €19,000 as a foal, the filly was bought in for 45,000gns as a yearling and again retained, this time at 35,000gns, when offered at this year’s Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale.

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Five-year tale Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2011

193

158

109

68.9

3,183,500

29,206

20,000

2010

186

161

122

75.7

3,247,300

26,617

19,750

2009

145

134

112

83.6

2,724,600

24,326

18,000

2008

170

140

115

82.1

3,288,500

28,595

22,000

2007

220

191

153

80.1

4,858,875

31,757

26,250

Tattersalls Ireland Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Price (€)

Buyer

f Dalakhani-Fringe (In The Wings)

Newtown Stud

45,000

Brian Grassick BS

f Rock Of Gibraltar-Karliysha (Kalanisi)

Newtown Stud

40,000

Bobby O’Ryan

c Majestic Missile-Miraculous (Marju)

Abbeyleix Stud

30,000

Bobby O’Ryan

f Hurricane Run-Peneia (Nureyev)

Ballyhane

14,000

Peter Morris/Bernard McKenna

13,000

Michael Grassick

c Elusive City-Bradwell (Taufan)

Brightwells Ascot Breeze-up

Price (£)

Donoughmore Stud

Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

Mdn (€)

2011

73

63

35

294,100

8,403

5,000

Brightwells Ascot Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

c Lawman-Lady Elysees (Royal Academy)

Mocklershill

Price (£)

f Invincible Spirit-Beautiful Note (Red Ransom)

Sherbourne Lodge

55,000

Anne Cowley

c Proclamation-Winter Ice (Wolfhound)

Fernham Farm

41,000

David Flood

100,000

Buyer Tom Malone Bloodstock

f Invincible Spirit-Attachment (Trempolino)

Rangefield Bloodstock

35,000

Jane Allison

c Lemon Drop Kid-Plaisir Des Yeux (Funambule)

Mocklershill

30,000

Bobby O’Ryan

Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

Mdn (£)

2011

170

52

35

567,400

16,211

10,000

Arqana Breeze-up Once just a bit-player on the breeze-up stage, Arqana’s sale is now only a stone’s throw away from challenging Tattersalls for the mantle of Europe’s leading juvenile auction.

As recently as in 2006, the French sale turned over €2.08m, only 17% of its Newmarket rival, but this year the €7,096,000 expenditure at Saint-Cloud was 76% of the total at the Craven Breeze-Up. There were 22 six-figure lots at Tattersalls and 20 hit €100,0000 in France, where the 80% clearance rate was better than anywhere else.

Arqana continues to have the advantage of boasting buyers who rarely shop elsewhere,

most notably this year the Prime Equestrian group, who bought 27 lots for €1.38m. Prime Equestrian, who bought six lots at the 2010 Arqana breeze-up, is believed to be fronted by Nottingham-born entrepreneur Neil Helliwell, who runs Prime Projects in Dubai. Prime Equestrian had 34 horses registered in training in France prior to the sale, principally with Xavier Nakkachdji and Xavier Demeaulte.

“It was the strongest breeze-up I’ve been at all year and it’s on the up and making inroads into Tattersalls’ lead,” said Paddy Twomey, whose Hawthorn Villa Stud sold four lots for an average of €111,750. “The demand was amazing and there was a huge cross-section of

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Ballycasey, who had finished second in a pointto-point on his owner Wilson Dennison’s Loughanmore course in Northern Ireland on Easter Monday. Harold Kirk, acting for a client of Willie Mullins, paid €80,000 for the Presenting four-year-old, who had originally cost €45,000 as a foal.

David Minton, who paid €35,000 for fouryear-old Credit For Life, Aiden Murphy and Tom Malone were among those that had travelled over from Britain.

It looks certain that Goffs’ post-racing sale at the Punchestown Festival will become a permanent fixture after its first renewal this year.

There may only have been 14 horses sold, but they grossed Goffs over €1m in less than an hour of selling and included four lots which hit six figures.

The sale turned over €1.013m with a huge €72,357 average, €50,000 median and respectable 70% clearance rate. As at Tattersalls Ireland four days earlier, the top price came for a four-year-old Presenting gelding who had been stabled in Northern Ireland.

Home Farm had been bought by trainer Ian Ferguson for €55,000 as a store at Goffs last year and was resold for €200,000 on the back of a

Arqana chief Eric Hoyeau in conversation with Brightwells’ Matt Mitchell at Kempton

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people from everywhere wanting to buy horses, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a lot from Hong Kong. We did a huge amount of showing of horses and very few were not sold.

“But it’s not going to have much impact on the yearling trade, if you don’t make the top 10% of any breeze-up sale you still struggle to sell. The breeze-up people are just going to do the same thing and work their way through the yearling sales and try to find value.

“I sold nine overall this year, compared to 14 in 2010, but those numbers just happened, it wasn’t planned. I just go to all the sales and try to buy horses we’d like to race and see what we end up with in December.”

Twomey’s dearest lot was a €200,000 Galileo filly sold to Abu Dhabi-based Saeed Nasser Al Romaithi via Chantilly Bloodstock while the sale was topped by a €260,000 Giant’s Causeway filly, who had been knocked down to Oceanic Bloodstock for $280,000 as a foal at Keeneland.

Charlie Gordon-Watson signed for the Mocklershill offering, who will join Henry Cecil.

DBS April HIT A late Easter prompted Doncaster’s Lincoln Handicap Sale, traditionally held around the Flat season’s opening meeting, to become a oneday fixture tagged on to the breeze-up sale.

But the much-vaunted dispersal of the remaining jumpers owned by Harry Findlay’s mother Maggie proved a damp squib following the private sales of Beshabar, who won the Scottish National the weekend before the sale, and Inler. Indeed the dispersal only eventually featured one lot, the juvenile hurdler First Fandango, who returned to his trainer Tim Vaughan after making £18,000.

Clear-outs by the Maktoum brothers made a healthy contribution to the catalogue and a duo from Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Shadwell operation stood out. Five-year-old Taameer made £53,000 when knocked down to County Kildare agent Bobby O’Ryan, who paid £1,000 less for Sulwaan, consigned from Mark Johnston’s stable.

Despite the absentees, this was one of the most successful renewals of this traditionally

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low-key sale. The £939,200 turnover shot up by 43.1%, the £8,461 average rose by 23.8% and the £4,500 median increased by 12.5%.

Tattersalls Ireland HIT Just eight horses sold at Tattersalls Ireland’s new select sale of point-to-pointers and horses in training at Fairyhouse on the Sunday preceding the Punchestown Festival.

Only 15 lots went under the hammer and although there were some high-profile notsolds, including, at €200,000, Flemenstar, others did find new homes including

Arqana Breeze-up Top lots Sex/Breeding

Vendor

f Giant’s Causeway-Net Worth (Forty Niner)

Mocklershill

Price (€) 260,000

Buyer

c Exceed And Excel-Nikolenka (Indian Ridge)

Bansha House Stables

200,000

Prime Equestrian

f Galileo-Sweet Stream (Shantou)

Hawthorn Villa Stud

200,000

Chantilly Bloodstock

c Pivotal-Infinity (Bering)

Kilminfoyle House Stud

185,000

David Smaga

c Iffraaj-Daylight Ahead (Tenby)

Powerstown Stud

170,000

Anthony Stroud

Charlie Gordon-Watson

Five-year tale Year

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (€)

Avg (€)

2011

142

114

80

7,096,000

62,246

Mdn (€) 50,000

2010

140

108

77

5,574,000

51,611

40,000

2009

127

97

76

4,040,000

41,649

30,000

2008

138

88

64

3,061,000

34,784

28,000

2007

142

92

65

3,031,000

32,946

26,000

DBS April HIT Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Taameer (5h Beat Hollow)

Shadwell Stud

Price (£) 53,000

Buyer Bobby O’Ryan

Sulwaan (4g King’s Best)

Shadwell Stud

52,000

Bobby O’Ryan

West Coast Dream (4g Oasis Dream)

Stragrane House Stables

42,000

Emma Byrd

Baharat (3c Iffraaj)

Shalfleet Stables

36,000

Richard Guest

Advertisement (4c Mr Greeley)

Shalfleet Stables

36,000

Bertie Butler

Comparative figures Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Agg (£)

Avg (£)

2011

170

133

111

939,200

8,461

Mdn (£) 4,500

2010

155

122

96

656,100

6,834

4,000

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SALES CIRCUIT victory on his only start at Horse And Jockey in March. Agent Kevin Ross, acting on behalf of an undisclosed client of his father-in-law Arthur Moore, struck with the successful bid.

David Minton was at the sale and, acting for an owner with Nicky Henderson, spent â&#x201A;Ź150,000 on Royal Boy, a pointing winner for County Tpperary handler Pat Doyle, while Make Your Mark â&#x20AC;&#x201C; offered a week after scoring for Ger Hourigan â&#x20AC;&#x201C; showed the benefit of some form to his name. The four-year-old cost Hourigan â&#x201A;Ź25,000 as a store at Goffs but, 11 months on and with a win under his belt, made â&#x201A;Ź100,000 when sold to join Willie Mullins.

Cork bumper winner Leave Him Alone was knocked down to his breeder Tom Fitzgerald for â&#x201A;Ź150,000.

The sale was held in a similar format to Goffsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Kempton and DBSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Newbury sales with the horses circling the racecourse parade ring as the auctioneer sells from a room inside and featured a catalogue that had well-presented form summaries and colour photos of the horses.

Although there were not the number of British buyers present seen at Brightwellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cheltenham sales, this event could become the most credible rival to those auctions.

Tattersalls Ireland HIT Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Ballycasey (4g Presenting)

Loughanmore Farm

Price (â&#x201A;Ź)

Benefficient (5g Beneficial)

Ms D Hartnet & T Linehan

52,000

Tony Martin

De La Bech (4g Karinga Bay)

Watree Stud

40,000

Aiden Murphy

True Blue (4g Blueprint)

Glenview Stables

40,000

Tom Malone/Tim Vaughan

Credit For Life (4g Zagreb)

Daniel Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connell

35,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

80,000

Buyer Harold Kirk/Willie Mullins

Goffs Punchestown Top lots Name/Age/Sex/Sire

Vendor

Price (â&#x201A;Ź)

Buyer

Home Farm (4g Presenting)

Ian Ferguson

200,000

Royal Boy (4g Lavirco)

Suirview Stables

150,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Leave Him Alone (5g Oscar)

Ballyadeen Stables

150,000

Tom Fitzgerald

Make Your Mark (4g Beneficial)

Whitehall Stud

100,000

Harold Kirk/Willie Mullins

Purcellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bridge (4g Trempolino)

Bluegate Stud

85,000

Kevin Ross Bloodstock

GH Bloodstock

Brightwells Cheltenham May Top lots

Brightwells Cheltenham May Brightwellsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; May Sale at Cheltenham, with just one six-figure lot, lacked the glitz of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s April auction, at which 13 young form horses made ÂŁ100,000 or more.

The sale ended with a select session going on into the evening during which the 31 lots sold averaged ÂŁ38,323, but only after a forgettable three hours highlighting the lack of demand for run-of-the-mill jumpers that produced a clearance rate of just 54% and a top price of ÂŁ25,000.

Irish-trained horses with form in point-topoints or bumpers as ever accounted for all of the highest prices and the Oscar four-yearold Captain Kelly, a winner of his only

Name/Sex/Breeding

Vendor

Captain Kelly (4g Oscar)

Ballyboy Stables

Price (ÂŁ)

Monksland (4g Beneficial)

Meadowview Stables

80,000

Mags Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole/Noel Meade

Broadbackbob (6g Broadway Flyer)

Newlands Farm

80,000

Highflyer Bloodstock

Red Devil Boys (4g Oscar)

Milestone Stables

72,000

Anthony Stroud BS

Noosa (5m Montjeu)

Mrs E Purton

60,000

Tom Malone

125,000

Buyer Tom Malone

Comparative figures Year

Catalogued

Offered

Sold

Clearance (%)

Agg (ÂŁ)

Avg (ÂŁ)

Mdn (ÂŁ)

2011

152

116

70

60

1,480,300

21,147

12,000

2010

139

111

76

68

1,059,200

13,937

7,500

2009

99

68

38

59

589,400

15,510

7,000

pointing outing for trainer Denis Murphy, topped the sale. A â&#x201A;Ź6,800 yearling, he was bought by agent Tom Malone for ÂŁ125,000 and is likely to join Paul Nicholls.

Trainer Noel Meade led the Irish buying, paying ÂŁ80,000 for point-to-point winner Monksland and ÂŁ55,000 for On Your Eoin.

Six-year-old Broadbackbob headed those with form under Rules. Trained by former Ireland three-day eventer Stuart Crawford in County Antrim, the Broadway Flyer gelding finished sixth in the main Aintree bumper and has joined Nicky Henderson after selling for ÂŁ80,000 to Anthony Bromley.

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One click away from the latest information Michael Harris explains the benefits to members of the association’s re-launched website In years past, the ROA had a website only because we knew we ought to have one. It lacked organisation and had limited functionality, with the result that it held little appeal for our members. This is no longer the case. The ROA now has a website of which it can be proud.

Ever since www.racehorseowners.net was re-built nearly six months ago, we have worked constantly to improve the content and functionality of the site, inviting those members for whom we have email addresses to go to the site by way of email bulletins. It has now become clear, even to those of us who can remember life without the internet, that a good website is an

essential tool of any organisation and particularly so when it is a membership association.

During the process of putting the new site together, there was a gradual dawning that fancy artwork, flashing logos and impressive pictures were not a high priority. Our prime concern was functionality and plenty of content about the association and easy navigation, so that members could find what they were looking for.

Of course, we needed to convey news of the association, its events and developments within the industry via the website, but we also needed to ensure that if a member wanted to renew their subscription on-line, check a point in the association’s Articles of Association or see details of who sits on the ROA Council, they could, with a few clicks, acquire that information.

But the real success story of the new website to date has been how it has excelled in conveying

and updating information about the Horsemen’s Tariff, while allowing more than 2,000 members to register support for the Horsemen’s Charter.

Without the ROA website it would not have been possible to tell our members which races exceeded the prescribed levels of prize-money and which did not, how many races were over or under the tariff levels, and where prize-money had been added to match the tariffs.

A recent collaboration with the Racing Post has given our members the ability to order favourite racing pictures at a 20% discount and this will soon be complemented by special book offers.

Members should also take the opportunity to try to win one of 12 free trips to the Arc de Triomphe, courtesy of Horse Racing Abroad.

All this – and much more – illustrates why you should not delay in registering your details on the ROA website.

All change at the ROA As we head towards the AGM on June 23, it looks set to be an exceptional year in terms of changes to the ROA Council’s make-up. As well as changes to the Council’s officers and directors, there are seven places to fill in the ROA Council election. This higher than usual number is due to a range of circumstances.

Toby Balding is retiring after 16 years service on the ROA Council. He is recovering following a stroke in April that damaged his sight and caused mobility problems. His brother, former trainer Ian Balding, is retiring after five years on the ROA Council.

Owner/breeder Bill Gredley is stepping down after serving two periods spanning 14 years on the Council. Gredley sat on the Council from 1993 to 2005 and was reelected in 2009.

Lucinda Freedman, James Stafford and Ted Voute have all decided not to stand for re-election after completing a four-year term on the Council.

There are 16 candidates standing for the seven available places in this month’s ROA elections. Three of the 16 are incumbents and they are Steven Astaire, Jeremy Gompertz and Steven Smith.

As verified at the ROA EGM, the role of Honorary Treasurer has been discontinued and an Audit Committee is being set up under the chairmanship of Sir Eric Parker.

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As a result of this, Steven Astaire, the ROA’s Honorary Treasurer for the past seven years, is one of the incumbents standing for a place.

The ROA AGM will mark the end of Paul Dixon’s four-year tenure as ROA President, and Rachel Hood will take on the position of President. Tony Hirschfeld becomes VicePresident.

In line with the majority of membership organisations, and at the advice of the Electoral Reform Services, the ROA Council elections will be conducted under a single transferable vote system for the first time this year.

The full list of candidates standing for election is: David Alexander, Steven Astaire, Sheila Bailey, Simon Bain, Bob Cant, David Chapman-Jones, Ron Delnevo, William Duff Gordon, Paul Duffy, Jeremy Gompertz, Peter Hopper, Sam Hoskins, David McMahon, Alan Pickering CBE, Stephen Smith and Allan Stennett.

Candidate profiles and manifestos are being mailed out to members with a voting card. We would urge members to use their vote, as the election offers an opportunity to shape the ROA in its function and representation.

Members are encouraged to attend the ROA AGM at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel in London on June 23. The AGM is followed by speeches by the outgoing and incoming Presidents, and an owners’ forum.

Jilly Cooper: speech after AGM lunch

An industry speech will be made by Simon Bazalgette, Chief Executive of Jockey Club Racecourses, while acclaimed author Jilly Cooper will entertain guests after lunch.

• Tickets can be booked for the champagne reception and members’ and guests’ lunch, which follows the AGM. Tickets are £85 per person and tables of ten are £750.

Call the ROA on 020 7152 0200 or visit www.racehorseowners.net

Special resolutions passed A ROA Extraordinary General Meeting was held on April 19 in London. The purpose of the meeting was to approve 20 special resolutions. There were 230 proxy forms received and all the resolutions were passed.

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Enjoy fantastic hospitality at the social highlight of the Flat season

Don’t miss out on exclusive Royal Ascot facility Following the success of last year’s ROA hospitality facility on the first two days at Royal Ascot, we have expanded the facility for 2011 to include all five days of the meeting, June 14-18. This offers members and guests the chance to enjoy top-class racing in the comfort of luxurious surroundings.

We have a few places available in the exclusive ROA chalet in the Grandstand admission enclosure, in the Old Paddock

Chalets, situated in front of the triple-decker marquee on the curve of the track after the winning post, and it has a head-on view down the course.

The heavily discounted package is on offer to members at around half the public price.

It includes admission (which can be deducted if members already have Royal Enclosure or owners’ badges), parking, racecard, a champagne reception, four-

course sit-down lunch with half a bottle of wine per person and afternoon tea. There will be televised viewing, Tote facilities and a cash bar will operate until 30 minutes after the last race. The facility holds 50 members per day and places are strictly limited to four per member.

• Details are available online in the ROA shop at www.racehorseowners.net or call 020 7152 0200 for more information.

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Tony Hirschfeld, Vice President-elect of the Racehorse Owners Association, presents a cheque for £26,097 to Paul Smith, Executive Director of the Spinal Injuries Association. This follows the ROA Awards last December which raised £67,517 for three charities.

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Chloe Homer (pictured) has joined the ROA team as subscriptions administrator.

Chloe has worked in a practical role in horseracing for the past three and a half years in Lambourn, and is studying for a foundation degree in the horseracing industry.

The ROA recently bid farewell to Allegra Hindes, subscriptions administrator for the past three and a half years. Allegra has headed off to pastures new in San Diego, California. As a committed devotee of racing she will not be lost to the sport, and we wish her the best of luck Stateside.

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In Brief Training cost survey A survey was recently undertaken among a sample of ROA members on the costs of keeping a horse in training. Responses are being collated and we hope to be able to report the findings shortly. The aim of the survey is to find the average cost of keeping a horse in training during 2010, and the breakdown of ancillary costs.

Members who took part in the survey were incentivised by a John Lewis voucher, or a donation to a racing charity. As a result, we will be donating over £1,100, split between Racing Welfare and Retraining of Racehorses. Thank you to all who took the time to participate in this valuable research.

Sponsor support invaluable With prize-money issues to the fore, winning owners are encouraged to show their appreciation by writing a letter of thanks afterwards to the specific race sponsor wherever possible.

The sponsor’s contact details can be obtained from the racecourse’s sponsorship department. A note of thanks is greatly appreciated by the sponsor and we would urge members who have a winner to adopt this practice.

Diary dates and reminders JUNE 14-18 ROA facility at Royal Ascot An exclusive ROA facility in the Grandstand admission enclosure, in the Old Paddock Chalets. See previous page.

JUNE 23

ROA MEMBER IN FOCUS:

Bob Lefroy

Most eyes during Dante week were on York, but on the first afternoon of that meeting “a magical day” was playing out five hours south at Wincanton.

The occasion was Businessmoney Judi’s win for Bob Lefroy on his 66th birthday and 16th anniversary of his marriage to Iris. Lefroy, who hired a box for the day for his guests, has been going to Wincanton for 50 years and it was aged 16 that he first became hooked on jump racing.

“I was articled to a chartered accountant, earning a pittance, but got a tip one day from an Irishman to back Kilmore in the National,” he says. “I asked my mum and dad to put a couple of bob on it for me, and they were glad to as they thought it would teach me a lesson.

“He won at 28-1 and to me the winnings felt like the world’s riches! I’ve been in love with National Hunt racing ever since.”

That has culminated in owning and breeding racehorses, Lefroy explaining: “Businessmoney Judi is a real homespun story. One of my stepdaughters bought the mare, Cloverjay, and evented with her; in fact both my stepdaughters did. When the mare injured her shoulder we hatched a plan to breed from her.

“We haven’t got the land for a broodmare, so we sent her to Christopher Sweeting at Conduit Farm Stud in Oxfordshire. We were incredibly lucky with the first mating, to Petoski, as Businessmoney Jake won three times over hurdles for us. He was with Victor Dartnall but broke his leg at Cartmel.

“Businessmoney Judi is our latest horse. We have to have a second name for them of only four letters because of the character restrictions – hence Jake, Judi, etc and we always called the mare Jay; we had to change it to Cloverjay when registering her.”

The Businessmoney part of the name is from Lefroy’s Somerset-based company, a commercial finance journal he established in 1993 after 28 years as a banker, and Judi was sent to David Pipe, after Rod Millman did well with her on the Flat, partly because of Britain’s awful winter.

Lefroy says: “When the weather was so bad we thought we’d send her over hurdles. We were going to send her to Victor’s, but David’s is within half an hour and he is not a bad trainer either! So we opted for him. It was no reflection at all on Victor, who is a superb trainer and a good friend; it’s just that Judi was at a critical stage and ready to run, and David’s was easier to get to. He’s won two from two with her as we speak and she won both with a bit in hand.”

Lefroy prefers the West Country tracks – his second date with Iris was at Newton Abbot, “as I thought it better for her to see what I was going to be like” – and in the past has extended his involvement to sponsoring a Wincanton race.

“My company sponsored a race there for seven years, and we added Panto Prince to our race title after he died, as he was a wonderful horse who deserved it.

“I’m passionate about racing but my business keeps me fully engaged so that limits my interest in racing politics, but I have to say the prizemoney situation is totally unacceptable.

“Racing is in decline and things like Champions Day is papering over the cracks.

When winning a race doesn’t even cover your training fees for a month, that’s poor. The days when rich owners kept the sport going are gone, but thank heavens for the Dubai families.”

Lefroy adds: “Owning a racehorse is a very expensive hobby, but it does give you a few moments of supreme happiness amid the disappointments and injuries.”

Annual General Meeting See page 60 for details.

JULY 26-30 Glorious Goodwood Exclusive offer to members. See next page.

NOVEMBER 12 Paddy Power Gold Cup day Enjoy the ROA’s exclusive marquee for members and guests at Cheltenham for the Saturday of The Open meeting.

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ROA/sportingbet.com Horseracing Awards evening The glittering black tie awards evening celebrates the horses and their owners of the year, at the London Hilton, Park Lane.

Bob Lefroy, wife Iris and stepdaughter Sophie, with Businessmoney Judi at Wincanton

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Michele and Steve Ashbrooke with trainer David Pipe (right) at Aintree

ROA member’s Racing Lottery win signing up with The Racing Lottery too!”

ROA members who sign up to support Racing Welfare’s Racing Lottery are in with the chance of winning their weight in champagne.

In partnership with Piper Heidsieck, ROA members who sign up to support the Racing Lottery between April and June will be entered into an exclusive prize draw. The winner will be invited to a weigh-in during Newmarket’s July Festival.

The Racing Lottery costs £1 per week, with over 80p of that going directly to helping British stable and stud staff in times of need. Players have the chance to win a weekly cash prize or ‘money can’t buy’ racing experience in a monthly draw.

• Further details see www.racehorseowners.net

Michele Ashbrooke, a member of the ROA, became the first Racing Lottery big winner in April. She won £1,000 and a VIP day out at the John Smith’s Grand National. The day included a course walk with trainer David Pipe, a visit to the commentary box with Richard Hoiles, lunch with Lord Daresbury and an interview with Racing UK. Michele and her husband Steve have two horses in training in a small syndicate with Mark Brisbourne.

Michele said: “It was a truly fabulous day from start to finish. We were treated superbly by all of the Aintree team and I can’t praise Racing Welfare highly enough, not only for the Racing Lottery but also for the work that they do on behalf of stable staff. All my work colleagues were very envious of our win and are now

DID YOU KNOW? In the first nine weeks following the introduction of the Horsemen’s Group recommended tariff for Flat races, over 82% of races meet or exceed tariff, and this figure is increasing with late changes to prize-money.

The following table gives a breakdown of the number of Flat races which met or exceeded tariff in that nine-week period.

Week to

Races

Apr 10

106

65

61.3

Apr 17

135

103

76.3

Apr 24

105

81

77.1

May 1

142

114

80.3

May 8

161

148

91.9

May 15

161

143

88.8

May 22

162

151

93.2

May 29

159

135

84.9

Jun 5

168

147

87.5

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The Open Championship Official Hospitality delivers award-winning catering and hospitality, giving you the chance to sit back and relax with your guests, whilst experiencing the very best in local cuisine and enjoying champagne and fine wines throughout the day.

Guests can also wander the course and watch the 140th edition of golf’s oldest Major unfold. Hospitality packages start from £385 (excluding VAT) per person.

There are now a limited number of packages available so please contact Brett Tonkyn on 020 7832 7913 or by email brett.tonkyn@sodexo.com, quoting ‘ROA’ to receive your 5% discount.

Glorious Goodwood Richmond Enclosure badges available ROA members planning to attend Glorious Goodwood (July 26-30) can take advantage of a special service to purchase badges for the Richmond Enclosure.

Access to the Richmond Enclosure is usually reserved for annual members and owners with a runner at Goodwood, but members can book places through the ROA office.

Badges are £77 per person, per day, and car parking labels (for car park number 8) are £10 per day. Bookings are taken on a first come, first served basis, and are limited to a maximum of four badges per member.

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Racecourse League Table Ptn Racecourse

Racecourse ownership

Exec + Sponsors (£)

1 Cheltenham JCR 2,928,489 2 Aintree JCR 1,543,637 3 York I 2,041,777 4 Ascot I 4,004,556 5 Epsom Downs JCR 1,213,684 6 Haydock Park JCR 1,258,963 7 Chester I 480,147 8 Goodwood I 1,174,931 9 Newmarket JCR 3,170,645 10 Ayr I 561,272 11 Sandown Park JCR 1,004,644 12 Musselburgh I 355,866 13 Hamilton Park I 224,282 14 Doncaster Arena 1,169,266 15 Newbury I 1,039,006 16 Ripon I 206,546 17 Newcastle North 344,190 18 Bath North 157,376 19 Salisbury I 216,935 20 Beverley I 183,103 21 Stratford-on-Avon I 194,891 22 Thirsk I 159,011 23 Pontefract I 204,460 24 Windsor Arena 241,960 25 Fakenham I 70,455 26 Leicester I 236,304 27 Kelso I 119,363 28 Carlisle JCR 141,820 29 Wetherby I 129,262 30 Chepstow North 212,384 31 Ludlow I 122,245 32 Ffos Las North 144,909 33 Yarmouth North 140,637 34 Lingfield Park Arena 639,166 35 Bangor-on-Dee I 122,280 36 Cartmel I 31,670 37 Nottingham JCR 117,639 38 Exeter JCR 100,301 39 Catterick Bridge I 95,394 40 Warwick JCR 114,936 41 Wincanton JCR 90,591 42 Redcar I 96,186 43 Perth I 65,186 44 Market Rasen JCR 106,926 45 Sedgefield North 49,487 46 Taunton I 49,316 47 Kempton Park JCR 479,054 48 Huntingdon JCR 70,693 49 Folkestone Arena 62,035 50 Fontwell Park North 74,376 51 Brighton North 48,276 52 Uttoxeter North 68,058 53 Newton Abbot I 35,579 54 Plumpton I 24,666 55 Hereford North 17,499 56 Hexham I 18,412 57 Towcester I 19,975 58 Worcester Arena 13,497 59 Wolverhampton Arena 64,239 60 Southwell Arena 33,858 Total 28,106,309

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% of Total

Levy Board (£)

51.2 1,958,170 48.8 1,141,220 42.6 1,596,550 42.1 3,092,050 40.9 993,400 34.6 1,804,990 32.1 887,710 31.3 1,997,170 30.3 3,722,230 28.4 1,110,390 28.2 2,025,700 27.5 796,340 27.0 513,800 26.0 2,151,999 25.2 2,332,350 23.7 564,750 23.3 939,600 22.7 457,667 21.7 623,180 21.5 568,450 20.9 649,730 20.8 469,860 20.5 681,390 20.2 779,270 19.0 300,720 18.7 864,737 18.6 472,510 18.5 548,710 18.5 491,630 18.3 784,560 18.3 499,240 17.8 586,200 16.8 562,760 15.5 2,955,910 15.3 624,150 14.4 162,360 14.2 533,560 13.4 569,753 11.8 627,923 11.8 729,430 11.8 585,900 11.3 521,640 11.2 471,480 11.0 771,660 10.8 351,200 10.4 365,010 9.8 3,746,715 9.5 576,990 9.3 539,210 8.7 686,390 7.7 506,900 6.9 769,690 5.6 583,410 4.3 515,570 4.0 361,380 3.7 429,690 3.7 475,910 2.2 495,482 1.9 2,856,852 1.4 2,208,840 26.0 60,992,037

% of Total

Owners (£)

34.2 806,915 36.1 476,725 33.3 1,116,316 32.5 2,334,193 33.5 736,136 49.6 479,885 59.3 80,560 53.2 512,426 35.5 3,405,643 56.2 266,273 56.9 490,595 61.5 98,471 61.9 55,777 47.8 1,082,571 56.7 580,488 64.9 66,206 63.5 173,131 66.2 63,794 62.5 84,684 66.9 61,247 69.8 68,546 61.5 79,065 68.3 62,441 65.0 119,874 81.0 0 68.5 106,939 73.7 44,101 71.4 77,535 70.3 55,383 67.5 127,708 74.7 46,725 71.8 73,214 67.3 100,886 71.8 331,780 78.1 39,995 74.0 25,370 64.2 112,751 76.0 75,498 77.6 60,860 75.0 105,042 76.2 76,264 61.3 220,574 80.8 42,827 79.3 89,145 76.5 53,313 76.8 37,730 77.0 450,158 77.5 81,635 80.8 64,815 80.7 89,383 81.0 64,709 77.7 139,098 91.4 5,264 89.4 32,635 81.7 60,320 85.3 47,521 87.3 49,381 81.6 71,545 86.1 292,387 88.7 197,188 56.3 16,851,641

% of Total

Total (£)

Total 2009-10 % total Up/ (£) 2009-10 down

14.1 5,722,574 5,652,836 15.1 3,161,582 3,425,742 23.3 4,791,143 1,995,325 24.6 9,504,799 10,218,234 24.8 2,967,220 2,992,296 13.2 3,638,838 3,312,620 5.4 1,497,417 1,510,940 13.7 3,752,527 3,832,910 32.5 10,481,018 11,671,131 13.5 1,974,935 2,105,093 13.8 3,561,939 3,792,302 7.6 1,294,177 1,253,425 6.7 830,359 823,744 24.0 4,505,335 4,679,031 14.1 4,115,844 3,852,818 7.6 870,502 806,569 11.7 1,480,071 1,262,779 9.2 691,836 704,189 8.5 997,499 957,818 7.2 850,050 854,465 7.4 930,667 860,800 10.3 764,436 634,309 6.3 997,291 872,339 10.0 1,198,104 1,127,377 0 371,175 411,284 8.5 1,262,979 1,198,771 6.9 641,474 589,620 10.1 768,065 764,900 7.9 699,275 1,011,643 11.0 1,163,152 1,136,473 7.0 668,210 680,470 9.0 816,323 0 12.1 835,583 777,183 8.1 4,115,256 3,931,516 5.0 799,675 682,016 11.6 219,400 203,383 13.6 830,950 706,711 10.1 749,552 812,636 7.5 809,677 746,536 10.8 972,158 758,848 9.9 769,255 1,071,157 25.9 851,100 908,400 7.3 583,493 656,900 9.2 973,231 913,050 11.6 459,000 498,200 7.9 475,306 595,326 9.3 4,865,877 4,785,085 11.0 744,318 805,286 9.7 667,560 812,542 10.5 850,149 909,942 10.3 626,185 570,671 14.1 990,246 1,045,573 0.8 638,053 607,359 5.7 576,871 502,319 13.6 442,499 588,035 9.4 503,923 354,500 9.1 545,266 644,000 11.8 606,924 637,143 8.8 3,318,278 2,860,995 7.9 2,490,186 2,148,315 15.6 108,280,787 107,521,455

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In order of racecourses’ percentage contributions to overall prize-money Figures relate to prizemoney for the 12-month period May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011

EXPLANATION This table sets out the three main contributors to prizemoney with percentages of the total: 1 Racecourses’ executive and sponsorship; 2 Levy Board; 3 Owners.

A small additional contribution is also made by the Divided Race Fund and the BHA Development Fund.

The order is taken from the percentage in the second column of figures. This shows how much each course has contributed to prize-money, expressed as a percentage of their overall prize-money. The arrows at the end of each line are based on a comparison between the percentages for the two rolling year periods.

If a racecourse has improved its position by this criteria it receives a green ‘up’ arrow.

If the year-on-year percentage has decreased it receives a red ‘down’ arrow.

Note: All of the figures are produced on an ‘as originally programmed’ basis, i.e. where any transferred fixtures were originally programmed rather than where the fixtures have actually taken place. However, any transferred BHA ‘National’ fixtures and ‘Regional’ fixtures are attributed to the courses where the fixtures have actually taken place.

ABANDONMENTS: Please note that, occasionally, abandoned meetings distort performances relating to a track’s jump fixtures. The yearon-year percentage comparison on which this table is based can place tracks in a worse light than they deserve.

RACECOURSE OWNERSHIP KEY JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

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The British-bred and sired Dubawi Gold did the best of the rest, with Native Khan claiming third place. Both provided a fine advert for the Tattersalls Craven Breeze Up Sale, having sold at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renewal for 160,000gns and 180,000gns respectively.

A fortnight later, across the Channel, the British stallion Sakhee celebrated his first Classic winner with the victory of Tin Horse in the Group 1 Poule dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Essai des Poulains at Longchamp.

The grey colt was twice Group 1-placed at two, and showed an impressive turn of foot to triumph at Longchamp by two lengths. British stallion Dubawi was once again responsible for the runner-up in a Guineas, this time with Havane Smoker.

Frankel: British-bred winner of the 2,000 Guineas

AFTER the months of hype and hope Frankel exceeded all expectations when annihilating the opposition to capture the Qipco 2,000 Guineas.

Following an impressive unbeaten juvenile campaign, Khalid Abdullahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homebred colt was sent off the shortest-priced favourite for the Newmarket Classic since the victory of Nijinsky in 1970.

The British-bred son of Galileo, trained by Henry Cecil, was immediately taken to the front by jockey Tom Queally.

Having been at least ten lengths clear at the halfway stage, Frankelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official winning margin of six lengths was the largest since Tudor Minstrel in 1947.

Sakhee enjoyed his own greatest day at Longchamp when taking the Prix de lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Arc de Triomphe in 2001, adding to his win in the Group 1 Juddmonte International and second in the Derby of 2000.

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Sakhee: sire of French Classic victor Tin Horse

He has enjoyed Group 1 success at stud with the likes of July Cup winner Sakheeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secret and the globe-trotting Presvis, and stands at Shadwellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nunnery Stud near Thetford for ÂŁ5,000.

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in the spotlight DUTCH ART CHEVELEY PARK STUDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Dutch Art enjoyed a significant landmark on the final day of Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dante meeting when his daughter Miss Work Of Art triumphed in Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first two-year-old stakes race of the season.

Sold for 14,500gns as Dutch Art a foal at Tattersalls and 16,000gns as a yearling at DBS, the son of Cheveley Park Studâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Medicean blazed a trail through his own juvenile season.

The filly, bought for ÂŁ29,000 at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DBS Premier Yearling Sale

by Robin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Ryan, showed class and determination in equal measures to win the Listed Marygate Filliesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stakes by a length from Vocational (Exceed And Excel). It was a third win for the filly, trained by Richard Fahey, who has already paid her way by netting cheques for her owners under both the Racing Post Yearling Bonus and the Newsells Park Golden Bonus schemes.

Unbeaten in four starts, his tally included the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes and a Group 1 double in the Prix Morny and the Middle Park Stakes. At three, Dutch Art put in an excellent performance to be third in the 2,000 Guineas, before reverting to sprinting. The sprint division is notoriously difficult for three-year-olds to conquer, but Dutch Art fared well in Group 1 company, finishing second in both the July Cup and Prix Maurice de Gheest.

From 15 runners until May 15, Dutch Art has sired four winners of ten races and earnings of over ÂŁ46,000, putting him second in the list of leading first-crop sires and an easy leader among British-based freshman sires.

That Dutch Art, who stands for an advertised fee of ÂŁ5,000, should prove a success as a sire of juveniles is hardly surprising given his own racecourse credentials.

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Retired to stand at Cheveley Park Stud alongside his sire, Dutch Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first crop of around 90 foals fared well at the yearling sales, with the 43 sold averaging almost ÂŁ30,000 and trainers such as John Gosden, Richard Hannon, Ed Dunlop and Jeremy Noseda taking charge of some of the pricier lots.

With the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most lucrative two-year-old races still ahead, Dutch Art has already proved himself a sire to watch.

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THE NEXT GENERATION

By GINA BRYCE

Be there...

Frankelly awesome

JUNE 4 The Derby, Epsom The most famous horse race in the world could have a royal winner this year.

JUNE 14–18 Royal Ascot Royal wedding fever may have died down but luckily Royal Ascot hasn’t. Five days of first-class racing, fancy outfits and a festival atmosphere to rival any royal jamboree.

JUNE 29 Young bloodstock staff networking evening, Windsor races The summer season at Windsor is under way and what better way to spend a Monday night than watching quality racing whilst sipping a local cider on the banks of the Thames?

JULY 9 July Cup, Newmarket If you missed Ascot then Flat racing’s HQ provides a second chance to see some of the world’s international super sprinters before they jet home for the summer.

JULY 26-30 Glorious Goodwood It’s what summer racing is all about provided we don’t get a repeat of the monsoon of 2009. Garden party atmosphere and topclass racing – a winning combination.

Lara Pocock, European Bloodstock News

“To encourage more young people to go racing I would like to see all under-21s be admitted for free, as well as more discounted tickets available for the under 30s, including annual members badges. I would also like to see an improvement in the quality of racecourse catering: hot snacks in the winter, such as soups, would be perfect.”

Oliver Cole, Assistant Trainer

“In terms of the racecourses, I think there should a dramatic decrease in entry fees for racegoers and ideally free entry for under-20s to encourage younger people to go racing.

Providing better facilities for the owners is also an area that desperately needs to be addressed.

“On the racing front I think there should be

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A great day at the Guineas; next stop Jeremy Noseda’s Newmarket stable on June 25

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rankel’s outstanding performance in the 2,000 Guineas provided an ideal backdrop for the Next Generation Club to make their mark with the second event of the year.

A pre-racing picnic hosted by committee members saw 40 young racing enthusiasts from the length and breadth of the country unite to enjoy an incredible day’s racing with comparably impressive refreshments.

Racegoers from as far afield as Cumbria and Bristol attended, although likely in anticipation of the former rather than the latter (with no disrespect to the committee’s commendable catering skills).

The day provided an excellent chance to expand the already growing network of young racing fans attached to the Next Generation Club and the informal setting allowed for plenty of discussion about the ensuing action. With a

Talking Point...

If you could introduce one change or initiative to British racing, bar increasing prize-money, what would it be? more encouragement to keep older horses in training and better opportunities for three-yearold fillies, especially in the sprint areas where you always have to take on the older fillies.

Breeders should also be consulted on what is needed in the programme to boost British bloodstock.”

Ed Quigley, Racing Post

“Rightly or wrongly the focal point of the jumps season is Cheltenham.

Almost everything is trained with Cheltenham in mind and what you cannot deny is that it brings massive anticipation and excitement, with all roads leading to the climax at Prestbury Park.

“I think that would be something the Flat calendar could do with, for example one huge Royal Ascot meeting in August or September, because the scattergun approach of classy Flat meetings throughout the summer dilutes the

buzz. There is no real end-of-season focal point.”

John Maxse, Communications Consultant “Racing is getting better at promoting itself and Racing For Change has been invaluable in spreading awareness of the sport to a wider audience.

“However, in many ways racing still does not act in the manner of a major sport and there is one further measure I think could make a significant difference. I would make it part of the race conditions for Group 1 or Grade 1 races that all trainers and jockeys should be available, if asked, to assist in promoting the race by undertaking a limited number of media duties, as is the case in football, golf, tennis, motor racing etc. The stars are the horses, but the best people to tell the stories are the jockeys and trainers.”

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www.the-ngc.co.uk daunting precedent set by the big-priced winners enjoyed at the Newbury raceday, our committee tipster, Sam Hoskins, enlisted the back-up of fellow member Matt Coleman to run through the card. Three winners later, the formidable duo managed to uphold the increasingly impressive record set at Next Generation Club events!

In addition to witnessing the breathtaking performance of Frankel in the feature race, the steady passage of money from the bookies to the champagne bar kept most occupied throughout the afternoon before a return to the car park to reflect on the day and polish off any neglected sandwiches.

The event would not have been possible without the kind sponsorship from Jockey Club Racecourses and Newmarket Racecourses, who continue to show their support for the work carried out by the Next Generation Club.

Newmarket has played host to two of the committee events and will provide the location

Form study with the NGC’s Sam Hoskins

of the next date for the diary on June 25, when leading trainer Jeremy Noseda has kindly offered to host a group at his Shalfleet House Stables. Undoubtedly set to be one of the highlights of the NGC schedule of events, Noseda describes the visit as “a chance to give members a real behind-the-scenes insight into how a racing yard works.”

He added: “I think it is important to stimulate and develop interest in our sport. If we can do that with Shalfleet hosting the Next Generation Club, then that has got to be a positive.”

The visit will include a chance to see some of the team’s two-year-olds put through their faster paces on the gallops, a full tour of the yard and ‘Q&A’ session with the Classic-winning trainer.

In keeping with training establishment protocol, breakfast will be served at Shalfleet before departing for a day at the races. This news is no doubt greatly welcomed by last month’s stand-in NGC catering team!

With the buck passed on the refreshment front, it leaves the pressure only on our tipsters to uphold the increasingly high standards.

To join the Next Generation Club and apply for a place at any of our free events, please visit www.the-ngc.co.uk and sign up for free.

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Q&A OLI BELL, former Racing UK presenter now working for Sydney’s Sky Channel Tell us a bit about your background...

I started working in racing straight from school, aged 18, in 2005. I decided against university because strangely there were no courses that allowed me to read the Racing Post in the morning and watch racing in the afternoon. I was Editorial Assistant at Racing UK and after a few years started presenting the live racing. In 2010, Sky Racing in Australia offered me the role as international host and I have been in Sydney since then.

What has surprised you most about the Australian racing industry?

I was really taken aback by the quantity. If people think that there is too much racing in England it pales into insignificance in comparison to Australia. For example, the first Saturday in May there were 14 scheduled meetings across Australia. That’s purely thoroughbred racing; harness racing and greyhound racing are also very big.

Unsurprisingly I’m of the opinion that there is too much racing, but you have only to look at pool betting figures to realise that there is a demand for it.

Is there is a big difference in the way racing is presented to the public?

Yes, having experienced the biggest ‘carnivals’ of racing I have to admit that the promotion of these events is very good.

There is a slightly different attitude towards racing, which makes it easier to sell, and by that I mean that racing is on practically 24 hours a day in most pubs with a TAB betting system in place. I think that is used to a degree as an easy angle for the UK to take as to why we are behind. Every paper, glossy magazine, radio and TV station will include something that revolves around racing.

I may have a slightly clouded judgment because I arrived in Australia when So You Think was dominating the headlines, to be followed by Black Caviar. As we all know, promotion of racing is far easier when champions race.

There are, however, signs that racing in Australia does need some changes to attract the new generation.

How does the racecourse experience at big meetings compare to the UK? Having been brought up on English racing I’m probably biased but I think the on-course experience outweighs Australian racing. You feel more involved in the action in the UK, you can get up close to the horses, you can hear the hooves rattling and most courses have good public viewing areas.

At Randwick, for example, it’s a very claustrophobic racecourse, where you never feel that involved in the horse. There are a few reasons for this: a 40/45-minute gap between races, which means the racegoer can easily switch off, and unless you are lucky enough to be in the mounting yard (parade ring) or in a corporate marquee you can feel a bit removed from the horses. In England there’s a good balance between respecting the connections and the animal, and allowing the racegoer access to the sport.

Are there lessons that British racing can learn from Australia?

One point I would make is that in Australia most of the work is done on the track. There are track-work interviews regularly broadcast after the morning work with the trainers and jockeys, which gives the fan an up-to-date report on how the horses are working. There is a more secretive feel towards this at home.

Also, there are ‘barrier trials’ for horses who are either about to make their racecourse debuts or returning from ‘spells’ off the track.

This is essentially racing in work against horses from different yards and are invariably run over about 800m. You could have a horse in a trial that is never asked a serious question or is held up behind horses to teach it a new way of racing so they are very much for educational purposes for horse, trainer and jockey. There are no punishments if a horse isn’t ‘trying’ but they are still a helpful tool for punters.

What have you enjoyed most in your time working over there?

Witnessing a different approach to racing and broadcasting, seeing So You Think and Black Caviar live, and meeting the last five winners of Miss Australia – a definite highlight!

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Livery yard licensing increasingly likely Potential new legislation certain to have implications for thoroughbred stud farms For the last few years there has been a push from some equestrian organisations and politicians to pursue livery yard licensing.

The publication of the responses earlier in the year to the Scottish Animal Welfare Legislation consultation demonstrated an overwhelming response that livery yards should indeed be licensed.

The key question for studs is, will they come under the definition of livery yards in the legislation and thus be included in any licensing regime? In all previous attempts at a definition based on a number of horses kept at an establishment for profit and not belonging to the owner, the vast majority of studs would come under a definition and, therefore, would have to be licensed along with livery yards.

There is no question that a licensing and inspection regime drawn up with the main focus on DIY and traditional livery would be wholly unsuitable for studs. Therefore, the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association has recently had discussions with the British

The purpose of this is two-fold: • It would be a useful document outlining best practice which could be made available to new breeders, including small hobby breeders who do not usually have the same extensive experience as larger studs operating as a business.

• It would also serve as an important blueprint which would enable the TBA to lobby for a derogation for studs from any future proposed legislation on livery yards, or at the very least to ensure that an appropriate licensing or inspection regime is put into place which has been drawn up by the industry itself, rather than a government or stakeholder committee.

Vast majority of stud farms fit the criteria

Equestrian Federation with a view to developing a joint ‘Code of Conduct’ for stud establishments. This would deal exclusively with health and welfare best practice on studs.

TBA extends its veterinary research funding commitment The TBA Board recently agreed to extend its support for veterinary research as a result of careful reallocation of its charitable funding budget. Working with the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Veterinary Advisory Committee,

Richard Lancaster chairs veterinary group

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the Levy Board and TBA have recently advertised for applications for a three-year Veterinary Research Training Scholarship in equine reproduction, providing a three-year annual grant of £30,000 open to UK-based PhD research scholars.

Professor Sidney Ricketts, TBA Joint Veterinary Advisor, has been asked to represent the TBA with the evaluation of applications for this award and will join the HBLB’s Thoroughbred Research Consultation Group at its next meeting on August 31.

Professor Ricketts hopes that the scholarship will attract a well-focused and potentially rewarding project involving equine reproduction, i.e. stallion or mare events leading to conception, or problems of pregnancy, parturition or the perinatal period.

TBA Veterinary Committee Chairman Richard Lancaster said: “Despite reductions in the TBA’s major income streams, we are delighted that careful cost management has allowed the TBA to increase its support for veterinary research.”

TBA Chief Executive Louise Kemble said: “While the licensing of livery yards might be some years away, we have always been mindful that we need to engage with these kinds of policy developments at an early stage to ensure that there is the least possible interference and cost for our members.”

Cancer charity benefits from TBA support With the very generous support of TBA members, the team at Stanstead House has raised almost £20,000 over the past five years for Cancer Research UK. This year we shall be taking part in an overnight team relay event during the weekend of July 30 and 31. The walk, at the National Trust’s picturesque Ickworth Park, near Bury St Edmunds, starts at 12 noon and continues through the night until 9am.

The TBA team is currently in training for the event and includes every member of Stanstead House: Louise Kemble, Pauline Stoddart, Lesley O’Shea, Caroline Turnbull and Christine Standley, who will be joined by a few unwitting other halves!

If you would like to support this very worthwhile cause by sponsoring us, a sponsorship form can be obtained from Stanstead House.

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Diary dates and reminders WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 East Anglia Regional Day Sir Mark Prescott’s Heath House Stables and Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud, Newmarket.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21 Wales Regional Day A visit to John Deer’s Oakgrove Stud, Monmouthshire.

MONDAY, JUNE 27 Julian Wilson presents the award to Dean Smith, left, surrounded by his family

Dean Smith’s dedication rewarded Dean Smith of Newsells Park Stud is the Stud Staff award winner for May. He was retained by the Jacobs family when they purchased the stud in July 2000 from the previous owner, Fares Stables. Smith had previously worked with stallions, mares and yearlings at the farm, and prior to that worked for Dick Hollingsworth at Arches Hall Stud, close to where he grew up.

When Newsells Park Stud came into existence, Smith was originally employed as Second Man and was promoted to Estate Manager in January 2004. This, according to Stud Manager Julian Dollar, was an inspired appointment by Mr Jacobs.

Dollar describes Smith as one of the most

dedicated members of staff he has ever worked with, saying: “For Dean, the cliché ‘nothing is too much trouble’ really does ring true. His hard work and dedication have been absolutely critical to the development of the land and the quality of the horses that have graduated from Newsells Park over recent years.”

Smith is also described as a first-class manager, leading by example, totally dedicated, dependable and always carrying out his duties in a thoroughly positive manner. These are many and varied, ranging from office work to paddock maintenance and wildlife management, all of which combine to make him a most deserving recipient of this award.

TBA Awards Dinner TBA Awards Dinner, Tattersalls, Newmarket, kindly sponsored this year

by Cheveley Park Stud. Invitations have been sent to members and the event is now sold out.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 TBA AGM Tattersalls, Newmarket.

The results of the Board elections will be announced at the Annual General Meeting, which will precede the Annual Seminar.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 TBA Annual Seminar Tattersalls, Newmarket, immediately following the AGM.

MONDAY, JULY 4 Yorkshire Regional Day Mark Johnston’s Kingsley House Stables.

‘From Foal to Finish’: seminar aims to help stock management If you haven’t already booked a place at this year’s TBA Seminar at Tattersalls on June 28, there is still time to register your interest for this day, which focuses on the practical stud management issues of nutrition and related veterinary topics, aimed at helping breeders manage their breeding stock efficiently.

Topics including reducing skeletal disease and reproductive loss, improving feeding efficiency, managing dewormer resistance and debilitating foal diseases will be covered by our internationally renowned speakers. These include Dr Joe Pagan, President of Kentucky Equine Research, who is speaking on ‘Feeding for maximal reproductive efficiency’ and ‘The balancing act of growing a sound, athletic horse’.

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in horses: have the worms turned?’, while Dr Bryan Waldridge of Kentucky Equine Research will discuss foaling complications in mares and infections in foals.

There will also be a talk by TBA Veterinary Advisors James Crowhurst of Newmarket Equine Hospital and Andrew McGladdery of Rossdale & Partners, who will give a veterinary update on latest news and current issues of importance to TBA members.

The seminar takes place after the TBA AGM at Tattersalls’ sales complex. Registration commences from 10.15am, the seminar starts at 10.45am and will close at 3.30pm. A buffet lunch is included and tickets are available from Stanstead House at £45 for TBA members or £60 for non-members.

A similar event will be held at Newbury racecourse on Wednesday, June 29. For further information contact Stanstead House.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 Open Regional Day Weatherbys, Northamptonshire.

Whilst July 14 is exclusively for TBA members, Weatherbys will also be holding an open day on Tuesday, October 18.

Please contact Weatherbys directly if you wish to attend on October 18.

THURSDAY, JULY 14 Scotland Regional Day The Duke of Roxburghe’s Floors Stud, Kelso, followed by lunch and a tour of Floors Castle and gardens.

TBA NEW MEMBERS Ms L Barrett, Norfolk. D McRae Bell Esq, Hampshire. G Burgess Esq, Lincolnshire.

Ms K Ive, Worcestershire. Mrs C Russell, London.

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FLAT BREEDER OF THE MONTH Sponsored by Blue Chip Feed Ltd

Words Alan Yuill Walker

APRIL 2011

Juddmonte Farms first three foals are Bullet Train, Frankel and the latter’s two-year-old own-brother Noble Mission.

This trio is in training at Warren Place, but the link to Beckhampton still exists with Jeremy Tree’s successor, Roger Charlton, who trained their dam. One of the Wyfold clan, Mary Taylor from Bourton-on-theWater, is still breeding winners emanating from Samovar.

Juddmonte wins six sacks of Blue Chip Dynamic, first developed as a joint and bone supplement but proven to improve stallion fertility.

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Frankel secured the breeders’ award on the last day of April

Although the family to which Frankel belongs has featured in the Juddmonte private stud book for nearly 30 years, Beckhampton in Wiltshire and defunct Sarsden House Stud in north Oxfordshire have also played a pivotal role. The Sarsden House connection also reveals a monumental achievement spanning nearly 100 years.

In September 1914 Sir Robert Hermon-Hodge (later the 1st Lord Wyfold) paid 180 guineas at a dispersal sale at Compton in Berkshire for the mare Usaa. In foal to Jingling Geordie (stud fee 9gns), she duly foaled Georgia, who was destined to become not only the direct ancestress of Frankel, but also of Harbinger.

While the branch of the family to which Harbinger belongs earned renown largely for other breeders, five consecutive generations of Sarsden-bred mares feature in Frankel’s distaff pedigree between Georgia and his third dam, Rockfest.

It is at this juncture that the Beckhampton link emerges, as Jeremy Tree purchased Rockfest’s dam Rock Garden as a yearling on behalf of his principal patron, Jock Whitney, having been sold from Sarsden House as a foal for 4,600gns. Rockfest was actually bred by Whitney in America and conceived there by his top horse, Stage Door Johnny.

Rock Garden was one of about a dozen mares that Whitney boarded at Alan Lillingston’s Mount Coote Stud in Ireland. When the former American ambassador to Britain died, a handful of his stock then passed into the ownership of the fledgling Juddmonte Farms, the smart Rockfest amongst them. Just as Rock Garden (by Roan Rocket) was by one of the Wyfolds’ favourite stallions, so too was her dam Nasira, by Persian Gulf. To this sire, Nasira’s grandam Samovar bred two stars, Zabara and Rustam, with the latter standing initially at Mount Coote, now managed by Alan Lillingston’s son, Luke.

Mated with Rainbow Quest, Rockfest produced Rainbow Lake (Lancashire Oaks) and to a mating with Danehill, another Abdullah flagbearer, Rainbow Lake foaled the dual Listed winner Kind, whose

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But for Frankel, to whom he finished runner-up in the 2,000 Guineas, Dubawi Gold would have recorded an amazing treble as he had earlier won two Listed events on the all-weather at Lingfield.

The son of Dubawi was bred by Albert Bennett, a retired builder, who keeps three mares at his Shropshire home at Longville, near Church Stretton. Dubawi Gold’s dam Savannah Belle is no longer one of them as she has been sold to the colt’s owner Andrew Tinkler.

Tinkler has also bought the mare’s next two progeny (both bred by Bennett), a two-year-old colt by Royal Applause (named Campanology and also with Richard Hannon) and a yearling colt by Dubawi; at the time of writing the mare was due to foal again to Dubawi.

Successful as a juvenile for Lady Bamford, Savannah Belle was purchased twice by Bennett at the December Sales, as a three-year-old in-foal mare for 85,000gns in 2000 and for 38,000gns in 2006. Two of her foals in between are accredited to Hesmonds Stud, where she was bred from its celebrated Triple First family.

Bert Bennett, who sold Dubawi Gold as a foal from Stanley House Stud for 42,000gns, has other claims to fame as he not only bred the country’s champion Hereford bull of 2000, but has also won national championships for pigeon racing.

Dubawi Gold: two Listed wins and runner-up in the Guineas

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NH BREEDER OF THE MONTH

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Cobhall Court Stud A convincing victory by Wishfull Thinking in the Manifesto Novicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chase at Aintreeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grand National meeting earned Cobhall Court Stud in Herefordshire the April Breeder of the Month award, the last in the current series.

This was a second Grade 2 success for the eight-year-old son of Alflora, who had triumphed in the Rising Stars Novicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chase at Wincanton in November, a race in which his younger half-brother Tara Royal (by Kayf Tara) finished second.

Their dam Poussetiere Deux, who scored on the Flat and over jumps in her native France, is a half-sister to Grand Steeplechase de Paris hero Vieux Beaufai.

Robin and Scarlett Knipe, who sold Wishfull Thinking as a foal at Doncaster in November 2003 for 15,000gns, have collected numerous TBA awards over the years thanks to their celebrated stallions Celtic Cone and Oats. Other past residents at Cobhall Court have included Ardross and his son Alderbrook.

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Breedersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Prizes

Flat HBLB Breedersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Prizes worth ÂŁ750 or more Breeder

Prize (ÂŁ)

Based on date money was paid

Horse

Sire

Dam

Date

Course

Newmarket

Rabbah Bloodstock Limited

3,500

Ransom Note

Red Ransom

Zacheta

14/04/2011

Dunchurch Lodge Stud Co

3,000

Flambeau

Oasis Dream

Flavian

16/04/2011

Leicester

Mr & Mrs G Middlebrook

1,500

Dordogne

Singspiel

Riberac

13/04/2011

Newmarket

Granham Farm & P Hearson Bloodstock

1,500

Pausanias

Kyllachy

The Strand

13/04/2011

Newmarket

Dxb Bloodstock Ltd

1,500

Belle Royale

Val Royal

Kahyasi Moll

14/04/2011

Beverley

A H Bennett

1,500

Dubawi Gold

Dubawi

Savannah Belle

09/04/2011

Lingfield Park

Mrs F A Veasey

800

Horseradish

Kyllachy

Lihou Island

03/04/2011

Doncaster

Barton Stud & Peter Botham

800

Ingleby Spirit

Avonbridge

Encore Du Cristal

05/04/2011

Pontefract

J Green & Sons

800

Sir Reginald

Compton Place

Clincher Club

13/04/2011

Newmarket

S Tindall

800

Auld Burns

Pastoral Pursuits

Crackle

14/04/2011

Newmarket

J C S Wilson

750

Iver Bridge Lad

Avonbridge

Fittonia

06/04/2011

Nottingham

Phil Jen Racing

750

Gottany O's

Storming Home

Miletrian Cares

13/04/2011

Catterick Bridge

Elite Racing Club

750

Dandino

Dansili

Generous Diana

16/04/2011

Ripon

See the table of breeders' prizes effective as from January 1 on the TBA website, www.thetba.co.uk

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW

By JAMES TATE BVMS MRCVS

Little publicised ‘Big C’ Many will not even be aware that horses suffer from cancer, primarily as it affects mostly older horses rather than in-their-pomp racehorses; it’s very tough to treat in equines, too

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he term ‘cancer’ is not actually a single disease but encompasses a group of diseases in which the normal mechanisms of cell growth and death are disturbed. It is fortunate that the majority of common equine cancers are benign because the success rate of treating malignant cancers in horses is very low. This article will provide an illustrated guide to the most common types of cancer seen in the racehorse.

What is cancer?

The transformation of a normal cell into a cancer cell involves a change in the cell’s genetic make-up – its deoxyribonucleic acid or ‘DNA’. The exact cause of this change is unknown but it is probably the result of faulty repair of damage to the cell, which can be caused by a number of things – for example, certain cancers have been linked to viruses and others are thought to have a genetic link.

In normal healthy tissue, damage is repaired by new cell growth which stops when the damaged cells have been replaced.

However, in cancers, there is a transformation of normal body cells into cancer cells, whose cell growth is unregulated, leading to the formation of tumours.

These tumours can be benign, which means that they do not grow quickly and they will not spread to other parts of the body, or they can be malignant, which is much more serious. As a malignant tumour grows, it ulcerates and begins to shed cancer cells that can invade neighbouring tissues or spread the disease to distant sites via the blood or lymphatic vessels.

Diagnosis If a tumour starts to form near the surface of the body then the cancer can be picked up quite early on because it is visible and therefore easily detectable. However, if the cancer is deep within the body, for example, in the chest or abdomen, then it is not usually detected until the tumour starts to impede the horse’s vital functions.

In both circumstances, lumps and associated lymph nodes are either biopsied or removed for examination under the microscope to search for abnormal cancer cells which identify the individual cancer.

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Doyoun, winner of the 2,000 Guineas and sire of champions such as Daylami and Kalanisi, died of intestinal cancer aged 17. Whilst cancer is not as common in horses as in other species, it is still a frequent killer of older horses

Treatment Although the treatment options for equine cancer are similar to that of human medicine – surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy – the frontline therapy for cancer in horses is surgery. However, the treatment of specific cancers often depends upon the type and location of the cancer. For example, a skin tumour can be removed surgically or have substances applied to it or injected into it, whereas tumours deep within the chest or abdomen are hard to access and treat.

Hopefully, all the cancer research that is being undertaken in human medicine will eventually be carried across to the treatment of cancer in horses as, regrettably, unless the tumour is benign or detected at a very early stage, the long-term prognosis for most horses with a serious cancer is poor.

Papillomas or ‘warts’ Perhaps the least significant benign tumour of the racehorse is the papilloma, which is more commonly referred to as a ‘wart’. These

are usually found around the face and muzzle in horses aged two years or under and are thought to be caused by the Equine Papillomavirus. They appear quickly and can look quite unsightly but they are harmless and usually disappear within just a few weeks or months, unless the horse’s immune system is suppressed at the time.

Sarcoids The most common skin tumour of the horse is the sarcoid. Sarcoids are unusual skin growths that can occur in all ages, breeds and colours of horses, and mainly affect the head and legs. The exact cause is unknown but research strongly suggests that Bovine Papillomavirus has some involvement and work is currently being carried out to try to produce a commercial vaccine.

There are several types of sarcoid and some are more serious than others. Horses can have a single, small benign sarcoid or they can be affected by several malignant sarcoids that spread quickly and eventually result in death.

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melanomas remain small and benign, hence it is best to leave them alone if possible.

However, sometimes even benign melanomas can cause problems by physical obstruction, for example, making it difficult for the horse to pass faeces. Furthermore, if a melanoma is malignant then it can spread rapidly throughout the body, transforming into an invasive, destructive cancer and it is for this reason that many people are reluctant to buy a grey horse with a melanoma.

Surgery can be successful in the case of the removal of a single tumour that is causing a physical obstruction, providing that it is not malignant. However, the prognosis for horses affected by malignant melanomas is usually hopeless.

Abdominal cancers A young horse with papillomas or ‘warts’ around its muzzle

A small, settled sarcoid in a place where it is not causing a problem should be left alone; however, if a sarcoid is in an important place, or if it is particularly active and growing, then treatment may be attempted. There are many treatment options, which include a rubber ring to kill the root of a round nodular sarcoid, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cryotherapy, the injection of BCG, surgery to remove the sarcoid or the application of Liverpool University’s sarcoid cream.

Fortunately, the majority of sarcoids are manageable but it is impossible to predict

which sarcoids will end up causing problems and so no horse with a sarcoid can completely pass a pre-purchase veterinary examination.

Melanomas Perhaps the most well-known type of equine cancer is melanomas in grey horses and this is because up to 80% of grey horses aged 15 years or more have at least one melanoma.

They are most frequently found underneath the tail and around the dock, but they can also occur behind the jaw, around the ear and in the eye. Fortunately, most equine

This horse was severely affected by several active, growing sarcoids on the inside of its left stifle

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Regrettably, most abdominal tumours are not detected until they have reached an advanced stage, because they are very difficult to find.

As the horse is so large, techniques which are employed in other species, such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans, often do not penetrate deeply enough to be useful. Consequently, abdominal tumours are usually found only either when a horse starts to show signs of colic due to physical obstruction or when it starts to show signs of an organ failure, which means that the cancer has taken over the majority of the normal tissue. Unfortunately, in the latter scenario this usually means that it is too late to save the horse and this is exactly what happened to 2005 Eclipse Award-winning US sprinter

A horse with a mass of several melanomas underneath its tail that caused difficulty in passing faeces

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VET FORUM: THE EXPERT VIEW Conclusion

A splenic lymphoma (circled) similar to that found in 2005 Eclipse Awardwinning US sprinter Lost In The Fog just two months after his last win

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Lost In The Fog who was diagnosed with cancer in his spleen and spine just two months after winning a Grade 3.

The most common abdominal cancer to cause colic by physical obstruction is the strangulating lipoma. A lipoma is simply a benign fatty lump and if it is found anywhere else in the horse’s body then it causes very little problem. However, horses that are 12 years of age or more are prone to developing an intestinal lipoma, which can twist itself around a loop of gut and so cause a lifethreatening blockage. This results in a very severe colic which must be operated on immediately, not only to remove the lipoma but just as importantly to address the twisted piece of gut. The compromised piece of

intestine loses its blood supply, dies and releases toxins that essentially ‘poison’ the horse and therefore the surgeon faces a race against time to remove the affected tissue.

Keratomas Horses can also suffer from cancer of the musculoskeletal system and the most frequently seen example is the keratoma. A keratoma is a tumour that arises from the hoof wall and is most commonly found in horses aged seven or more. The growing mass can cause considerable pain and hence they are usually found during a lameness investigation. An x-ray diagnoses the problem and surgery is usually successful, providing that the growth can be completely removed.

A strangulating lipoma (held with forceps) is the most common cancerous cause of colic

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In summary, horses suffer from cancer just like any other species. However, equine cancer receives very little publicity for two main reasons. First, the risk of serious cancers increases dramatically with age, and illness in older horses is only really newsworthy in exchampions such as Doyoun. Second, the cancers that occur most frequently in younger horses are often not life-threatening, for example papillomas, benign sarcoids and benign melanomas in grey horses.

Each cancer is different and every case must be treated individually. Veterinary surgeons have become quite proficient in the treatment of certain tumours, such as sarcoids and keratomas. However, horses like Lost In The Fog show just how helpless veterinary surgeons are in dealing with malignant cancers such as a splenic lymphoma. Every veterinary surgeon and human doctor would love to be able to treat malignant cancers more effectively and researchers around the globe continue to work tirelessly in the hope that one day there will be a more effective treatment.

Top is an x-ray of a horse with a keratoma. The keratoma was removed surgically at Glasgow University and the photograph above was taken immediately afterwards

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TRM GNF – Gut Nutrition Formula Horses in training and racing are now known to be frequently affected by gastric ulcers (EGUS or Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome) with associated loss of condition and performance and this can often be attributed to intermittent feeding, high concentrate / low forage diets, stable confinement and exercise induced stress.

However less well recognised is the fact that many weanlings and yearlings being prepared for the sales are similarly at risk, due to both environmental and management stresses. In these young thoroughbreds, the potential effects of EGUS may be even more significant and using highly specified digestive aids can be of great benefit, as retaining a healthy microbial balance throughout the digestive tract and maintaining normal digestive function are important management considerations.

TRM’s GNF (Gut Nutrition Formula) is a convenient pelleted formulation offering correct nutritional support for the maintenance of optimum gut health and function, facilitating maximum utilisation of feed.

Added to the horse’s daily feed ration, GNF contains specific ‘antacid’ ingredients such as calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide and seaweed extract to help maintain the integrity of the gastric mucosa.

A unique combination of prebiotics, amino acids and specific minerals aid in

the recovery and then maintenance of a healthy digestive system. The prebiotic in GNF (fructooligosaccharide) provides a food source for beneficial microflora within the digestive tract, helping to support a healthy microbial balance and so promoting increased digestive efficiency.

Important amino acids such as glutamine are added to GNF as they represent a major energy source for enterocytes, which are specialised cells found within the digestive tract.

Together with essential nutrients and minerals identified as important in healthy digestion, these amino acids help to enhance the production of protective mucus.

TRM utilises the latest technology to ensure that all products manufactured in its EU licensed facility in Newbridge, Co Kildare are formulated to exacting international standards and labelled very clearly with every active ingredient they contain.

For more information about TRM products, visit www.trm-ireland.com

Optimum feeding for foals Ensuring your foal has the best possible start in life begins with the correct feeding of the mare. Blue Chip Original is the perfect feed balancer to ensure the correct daily intake of vitamins, minerals and nutrients are met. The unique formulation includes folic acid, which is important for the development of a healthy foetus; the highest levels of an EU approved probiotic, which is known to increase mare’s milk production and milk nutrient density and an enhanced vitamin, mineral and nutrient package, all of which will ensure the mare gets everything she and the foal need on a daily basis.

Foals can be fed Blue Chip Original from three weeks of age and the small pellet formulation is the ideal introduction to hard feed. Original will ensure even growth rates with no abnormal growth spurts whilst also encouraging dense bone formation, strong pliable hooves, good muscle

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tone and a healthy respiratory system.

Diarrhoea is a common occurrence in foals and this is where the probiotic in Blue Chip Original can help to achieving optimum digestive health and maintain the correct level of beneficial bacteria in the gut.

Blue Chip Original is invaluable during weaning and sales preparation.

It will ensure your foal is in exceptional condition without the risks that are associated with over-feeding and will help to keep them on an ‘even-keel’ throughout the stressful times in their young lives.

For more information visit www.bluechipfeed.com or call 0114 266 6200

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Lottery winner is a National success

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HE Racing Lottery’s first “Red Letter Day” winners Michelle and Stephen Ashbrooke enjoyed a VIP trip to Aintree on Grand National day. The couple from Nantwich in Cheshire, who are members of the ROA and have shares in two horses trained by Mark Brisbourne, declared their day “our best day at the races ever”. When she received the news of her win Michelle said “I shook like a leaf, I’ve never won anything in my life before, my husband picked up the message that I’d won, at first we thought it may have been an April fools!”

The day started with a Michelle and Steve Ashbrooke walk the course with David Pipe National course walk with David Pipe, although Aintree had laid on a courtesy car and commentary box with Richard Hoiles left Michelle and Steve thinking that their day couldn’t get any better. Some driver to avoid any aching limbs! A behind the scenes tour nifty footwork in the press room however saw Racing of the course, followed by lunch with Aintree chairman Lord Daresbury in his box and then a trip up to the Welfare’s PR man Richard Negus snaffle up a racecard signed by Grand National winning trio of trainer, jockey and owner that will act as a lasting memento of their memorable day. The only thing the couple didn’t have any success with was their National flutter on Choc Thornton’s ride West End Rocker! Michelle has now become a volunteer for Racing Welfare and is attempting to recruit the racing community in Cheshire to become Racing Lottery players!

The Racing Lottery is one of the largest fundraising activities undertaken by Racing Welfare in its history. After an initial slow uptake it is now moving towards its aim of helping to close the funding gap caused by a significant upturn in calls on the Charity’s services, particularly by working stable and stud staff. Racing Welfare Chief Chief Executive Cedric Burton with John Ferguson: “Racing Welfare acts as a safety net for the 17,000 or so working staff” Executive Cedric Burton explains the reason for this 34%

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Lottery winners with Lystra Adams, Roger Hart and Racing Welfare’s Ginny Rose

increase. “Any one with an interest in racing knows that there is a funding problem. The Tariff, The Levy, low prize money and a sale of the Tote are all factors in financially stretching owners and therefore affects everyone who is employed in racing. Racing Welfare acts as a safety net for the 17,000 or so working staff and their dependents. When sudden yard closures occur, staff are calling upon us for help with housing, re-training, financial concerns and mental health worries. Our Charitable ethos is to help anybody who works in racing in times of need. The Racing Lottery is helping to raise the £360,000 we need to aid our increased workload. I am delighted that it appears that more people are starting to hear that call and are joining us in helping racing’s backbone for just £1 per week.”

The Lottery winners with commentator Richard Hoiles

ROA members weigh in to support the Racing Lottery

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S you may have read in last month’s Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder the Racing Lottery is offering an additional quirky and indulgent prize exclusively for the ROA. One lucky ROA member who joins the Racing Lottery will join Piper Heidseck and win their weight in Champagne. The weigh in will take place in the winner’s enclosure at the July festival at Newmarket and to enter all members need do is go online to www.racehorseowners.net.

Over 60 members have signed up thus far, but time is of the essence so join today and we might suggest that for once seconds at supper is a good plan!

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Calling ROA members Play Racing Welfare’s Racing Lottery and win your weight in Champagne!

In partnership with Piper Heidsieck, any ROA member who joins the Racing Lottery during the months of April, May and June 2011 will be automatically entered into a special draw to win their own weight in Champagne.

The weigh-in will take place during Newmarket’s July Festival.

The Racing Lottery costs just £1 a week to play, with fantastic prizes on offer.

Follow the link on www.racehorseowners.net

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The Pride of Racing Awards 2011

T Alfie Westwood: a popular winner from the last Pride of Racing awards in 2008

Brian Holmes with Richard Dunwoody

Pride winner 2006 Eddie Fisher with Michael Owen

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HIS popular awards ceremony, which has run since 2005, will enjoy its renewal in 2011 at Epsom Downs Racecourse. As in previous years the Awards celebrate the often-unsung heroes in racing who make the sport special. Unlike previous years however the event will comprise not only a Champagne reception, awards ceremony and dinner, but also a full evening’s racing followed by a live performance

by Scouting for Girls. The idea is to widen the Awards’ appeal so that the 12,000 expected racegoers can also join in the experience and congratulate the winners on their achievement.

Previous award winners have ranged from HH Sheik Mohammed in recognition of his support for British Racing through to Alfie Westbrook from Newmarket who after working for 54 years in racing still continues to help out at the National Horse Racing Museum. Thus far 66 nominations have been received with nominees including Richard Phillips for his enduring role as Charity auctioneer par excellence, JETS’ stalwart Lisa Delaney who has helped over 300 Jockeys to find employment out of the saddle and Paul Lodge whose role as a Racing Welfare officer in Malton saw him tirelessly helping so many people in the wake of the fire tragedy that claimed the lives of Jan Wilson and Jamie Kyne.

The Guest of Honour will be HRH The Princess Royal and the hosts are Emma Spencer and Mike Cattermole. Another change from the previous years will be that Racing Welfare will make a donation to the IJF from funds raised by the Pride of Racing Awards. Racing Welfare’s fundraising and communications executive Richard Negus is excited by the prospect of the event’s new format. “The Pride of Racing Awards is a flagship event for the Charity. Betfair’s continuing sponsorship is essential in helping us make it a profitable night and we all feel that combining the awards with an evening’s racing and a popular music act will help in highlighting our work to a new and larger audience. The organising committee, chaired by Pam Deal, have some rather special surprises for guests and I am delighted that we have had so many nominations in already; the judging panel will have their work cut out to choose 12 finalists.”

Nominations close on May 27th but readers still have time to put their candidate forward either online at www.racingwelfare.co.uk or call Richard Negus on 01638 560763.

Tickets to the Pride of Racing Awards go on sale shortly at £1,800 for a table of ten. For more information use the above contacts.

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Emma Spencer, William Buick and Luca Cumani are on the panel for a Royal Ascot Preview Evening at the Swynford Hotel on June 12

Racing’s Royalty to preview Royal Ascot

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LINE up of some of Newmarket’s leading racing names have signed up to present a Royal Ascot Preview Evening on the 12th June at Swynford Paddocks Hotel near Newmarket. The host for the evening is William Haggas, with the panel comprising the Master of Bedford House Stables Luca Cumani, John Gosden’s stable jockey William Buick, Channel 4 Racing’s Emma Spencer, Godolphin’s Simon Crisford, BHA senior handicapper Phil Smith and Star Sports’ Luke Tarr.

Racing Welfare Fundraising and Communications executive, Richard Negus said “We were honoured and delighted when asked to become the recipient Charity for Star Sport’s Royal Ascot preview. We are extremely grateful to Luke Tarr and his team for recruiting a truly stellar line up who have all so kindly given their time for free. I am sure that all preview attendees will be delighted that the proceeds of the preview are going to support the stable lads and lasses who make a day at the races possible.”

The event which is sponsored by Star Sports is being run in aid of Racing Welfare and a donation is also being made to SHNAG (Save Historic Newmarket Action Group).

PR manager for Star Sports, Luke Tarr is enthusiastic about his brainchild “We ran a very successful Cheltenham preview at Swynford Paddocks back in March that attracted a fantastic audience. To hold a Royal Ascot preview here in THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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the home of flat racing seemed the obvious next step. We think that the panel are just about as good as you can get, the location is superb and the causes that the evening is raising money for should be supported by everyone who calls themselves a racing fan.”

Tickets cost £10 in advance or £15 on the night with Star Sports clients gaining free entry. To book tickets contact the Swynford Hotel on 01638 570234. The Preview starts at 6pm and will also feature a raffle and auction.

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CAULFIELD FILES ANDREW CAULFIELD REPORTS ON THE BLOODSTOCK WORLD

Too soon to write off young stallions Recent success by progeny of Holy Roman Emperor and Azamour should remind us not to be too quick to judge

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s I am reaching an age at which I should occasionally be forgiven for repeating myself, excuse me for recycling some advice I gave readers a few years ago.

I told them that the last few lines of the 1962 British comedy song Right Said Fred contained some valuable advice for any novice in the racing and breeding industry: “You see the trouble with Fred is he’s too hasty Now you never get nowhere if you’re too hasty.”

What I had in mind was the tendency for people to leap to conclusions regarding the merits of young stallions. Some start to have their ability questioned before they have even had a runner, especially if they are deemed not to be stamping their stock. Others are written off on the scant evidence of their first batch of two-year-olds. Judging by the way Coolmore reduced Holy Roman Emperor’s fee to €10,000 for 2011, they feared a backlash against the young Danehill stallion, who had commanded fees of €35,000 in his second season, €25,000 in his third and €17,500 in his fourth in 2010.

I must admit I was one of the doubters. I had been underwhelmed by the exploits of his first juveniles, even though they earned their sire a distant second place behind Iffraaj among 2010’s first-crop sires. The main source of my disappointment was that Holy

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Roman Emperor had come up with only one stakes winner in High Award, winner of the Listed Woodcote Stakes. I had expected much more from a first crop which numbered 114 foals, as Holy Roman Emperor seemed ideally qualified to make the grade as a stallion.

For a start, he is by a recognised sire of sires in Danehill, sire also of Danehill Dancer, Dansili, Redoute’s Choice, etc. Nor was there any fault to find with his female line. Holy Roman Emperor is a grandson of Fanfreluche, a champion daughter of Northern Dancer.

Fanfreluche’s brother Night Shift had proved a wonderful success, siring a long line of stakes winners headed by Azamour, In The Groove, Daryaba and Lochangel.

“Holy Roman

Emperor’s first foals certainly seem to have flourished from two to three” The family’s standing as an excellent source of successful stallions had also been well advertised in Australia by the champion sires Encosta De Lago (whose fourth dam is Fanfreluche) and Flying Spur (third dam Fanfreluche). As Flying Spur is also by Danehill, his achievement of siring more than 40 Group winners was surely a strong sign that Holy Roman Emperor would flourish.

Then there was Holy Roman Emperor’s own racing record. Forward enough to make a winning debut on June 7, he gained his first Group success as early as July 2. He raced only at Group 1 level thereafter, winning the Phoenix Stakes and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, in addition to finishing second to Teofilo in both the National Stakes and the Dewhurst.

The grey Native Khan, seen here winning

There was only a head between the two at Newmarket.

This established Holy Roman Emperor as Coolmore’s best chance of winning the 2007 2,000 Guineas and he was second favourite behind Teofilo when the shock announcement came on March 11 that he had been retired. He was whisked away from Ballydoyle to substitute for the struggling George Washington at Coolmore.

I always wondered whether this decision reflected fears that the diminutive colt lacked the physical scope to stay ahead of the game as a three-year-old. Even now he is listed as standing no more than 15.2½hh. But what he lacks in height he more than makes up for in strength, being a muscular, robust individual who could be described as a pocket Hercules.

Kieren Fallon once described him as being built like a tank.

Despite his lack of height, Holy Roman Emperor showed fairly constant progression at two and I am beginning to think he might have continued to improve had he remained in training at three. His first foals certainly seem to have flourished from two to three.

His daughter Banimpire has stepped up significantly on her four juvenile starts by winning two Group 3 events, the Ballysax and Blue Wind Stakes, and then winning a Listed race. Sandslash, a filly who didn’t race at two, is making up for lost time, winning her first THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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Perhaps Azamour has suffered for being a son of Night Shift, but this son of Northern Dancer worked his way through the ranks as a stallion to end up with a total of nearly 100 stakes winners.

None of Night Shift’s previous sons had

“Azamour has

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already proved that he deserved stronger support than he sometimes received”

the Craven Stakes, is from Azamour’s second crop, which numbered just 52 foals

three starts including the Group 3 Premio Carlo Chiesa. And then Imperial Rome, a colt who won only a Dundalk maiden in the November of his two-year-old campaign, has returned to win a handicap by five lengths and then the Listed Tetrarch Stakes. Another improver at a lower level has been the allweather filly Chevise, winner of six of her last seven starts, including four wins at three.

Banimpire, Sandslash and Imperial Rome may provide some insight into why these Holy Roman Emperors are shining at three, rather than two. Breeders inevitably tend to send big mares to small stallions and my experience has been that these big mares are likely to produce big foals, whatever the size of the stallion. Banimpire is out of a mare by the 17hh Kris S; Sandslash’s dam is by the tall Lycius, who stood 16.2½hh; and Imperial Rome is out of a daughter of Revoque, a 16.2hh individual whose broodmare sire Lafontaine stood nearly 17hh.

Also worth mentioning is the fact that Sandslash and Imperial Rome both have second dams by Green Desert, and are therefore inbred 3 x 4 to Danzig through his best stallion sons, Danehill and Green Desert.

Another of his black-type performers, Crying Lightening, is also inbred 3 x 4 to Danzig.

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bigger, at 157 foals, and some of them also have somewhat earlier foaling dates.

Azamour a victim of fashion An example of a young stallion whose popularity slumped before he had even had a runner is Azamour. After producing a first crop numbering 101, the champion son of Night Shift started to struggle. His second crop was roughly half the size (52 foals) and his third was even smaller, at 32 foals from a book of 47 mares. It appears to have been a similar story in that difficult fourth season, with approximately 37 foals from 52 mares.

These figures underline how much fashion dictates breeders’ decisions. In the year that Azamour covered 47 mares, we saw the likes of Acclamation, Cape Cross, Dylan Thomas, Elusive City, Galileo, Holy Roman Emperor, Kheleyf, Manduro, Oasis Dream, One Cool Cat, Oratorio, Red Clubs, Rock Of Gibraltar and Teofilo all cover books of at least 150 mares – and some as many as 206.

It’s hard to fathom why Azamour lagged so far behind, apart from the fact that he was at a potentially dangerous stage of his career for commercial breeders. There was little fault to be found with his racing record. An unbeaten Group 2 winner at two, he went on to win the St James’s Palace Stakes and Irish Champion Stakes at three, and then the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and King George at four.

been given much of a chance as a stallion, but Dyhim Diamond has excelled himself by siring the French Group 1 winners Turtle Bowl and Bannaby, and Nicolotte sired a handful of Listed winners.

Azamour has already proved that he deserved stronger support than he sometimes received. His first crop contains the Group winners Eleanora Duse, Azmeel and Puncher Clynch, plus Group-placed performers in No Explaining and Wade Giles (now racing as Destined For Glory in Hong Kong). This crop also contains Zarkandar, a dual Grade 1 winner over hurdles.

Significantly, the smaller second crop is proving similarly fruitful, with 2,000 Guineas third Native Khan, now on course for the Derby, and the German colt Lindenhalter winning at Group level. History Note and Mawaakef have also been Group placed, while Zoowraa and Siren’s Song have won Listed races. Azamour’s second crop also includes 2,000 Guineas runner Loving Spirit.

With no inbreeding in his first five generations, Azamour is out of a mare free of Northern Dancer, so he must be an option for breeders looking for a stallion with comparatively little Northern Dancer blood.

However, four of his first five Group winners are out of mares from other lines. Their broodmare sires are King’s Best and Vettori (both from the Mr Prospector line), Kendor and Rainbow Quest, the exception being Northern Dancer’s grandson Caerleon.

Fortunately, Azamour’s good early results haven’t gone unnoticed. He covered around 140 mares in 2010 and is sure to have been popular again this year. Sir Robert Ogden went to 315,000gns at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale to secure a colt from Azamour’s small third crop, which also included a 240,000guinea yearling filly.

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern 9 PRIX IMPRUDENCE G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. April 7. 3yof. 1400m.

1. MOONLIGHT CLOUD (GB) 9-0 £34,483 b f by Invincible Spirit - Ventura (Spectrum) O/B-George Strawbridge TR-F Head 2. Helleborine (GB) 9-0 £13,793 b f by Observatory - New Orchid (Quest For Fame) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Mme C Head-Maarek 3. Miss Fifty (IRE) 9-0 £10,345 b f by Whipper - Annatto (Mister Baileys) O-Hans-Jurg Zinsli B-Old Carhue Stud TR-U Suter Margins 2, 1. Time 1:26.10. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

2008: SURFRIDER (c Dansili) Sold 105,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Djebel G3, 3rd Prix des Chenes G3.

2009: (f Dylan Thomas) 2nd Dam: ECOUTE by Manila. 4 wins Prix Isola Bella LR, Reloy S LR, 2nd San Gorgonio H G2, 3rd Prix Saint-Alary G1. Dam of Listen Indy (c A P Indy: 3rd Norfolk S G2). Grandam of Jo All The Way. Broodmare Sire: RAHY. Sire of the dams of 80 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DOUBLES PARTNER Rock Hard Ten G3, RAHY’S ATTORNEY Crown Attorney G3, SCHRAMSBERG Storm Cat G3, SURFRIDER Dansili G3.

SURFRIDER b c 2008

Earned £77,832

Sire: INVINCIBLE SPIRIT. Sire of 43 Stakes winners.

In 2011 - MOONLIGHT CLOUD Spectrum 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 at 4 and 5 at home, USA, 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) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Imprudence G3.

2010: (f Manduro)

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya High Line Kerali Sookera Red God Blushing Groom Runaway Bride Halo Glorious Song Ballade Lyphard Manila Dona Ysidra Mr Prospector Soundings Ocean’s Answer Danzig

Danehill DANSILI b 96 Hasili

Rahy ECOUTILA b 2001 Ecoute

11 BALLYSAX S G3 LEOPARDSTOWN. April 10. 3yo. 10f.

2nd Dam: WEDDING BOUQUET by Kings Lake. 6 wins at 2 to 4 at home, USA C L Weld EBF Park S G3, Monrovia H G3, 2nd Guinness Peat Aviation National S G1, 3rd Heinz 57 Phoenix S G1. Dam of Ventura (f Spectrum, see above), IRISH LEGEND (g Sadler’s Wells: totesport.com Racing Silver H. Hurdle LR). Grandam of BRUGES. Broodmare Sire: SPECTRUM. Sire of the dams of 12 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CEDARBERG Helenus G1, MOONLIGHT CLOUD Invincible Spirit G3.

MOONLIGHT CLOUD b f 2008 Danzig Green Desert Foreign Courier INVINCIBLE SPIRIT b 97 Kris Rafha Eljazzi Rainbow Quest Spectrum River Dancer VENTURA b 98 Kings Lake Wedding Bouquet 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

10 PRIX DJEBEL G3 MAISONS-LAFFITTE. April 7. 3yoc&g. 1400m.

1. SURFRIDER (IRE) 9-2 £34,483 b c by Dansili - Ecoutila (Rahy) O-Michel Delauzun B-Ecoutila Partnership TR-E Libaud 2. Havane Smoker (GB) 9-2 £13,793 ch c by Dubawi - Ballet Ballon (Rahy) O-G Augustin Normand, D-Y Treves B-Meon Valley Stud TR-J-C Rouget 3. Redemptor (GB) 9-2 £10,345 b c by Elusive City - Restless Rixa (Linamix) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Mme Y Seydoux de Clausonne, E Puerari TR-J-C Rouget Margins Head, 1.5. Time 1:26.90. Going Good.

1. BANIMPIRE (IRE) 8-12 £26,616 br f by Holy Roman Emperor - My Renee (Kris S) O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Kilcarn Stud TR-JS Bolger 2. Regent Street (IRE) 9-1 £7,780 ch c by Galileo - Hanami (Hernando) O-Michael Tabor B-GB Bloodstock Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Recital (FR) 9-6 £3,685 b c by Montjeu - Dibenoise (Kendor) O-Mrs John Magnier B-Mme Renee Geffroy, Caragh Bloodstock TR-AP O’Brien

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

Earned £60,118

1st Dam: Ecoutila by Rahy. unraced. Dam of 4 winners: 2005: BETILLA (f Bering) Winner at 2 in France.

2006: ENTICEMENT (f Montjeu) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Lanwades Stud Severals S LR, EBF Montrose S LR, 3rd Tattersalls Musidora S G3.

2007: LOYALTY (g Medicean) 2 wins at 3 and 4.

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Age 3-6

Starts 14

Wins 6

Places 6

Starts 6

Wins 2

Places 2

2nd Dam: Adjani by Surumu. Dam of Acamani (g Winged Love: 3rd Deutsches Derby G1).

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sire of the dams of 53 SWs. In 2011 - ALIANTHUS Hernando G3, ILLO Tertullian G3.

ALIANTHUS b h 2005

HERNANDO b 90 Miswaki Whakilyric Lyrism

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Kris S G3.

Dschingis Khan Konigsstuhl

2nd Dam: Mayenne by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of MY RENEE (f Kris S, see above) Broodmare Sire: KRIS S. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Holy Roman Emperor G3, MANICERO Mass Media LR, TATO ZETA Thunder Gulch LR, TIDARA ANGEL Oratorio LR. BANIMPIRE br f 2008 Danehill Razyana Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Roberto Kris S Sharp Queen MY RENEE b/br 2000 Nureyev Mayenne Detroit

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Hail To Reason Bramalea Princequillo Bridgework Northern Dancer Special Riverman Derna II

Broodmare Sire: GRINDSTONE. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BARAAN Dalakhani G3.

BARAAN gr c 2008 Shirley Heights

Earned £148,009

1st Dam: Allure by Konigsstuhl. Winner, 3rd Grosser Stutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Dam of 4 winners: 2001: Apokalypse (f Lomitas) 3 wins 2-5, 3rd Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR. 2002: A BEAUTIFUL MIND (f Winged Love) 2 wins.

2005: ALIANTHUS (c Hernando) Sold 78,817gns yearling at BBAGS. 6 wins 3-6, Grosse Europa Meile G2, G.P. der Landeshauptstadt G3, GP des Volkswagen Zentrum Nordrhein G3, European Breeders Fund Meile LR, 2nd Prix Perth G3, Preis Reiter Rennvereins G3, Preis des Casino LR, Ernst-Meile LR, 3rd Grosser Preis der Mehl Mulhens G2.

2006: AMAZING TIGER (c Tiger Hill) 7 wins.

2008: Anabasis (f High Chaparral) unraced to date.

2009: Alto Papavero (c Shamardal) unraced to date.

Nijinsky

1st Dam: MY RENEE by Kris S. 3 wins at 3 and 4, EBF Harvest S LR, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Give Thanks S LR, 2nd Princess Royal John Doyle S G3.

Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Aunt Dottie (f Rahy) unraced. Broodmare.

2007: DREAM ON BUDDY (f Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 3.

2008: BANIMPIRE (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 48,080gns yearling at GOOY1. 2 wins at 2 and 3, P W McGrath Memorial Ballysax S G3, 3rd Lodge Park EBF Park Express S G3.

2010: (c Holy Roman Emperor)

2nd Dam: Chic Corine by Nureyev. unraced. Dam of RASTA FARIAN (f Holy Bull: HBPA S LR), Chic Joy (f A P Indy: 2nd Martha Washington Breeders’ Cup S G3).

Darshaan Delsy DALAKHANI gr 2000

Niniski

Earned £52,314

2006: BRYMAN (c Linamix) Winner over jumps at 4.

2007: Brampour (g Daylami) 3 wins, 2nd Prix Michel Houyvet LR. 2008: BARAAN (c Dalakhani) 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix La Force G3.

2009: (f Anabaa Blue) 2011: (f Desert Style)

Miswaki

Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALIANTHUS Konigsstuhl G3.

Virginia Hills

Age 2-3

HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 2004

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 47 Stakes winners. In 2011 SURFRIDER Rahy G3.

DUSSELDORF. April 10. 4yo+. 1600m.

1. ALIANTHUS (GER) 6 9-4 £27,586 b h by Hernando - Allure (Konigsstuhl) O-Baron G Von Ullmann B-Gestut Karlshof TR-J Hirchberger 2. Magic Eye (IRE) 6 8-10 £9,483 b m by Nayef - Much Commended (Most Welcome) O-Gestut Winterhauch B-Glending Bloodstock TR-Andreas Lowe 3. Sanjii Danon (GER) 5 8-11 £4,741 b h by Big Shuffle - Serpina (Grand Lodge) O-Stall D’Angelo B-Newsells Park Stud TR-W Hickst Margins 0.5, head. Time 1:35.80. Going Soft.

Margins 0.5, 1. Time 2:07.70 (slow 1.70).

Going Good to firm.

Danzig

Age 2-3

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Konigskronung ALLURE b 96 Surumu Adjani Annaberta

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Tom Rolfe Ridin’ Easy Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lyphard Pass A Glance Tamerlane Donna Diana Tiepoletto Kronung Literat Surama Alpenkonig Anna Charlotta

13 PRIX LA FORCE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 10. 3yo. 2100m.

1. BARAAN (FR) 9-2 £34,483 gr c by Dalakhani - Brusca (Grindstone) O-HH The Aga Khan B-Haras De Son Altesse L’Aga Khan Scea TR-J-C Rouget 2. Prairie Star (FR) 9-2 £13,793 b c by Peintre Celebre - Prairie Runner (Arazi) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 3. Pour Moi (IRE) 9-2 £10,345 b c by Montjeu - Gwynn (Darshaan) O-Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor, D Smith B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-A Fabre Margins 1, 0.75. Time 2:15.30.

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £46,067

Sire: DALAKHANI. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BARAAN Grindstone G3, VADAMAR Unfuwain LR. 1st Dam: BRUSCA by Grindstone. 3 wins in USA. Dam of 5 winners: 2004: Bruxcalina (f Linamix) Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix de Liancourt LR. 2005: BRUSLINI (g Linamix) 4 wins.

Daltawa Damana Unbridled Grindstone Buzz My Bell BRUSCA b/br 98 Nureyev Chic Corine Chic Shirine

Mill Reef Hardiemma Abdos Kelty Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Fappiano Gana Facil Drone Chateaupavia Northern Dancer Special Mr Prospector Too Chic

14 PRIX D’HARCOURT G2 LONGCHAMP. April 10. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. PLANTEUR (IRE) 4 9-1 £63,879 b c by Danehill Dancer - Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton Investments Ltd TR-E Lellouche 2. Ley Hunter (USA) 4 8-11 £24,655 b c by Kingmambo - Lailani (Unfuwain) O-Godolphin SNC B-Gainsborough Farm Inc TR-A Fabre 3. Agent Secret (IRE) 5 8-11 £11,767 b h by Pyrus - Ron’s Secret (Efisio) O-Raoul Temam B-J Hutchinson TR-F Rohaut Margins 2.5, Short neck. Time 2:04.30.

Going Good. See race 39

15 NELL GWYN S G3 NEWMARKET. April 13. 3yof. 7f.

1. BAREFOOT LADY (IRE) 8-12 £28,385 b f by Footstepsinthesand - Lady Angharad (Tenby) O-Mrs H Steel B-Arbawny Ventures 2000 TR-Richard Fahey 2. Sing Softly (USA) 8-12 £10,760 ch f by Hennessy - Misty Hour (Miswaki) O-M Tabor, D Smith, Mrs J Magnier B-Summer Wind Farm TR-AP O’Brien 3. Maqaasid (GB) 9-1 £5,385 b f by Green Desert - Eshaadeh (Storm Cat) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-JHM Gosden Margins Neck, 0.75. Time 1:24.44 (slow 1.44).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Places 2

Earned £58,762

Sire: FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BAREFOOT LADY Tenby G3.

1st Dam: LADY ANGHARAD by Tenby. 5 wins at 2 and 4, Vodafone Woodcote S LR. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: Gwyllion (f Red Ransom). Broodmare.

2005: CENTENEROLA (f Century City) Winner at 3.

2006: SOMETHING PERFECT (f Perfect Soul) Winner at 2.

2007: Anna’s Arch (g Arch) unraced.

2008: BAREFOOT LADY (f Footstepsinthesand) Sold 25,283gns 2yo. 3 wins Nell Gwyn S G3, 2nd Rockingham S LR, 3rd Firth of Clyde S G3.

2009: (f Dubawi) 2nd Dam: Lavezzola by Salmon Leap. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, 3rd Premio Buontalenta LR. Dam of Le Badie (f Spectrum: 2nd Premio Duca d’Aosta LR) Broodmare Sire: TENBY. Sire of the dams of 7 SWs. In 2011 - BAREFOOT LADY Footstepsinthesand G3, BRAZILIAN PULSE Captain Rio G3.

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Caulfield on Frankel: “The 2,000 Guineas hero’s family entered the Juddmonte stud book with the purchase of his third dam, Rockfest, who had raced for the late Jock Whitney” (pg 86)

BAREFOOT LADY b f 2008 Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND b 2002 Rainbow Quest Glatisant Dancing Rocks Caerleon Tenby Shining Water LADY ANGHARAD b 96 Salmon Leap Lavezzola Luvi Ullmann

Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Blushing Groom I Will Follow Green Dancer Croda Rossa Nijinsky Foreseer Kalaglow Idle Waters Northern Dancer Fish-Bar Thatching Resolve

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RIMTH b f 2008

Margins 2, head. Time 1:37.56 (slow 2.06).

Going Good to firm.

Danzig Green Desert

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £72,706

Hope

1st Dam: VIVA MARIA by Kendor. Winner at 2. Own sister to WELCOME MILLENIUM. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: ART MILITAIRE (g Victory Note) 5 wins.

2006: Caipirinia (f Hawk Wing) 2 wins at 2 in France, 3rd Prix Delahante LR. Broodmare.

2007: De Viso (c Sinndar) 2008: NATIVE KHAN (c Azamour) Sold 64,724gns yearling at ARAUG, 180,000gns 2yo at TAAPR. 3 wins at 2 and 3, Craven S G3, A. Solario S G3.

Efisio

Starts 12

Wins 6

Places 1

2nd Dam: TAMBURA by Kaldoun. 1 win at 2. Own sister to FLORESTA. Dam of XIMB (c Septieme Ciel: Prix du Haras de la Huderie LR, 3rd Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere G1), WELCOME MILLENIUM (f Kendor: Criterium du Bequet LR, 2nd Prix d’Aumale G3, Prix des Reservoirs G3), VERBA (f Anabaa: Prix Altipan LR, 2nd Chartwell S G3), Tadorne (f Inchinor: 2nd Prix La Sorellina LR). Grandam of PINSON. Broodmare Sire: KENDOR. Sire of the dams of 39 SWs. In 2011 - NATIVE KHAN Azamour G3.

NATIVE KHAN gr c 2008

Earned £142,987

Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan

Sire: RED RANSOM. Sire of 99 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TYPHOON TRACY Last Tycoon G1, AMARYLLIS Zabeel G3, RANSOM NOTE Polish Precedent G3, EMMROOZ Danehill LR.

Asmara Anaza Kenmare Kendor

1st Dam: Zacheta by Polish Precedent. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2004: DAWN SKY (g Fantastic Light) Winner at 3.

2005: Redchete (f Red Ransom) ran twice.

2006: Zacheta’s Girl (f Fantastic Light) unraced.

2007: RANSOM NOTE (c Red Ransom) Sold 30,000 gns yearling. 6 wins, Earl of Sefton S G3.

2008: Dortmund (c Dubawi) 2nd Dam: MARIENBAD by Darshaan. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France. Dam of MARIENBARD (c Caerleon: Arc de Triomphe G1, Grosser Preis von Baden G1, Deutschlandpreis G1, 3rd Irish St Leger G1).

Broodmare Sire: POLISH PRECEDENT. Sire of the dams of 33 SWs. In 2011 - DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Shamardal G3, RANSOM NOTE Red Ransom G3.

The Red Ransom/Polish Precedent cross has produced: PORTILLO G1, RANSOM O’WAR G1, RANSOM NOTE G3.

RANSOM NOTE b c 2007 Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Bramalea Rarelea Sword Dancer Damascus Kerala Nearctic Christmas Wind Bally Free Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom Buckpasser Past Example Bold Example Shirley Heights Darshaan Delsy Lightning Marie de Fontenoy Primula Hail To Reason Roberto RED RANSOM b 87 Arabia

Polish Precedent ZACHETA b 99 Marienbad

17 CRAVEN S G3 NEWMARKET. April 14. 3yoc&g. 8f.

1. NATIVE KHAN (FR) 8-12 £28,385 gr c by Azamour - Viva Maria (Kendor) O-VI Araci B-Aliette Forien, Gilles Forien TR-EAL Dunlop 2. Libranno (GB) 9-1 £10,760 b c by Librettist - Annabelle Ja (Singspiel) O-McDowell Racing B-O McDowell TR-R Hannon 3. Yaseer (IRE) 8-12 £5,385 b c by Dansili - Tadris (Red Ransom) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-MP Tregoning

Bahamian Formidable

Northern Dancer

Age 2-4

Dancing Brave

Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 7 SWs. In 2011 - NATIVE KHAN Kendor G3, ZARKANDAR Kahyasi LR.

NEWMARKET. April 14. 4yo+. 9f.

1. RANSOM NOTE (GB) 4 8-12 £28,385 b c by Red Ransom - Zacheta (Polish Precedent) O-HR Mould B-Rabbah Bloodstock TR-BW Hills 2. Polytechnicien (USA) 5 9-1 £10,760 ch h by Royal Academy - Golden Party (Seeking The Gold) O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre 3. Elusive Pimpernel (USA) 4 8-12 £5,385 bbr c by Elusive Quality - Cara Fantasy (Sadler’s Wells) O/B-Windflower Overseas Holdings TR-JL Dunlop Margins 1.5, 1. Time 1:49.42 (slow 1.32).

Going Good to firm.

Foreign Courier OASIS DREAM b 2000

Belle Mecene VIVA MARIA gr 99 Kaldoun Tambura Belle du Bresil

Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Kalamoun Belle of Ireland Gay Mecene Djaka Belle Caro Katana Akarad White Face

18 FRED DARLING S G3 NEWBURY. April 16. 3yof. 7f.

1. RIMTH (GB) 9-0 £28,385 b f by Oasis Dream - Dorelia (Efisio) O-Denford Stud B-Belgrave Bloodstock Ltd TR-PFI Cole 2. Sharnberry (GB) 9-0 £10,760 b f by Shamardal - Wimple (Kingmambo) O-St Albans Bloodstock LLP B-Rabbah Bloodstock TR-EAL Dunlop 3. Eucharist (IRE) 9-0 £5,385 b f by Acclamation - Satin Rose (Lujain) O-Mrs J Wood B-M Kelly TR-R Hannon Margins 1.25, 1.75. Time 1:25.34 (slow 2.34).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £87,136

Sire: OASIS DREAM. Sire of 40 Stakes winners. In 2011 - RIMTH Efisio G3, ANNE OF KIEV Mark of Esteem LR, FLAMBEAU Catrail LR, PEACE OF OASIS Zafonic LR. 1st Dam: DORELIA by Efisio. Winner at 3. Own sister to Bowness. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: RIMTH (f Oasis Dream) 2 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Duty Free Fred Darling S G3, 2nd Adnams Cheveley Park S G1, EBF Dick Poole S LR, 3rd Jaguar Cars Lowther S G2.

2nd Dam: DOMINIO by Dominion. 2 wins at 2 St Hugh’s S LR, 2nd United Breweries Temple S G2.

Dam of DOMINICA (f Alhaarth: King’s Stand S G2), Bowness (f Efisio: 3rd EBF Land O’Burns Fillies’ S LR). Grandam of MEANYA. Third dam of CLASSIC BLADE, Captain Dunne.

Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AL REP Trade Fair G3, RIMTH Oasis Dream G3, DORDOGNE Singspiel LR. The Oasis Dream/Efisio cross has produced: RIMTH G1, MULLEIN G2.

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Eldoret DORELIA b 2003 Dominion Dominio La Tuerta

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Sir Ivor Courtly Dee Lyphard Navajo Princess Mill Reef Sorbus Forli Native Partner High Top Bamburi Derring-Do Picture Palace Hot Spark Smarten Up

20 GREENHAM S G3 NEWBURY. April 16. 3yo. 7f.

1. FRANKEL (GB) 9-0 £28,385 b c by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Excelebration (IRE) 9-0 £10,760 b c by Exceed And Excel - Sun Shower (Indian Ridge) O-G Manfredini B-Owenstown Stud TR-M Botti 3. Shropshire (IRE) 9-0 £5,385 gr c by Shamardal - Shawanni (Shareef Dancer) O- Mrs JM Corbett B-Tally-Ho Stud TR-BW Hills Margins 4, 6. Time 1:24.60 (slow 1.60).

Going Good to firm. See race 37

19 JOHN PORTER S G3

21 PREMIO CARLO CHIESA G3

NEWBURY. April 16. 4yo+. 12f 5yds.

ROME. April 17. 3yo+f&m. 1200m.

1. INDIAN DAYS (GB) 6 9-3 £28,385 ch h by Daylami - Cap Coz (Indian Ridge) O-DJ Fish B-Mrs C Regalado-Gonzalez TR-JG Given 2. Bridge of Gold (USA) 5 8-12 £10,760 b h by Giant’s Causeway - Lady Doc (Doc’s Leader) O-Eastwind Racing Ltd, Martha Trussell B-Hopewell Investments LLC TR-M Magnusson 3. Poet (GB) 6 8-12 £5,385 b h by Pivotal - Hyabella (Shirley Heights) O-HE Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan B-Meon Valley Stud TR-CG Cox Margins Head, 2.5. Time 2:32.11 (slow 1.31).

Going Good to firm.

1. SANDSLASH (IRE) 3 8-5 £34,482 b f by Holy Roman Emperor - Slap Shot (Lycius) O-Scuderia Lechereo B-Azienda Agricola Valle Falcone TR-L Riccardi 2. Charming Woman (IRE) 4 9-2 £15,172 b f by Invincible Spirit - Sospel (Kendor) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Societa Allevamento Razza Latina SRL TR-V Caruso 3. Madda’s Force (ITY) 5 9-2 £8,275 b m by Blu Air Force - Madda’sblueyes (Selkirk) O-Scuderia Ri Ma SRL B-Azienda Agricola Loreto Luciani TR-R Betti Margins 1.25, neck. Time 1:09.10.

Going Soft.

Age 2-6

Age 3

Starts 34

Wins 6

Places 10

Earned £327,997

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £48,274

Sire: DAYLAMI. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2011 INDIAN DAYS Indian Ridge G3, WHISPERING GALLERY Spinning World G3.

Sire: HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR. Sire of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BANIMPIRE Kris S G3, SANDSLASH Lycius G3.

1st Dam: CAP COZ by Indian Ridge. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix Roland de Chambure LR, 2nd Prix de la Porte Maillot G3, Prix du Calvados G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2002: Azucar (f Desert Prince) unraced. Dam of King David (c Iffraaj: 3 wins at 2 in France, 3rd Prix Francois Boutin LR) 2003: BINIOU (g Mozart) 6 wins at home, France, Prix du Cercle LR, Prix Contessina LR, 3rd Prix de Saint-Georges G3, P. Petit Couvert-Casino Barriere Dinard G3.

2004: Istibian (g Sakhee) ran a few times and ran on the flat in France.

2005: INDIAN DAYS (c Daylami) Sold 36,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 6 wins to 2011 at home, Turkey, Bosphorus Cup G2, Dubai Duty Free John Porter S G3, 3rd September S G3, sportingbet.com Stand Cup LR. 2007: Full Crown (c Anabaa) unraced.

2008: Melovia (f Cape Cross) unraced to date.

2009: Reply (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

1st Dam: SLAP SHOT by Lycius. Champion 2yr old filly in Italy in 2001. 6 wins at 2 to 4 in Italy, Gran Premio Citta’ di Napoli G3, 2nd Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2006: Samara Valley (f Dalakhani) 3 wins, 3rd Prix Miss Satamixa LR. 2007: Fighting Talk (c Shamardal) ran twice and ran on the flat in Italy.

2008: SANDSLASH (f Holy Roman Emperor) Sold 92,464gns yearling at ARAUG. 3 wins at 3 in Italy, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3.

2009: (c Rock of Gibraltar) 2010: (c Duke of Marmalade)

2nd Dam: PONT-AVEN by Try My Best. 3 wins at 2 to 4 in France Prix de Saint-Georges G3, 2nd Dubai Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1. Dam of SAINTE MARINE (f Kenmare: Prix du Gros-Chene G2 (twice), 2nd Persimmon Homes Nunthorpe S G1 (twice), 3rd Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp G1), JOSR ALGARHOUD (c Darshaan: Scottish Equitable Gimcrack S G2), CAP COZ (f Indian Ridge, see above), TRAOU MAD (f Barathea: P.de la Vallee d’Auge-L’Ecurie Charmes LR, 2nd Prix du Petit Couvert G3). Grandam of Roscoff.

SANDSLASH b f 2008

2nd Dam: Katanning by Green Desert. Dam of SLAP SHOT (f Lycius, see above) Broodmare Sire: LYCIUS. Sire of the dams of 20 Stakes winners. In 2011 - SANDSLASH Holy Roman Emperor G3, TOSEN RA Deep Impact G3, SHAMALI Selkirk LR.

Danzig Danehill Razyana HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR b 2004 Secretariat L’On Vite Fanfreluche Mr Prospector Lycius Lypatia SLAP SHOT ch 99

Broodmare Sire: INDIAN RIDGE. Sire of the dams of 43 Stakes winners. In 2011 - INDIAN DAYS Daylami G3.

INDIAN DAYS ch h 2005 Mill Reef Doyoun Dumka DAYLAMI gr 94 Miswaki Daltawa Damana Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow CAP COZ b 97 Try My Best Pont-Aven Basilea

Never Bend Milan Mill Kashmir II Faizebad Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Crystal Palace Denia Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City Northern Dancer Sex Appeal Frere Basile Gay Apparel

Green Desert Katanning Katakana

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Bold Ruler Somethingroyal Northern Dancer Ciboulette Raise A Native Gold Digger Lyphard Hypatia Danzig Foreign Courier Diesis Winds Aloft

22 PREMIO PARIOLI G3 ROME. April 17. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. AL REP (IRE) 9-2 £73,275 ch c by Trade Fair - Swizzle (Efisio) O-Scuderia Colle Papa B-John Cullinan TR-D Camuffo 2. Duchamp (FR) 9-2 £32,241 b c by Vettori - Durella (Royal Academy) O/B-Razza Dormello Olgiata TR-O Pessi 3. The Confessor (ITY) 9-2 £17,586 ch c by Footstepsinthesand - Scintillosa (Compton Place) O-Allev La Nuova Sbarra B-Angelo Agrestini TR-L Riccardi

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DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS

European Pattern Margins 0.75, 0.50. Time 1:38.10. Going Soft.

Age 2-3

Starts 8

Wins 4

Places 3

Earned £119,106

Sire: TRADE FAIR. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AL REP Efisio G3.

1st Dam: Swizzle by Efisio. unraced. Own sister to FIZZED. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: Take My Turn (c Josr Algarhoud) ran a few times.

2006: POCKET’S PICK (g Exceed And Excel) Winner at 3.

2008: AL REP (c Trade Fair) Sold 6,190gns yearling at DNFES. 4 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy, Premio Parioli G3, Premio Daumier - Mem Mauro Sbarigia LR. 2009: (f Elusive City) 2nd Dam: CLICQUOT by Bold Lad. 4 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of PREMIERE CUVEE (f Formidable: Goldene Peitsche G3), FIZZED (f Efisio: London Clubs Fern Hill Rated H LR, Daily Mail Silver Trophy S LR, 2nd Prix d’Astarte G2). Grandam of SHE BAT, CASK, Lady Cay, Zaya. Third dam of SHE BREEZE, SHE IS GREAT, She Basic.

Broodmare Sire: EFISIO. Sire of the dams of 22 Stakes winners. In 2011 - AL REP Trade Fair G3, RIMTH Oasis Dream G3, DORDOGNE Singspiel LR. AL REP ch c 2008 Mr Prospector Secrettame The Minstrel Zaizafon Mofida Danzig Danehill Razyana Vaguely Noble Roupala Cairn Rouge Forli Formidable Native Partner High Top Eldoret Bamburi Bold Ruler Bold Lad Barn Pride Charlottesville Effervescence II Vareta Gone West Zafonic TRADE FAIR b 2000 Danefair

Efisio SWIZZLE ch 2000 Clicquot

23 GROSSER PREIS DER KREFELDER WIRTSCHAFT G3 KREFELD. April 17. 3yo. 1700m.

1. LINDENTHALER (GER) 9-2 £27,586 b c by Azamour - Lasira (Vettori) O/B-Gestut Ebbesloh TR-P Schiergen 2. Rubber Duck (GER) 9-2 £9,483 b c by Big Shuffle - Ripley (Platini) O-Stall Ramon B-Randolf Peters TR-S Smrczek 3. Nice Danon (GB) 9-2 £4,741 gr c by Sakhee - Miss Universe (Warning) O-Stall D’Angelo B-Stratford Place Stud TR-A Wohler Margins 2.5, 1.5. Time 1:45.05. Going Good.

2nd Dam: LUPITA by Niniski. 4 wins at 3 and 4 in Germany. Dam of LASIRA (f Vettori, see above), LOVELY TIGER (c Tiger Hill: Grosser Freiberger Premium-Preis LR) Broodmare Sire: VETTORI. Sire of the dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 - LINDENTHALER Azamour G3.

24 PRIX PENELOPE G3 SAINT-CLOUD. April 21. 3yof. 2100m.

1. DON’T HURRY ME (IRE) 9-0 £34,483 ch f by Hurricane Run - Beringold (Bering) O-Jean-Francois Gribomont B-G Rollain TR-J-C Rouget 2. Pirika (IRE) 9-0 £13,793 bbr f by Monsun - Paita (Intikhab) O-Teruya Yoshida B-Shadai Farm TR-A Fabre 3. Skallet (FR) 9-0 £10,345 b f by Muhaymin - Siran (R B Chesne) O-Ecurie Jarlan B-Ecurie Jarlan TR-C Baillet Margins 1.5, 3. Time 2:17.20. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £42,364

1st Dam: Beringold by Bering. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: DIMITRIOS (g Desert Prince) Winner at 4.

2007: GOLD SAVE THE KING (c King’s Best) 2 wins at 3 in France.

2008: DON’T HURRY ME (f Hurricane Run) Sold 5,602gns foal at ARDEC, 29,588gns yearling at AROCT. 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix Penelope G3, 2nd Prix Rose de Mai LR. 2009: (f Dylan Thomas) 2nd Dam: Horphaly by Pharly. ran on the flat in France. Dam of GOLD AND STEEL (c Shining Steel: American Derby G2, Early Times Dixie H G2, San Francisco Mile H G2, 3rd Eddie Read H G1), GOLDEN MARVEL (g Linamix: Prix de Suresnes LR), BEFUTO (c Saint Andrews: Criterium de Lyon LR, Prix Maurice Caillault LR, Prix Eugene de Savoie LR), Rose Melody (f Galileo: 2nd Prix Casimir Delamarre LR). Grandam of Nanabanana.

Broodmare Sire: BERING. Sire of the dams of 57 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DON’T HURRY ME Hurricane Run G3.

DON’T HURRY ME ch f 2008 Sadler’s Wells Montjeu HURRICANE RUN b 2002 Surumu Hold On Hone Arctic Tern Bering Beaune BERINGOLD b 2000 Pharly

1st Dam: LASIRA by Vettori. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Wettenleip Preis der Dreijahrigen LR, 3rd Pferdewetten.de-Stutenpreis (1000 Gns) G2. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: LINDENTHALER (c Azamour) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, G.P. Krefelder Wirtschaft-Dr Busch Mem G3, BMW Preis Dusseldorf LR.

Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza Machiavellian Vettori Air Distingue LASIRA ch 2003 Niniski Lupita Limoges

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Northern Dancer Fairy Bridge Top Ville Toute Cy Literat Surama Sharpen Up Lucy Sea Bird II Bubbling Beauty Lyphard Barbra Lyphard Comely Djakao Hollybrook

25 BET365 MILE S G2 SANDOWN PARK. April 23. 4yo+. 8f 14yds.

LINDENTHALER b c 2008 Northern Dancer

Earned £62,727

Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Mr Prospector Coup de Folie Sir Ivor Euryanthe Nijinsky Virginia Hills Konigsstuhl Lohe

1st Dam: Merrily by Sharrood. Dam of 5 winners: 2000: VIGOROUS (f Danetime) 2 wins at 3.

Broodmare.

2002: Bond Cat (f Raise A Grand) ran a few times.

Broodmare.

2003: CHEERILY (f Danehill Dancer) Winner at 4 in USA. Broodmare.

2004: Golden Snitch (g Redback) ran twice in N.H. Flat Races.

2005: LADY SCHMUCK (f Clodovil) 3 wins at 3.

2006: HASODIKIS (c Fasliyev) 2 wins at 3 in Greece.

2007: DICK TURPIN (c Arakan) Sold 7,721gns foal at GONO1, 18,206gns yearling at TISEP. 6 wins at 2 and 3 at home, France, Prix Jean Prat G1, Richmond S G2, Bathwick Tyres Greenham S G3, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, 2000 Guineas G1, Poule d’Essai des Poulains G1.

1. DICK TURPIN (IRE) 4 9-0 £45,416 b c by Arakan - Merrily (Sharrood) O-John Manley B-John McEnery TR-R Hannon 2. Cityscape (GB) 5 9-0 £17,216 ch h by Selkirk - Tantina (Distant View) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-R Charlton 3. Dream Eater (IRE) 6 9-0 £8,616 gr h by Night Shift - Kapria (Simon du Desert) O-JC Smith B-Stone Ridge Farm TR-AM Balding Margins 2.25, 1.25. Time 1:41.92 (slow 1.42).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 11

Wins 6

Places 3

Earned £678,833

Broodmare Sire: AL MUFTI. Sire of the dams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BOLD SILVANO Silvano G3, KINGS GAMBIT Silvano G3, MAGICO Dupont G3, SHE’S A STUNNER Toreador G3, RICH STRIKE Strike Smartly LR. The Silvano/Al Mufti cross has produced: BOLD SILVANO G1, KINGS GAMBIT G1, Kings Cross G1, Galanthus G2.

KINGS GAMBIT ch g 2004 Niniski Lomitas La Colorada SILVANO b 96 Beau’s Eagle Spirit of Eagles Big Spirit Roberto Al Mufti Lassie Dear

2nd Dam: BABYCHAM SPARKLE by So Blessed. 2 wins at 2. Dam of DEEP FINESSE (c Reprimand: Dubai Racing Club Palace House S G3, Prix du Bois G3, 3rd Polypipe PLC Flying Childers S G2).

Grandam of HALMAHERA, RISING SHADOW, Blue Rocket, INDIAN JOCKEY, Night Cru. Broodmare Sire: SHARROOD. Sire of the dams of 10 Stakes winners. In 2010 - DICK TURPIN Arakan G1, BARNEY MCGREW Mark of Esteem G3.

DICK TURPIN b c 2007 Nearctic Natalma Forli Special Thong ARAKAN br 2000 Kris Common Grounds Sweetly Far Across Ardross City Ex Rythmique Fortino II Caro Chambord Sharrood Cougar Angel Island Who’s To Know MERRILY gr 93 Princely Gift So Blessed Lavant Babycham Sparkle Charlottesville Effervescence II Vareta Northern Dancer

Nureyev

Sire: AZAMOUR. Sire of 8 Stakes winners. In 2011 LINDENTHALER Vettori G3, NATIVE KHAN Kendor G3, SIREN’S SONG Lure LR, ZARKANDAR Kahyasi LR.

Night Shift

Places 1

Sire: HURRICANE RUN. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DON’T HURRY ME Bering G3.

Floripedes

Age 2-3

Sire: ARAKAN. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2010 DICK TURPIN Sharrood G1.

2009: Loivissa (f Lando) unraced to date.

2010: Lucumon (c Cape Cross) 2011: (f Adlerflug)

26 GORDON RICHARDS S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 23. 4yo+. 10f 7yds.

1. KINGS GAMBIT (SAF) 7 9-0 £28,385 ch g by Silvano - Lady Brompton (Al Mufti) O-Mrs Fitri Hay B-Danika Stud TR-Tom Tate 2. Black Spirit (USA) 4 9-0 £10,760 b c by Black Minnaloushe - L’Extra Honor (Hero’s Honor) O-AD Spence B-Arundel Farm LLC TR-CG Cox 3. Shamali (GB) 6 9-0 £5,385 ch g by Selkirk - Shamaiel (Lycius) O-Abdulla Al Khalifa B-Sheikh Abdulla Bin Isa Al-Khalifa TR-WJ Haggas Margins Short head, 2.25. Time 2:08.01 (slow 1.01).

Going Good.

Age 3-7

Starts 24

Wins 6

Places 11

Earned £240,395

LADY BROMPTON ch 95 Gatecrasher Underground Lady Soho Secret

27 CLASSIC TRIAL S G3 SANDOWN PARK. April 24. 3yo. 10f 7yds.

1. GENIUS BEAST (USA) 9-0 £28,385 b c by Kingmambo - Shawanda (Sinndar) O-Godolphin B-Darley TR-Mahmood Al Zarooni 2. Measuring Time (GB) 9-0 £10,760 b c by Dubai Destination - Inchberry (Barathea) O/B-Woodcote Stud Ltd TR-R Hannon 3. Auld Burns (GB) 9-0 £5,385 gr g by Pastoral Pursuits - Crackle (Anshan) O-PA Byrne B-Simon Tindall TR-R Hannon Margins 2.25, 1.5. Time 2:11.39 (slow 4.39).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 2

1st Dam: SHAWANDA by Sinndar. 5 wins, Irish Oaks G1, Prix Vermeille G1. Dam of 1 winner: 2008: GENIUS BEAST (c Kingmambo) 2 wins, Classic Trial G3.

2009: Bani Yas (c Kingmambo) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Shamawna by Darshaan. 2 wins, 3rd Prix de Royaumont G3. Dam of SHAWANDA (f Sinndar, see above), SHAWARA (f Barathea: Prix de Lieurey LR). Grandam of Shazand.

Broodmare Sire: SINNDAR. Sire of the dams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GENIUS BEAST Kingmambo G3.

GENIUS BEAST b c 2008 Raise A Native Mr Prospector Gold Digger Nureyev Miesque Pasadoble Grand Lodge

1st Dam: LADY BROMPTON by Al Mufti. 7 wins in South Africa, Spring Fillies & Mares Challenge G1.

Dam of 3 winners: 2001: Lord Fulham (g National Emblem) unraced.

2003: Thornwood (g Fort Wood) ran on the flat in South Africa.

2004: KINGS GAMBIT (g Silvano). 6 wins, South African Derby G1, South African Classic G1, Gordon Richards S G3, 2nd Doonside Cup S LR, Wolferton H LR, 3rd York S G2, Strensall S G3.

2005: MOUNTAIN ASH (g Fort Wood) Winner at 3 in South Africa.

2006: Garrison (c Fort Wood) 2007: ALMAVIRA (f Count Dubois) Winner at 3 in South Africa.

2008: Brompton’s Lad (c Spectrum) unraced to date.

2009: Black Gambit (c Silvano) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: UNDERGROUND LADY by Gatecrasher.

5 wins in South Africa. Dam of LADY BROMPTON (f Al Mufti, see above). Grandam of Rexana, Air Pocket.

Earned £33,308

Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2011 - KINGDOM OF FIFE Fairy King G1, GENIUS BEAST Sinndar G3, SNAAFY Lahib LR.

KINGMAMBO b 90

Sire: SILVANO. Sire of 24 Stakes winners. In 2011 BOLD SILVANO Al Mufti G3, BULSARA Sportsworld G3, KINGS GAMBIT Al Mufti G3.

Nijinsky Virginia Hills Surumu La Dorada Golden Eagle Beaufield Big Spruce Beautiful Spirit Hail To Reason Bramalea Buckpasser Gay Missile Kirsch Flambee Surprise Party Regent Street Secret Landing

Sinndar Sinntara SHAWANDA b 2002 Darshaan Shamawna Shamsana

Native Dancer Raise You Nashua Sequence Northern Dancer Special Prove Out Santa Quilla Chief’s Crown La Papagena Lashkari Sidama Shirley Heights Delsy Nijinsky Shanizadeh

28 PREMI AMBROSIANO G3 MILAN. April 24. 4yo+. 2000m.

1. CIMA DE PLUIE (GB) 4 8-11 £34,482 b c by Singspiel - Grey Way (Cozzene) O-Scuderia Cocktail B-Grundy Bloodstock TR-B Grizzetti 2. Estejo (GER) 7 8-11 £15,172 b h by Johan Cruyff - Este (The Noble Player) O-G Martone B-Gestut Schallern TR-R Rohne 3. Voila Ici (IRE) 6 8-11 £8,275 gr h by Daylami - Far Hope (Barathea) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Soc Finanza Locale Consulting SRL TR-V Caruso

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Margins Nose, 3. Time 2:01.90. Going Good.

Age 3-4

Starts 14

Wins 3

Places 8

GLASWEGIAN ch c 2008 Atan

Earned £82,153

Sharpen Up Rocchetta SELKIRK ch 88 Nebbiolo

Sire: SINGSPIEL. Sire of 82 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CIMA DE PLUIE Cozzene G3.

1st Dam: GREY WAY by Cozzene. 5 wins at 3 and 4 in Italy, Premio Lydia Tesio G2. Dam of 4 winners: 1999: Heed The Way (f Rahy). Dam of HEEDAS (Premio del Circo Massimo LR) 2001: DISTANT WAY (c Distant View) 17 wins at 2 to 6 in Italy, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1 (twice), 3rd Premio Roma G1. Sire.

2003: Thundery (f Fantastic Light) unraced.

2004: Rewarding (f Sakhee) Winner in Italy.

2005: TIGER DREAM (g Oasis Dream) 2 wins 3-4.

2006: Secret de Vie (f Fantastic Light) Winner at 3 in Italy, 3rd Premio Baggio LR. 2007: CIMA DE PLUIE (c Singspiel) 3 wins, Premio Ambrosiano G3, 2nd Premio del Circo Massimo LR, 3rd St Leger Italiano G3.

2009: Grey Mirage (c Oasis Dream) unraced to date.

2010: Maughami (f Manduro) 2nd Dam: Northern Naiad by Nureyev. Dam of GREY WAY (f Cozzene, see above), Broodmare Sire: COZZENE. Sire of the dams of 37 SWs. In 2011 - CIMA DE PLUIE Singspiel G3.

CIMA DE PLUIE b c 2007 In The Wings SINGSPIEL b 92 Glorious Song

Cozzene GREY WAY gr/ro 93 Northern Naiad

Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge Shirley Heights High Hawk Sunbittern Hail To Reason Halo Cosmah Herbager Ballade Miss Swapsco Fortino II Caro Chambord Prince John Ride The Trails Wildwook Northern Dancer Nureyev Special Buckpasser Fascinating Trick Intriguing

29 PRIX DE FONTAINEBLEAU G3 LONGCHAMP. April 24. 3yoc. 1600m.

1. GLASWEGIAN (GB) 9-2 £34,483 ch c by Selkirk - Starfan (Lear Fan) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-P Bary 2. Rosanabad (FR) 9-2 £13,793 ch c by Selkirk - Rosawa (Linamix) O-HH The Aga Khan B-HH The Aga Khan TR-J-C Rouget 3. Tin Horse (IRE) 9-2 £10,345 gr c by Sakhee - Joyeuse Entree (Kendor) O-Marquesa De Moratalla B-Marquesa de Moratalla TR-D Guillemin Margins Neck, short neck. Time 1:39.69.

Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £53,177

Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 84 Stakes winners. In 2011 GLASWEGIAN Lear Fan G3, SHAMALI Lycius LR. 1st Dam: Starfan by Lear Fan. Winner at 3, 3rd JRA London Office’s Kyoto Sceptre S LR. Dam of 2 winners: 2004: FAN CLUB (g Zamindar) Winner at 2 in France.

2005: Breathe (f Dansili) ran a few times.

2007: Pentangle (f Beat Hollow) unraced.

2008: GLASWEGIAN (c Selkirk) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de Fontainebleau G3.

2009: (f Nayef) 2011: (f Zamindar) 2nd Dam: WILLSTAR by Nureyev. 1 win at 3 in France. Own sister to VIVIANA. Dam of ETOILE MONTANTE (f Miswaki: Prix de la Foret G1, 2nd Prix Marcel Boussac G1, Prix Maurice de Gheest G1, Matriarch S G1, 3rd Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1), Starfan (f Lear Fan, see above).

Grandam of Bodes Galaxy, Exodus.

Annie Edge Friendly Court Roberto Lear Fan Wac STARFAN b 99 Nureyev Willstar Nijinsky Star

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31 PRIX NOAILLES G2 LONGCHAMP. April 24. 3yo. 2000m.

1. GRAND VENT (IRE) 9-2 £63,879 b c by Shirocco - Housa Dancer (Fabulous Dancer) O-Godolphin SNC B-Darley TR-A Fabre 2. Durer (FR) 9-2 £24,655 ch c by Motivator - Dissertation (Sillery) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Haras Du Quesnay TR-J-C Rouget 3. Touz Price (FR) 9-2 £11,767 b c by Priolo - Touz de Saint Cyr (Saint Cyrien) O-Jure Mardesic B-Ecurie de la Rehoraie, P Brecheteau TR-J-M Lefebvre Margins 0.5, short head. Time 2:05.42. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 5

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £96,566

LONGCHAMP. April 24. 3yof. 1600m.

1. GOLDEN LILAC (IRE) 9-0 £34,483 b f by Galileo - Grey Lilas (Danehill) O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-A Fabre 2. Mixed Intention (IRE) 9-0 £13,793 b f by Elusive City - Chiosina (Danehill Dancer) O-Gerard Augustin-Normand B-Oghill House Stud TR-F Vermeulen 3. Whip And Win (FR) 9-0 £10,345 b f by Whipper - Queensalsa (Kingsalsa) O/B-Mme C Wingtans, SC Famille Vidal TR-R Collet Margins 1.5, short neck. Time 1:43.62. Going Good.

Age 2-3

Starts 3

Wins 3

Places 0

Earned £60,146

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 87 Stakes winners. In 2011 IGUGU Intikhab G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, FRANKEL Danehill G3, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G3, GALIZANI Zabeel LR, MAHBOOBA Red Ransom LR, REEM Danehill LR, VIEW THE STARS Conquistador Cielo LR, CELESTIAL HALO High Top LR, FAMOUS PRINCE Palace Music LR. 1st Dam: GREY LILAS by Danehill. 4 wins at 3 in France, Netjets Prix du Moulin de Longchamp G1, 2nd Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Pouliches G1, Prix de l’Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1, 3rd Prix de Diane Hermes G1. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: GREY LILY (f Boreal) Winner at 3 in France.

2008: GOLDEN LILAC (f Galileo) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in France, Prix de la Grotte G3.

2009: (c Hurricane Run) 2nd Dam: KENMIST by Kenmare. 2 wins at 3 Rosemary Rated H LR, 3rd Premio Bagutta G3. Dam of GREY LILAS, KANDAHAR RUN (c Rock of Gibraltar: Newmarket S LR), Stendhal (c Polish Precedent: 2nd Prix Altipan LR), Chambord (c Green Desert: 2nd Prix Jacques de Bremond LR) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 160 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, FRANKEL Galileo G3, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, GOLDEN LILAC G3, SIDERA G3.

GOLDEN LILAC b f 2008 Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Special Mr Prospector Miswaki Hopespringseternal Lombard Allegretta Anatevka Northern Dancer Danzig Pas de Nom His Majesty Razyana Spring Adieu Kalamoun Kenmare Belle of Ireland Simply Great Mistral’s Collette Kitty’s Sister Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells GALILEO b 98 Urban Sea

Danehill GREY LILAS gr 2001

Broodmare Sire: LEAR FAN. Sire of the dams of 65 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GLASWEGIAN Selkirk G3, SENZA RETE Barathea LR.

Native Dancer Mixed Marriage Rockefella Chambiges Yellow God Novara Be Friendly No Court Hail To Reason Bramalea Lt Stevens Belthazar Northern Dancer Special Nijinsky Chris Evert

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Sire: SHIROCCO. Sire of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - GRAND VENT Fabulous Dancer G2.

1st Dam: HOUSA DANCER by Fabulous Dancer. 6 wins, Prix Finlande LR, Miss America H LR, Emerald Breeders’ Cup Distaff H LR, 2nd Vanity Invitational H G1. Dam of 4 winners: 2000: LEWA DANCE (c Mr Prospector) Winner at 7 in Kingdom of Saudi Ara. 2001: HOUSE OF YORK (c Seeking The Gold) Winner at 4 in Austria.

2002: Muwali (f Kingmambo) ran on the flat in France.

2004: BUSHMAN (g Maria’s Mon) 5 wins at 4 to 6, Diomed S G3, 2nd York S G2.

2006: Soho (f Cape Cross) 2007: Greek Dancer (c Daylami) 2008: GRAND VENT (c Shirocco) 2 wins 2-3, Prix Noailles G2, 3rd Prix Thomas Bryon G3, Prix Francois Mathet LR. 2009: (c Dubawi) 2nd Dam: HOUSATONIC by Riverman. 1 win at 3. Dam of HOUSAMIX (c Linamix: Prix Niel G2), HOUSA DANCER. Grandam of ALEXANDER TANGO. Broodmare Sire: FABULOUS DANCER. Sire of the dams of 61 SWs. In 2011 - GRAND VENT Shirocco G2.

GRAND VENT b c 2008 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Mosella Monasia SHIROCCO b 2001 Northern Dancer The Minstrel Fleur So Sedulous Tap On Wood Sedulous Pendulina Nearctic Northern Dancer Natalma Fabulous Dancer The Axe II Last of The Line Bryonia HOUSA DANCER b/br 93 Never Bend Riverman River Lady Housatonic Hail To Reason Hippodamia White Lie Konigsstuhl

Monsun

32 SILBERNE PEITSCHE G3 COLOGNE. April 25. 3yo+. 1300m.

1. AMICO FRITZ (GER) 5 9-6 £27,586 b h by Fasliyev - Arctic Appeal (Ahonoora) O/B-Alexandre Pereira TR-H-A Pantall 2. Walero (GER) 5 9-6 £9,483 b h by Big Shuffle - Waterbor (Lagunas) O/B-H Schroer-Dreesmann TR-U Ostmann 3. Konig Concorde (GER) 6 9-6 £4,741 b h by Big Shuffle - Kaiserin (Ile de Bourbon) O-Wolfgang Frohlich B-Gestut Elsetal TR-C Sprengel Margins Nose, 1.75. Time 1:17.84. Going Good.

Age 3-5

Starts 24

Wins 9

Places 6

Earned £217,256

Sire: FASLIYEV. Sire of 34 Stakes winners. In 2011 AMICO FRITZ Ahonoora G3.

1st Dam: ARCTIC APPEAL by Ahonoora. 3 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 5 winners: 1995: Anna Bolena (f Goofalik) unraced.

1996: Snowbound (f In The Wings) unraced.

Broodmare.

1997: (f Thatching). died since birth.

1999: Arlekinada (f Lycius) 3 wins at 2 and 5 in Germany, Italy, 3rd G. Preis der Stadtsparkasse Dusseldorf LR. Broodmare.

2000: ARLECCHINA (f Mtoto) 3 wins, Grosser Hoppegartener 3yo Stutenpreis LR, 3rd Premio Sergio Cumani G3, Premio Carlo Chiesa G3, Grosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3, Fahrhofer Stutenpreis G3. Broodmare.

2001: ARTICO (c Lando) 4 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy.

2002: (c Lando). died as a yearling.

2003: ANEMOS (c Lando) 3 wins at 4 in Germany.

2004: Artic World (f Spinning World) 2006: AMICO FRITZ (c Fasliyev) 9 wins Goldene Peitsche G2, Benazet Rennen G3, Silberne Peitsche G3, Prix Cor de Chasse LR, 3rd Silberne Peitsche G3.

2nd Dam: ARITA by Kronzeuge. 2 wins at 2 and 3 in West Germany Festa Rennen LR. Own sister to AUGUSTINUS. Dam of ANUSHA (f Alzao: The Ladbroke Ltd. H. Hurdle LR) Broodmare Sire: AHONOORA. Sire of the dams of 79 Stakes winners. In 2011 - WHAT A WINTER Western Winter G1, AMICO FRITZ Fasliyev G3.

AMICO FRITZ b h 2006 Northern Dancer Nureyev Special FASLIYEV b 97 Mr Prospector Mr P’s Princess Anne Campbell Lorenzaccio Ahonoora Helen Nichols ARCTIC APPEAL b 89 Kronzeuge Arita Akita

Nearctic Natalma Forli Thong Raise A Native Gold Digger Never Bend Repercussion Klairon Phoenissa Martial Quaker Girl Neckar Kaiserkrone Pantheon Aralina

33 SAGARO S G3 ASCOT. April 27. 4yo+. 16f.

1. ASKAR TAU (FR) 6 9-1 £34,062 b g by Montjeu - Autriche (Acatenango) O-Nurlan Bizakov B-Gestut Zoppenbroich, Aerial Bloodstock TR-MP Tregoning 2. Akmal (GB) 5 9-1 £12,912 ch g by Selkirk - Ayun (Swain) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-JL Dunlop 3. Free Agent (GB) 5 9-1 £6,462 b g by Dr Fong - Film Script (Unfuwain) O-The Queen B-The Queen TR-R Hannon Margins 2.5, neck. Time 3:29.42 (slow 6.92).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-6

Starts 20

Wins 8

Places 3

Earned £228,417

Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 97 Stakes winners. In 2011 ASKAR TAU Acatenango G3, GOLDEN PARACHUTE Volksraad G3.

1st Dam: AUTRICHE by Acatenango. 5 wins, Schlenderhaner Stuten Preis LR, Der Grosse Kaufhof Jubilaumspreis LR, Berlin Cup LR, 3rd Preis der Deutschen Einheit G3. Dam of 3 winners: 2000: (f Highest Honor). died as foal.

2001: Austrian (c Second Set) 2 wins, 3rd Preis des Casino LR, Dallmayr Coupe Lukull LR. 2002: AUSTRIACO (c Highest Honor) 3 wins at 4.

2003: Austrian Queen (f Dashing Blade) ran on the flat in France. Broodmare.

2005: ASKAR TAU (g Montjeu) Sold 145,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 8 wins at 3, 4 and 6, DFS Doncaster Cup G2, Weatherbys Insurance Lonsdale Cup G2, totepool Sagaro S G3, 3rd totesport.com Further Flight S LR. 2006: Azorina Vidalii (f Linamix) 2007: Amancaya (f Dai Jin) 2009: Allez Hongkong (f Sakhee) unraced to date.

2010: Arango (c Dai Jin) 2011: (f Soldier of Fortune) 2nd Dam: AMINATA by Local Suitor. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in West Germany, foaled in Germany. Dam of AUTRICHE (f Acatenango, see above) Broodmare Sire: ACATENANGO. Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ANIMAL KINGDOM Leroidesanimaux G3, ASKAR TAU Montjeu G3.

The Montjeu/Acatenango cross has produced: ASKAR TAU G2, Midnight Game LR.

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European Pattern ASKAR TAU b g 2005 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge MONTJEU b 96 Top Ville Floripedes Toute Cy Surumu Acatenango Aggravate AUTRICHE b 94 Local Suitor Aminata Alveradis

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special High Top Sega Ville Tennyson Adele Toumignon Literat Surama Aggressor Raven Locks Blushing Groom Home Love Konigsstuhl Anmut

34 PRIX DE BARBEVILLE G3 LONGCHAMP. April 30. 4yo+. 3100m.

1. DUNADEN (FR) 5 9-1 £34,483 b h by Nicobar - La Marlia (Kaldounevees) O-Pearl Bloodstock Ltd B-Count Edouard Decazes TR-M Delzangles 2. Mashoor (FR) 4 8-13 £13,793 b c by Monsun - Gontcharova (Zafonic) O-Muteb Bin Abdullah B-Haras du Mezeray TR-A Fabre 3. Kasbah Bliss (FR) 9 9-1 £10,345 b g by Kahyasi - Marital Bliss (Double Bed) O-Henri De Pracomtal B-Haras d’Ecouves, H De Pracomtal TR-F Doumen Margins 1, nose. Time 3:21.47 (slow 2.97).

Going Good.

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 49 SWs. In 2011 - DANDINO Generous G2, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame LR.

Starts 24

Wins 6

Places 13

Earned £180,993

2nd Dam: ALCANDO by Alzao. 8 wins at home, France, USA Beverly Hills H G1, 3rd Beverly Hills H G1. Dam of CAPISTRANO DAY (f Diesis: Prix de Saint-Cyr LR, 3rd Dubai Duty Free Fred Darling S G3), Kathir (c Woodman: 2nd Oceanport H G3), Leopard Hunt (f Diesis, see above), Bring Plenty (f Southern Halo: 2nd Milcars Sweet Solera S LR).

Grandam of Sabbeeh, Dream Day. Broodmare Sire: DIESIS. Sire of the dams of 84 Stakes winners. In 2011 - EPIC LOVE Dansili G3, INSCRUTABLE Arch LR, TIBERIUS Rebuttal LR. The Dansili/Diesis cross has produced: STRATEGIC PRINCE G1, EPIC LOVE G3.

EPIC LOVE b f 2008 Danzig Danehill DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali

Sire: NICOBAR. Sire of 1 Stakes winners. In 2011 DUNADEN Kaldounevees G3.

Sharpen Up Diesis

1st Dam: La Marlia by Kaldounevees. unraced. Dam of 2 winners: 2002: VARINA (f Freedom Cry) Winner at 4 in France.

2003: Monbello (g Gold Away) Unplaced.

2004: Belluna (f Limnos) ran on the flat in France.

2006: DUNADEN (c Nicobar) Sold 985gns foal. 6 wins 3-5, Prix de Barbeville G3, Prix du Grand Camp LR, 2nd Prix Max Sicard LR, 3rd GP Conseil General des Alpes Maritimes LR. 2007: Sloane de Borepair (f Sevres Rose) Broodmare Sire: KALDOUNEVEES. Sire of the dams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DUNADEN Nicobar G3, BERRYVILLE Poliglote LR, LA SEGNORA Turgeon LR. DUNADEN b h 2006 Ahonoora Indian Ridge Hillbrow NICOBAR b 97 Belmez Duchess of Alba Juliette Marny Kaldoun Kaldounevees Safaroa LA MARLIA b 97 Romildo La Rotunda Sugarberry

Lorenzaccio Helen Nichols Swing Easy Golden City El Gran Senor Grace Note Blakeney Set Free Caro Katana Satingo Traverse Afar Busted Caprera Comrade In Arms Maple Sugar

35 PRIX VANTEAUX G3

Doubly Sure LEOPARD HUNT ch 2001 Alzao Alcando Kaniz

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Atan Rocchetta Reliance II Soft Angels Lyphard Lady Rebecca Darius Desca

36 PALACE HOUSE S G3 NEWMARKET. April 30. 3yo+. 5f.

1. TANGERINE TREES (GB) 6 9-0 £28,385 b g by Mind Games - Easy To Imagine (Cozzene) O-Tangerine Trees Partnership B-Mrs BA Matthews TR-B Smart 2. Rain Delayed (IRE) 5 9-0 £10,760 b g by Oasis Dream - Forever Phoenix (Shareef Dancer) O-Andrew Tinkler B-Anamoine Ltd TR-M Dods 3=Jonny Mudball (GB) 5 9-0 £4,035 b h by Oasis Dream - Waypoint (Cadeaux Genereux) O-Woodgate Family B-Mrs PA Reditt, MJ Reditt TR-Tom Dascombe 3=Sole Power (GB) 4 9-0 £4,035 b g Kyllachy - Demerger (Distant View) O-Miss S Power B-G Russell TR-Edward Lynam Margins 0.5, short head.

Time 0:59.70 (slow 2.10).

Going Good to firm.

Age 3-6

Starts 30

Wins 10

Places 10

Earned £86,142

Sire: MIND GAMES. Sire of 4 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TANGERINE TREES Cozzene G3.

LONGCHAMP. April 30. 3yof. 1850m.

1. EPIC LOVE (IRE) 9-0 £34,483 b f by Dansili - Leopard Hunt (Diesis) O-James Richard Treptow B-Round Hill Stud TR-P Bary 2. La Pernelle (IRE) 9-0 £13,793 b f by Beat Hollow - Luna Celtica (Celtic Swing) O-Gerard Augustin-Normand B-E Puerari, Oceanic Bloodstock TR-Y de Nicolay 3. Starformer (USA) 9-0 £10,345 b f by Dynaformer - Etoile Montante (Miswaki) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-Mme C Head-Maarek Margins Head, 0.75.

Time 1:56.11 (slow 3.11).

Going Good.

Age 2-3

86

Starts 3

Wins 2

Places 1

Earned £49,076

Thatch Abella Balidar Miss Dorothy Northern Dancer Victoria Regina Habitat Front Row Fortino II Chambord Prince John Wildwook Northern Dancer Pas de Nom Affirmed Sunday Purchase

Thatching Puissance Girton

1st Dam: Leopard Hunt by Diesis. 2 wins, 3rd Star S LR. Own sister to CAPISTRANO DAY. Dam of 1 winner: 2006: Safari Song (c War Chant) 2007: Candotoo (f Cape Cross) 2008: EPIC LOVE (f Dansili) Sold 72,000gns 2yo at TAAPR. 2 wins at 3 in France, Prix Vanteaux G3.

2009: Flurry of Hands (f Acclamation) in training.

2010: (c Duke of Marmalade)

Razyana

Age 2-5

TANGERINE TREES b g 2005

1st Dam: Easy To Imagine by Cozzene. unraced. Dam of 3 winners: 2004: MASAI MOON (g Lujain) 4 wins at 3 and 4.

2005: TANGERINE TREES (g Mind Games) Sold 8,000gns yearling at DNOC2. 10 wins at 3 to 6, 2011, Pearl Bloodstock Palace House S G3, Newsell’s Stud Golden Bonus Rous S LR. 2007: GALATIAN (g Traditionally) 2 wins at 3.

2009: (c Byron) 2nd Dam: Zarani Sidi Anna by Danzig. 4 wins, 2nd Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S G3, 3rd Coronation S G1, 3rd Milady H G1. Dam of Base Commander (c Officer: 2nd Kentucky Cup Sprint S G3)

MIND GAMES b 92 Vice Regent Aryaf Fashion Front Caro Cozzene Ride The Trails EASY TO IMAGINE b 2000 Danzig Zarani Sidi Anna Emmaline

37 2,000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. April 30. 3yoc&f. 8f.

1. FRANKEL (GB) 9-0 £198,695 b c by Galileo - Kind (Danehill) O-K Abdullah B-Juddmonte Farms TR-HRA Cecil 2. Dubawi Gold (GB) 9-0 £75,320 b c by Dubawi - Savannah Belle (Green Desert) O-Andrew Tinkler B-AH Bennett TR-R Hannon 3. Native Khan (FR) 9-0 £37,695 gr c by Azamour - Viva Maria (Kendor) O-VI Araci B-Aliette Forien, Gilles Forien TR-EAL Dunlop Margins 6, 0.5. Time 1:37.30 (slow 1.80).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 6

Wins 6

Places 0

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 87 Stakes winners. In 2011 FRANKEL Danehill G1, IGUGU Intikhab G1, JOHANN ZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G3.

1st Dam: KIND by Danehill. 6 wins at 3 and 4, Totesport Kilvington S LR, Flower of Scotland S LR, 3rd Ballyogan S G3. Dam of 2 winners: 2007: BULLET TRAIN (c Sadler’s Wells) 2 wins at 2 and 3, totesport.com Derby Trial S G3.

2008: FRANKEL (c Galileo). 6 wins at 2 and 3, Dubai Dewhurst S G1, Qipco 2000 Guineas G1, Juddmonte Royal Lodge S G2, totesport.com Greenham S G3.

2009: Noble Mission (c Galileo) unraced to date.

2010: (c Oasis Dream) 2nd Dam: RAINBOW LAKE by Rainbow Quest. 3 wins at 3 Lancashire Oaks G3. Dam of POWERSCOURT (c Sadler’s Wells: Tattersalls Gold Cup G1, Arlington Million S G1, 2nd Prince of Wales’s S G1, Racing Post Trophy G1, G.Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen G1, 3rd Irish Field Irish St Leger G1, Baileys Irish Champion S G1, John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf G1), KIND (f Danehill, see above) Broodmare Sire: DANEHILL. Sire of the dams of 160 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ALOHA Encosta de Lago G1, DREAMAWAY More Than Ready G1, FRANKEL Galileo G1, SEPOY Elusive Quality G1, SHOCKING Street Cry G1, ELITE FALLS More Than Ready G2, DO YOU THINK Starcraft G3, GOLDEN LILAC Galileo G3, NEEDS FURTHER Encosta de Lago G3, ONE LAST DANCE Encosta de Lago G3, PRECIOUS LORRAINE Encosta de Lago G3, SPLASH POINT Street Cry G3, WINTER BURST Western Winter G3.

The Galileo/Danehill cross has produced: BANC DE FORTUNE G1, CIMA DE TRIOMPHE G1, CUIS GHAIRE G1, FRANKEL G1, RODERIC O’CONNOR G1, TEOFILO G1, REEM G2, GOLDEN LILAC G3, SIDERA G3, MISS GALILEI LR. FRANKEL b c 2008 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge GALILEO b 98 Miswaki Urban Sea Allegretta Danzig Danehill Razyana KIND b 2001

Broodmare Sire: COZZENE. Sire of the dams of 37 Stakes winners. In 2011 - CIMA DE PLUIE Singspiel G3, TANGERINE TREES Mind Games G3.

Earned £493,554

Rainbow Quest Rainbow Lake Rockfest

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Mr Prospector Hopespringseternal Lombard Anatevka Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Blushing Groom I Will Follow Stage Door Johnny Rock Garden

Any septuagenarians in the crowd on 2,000 Guineas day may have had memories of one of the most breathtaking displays even seen over the Rowley Mile – that by Tudor Minstrel in the 1947 2,000 Guineas.

The champion juvenile of 1946, when unbeaten in four starts, Tudor Minstrel warmed up for the first Classic with an impressive victory over seven furlongs.

He then turned in a breathtakingly spectacular display in the 2,000 Guineas, going straight into the lead and effectively having the race sewn up before halfway, where most of his rivals were already off the bridle. He eventually strolled home eight lengths clear, to be hailed as the greatest horse of all time.

With Owen Tudor, a winner of the Derby (as well as the St Leger and Gold Cup) as his sire, Tudor Minstrel next tried to extend his winning sequence to seven in the Derby and led into the straight, still fighting for his head, before fading to finish a wellbeaten fourth.

Is history set to repeat itself?

Frankel’s career has so far run along parallel lines to Tudor Minstrel’s and, like his predecessor, he too was sired by a Derby winner from a mare who showed more speed than stamina.

Tudor Minstrel’s dam Sansonnet was the best filly of her generation at two but failed to train on and reverted to five furlongs after disappointing over a mile. Frankel’s dam Kind wasn’t quite as good as Sansonnet but she too possessed plenty of speed. After winning a maiden race over seven furlongs, Kind raced exclusively over five or six furlongs, winning a pair of Listed races.

The similarities don’t end there.

Tudor Minstrel’s second dam, the famous Lady Juror, was one of those rare products of extremes who inherit a measure of their parents’ speed and stamina, the stamina bringing her victory in the Jockey Club Stakes over a mile and three-quarters. Frankel’s second dam, Rainbow Lake, burst away from her rivals in the final 300 yards to win the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks over a mile and a half by seven lengths. She had earlier won a Listed race over a mile and a quarter.

Whereas Lady Juror proved an influence for speed as a broodmare, Rainbow Lake’s best winner, her Sadler’s Wells colt Powerscourt, stayed well enough to be third in the Irish St Leger, although the distance was a mile and a quarter on all three occasions that he crossed the line in front at Group 1 level. It was a visit to the speedier Danehill which produced Kind and a visit to Danehill’s son Dansili resulted in Arizona Jewel, who, after an encouraging maiden victory over a mile and a quarter went on to be fourth in the Musidora Stakes.

Rainbow Lake is still going strong at the age of 21. She has a 2009 colt by Dansili’s son Rail Link, a 2010 sister to Arizona Jewel and a 2011 filly by Dansili’s brother Champs Elysees.

Kind is scheduled for a 2011 return

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Caulfield on Blue Bunting: “She is the 20th Group 1 winner to represent Dynaformer, of which 12 have been fillies – so Dynaformer’s daughters have obviously proved highly effective”

visit to Galileo, sire also of her goodlooking 2009 brother to Frankel. She has a yearling colt and a filly foal by Oasis Dream.

Frankel’s family entered the Juddmonte stud book with the purchase of his third dam, Rockfest, who had raced for the late Jock Whitney. A successful staying twoyear-old, Rockfest later finished second in the Lingfield Oaks Trial.

Frankel’s fifth dam Nasira was a three-parts-sister to Zabara, winner of the 1,000 Guineas, and to Rustam, a high-class two-year-old. This female line also produced the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Derby winner Desert King to Danehill and the top miler Maroof to Danzig.

38 JOCKEY CLUB S G2 NEWMARKET. April 30. 4yo+. 12f.

1. DANDINO (GB) 4 8-11 £45,416 br c by Dansili - Generous Diana (Generous) O/B-Elite Racing Club TR-JG Given 2. Native Ruler (GB) 5 8-12 £17,216 b h by Cape Cross - Love Divine (Diesis) O-Lordship Stud B-Lordship Stud TR-HRA Cecil 3. Indian Days (GB) 6 9-1 £8,616 ch h by Daylami - Cap Coz (Indian Ridge) O-DJ Fish B-Mrs C Regalado-Gonzalez TR-JG Given Margins Nose, 4. Time 2:33.70 (slow 5.20).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £139,051

Margins 1, 1. Time 2:07.29. Going Good.

Age 2-4

Starts 11

Wins 5

1st Dam: GENEROUS DIANA by Generous. 3 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Travolta (g Dansili) 2004: Ceilidh Band (f Celtic Swing) unraced.

2005: Warsaw Waltz (f Polish Precedent) ran a few times.

2006: Officer Dibble (c Polish Precedent) unraced.

2007: DANDINO (c Dansili) 6 wins at 3 and 4, Qipco Jockey Club S G2, 2nd Betfair Gordon S G3.

2008: Doyly Carte (f Doyen) unraced to date.

Broodmare Sire: GENEROUS. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DANDINO Dansili G2, MOURINHO Oratorio G3, SETA Pivotal LR. DANDINO br c 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Caerleon Generous Doff The Derby GENEROUS DIANA ch 96 Lightning Lypharitissima Gracefully

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Nijinsky Foreseer Master Derby Margarethen Kashmir II Fidra Lyphard Val de Grace

39 PRIX GANAY G1 LONGCHAMP. April 30. 4yo+. 2100m.

1. PLANTEUR (IRE) 4 9-2 £147,776 b c by Danehill Dancer - Plante Rare (Giant’s Causeway) O-Ecurie Wildenstein B-Dayton TR-E Lellouche 2. Sarafina (FR) 4 8-13 £59,121 b f by Refuse To Bend - Sanariya (Darshaan) O/B-HH The Aga Khan TR-A de Royer-Dupre 3. Cirrus des Aigles (FR) 5 9-2 £29,560 b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel) O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B Deschamps TR-Mme C Barande-Barbe

Earned £817,817

Sire: DANEHILL DANCER. Sire of 124 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ATOMIC FORCE Luskin Star G1, PLANTEUR Giant’s Causeway G1, JUSTAROUNDMIDNIGHT Machiavellian G3.

1st Dam: Plante Rare by Giant’s Causeway. unraced.

Dam of 2 winners: 2006: PARLEMENT (c Kalanisi) Winner at 3.

2007: PLANTEUR (c Danehill Dancer) 5 wins 2-4, Prix Ganay G1, Prix d’Harcourt G2, Prix Noailles G2, 2nd Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix du Jockey Club G1, Qatar Prix Niel G2.

2008: Pepper Berry (f Peintre Celebre) unraced.

2009: Pretty Please (f Dylan Thomas) unraced to date.

2010: Paco Jet (c Westerner) 2nd Dam: Palmeraie by Lear Fan. Dam of POLICY MAKER (c Sadler’s Wells: Grand Prix de Deauville G2, Grand Prix de Chantilly G2 (twice), Prix Foy G2, 2nd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1 (twice)), PUSHKIN (c Caerleon: Prix Maurice de Nieuil G2, 2nd Prix du Cadran G1), PLACE ROUGE (f Desert King: Lancashire Oaks G3).

Broodmare Sire: GIANT’S CAUSEWAY. Sire of the dams of 4 SWs. In 2011 - PLANTEUR Danehill Dancer G1.

PLANTEUR b c 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANEHILL DANCER b 93 Sharpen Up Mira Adonde Lettre d’Amour Storm Cat Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm PLANTE RARE b 2002

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2011 DANDINO Generous G2, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3, FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame LR.

Places 4

Lear Fan Palmeraie Petroleuse

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Atan Rocchetta Caro Lianga Storm Bird Terlingua Rahy Immense Roberto Wac Habitat Plencia

With Giant’s Causeway’s eldest daughters still only nine years old in 2011, they have only 137 foals aged three or more. However, they have made a bright start, with the American filly Evening Jewel and the French colt Planteur both becoming Group 1 winners. Planteur, whose victory in the Prix Ganay was well deserved after seconds in the Prix du Jockey-Club and Grand Prix de Paris, is a product of the Wildensteins’ stud, as is the promising French three-year-old Barocci, another out of a Giant’s Causeway mare.

Planteur is by no means the first major winner descending from Plencia, winner of the Prix de l’Elevage over 12.7 furlongs. Plencia first found fame as the dam of Daniel Wildenstein’s brilliant filly Pawneese, winner of the Oaks, Prix de Diane and the King George in 1976. Sadly, Pawneese died without producing a single black-type performer, but her Group 3-winning half-sister Petroleuse was an able substitute, producing three Group winners.

One of the Group winners, Peinture Bleue, became the dam of the Prix du Jockey-Club and Arc winner Peintre Celebre and Petroleuse’s Lear Fan filly Palmeraie has also excelled as a broodmare. She too has three Group winners to her credit – Pushkin, Place Rouge and Policy Maker – and she is also the dam of Planteur’s unraced dam Plante Rare.

The Lancashire Oaks winner Place Rouge was by a son of Danehill and

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so too is Planteur, a son of Danehill Dancer. Plante Rare also has youngsters by two more Danehill stallions in Dylan Thomas and Westerner. She also has a 2008 Peintre Celebre filly who is inbred 3 x 3 to Petroleuse.

Plencia was a grand-daughter of Ballynash, one of the most outstanding mares of the 1950s and dam of Montaval, a close second in the 1956 Derby before winning the following year’s King George.

40 PREMIO REGINA ELENA G3 ROME. May 1. 3yof. 1600m.

1. STAY ALIVE (IRE) 8-11 £73,275 br f by Iffraaj - Pursuit of Life (Pursuit of Love) O-Scuderia Vittadini B-Grundy Bloodstock TR-B Grizzetti 2. Adamantina (GB) 8-11 £32,241 b f by Diktat - Royal Hawk (Wolfhound) O-Scuderia Incolinx B-Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti TR-V Caruso 3. Good Karma (ITY) 8-11 £17,586 b f by Tobougg - Greedy Slewpy (Slewpy) O-Dioscuri Srl B-Deni Srl TR-S Botti Margins 2, short neck. Time 1:39.60. Going Soft.

Age 2-4

Starts 10

Wins 6

Places 2

Earned £139,051

Sire: DYNAFORMER. Sire of 101 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BLUE BUNTING Linamix G1, BRILLIANT SPEED Gone West G1.

1st Dam: Miarixa by Linamix. unraced. Own sister to Mister Kick. Dam of 3 winners: 2006: DESCARO (g Dr Fong) 3 wins at 4 and 5.

2007: GIARIXA (c Gulch) 2 wins at 4 in USA. 2008: BLUE BUNTING (f Dynaformer) 3 wins at 2 and 3, Qipco 1000 Guineas G1, bet365.com EBF Montrose S LR. 2009: (f English Channel) 2010: (f English Channel) 2nd Dam: MRS ARKADA by Akarad. 2 wins at 3 in France Prix Isola Bella LR, 3rd Prix Saint-Alary G1.

Dam of MARQUE ROYALE (f Royal Academy: Prix des Lilas LR), Mister Kick (c Linamix: 2nd Prix Berteux G3, Prix de Lutece G3). Grandam of MARQUIX, SCEPTRE ROUGE. Broodmare Sire: LINAMIX. Sire of the dams of 48 Stakes winners. In 2011 - BLUE BUNTING Dynaformer G1, MUSKETIER Acatenango G2.

BLUE BUNTING gr/ro f 2008 Hail To Reason Roberto Bramalea DYNAFORMER b 85 His Majesty Andover Way On The Trail Mendez Linamix Lunadix

Turn-To Nothirdchance Nashua Rarelea Ribot Flower Bowl Olympia Golden Trail Bellypha Miss Carina Breton Lutine Labus Licata Bolkonski Miss Satin

Sire: DANSILI. Sire of 49 Stakes winners. In 2011 DANDINO Generous G2, EPIC LOVE Diesis G3, SURFRIDER Rahy G3,FAMOUS NAME Quest For Fame LR.

MIARIXA gr 2001

1st Dam: GENEROUS DIANA by Generous. 3 wins at 3 and 4. Dam of 1 winner: 2003: Travolta (g Dansili) 2004: Ceilidh Band (f Celtic Swing) unraced.

Broodmare.

2005: Warsaw Waltz (f Polish Precedent) ran a few times.

2006: Officer Dibble (c Polish Precedent) unraced.

2007: DANDINO (c Dansili) 6 wins at 3 and 4, Jockey Club S G2, 2nd Gordon S G3.

2008: Doyly Carte (f Doyen) unraced to date.

Godolphin’s disappointment that Dynaformer’s Fillies’ Mile winner White Moonstone was forced to miss the 1,000 Guineas evaporated when Sheikh Mohammed’s operation landed the fillies’ Classic with Blue Bunting, another daughter of Dynaformer.

Blue Bunting was purchased at auction at Saratoga for $200,000 – a figure well below the $310,909 average for Dynaformer’s yearling fillies in 2009. She is another reminder of the excellence of the Lagardere bloodlines, as she is out of the Lagardere-bred Miarixa. This daughter of Lagardere’s French 2,000 Guineas winner Linamix never raced but her female line traces to Miss Skyscraper, one of Lagardere’s foundation mares. This family produced several good winners to Linamix, including the Prix Jacques le Marois winner Miss Satamixa (out of Blue Bunting’s fourth dam Miss Satin), the Group 3 winner Manninamix (out of Blue Bunting’s third dam Mrs Annie) and the mile Listed winner Marquix (out of Miarixa’s talented halfsister Marque Royale). Linamix also sired the dam of the 2008 1,000 Guineas winner Natagora.

Blue Bunting is the 20th Group 1 winner to represent Dynaformer.

These 20 comprise 12 fillies and eight males, so Dynaformer’s daughters have proved highly effective. His European fillies also include Rainbow View. Not that there is too much wrong with their male counterparts, which include Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, St Leger winner Lucarno, Deutsches Derby winner Wiener Walzer, the 2010 Melbourne Cup hero Americain and the 2011 Blue Grass Stakes winner Brilliant Speed.

Broodmare Sire: GENEROUS. Sire of the dams of 41 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DANDINO Dansili G2, MOURINHO Oratorio G3, SETA Pivotal LR. DANDINO br c 2007 Danzig Danehill Razyana DANSILI b 96 Kahyasi Hasili Kerali Caerleon Generous Doff The Derby GENEROUS DIANA ch 96 Lightning Lypharitissima Gracefully

Northern Dancer Pas de Nom His Majesty Spring Adieu Ile de Bourbon Kadissya High Line Sookera Nijinsky Foreseer Master Derby Margarethen Kashmir II Fidra Lyphard Val de Grace

41 1,000 GUINEAS S G1 NEWMARKET. May 1. 3yof. 8f.

1. BLUE BUNTING (USA) 9-0 £213,739 grro f by Dynaformer - Miarixa (Linamix) O-Godolphin B-BM Kelley TR-Mahmood Al Zarooni 2. Together (IRE) 9-0 £81,023 b f by Galileo - Shadow Song (Pennekamp) O-D Smith, Mrs J Magnier, M Tabor B-Lynch Bages Ltd TR-AP O’Brien 3. Maqaasid (GB) 9-0 £40,549 b f by Green Desert - Eshaadeh (Storm Cat) O-Hamdan Al Maktoum B-Shadwell Estate Co Ltd TR-JHM Gosden Margins 0.75, 1.25. Time 1:39.27 (slow 3.77).

Going Good to firm.

Age 2-3

Starts 4

Wins 3

Places 1

Earned £232,519

Akarad Mrs Arkada Mrs Annie

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National Hunt Grade Ones 190 LIVERPOOL HURDLE G1 AINTREE. April 7. 24f 110yds. Good to Soft.

1. BIG BUCK’S (FR) 8 b/br g Cadoudal - Buck’s (Le Glorieux) O-The Stewart Family B-H Poulat TR-Paul Nicholls 2. Grands Crus (FR) 6 gr g Dom Alco - Fee Magic (Phantom Breeze) 3. Won In The Dark (IRE) 7 b g Montjeu - Meseta (Lion Cavern) Age 3-8

Starts 32

Wins 17

Places 9

Earned £982,683

See race 64 in the February issue

BIG BUCK’S b/br g 2003 Nijinsky Green Dancer Green Valley CADOUDAL br 79 Sea Hawk II Come To Sea Camarilla Cure The Blues Le Glorieux La Mirande BUCK’S b 93 Buckskin Buckleby Thereby

Northern Dancer Flaming Page Val de Loir Sly Pola Herbager Sea Nymph Sayajirao Camilla Stop The Music Quick Cure Le Fabuleux La Magnanarelle Yelapa Bete A Bon Dieu Star Moss Besides

top-class Flat performer, but he did exactly that, with his son Chichicastenango winning the Prix Lupin and Grand Prix de Paris.

Chichicastenango in turn sired the top-class Vision d’Etat before being sold to take up stud duties in Japan.

Nacarat ranks as Smadoun’s most successful jumper.

An AQPS horse classified as Anglo-Arab, Nacarat is out of Gerbora, a tough performer who raced 39 times on the Flat and over jumps. Gerbora won three times at up to 14 furlongs on the Flat before scoring over hurdles. Her first five foals – all by Smadoun – include the Flat winner Roumba. Nacarat’s second dam Habanita was a winning cross-country chaser in France.

Nacarat’s broodmare sire Art Bleu was a Gr3 winner over an extended mile and a quarter in France as a fouryear-old, when he also acted as a pacemaker for Daniel Wildenstein’s Pistolet Bleu in the Arc. 192 ANNIVERSARY JUVENILE HURDLE G1

191 TOTESPORT BOWL CHASE G1 AINTREE. April 7. 25f. Good to Soft.

AINTREE. April 7. 16f 110yds. Good to Soft.

1. NACARAT (FR) 10 gr g Smadoun - Gerbora (Art Bleu) O-Mr Simon W Clarke B-Mr F Maze TR-Tom George 2. Carole’s Legacy (GB) 7 ch m Sir Harry Lewis - Carole’s Crusader (Faustus) 3. Follow The Plan (IRE) 8 b g Accordion - Royal Rosy (Dominion Royale)

1. ZARKANDAR (IRE) 4 b g Azamour - Zarkasha (Kahyasi) O-Potensis Ltd B-Aga Khan TR-Paul Nicholls 2. Kumbeshwar (GB) 4 b g Doyen - Camp Fire (Lahib) 3. Houblon des Obeaux (FR) 4 b g Panoramic - Harkosa (Nikos)

Age 4-10

Starts 25

Wins 6

Places 10

Earned £370,988

Age 3-4

Starts 6

Mossma

Art Bleu GERBORA b 94 Habanita

Fortino II Chambord Le Haar Katana Embellie Luthier Tip Moss Top Twig Arctic Storm Ticma Tecoma Lyphard Legend of France Lupe Wild Risk Almyre Ad Gloriam Chingacgook Couroucou Akaba Montigny Violette Imperial Isoline II

Although it took him until he was ten to win a Grade 1 event, Nacarat’s victory in the Totesport Bowl Chase merely confirmed what we have long known – that, on his day, this freerunning grey takes a lot of catching.

His best previous efforts included a nine-length victory in the 2009 Racing Post Chase and an excellent second in the same race in 2010.

Nacarat does most of his racing at around three miles. His sire, Smadoun, was an admirable performer without ever managing to win at higher than Listed level in a lengthy career.

Smadoun was tough enough to race at least ten times in each of his five seasons in training and talented enough to accumulate a total of 16 victories in 63 starts. He was also precocious enough to win six of his ten juvenile races, including a pair of Listed races at around a mile in the French Provinces. He ventured beyond a mile and a half only once. Smadoun wasn’t an obvious candidate to sire a

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SMADOUN gr 90

Places 2

ZARKANDAR b g 2007

NACARAT gr g 2001 Kaldoun

Wins 4

Night Shift Ciboulette AZAMOUR b 2001 Lear Fan Asmara Anaza Ile de Bourbon Kahyasi Kadissya ZARKASHA b 99 Doyoun Zarkana Zarna

Nearctic Natalma Chop Chop Windy Answer Roberto Wac Darshaan Azaarika Nijinsky Roseliere Blushing Groom Kalkeen Mill Reef Dumka Shernazar Zahra

In May’s Caulfield Files I mentioned that Monsun’s French-based son Network was showing distinct promise as a sire of jumpers, with Rubi Ball, Rubi Light and Sprinter Sacre among his best progeny. Now another name, that of Saint Are, has to be added to the list. This five-year-old won only one of his four starts in his native France – a hurdle race at Les Sablesd’Olonne – but he has shown steady improvement in Britain, culminating in a decisive win in the Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at the Grand National meeting.

This career-best effort coincided with Saint Are receiving a stiff test of stamina for the first time.

Network gained his best win in the Group 2 Union-Rennen – Germany’s main Derby trial – over 11 furlongs and then led the Derby field into the final quarter mile at Hamburg, only to fade into ninth place.

Saint Are possibly owes his preference for a stiff test of stamina to his broodmare sire Video Rock. This smart French middle-distance horse was France’s leading sire of chasers in 2007. Video Rock has also excelled with his British jumpers, which include the stayers Nenuphar Collonges (Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle), Edmond (Welsh National), Nine de Sivola (second in the Scottish National) and Hussard Collonges (Royal & SunAlliance Chase). He also sired a very smart two-mile hurdler in the Champion Hurdle runner-up Osana. Video Rock’s numerous good French performers feature the top chaser El Paso III, plus Lycaon de Vauzelle (French Champion Hurdle) and Homme du Jour (Grande Course de Haies des 4 ans).

Saint Are’s dam Fortanea, a selle français, won four of her first five starts on the Flat, at around a mile and a half, and later won three times over jumps, including once at around two and three-quarter miles over fences.

Saint Are is her fourth foal and third individual winner.

193 SEFTON NOVICES’ HURDLE G1

194 MELLING CHASE G1

AINTREE. April 8. 24f 110yds. Good.

AINTREE. April 8. 20f. Good.

1. SAINT ARE (FR) 5 b/br g Network - Fortanea (Video Rock) O-Mr DW Fox B-Mr J Cypres TR-Tim Vaughan 2. Cantlow (IRE) 6 b g Kayf Tara - Winnowing (Strong Gale) 3. Sparky May (GB) 6 b m Midnight Legend - Glassy Appeal (Glassy Dip)

1. MASTER MINDED (FR) 8 b g Nikos - Haute Tension (Garde Royale) O-CD Smith B-Mrs MC Gabeur TR-Paul Nicholls 2. Albertas Run (IRE) 10 b g Accordion - Holly Grove Lass (Le Moss) 3. Somersby (IRE) 7 b g Second Empire - Back To Roost (Presenting (GB))

Age 3-5

Starts 9

Wins 2

Places 3

Earned £70,195

SAINT ARE b/br g 2006 Konigsstuhl Monsun Mosella NETWORK br 97 Reliance II Note Nicotiana No Lute Video Rock Pauvresse FORTANEA b 93 Brezzo Alconea Leuconea

Age 3-8

Starts 25

Wins 15

Places Earned 5 £1,130,242

See race 55 in the February issue

MASTER MINDED b g 2003 Dschingis Khan Konigskronung Surumu Monasia Tantieme Relance III Naras Nina Luthier Prudent Miss Home Guard Misoptimist Gift Card Brezette Signani Bagheira II

Nearctic Nonoalco Seximee NIKOS b/br 81 Sovereign Path No No Nanette Nuclea Mill Reef Garde Royale Royal Way HAUTE TENSION b 94 The Scoundrel La Vedrelle La Vela II

Nearco Lady Angela Hasty Road Jambo Grey Sovereign Mountain Path Orsini Nixe Never Bend Milan Mill Sicambre Right Away Toulouse Lautrec Malekeh Vieux Manoir Passion

195 MAGHULL NOVICES’ CHASE G1 AINTREE. April 9. 16f. Good.

1. FINIAN’S RAINBOW (IRE) 8 b g Tiraaz - Trinity Gale (Strong Gale) O-Mr Michael Buckley B-J O’Keeffe TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Ghizao (GER) 7 b g Tiger Hill - Glorosia (Bering) 3. Dan Breen (IRE) 6 b g Mull of Kintyre - Kunuz (Ela-Mana-Mou) Age 5-8

Starts 11

Wins 7

Places 2

Earned £132,745

FINIAN’S RAINBOW b g 2003 Roberto Lear Fan Wac TIRAAZ b 94 Mouktar Tarikhana Tremogia Lord Gayle Strong Gale Sterntau TRINITY GALE b 88 Menelek Trinity Air Beauair

Hail To Reason Bramalea Lt Stevens Belthazar Nishapour Molitva Silver Shark Tonnera III Sir Gaylord Sticky Case Tamerlane Sterna Tulyar Queen of Sheba Beau Sabreur Midair

It cost only €8,000 to buy Finian’s Rainbow at Goffs in June 2007, I suspect because his sire Tiraaz is hardly a household name. Tiraaz had struggled for support in his four seasons in Ireland, never attracting more than 35 mares, but his death at the age of ten in 2004 was probably quite a loss. He left several aboveaverage performers, the best of them being Finian’s Rainbow. Unlucky to fall when in the lead at the last in his only point-to-point in 2008, the gelding has since suffered only three defeats in ten starts. Although he won a bumper and two of his starts over hurdles, he is proving ideally suited to chasing and he confirmed his status among the best novices with his victory in the Maghull Novices’ Chase.

Finian’s Rainbow’s results justify the decision to keep him at around two miles over fences, but his pedigree suggests he should stay well.

Tiraaz ploughed through very soft ground to win the Prix Gladiateur and Prix Royal-Oak, and his close second in the Prix du Cadran established that he stayed two and a half miles.

However, it was hard to reconcile this stamina with his pedigree, as he was by Lear Fan, a son of Derby winner Roberto who never tackled more than a mile and is best known as a sire of horses who shone over a mile or a mile and a quarter, such as Ryafan, Sikeston, Loup Solitaire, Dublino and Labeeb.

The bottom half of Finian’s Rainbow’s pedigree represents more familiar territory to National Hunt breeders. His first two dams, the pointto-point winner Trinity Gale and the winning chaser Trinity Air, were respectively daughters of the excellent champion sires Strong Gale and Menelek.

The third dam, Beauair, also won over hurdles and fences before becoming the dam of the talented Irish chaser Brave Air and second dam of another in Lucky Town.

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Caulfield on Finian’s Rainbow: “He’s the best of the several above-average performers his late sire Tiraaz left, and his pedigree suggests he should stay beyond two and a half miles”

196 AINTREE HURDLE G1 AINTREE. April 9. 20f. Good.

1. OSCAR WHISKY (IRE) 6 b g Oscar - Ash Baloo (Phardante) O-Walters Plant Hire Ltd B-Mrs S Hanly TR-Nicky Henderson 2. Thousand Stars (FR) 7 gr g Grey Risk - Livaniana (Saint Estephe) 3. Salden Licht (GB) 7 b g Fantastic Light - Salde (Alkalde) Age 4-6

Starts 9

Wins 7

Places 2

Earned £188,566

OSCAR WHISKY b g 2005 Northern Dancer Sadler’s Wells Fairy Bridge OSCAR b 94 Reliance II Snow Day Vindaria Pharly Phardante Pallante ASH BALOO ch 94 Lucky Brief Lane Baloo Salle Privee

Nearctic Natalma Bold Reason Special Tantieme Relance III Roi Dagobert Heavenly Body Lyphard Comely Taj Dewan Cavadonga Counsel Welsh Rose Big Game Solisequious

The €80,000 paid for Oscar Whisky at Goffs in June 2008 has proved an inspired investment. Victories have far outnumbered defeats for the son of Oscar and he was scoring for the seventh time in nine starts when he just held on to land the Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle over two and a half miles. His two defeats both came at the Cheltenham Festival, with his fourth in the 2010 Supreme Novices’ Hurdle being followed by a creditable third in the latest renewal of the Champion Hurdle.

His efforts, along with those of Big Zeb, Peddlers Cross and Oscar Dan Dan, helped Oscar finish runner-up to Presenting among the leading sires for 2010/11, having improved from fifth to fourth and then third in the previous seasons.

Oscar Whisky is effective from two to two and a half miles and could also prove effective over further. His dam Ash Baloo won over two miles over hurdles but stayed beyond two and a

half miles. Ash Baloo is a half-sister to the useful Irish hurdler Lucky Baloo and to the dams of the useful hurdler/chaser Kahuna and the Gr2 bumper winner Drumbaloo.

Oscar Whisky isn’t the first leading winner that Oscar has sired from a Phardante mare. Oscar Dan Dan, winner of the Grade 1 Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse, also has a dam

by Phardante, as do the useful hurdlers Working Title and Merrydown.

197 POWERS GOLD CUP CHASE G1 FAIRYHOUSE. April 24. 20f. Good.

1. REALT DUBH (IRE) 7 b g Beneficial - Suez Canal (Exit To Nowhere) O-Mr DJ Sharkey B-R Hartigan TR-Noel Meade 2. Loosen My Load (IRE) 7 b g Dushyanto - The Kids Dante (Phardante) 3. Mr Cracker (IRE) 6 ch g Anshan - Sesame Cracker (Derrylin) Age 4-7

Starts 20

Wins 9

Places 8

Earned £243,577

See race 68 in the February issue

REALT DUBH b g 2004 High Top Top Ville Sega Ville BENEFICIAL b 90 Green Dancer Youthful First Bloom Irish River Exit To Nowhere Coup de Folie SUEZ CANAL b 94 Artaius Cairene Jem Jen

Derring-Do Camenae Charlottesville La Sega Nijinsky Green Valley Primera Flower Dance Riverman Irish Star Halo Raise The Standard Round Table Stylish Pattern Great Nephew Io

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Presenting Oscar King’s Theatre Beneficial Flemensfirth Old Vic Cadoudal Bob Back Accordion Anshan Montjeu Alflora Midnight Legend Pistolet Bleu Dom Alco Winged Love Definite Article Dr Massini Kayf Tara Sadler’s Wells Alderbrook Supreme Leader Saddlers’ Hall Milan Sir Harry Lewis Nikos Luso Turtle Island Overbury Barathea Kahyasi Robin des Champs Pivotal Moscow Society Mansonnien Silver Patriarch Bob’s Return Galileo Smadoun Karinga Bay Witness Box Snurge Rock Of Gibraltar Lomitas Network Hernando Key Of Luck Dushyantor Daylami Saint des Saints Environment Friend Laveron Lahib Lord Americo Taipan Rudimentary

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298 310 188 294 244 209 22 144 121 163 84 173 67 40 14 61 122 84 142 78 99 91 140 160 67 19 131 81 102 45 43 25 33 78 20 85 86 52 9 129 67 47 41 28 9 43 29 49 52 10 24 17 44 67 38 59

76 79 77 79 63 61 12 45 33 47 25 34 22 10 10 20 29 28 33 27 29 25 29 38 12 8 21 23 24 10 10 11 11 19 7 23 16 16 4 25 16 16 13 12 6 12 11 10 11 5 4 3 12 15 12 14

25.5 25.5 41.0 26.9 25.8 29.2 54.6 31.3 27.3 28.8 29.8 19.7 32.8 25.0 71.4 32.8 23.8 33.3 23.2 34.6 29.3 27.5 20.7 23.8 17.9 42.1 16.0 28.4 23.5 22.2 23.3 44.0 33.3 24.4 35.0 27.1 18.6 30.8 44.4 19.4 23.9 34.0 31.7 42.9 66.7 27.9 37.9 20.4 21.2 50.0 16.7 17.7 27.3 22.4 31.6 23.7

115 103 115 115 83 87 23 64 43 76 34 49 42 14 17 29 42 43 39 36 43 32 36 47 16 13 33 31 34 13 14 15 16 25 12 32 21 23 6 30 23 27 20 21 9 19 15 12 19 9 9 5 23 19 17 20

21.0 19.4 19.1 19.5 19.7 21.0 21.5 19.7 19.0 20.4 19.2 19.8 20.8 20.6 20.3 21.9 19.1 20.7 20.6 19.6 20.9 20.7 21.0 18.2 20.2 18.4 20.6 19.0 20.5 17.7 19.3 20.9 16.9 20.2 19.0 21.7 20.4 18.6 20.2 20.0 20.1 22.1 17.3 18.1 18.8 18.7 16.7 18.8 18.6 20.9 22.2 20.6 19.4 20.0 21.1 20.4

1,815,569 1,551,824 1,381,354 1,121,004 1,089,477 843,722 831,067 782,575 767,961 766,587 739,416 441,206 434,528 413,348 402,567 393,147 392,804 385,325 383,226 366,147 351,108 344,404 333,124 299,477 297,099 280,431 267,734 248,561 248,299 243,472 241,917 232,545 231,680 224,527 222,205 221,589 215,151 208,016 202,555 201,625 196,933 194,985 191,696 190,028 186,461 184,492 167,375 165,002 160,053 155,136 155,105 153,697 152,500 152,009 151,841 150,791

Ballabriggs Oscar Time Menorah Realt Dubh Beshabar Don’t Push It Long Run Bobs Worth Albertas Run Mr Cracker Hurricane Fly Wishfull Thinking Midnight Chase Sizing Europe Grands Crus Bostons Angel Majestic Concorde Massini’s Maguire Planet Of Sound Synchronised Ballyadam Brook Aura About You Master Of The Hall Lambro Diamond Harry Master Minded Chicago Grey Bensalem Ballyfitz Overturn Kalahari King Quinz Final Approach Russian War Golden Silver Wicklow Lad Joncol Celestial Halo Nacarat Cois Farraig Mic’s Delight Kilcrea Kim Gimli’s Rock Salesin Rubi Light State Of Play Starluck Loosen My Load Silmi Quito de La Roque Alfa Beat Organisedconfusion Turner Brown Siegemaster Calgary Bay Hey Big Spender

542,789 206,180 152,441 205,350 120,106 100,890 403,733 80,126 195,553 79,143 373,239 106,651 78,798 214,372 155,090 173,680 110,796 56,330 26,064 54,563 40,934 30,953 28,562 33,671 99,768 220,902 83,872 52,389 41,900 156,459 64,981 71,870 91,631 53,083 139,208 45,938 27,027 42,002 172,732 15,726 20,281 33,484 58,612 52,689 78,958 50,445 37,937 60,757 37,016 104,186 118,044 136,004 29,945 55,197 23,437 33,663

Presenting runs out the worthy winner With Punchestown taking place after the end of the official season, Aintree was the last chance for jump sires to make a big mark and both Presenting and Oscar did so.

Ballabriggs’s Grand National victory, with its bumper payout, handed the title to Presenting, while Oscar Whisky (Aintree Hurdle) and Oscar Time (runner-up in the National) boosted their sire’s tally by nearly £300,000.

That gave Oscar second place, with long-time leader King’s Theatre third. Oscar had more runners than any of his rivals on 310, ahead of Presenting on 298 and Beneficial on 294.

All the top three had an excellent season and even without Ballabriggs, Presenting would have been within a whisker of beating King’s Theatre, whose 41% winners to runners ratio is a notable achievement.

To put matters in perspective, based on the number of progeny who ran to a mark of 140 or higher – the benchmark of true quality – the table reads pretty much as it does on earnings. The figures are: Presenting 20 (6.7%), Oscar 18 (5.8%), King’s Theatre 14 (7.5%), Flemensfirth 13 (5.3%), Beneficial 12 (4.1%) and Old Vic 11 (5.3%).

Among British-based stallions, who always struggle in the numbers game despite having quality on their side, applause is merited by Shade Oak Stud’s Alflora and Pitchall Farm’s Midnight Legend.

They occupy 12th and 13th places and had ten horses rated 140 or higher, from fewer runners between them than four of the top five in the list individually.

Statistics to May 1

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Race

Dist

Horse

Gran Premio Raul y Raul E Chevalier G. P. de Honor - Copa J y C Menditeguy Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena Gran Premio Eliseo Ramirez G. P. Miguel Alfredo Martinez de Hoz Clasico Paseana Clasico Benito Villanueva Clasico America Asoc. Bonarense Prop. Caballos Carrera Asoc de Propietarios Caballos de Carrera Clasico Porteno Clasico Coronel Pringles Clasico Olavarria Clasico Pedro E y Manuel A Crespo Clasico Apertura

7.0f 10.0f 10.0f 7.0f 10.0f 9.0f 8.0f 8.0f 6.0f 7.0f 12.0f 5.0f 5.0f 7.5f 10.0f

Suggestive Boy (ARG) Immaculate (ARG) Malpensa (ARG) Come Into (ARG) Send Inthe Clowns (BRZ) Sublimacion (ARG) Ap Candy (ARG) Rupit (ARG) Anjiz Lake (ARG) Orpen Fain (ARG) Miss Lake Queen (ARG) Otra Vez Cat (ARG) Hidebound (ARG) Mighty Hunter (ARG) Liz For Sale (ARG)

Immaculate, who had finished third in South America’s showpiece event, the Gran Premio Latinoamericano, on his previous start, got lucky in the Gran Premio de Honor. The Hennessy colt was beaten fair and square by the Derby runner-up Star Runner, however Australia 23/04 23/04 23/04 23/04 16/04 16/04 16/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 30/04 23/04 16/04 09/04 09/04 02/04 30/04 30/04 23/04 23/04 23/04 16/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 09/04 02/04 02/04 02/04 02/04

G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

Daily Telegraph All Aged Stakes Moet & Chandon Champagne Stakes Hyland Queen Elizabeth Stakes Schweppes Sydney Cup Patinack Farm 100th AJC Oaks The James Boag Galaxy Handicap Emirates Doncaster Mile Darley T J Smith Stakes Inglis Sires' Produce Stakes David Jones AJC Australian Derby Brisbane Race Club Victory Stakes Emirates Emancipation Stakes Panasonic Queen of the South Stakes Yellowglen Sapphire Stakes Schweppes Chairman's Handicap Myer Tulloch Stakes James Squire Gunsynd Classic Chairman's Tattsbet Stakes Le Pines Funerals Easter Cup The Saturday Age Victoria Handicap Flinders Lane Frank Packer Plate evright.com D C McKay Stakes McGrath R.E. Kindergarten Stakes Patinack Farm Adrian Knox Stakes Patinack Farm SA Sires' Produce Stakes Emirates Donc.Mile Royal Parma Stakes Jim Beam Carbine Club Stakes Sportingbet SA Fillies Classic W.A. Sires' Produce Stakes Schweppervescence T L Baillieu Handicap Sebring Star Kingdom Stakes Queen's Cup Neville Sellwood Stakes

The unbeaten Black Caviar continues to dominate Australian racing. Her first appearance outside Victoria attracted a 25,000-strong crowd to Randwick and she did not disappoint, although, racing right-handed for the first time, it took her until the final half furlong to get past Hay List in the T J Smith Stakes. She then lengthened away to score by two and three-quarter lengths and Hay List franked the form a fortnight later when taking the All Aged Stakes by over three lengths.

The 150th AJC Australian Derby was relegated to a supporting role in the Black Caviar show, but it produce Brazil 17/04 17/04 23/04 10/04 01/04 17/04 17/04 17/04 16/04

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the ‘winner’ was then disqualified for relatively minor interference to fourthplaced Mad Speed early in the home straight.

Malpensa comprehensively reversed a course and distance Grade 2 defeat by Liz For Sale four weeks 7.0f 8.0f 10.0f 16.0f 12.0f 5.5f 8.0f 6.0f 7.0f 12.0f 6.0f 8.0f 8.0f 6.0f 13.0f 10.0f 8.0f 10.0f 10.0f 7.0f 10.0f 5.5f 5.5f 10.0f 7.0f 8.0f 8.0f 12.0f 7.0f 7.0f 5.5f 10.0f

Hay List (AUS) Helmet (AUS) Kingdom Of Fife (GB) Stand To Gain (IRE) Absolutely (AUS) Atomic Force (AUS) Sacred Choice (AUS) Black Caviar (AUS) Helmet (AUS) Shamrocker (NZ) Buffering (AUS) Sworn To Secrecy (NZ) Goon Serpent (AUS) Hurtle Myrtle (AUS) Once Were Wild (AUS) Fast Clip (AUS) Chateau Fort (AUS) Kittens (AUS) Paddy O'Reilly (NZ) Red Colossus (AUS) Shootoff (NZ) Streetcar Magic (AUS) Anise (AUS) Crafty Irna (AUS) Cute Emily (AUS) My Kingdom Of Fife (GB) Needs Further (AUS) Precious Lorraine (AUS) Bliss Street (AUS) Do You Think (AUS) Swift Alliance (AUS) Syreon (AUS)

another superb female winner, Shamrocker beating the boys, just as she had done in the Australian Guineas a month earlier. Kiwi superstar Jimmy Choux could manage only sixth and now takes a well-earned winter break.

Shamrocker’s attempt to follow up in the Oaks 14 days later was scuppered by very heavy going, but she still managed a creditable second behind the Melbourne raider Absolutely, who lost her maiden tag in the grandest possible fashion.

Another filly to flounder in the mud was More Joyous, who was sent off the hot favourite for the Doncaster Mile but

GP Cruzeiro Sul Derby Carioca-Stud TNT GP.Zelia Gonzaga Peixoto Castro-Stud TNT Grande Premio Antenor Lara Campos Grande Premio Joao Borges Filho P. Otono-Pedro Garcia de la Huerta Matte Asoc.Criad.e Prop.de Cav.Corrida do R.J. GP. Presidente Antonio T Assumpcao Netto Grande Premio Oswaldo Aranha Grande Presidente Vargas

12.0f 12.0f 7.5f 12.0f 10.0f 5.0f 8.0f 12.0f 8.0f

Cisne Branco (ARG) Perichole (BRZ) Voo Livre (BRZ) Another Xhow (BRZ) Mister Storm (CHI) Desejado Thunder (BRZ) Salute (ARG) Uno Amore Mio (BRZ) Desejado Damascus (BRZ)

Age

Sex

3 5 5 3 5 5 4 8 6 5 6 4 4 3 4

C H M F H M C H C M M C F C F

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Easing Along (USA) Hennessy (USA) Orpen (USA) Honour And Glory (USA) Know Heights (IRE) Orpen (USA) Indygo Shiner (USA) Lucky Roberto (USA) Anjiz (USA) Orpen (USA) Numerous (USA) Easing Along (USA) Grand Slam (USA) Mutakddim (USA) Not For Sale (ARG)

Suffrage (USA) Lady Irene (BRZ) Marsella (ARG) Come Out (ARG) Heavenly Dancer (BRZ) Suite De Lujo (ARG) Candy's Breeze (ARG) Avinca (ARG) Suspicious Morning (USA) Fina Halo (ARG) Queen Lake (USA) Comejonera (ARG) Hidden Dreams (GB) Southern Melodie (USA) Lu Toss (ARG)

Horse Chestnut (SAF) St Chad Southern Halo (USA) Romanov (IRE) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Fitzcarraldo (ARG) Candy Stripes (USA) Cipayo (ARG) Meadowlake (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Meadowlake (USA) Compatible (ARG) Soviet Star (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Egg Toss (USA)

earlier, turning a three-quarters of a length defeat into an eight-length triumph in the Gran Premio Gilberto Lerena.

Suggestive Boy and Come Into are the early male and female leaders in the juvenile division. Suggestive Boy, 6 3 6 5 4 6 6 5 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 4 4 4 6 5 4 5 3 4 3 6 4 4 3 3 6 8

G C G H F H M M C F C F M M M G C F H G G G F F F G C F F C H G

Statue of Liberty (USA) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Kingmambo (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Redoute's Choice (AUS) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Choisir (AUS) Bel Esprit (AUS) Exceed And Excel (AUS) O'Reilly (NZ) Mossman (AUS) Keeper (AUS) Reset (AUS) Dane Shadow (AUS) Johannesburg (USA) Snippetson (AUS) Kempinsky (AUS) Redoute's Choice (AUS) O'Reilly (NZ) Testa Rossa (AUS) Duelled (AUS) Blevic (AUS) General Nediym (AUS) Starcraft (NZ) Choisir (AUS) Kingmambo (USA) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Encosta de Lago (AUS) Flying Spur (AUS) Starcraft (NZ) Don Eduardo (NZ) Flying Spur (AUS)

Sing Hallelujah (AUS) Accessories (GB) Fairy Godmother (GB) Plum Fairy (GB) Catshaan (AUS) Show Of Force (AUS) Sacred Habit (NZ) Helsinge (AUS) Accessories (GB) Bohemian Blues (NZ) Action Annie (AUS) Heartache (NZ) Capri Blue (AUS) Ravenswood (AUS) Wildesong (AUS) Hint Of Glory (AUS) Chouette (AUS) St Katherine (AUS) Star Of Amarissa (USA) Palace Glow (AUS) Athenri (NZ) Stellar Fille (AUS) Pimpinella (AUS) Zirna (NZ) Prefer An Angel (NZ) Fairy Godmother (GB) Crowned Glory (AUS) Monsoon Wedding (AUS) Jade Diva (AUS) Chickens (AUS) Visual Emotion (USA) Sorrento (NZ)

trailed home in 11th behind Sacred Choice, whose jockey, Tim Clark, completed a Group 1 double in the following race, the Galaxy Stakes, aboard Atomic Force.

Darley has enjoyed an outstanding Sydney Autumn Carnival with their twoyear-olds and, after Sepoy had begun April by carrying off the world’s richest juvenile prize, the Golden Slipper, Helmet put his starting stalls problems behind him with victories in both the Sires’ Produce Stakes and the Champagne Stakes. Kerrin McEvoy, who did well to sit a violent swerve in the Champagne, was the winning 4 4 3 5 5 4 4 4 5

C F C H G C C C H

Lode (USA) Fahim (GB) Northern Afleet (USA) Suspicious Mind (BRZ) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Durban Thunder (BRZ) Pure Prize (USA) Signal Tap (USA) Confidential Talk (USA)

beaten in a maiden on his only previous start, gave trainer Alfredo Gaitan Dassie a third consecutive win in the Gran Premio Raul y Raul Chevalier, while Come Into showed good battling qualities to lift the Gran Premio Eliseo Ramirez.

Is It True (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Fairy King (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Catrail (USA) Luskin Star (AUS) Sir Tristram Desert Sun (GB) Singspiel (IRE) Blues Traveller (IRE) Anabaa (USA) Casual Lies (USA) Bluebird (USA) Woodman (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA) Honour And Glory (USA) Dolphin Street (FR) Barathea (IRE) Assert Palace Music (USA) Zabeel (NZ) Filante (NZ) Flying Spur (AUS) Deputy Governor (USA) Mi Preferido (USA) Fairy King (USA) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Jade Robbery (USA) Danehill (USA) Silver Deputy (CAN) Just A Dancer (NZ)My

jockey on each occasion.

But within 90 minutes of that race he was carted off to hospital with concussion following a fall in a Sydney Cup won by Stand To Gain – a 105,000-guinea Tattersalls Newmarket purchase out of David Smaga’s yard for trainer Chris Waller.

This capped a remarkable half-hour for Waller, as he had landed the previous race, the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, appropriately with a horse bred and formerly owned by the Queen, the 2010 Wolferton Handicap third My Kingdom Of Fife, who denied Sacred Choice by three-quarters of a length.

Cirandinha (ARG) Voile d'Or (BRZ) Paradise Queen (BRZ) Esperta Demais (BRZ) Miss Fort Knox (USA) Glorious Magee (BRZ) Salve Salve (ARG) Namoradinha (BRZ) Duda Desejada (BRZ)

Ibero (ARG) Effervescing (USA) Royal Academy (USA) Stuka (USA) Quiet American (USA) Spend A Buck (USA) Lode (USA) Royal Academy (USA) Punk (ARG)

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G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

G. P. Presidente Fabio da Silva Prado Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara Grand Premio Derby Paranaense P. A Breque Espinosa y A Breque Venegas Grande Premio Mario Azevedo Ribeiro Grande Premio Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima Premio Juan Cavieres Mella

There is little between the top threeyear-olds in Rio de Janeiro. The Lode colt Cisne Branco remains unbeaten, though his jockey, Marcos Mazini, was Hong Kong 25/04 G1

Japan 01/05 24/04 10/04 30/04 23/04 16/04 09/04 09/04 03/04 02/04 24/04 23/04 10/04 03/04 02/04

G1 G1 G1 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G2 G3 G3 G3 G3 G3

New Zealand G1 16/04 G1 09/04 G2 30/04 G2 02/04 G3 30/04 G3 23/04 G3 09/04 G3 02/04

Land Pride Easter Handicap Stewart Browne NZ TB Breeders' Stakes Travis Stakes Lawnmaster Awapuni Gold Cup Windsor Park Stud Breeders Stakes Tumu ITM Hawke's Bay Gold Cup Christchurch Casino Easter Cup The Oaks Stud Manawatu Classic

Veyron made it seven wins from his last eight races with a highly popular three-length success in the Easter Handicap. A first top-level triumph for Peru 09/04

G3

South Africa G1 12/04 G2 02/04 G2 02/04 G3 24/04 G3 24/04 G3 24/04 G3 23/04 G3 09/04 G3 09/04 G3 02/04

Xtension (IRE)

to Ambitious Dragon in the Hong Kong Derby in March of this year, got his moment in the sun when beating British 16.0f 10.0f 8.0f 12.0f 10.0f 8.0f 7.0f 8.0f 10.0f 12.0f 9.0f 9.0f 9.0f 8.0f 9.0f

Hiruno D'amour (JPN) Orfevre (JPN) Marcellina (JPN) Win Variation (JPN) Bouncy Tune (JPN) Silport (JPN) Curren Chan (JPN) Eishin Osman (JPN) Hiruno D'amour (JPN) To The Glory (JPN) Gold Blitz (JPN) Fumino Imagine (JPN) Testa Matta (USA) Blitzen (JPN) Lady Alba Rosa (JPN)

Orfevre is bred to be good (he is a brother to three-time Grade 1 winner and £5 million-earner Dream Journey) and lived up to his parentage in the 2,000 Guineas, moved to Tokyo from 8.0f 8.0f 10.0f 10.0f 6.0f 11.0f 8.0f 10.0f

Veyron (NZ) Barinka (NZ) Scarlett Lady (NZ) Hold It Harvey (AUS) Hammer Down (NZ) Don Domingo (NZ) El Chico (NZ) Starcheeka (AUS)

journeyman jockey Rogan Norvall, who was born in South Africa 35 years ago, it was only the second for his trainer, Linda Laing, the other being the 1987

4 5 4 3 3 3 3

F M C C C F F

Grand Slam (USA) Roi Normand (USA) Wild Event (USA) Tumblebrutus (USA) Public Purse (USA) Public Purse (USA) Morning Raider (IRE)

Secret World (ARG) Fit To Fly (BRZ) Pega Rapaz (BRZ) Mitsha (CHI) Extra News (USA) Boa E Bela (BRZ) Just Fine (CHI)

behind in third, and she had finished in front of Perichole in earlier legs of the fillies Triple Crown.

Remaining against her own sex, 4

C

Xaar (GB)

4 3 3 3 3 6 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 4

C C F C F H F C C C C M H H F

Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) Deep Impact (JPN) Heart's Cry (JPN) Stay Gold (JPN) White Muzzle (GB) Kurofune (USA) Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) Manhattan Cafe (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN) Special Week (JPN) Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Tapit (USA) Special Week (JPN) King Kamehameha (JPN)

G M F G G G G G

Thorn Park (AUS) Shinko King (IRE) Savabeel (AUS) King Cugat (USA) O'Reilly (NZ) Don Eduardo (NZ) Stravinsky (USA) Starcraft (NZ)

Lammtarra (USA) Mejiro McQueen (JPN) Marju (IRE) Storm Bird (CAN) Tony Bin Sunday Silence (USA) Tony Bin Luhuk (USA) Lammtarra (USA) Sunday Silence (USA) Seeking The Gold (USA) Dixieland Band (USA) Concern (USA) Caerleon (USA) Tejano Run (USA)

Another likely type on breeding, Marcellina, from the first crop of Deep Impact and out of 2004 Prix d’Astarte winner Marbye, made it three wins from four starts in the 1,000 Guineas.

Over The Limit (NZ) Hay Barlu (NZ) On Call (NZ) Daly Charm (AUS) Our Prized Rose (NZ) Blue Heaven (NZ) Las Chicas Buenas (NZ) Born A Star (AUS)

Brisbane Cup with Veyron’s grandam Limitless.

Barinka, who is approaching her seventh birthday, broke her Group 1

Grand Lodge (USA)

for the Queen Anne Stakes, but unfortunately injury put paid to that ambitious plan.

Share Elegance (JPN) Oriental Art (JPN) Marbye (IRE) Super Ballerina (CAN) Reinforced (JPN) Speranza (JPN) Spring Ticket (JPN) Guernika (ARG) Share Elegance (JPN) To the Victory (JPN) Lady Blond (USA) Shinko Imagine (USA) Difficult (USA) Lady Strawberry (IRE) One For Rose (CAN)

earthquake-stricken Nakayama. He drew three lengths clear in the final furlong and, given that this race is run over ten furlongs, the extra trip of the Derby looks well within his compass.

6 7 4 7 4 7 7 4

Perichole improved two places on her two earlier Triple Crown performances, though she took a long time to overhaul leg one winner Olympic Message.

Great Joy (IRE)

raider Presvis into sixth place in landing the Champions Mile. He was subsequently due to go to Royal Ascot

Careafolie Ghadeer (FR) Music Prospector (USA) Malek (CHI) Forty Niner (USA) Ghadeer (FR) Doneraile Court (USA)

Centro (NZ) Hey Baba Riba (NZ) Ironclad (NZ) Best Western (AUS) Prized (USA) Centaine (AUS) Classic Fame (USA) Canny Lad (AUS)

duck in the Breeders Stakes but could manage only fourth to Scarlett Lady when stepped up to ten furlongs in the Group 2 Travis Stakes a fortnight later.

Clasico Miguel A Checa Eguiguren

9.5f

Salustino (USA)

5

H

Devil His Due (USA)

Sincere (USA)

Holy Bull (USA)

L Jaffee Empress Club Stakes Colorado King Stakes Senor Santa Handicap Godolphin Barb Stakes Poinsettia Stakes Strelitzia Stakes Tekkie Town Winter Guineas Independent on Sat. Umzimkhulu Stakes Independent on Sat. Byerley Turk Plate Sycamore Sprint

8.0f 10.0f 5.5f 5.0f 6.0f 5.0f 8.0f 7.0f 7.0f 5.5f

Dancewiththedevil (SAF) Captain's Wild (SAF) Polar Moon (SAF) Hard Rock (SAF) Headstrong (IRE) She's A Stunner (SAF) Castlethorpe (AUS) Beach Beauty (SAF) Phantom Fighter (SAF) Give Me Five (SAF)

5 5 5 3 5 3 4 4 4 5

M G G C M F C F G M

Modus Vivendi (GB) Captain Al (SAF) Victory Moon (SAF) National Emblem (SAF) Pivotal (GB) Toreador (IRE) Not A Single Doubt (AUS) Dynasty (SAF) Jet Master (SAF) Goldkeeper (USA)

Emperor's Dance (SAF) Wild Deb (SAF) Polar Art (SAF) Queen of Rubies (SAF) Rash (GB) Little Stunner (SAF) Park Heiress (IRE) Sun Coast (SAF) Fine Feather (SAF) Dance Celebre (SAF)

Caesour (USA) Esplendor (ARG) Western Winter (USA) Dominion Royale Pursuit of Love (GB) Al Mufti (USA) Sadler's Wells (USA) Capture Him (USA) Best By Test (USA) Jallad (USA)

Owner-trainer-breeder St John Gray kept Mike de Kock at bay when United States G1 16/04 G1 16/04 G1 15/04 G1 15/04 G1 14/04 G1 09/04 G1 09/04 G1 09/04 G1 03/04 G2 29/04 G2 23/04 G2 17/04 G2 17/04

8.0f

Tenno Sho (Spring Emperor's Cup) Satsuki Sho (2000 Guineas) Oka Sho (1000 Guineas) TV Tokyo Hai Aoba Sho (Derby Trial) Sankei Sports Sho Flora Tokubetsu Yomiuri Milers Cup Sankeisports Hai Hanshin Himba Tokubetsu New Zealand Trophy Sankei Osaka Hai Nikkei Sho Antares Stakes Fukushima Himba Stakes March Stakes Lord Derby Challenge Trophy Laurel R.C. Sho Nakayama Himba Stakes

Hiruno d’Amour is a progressive fouryear-old so, despite odds of 16-1, it was no great shock when he overcame last year’s Derby winner Eishin Flash by half a length in the Tenno Sho (Spring).

Pura Classe (BRZ) Time To Fly (BRZ) Ultrapassando (BRZ) Gran Gallego (CHI) Villeron (BRZ) Fusili (BRZ) Amani (CHI)

possibly a little over confident as he got up on the line to beat Anakin by a nose in the final leg of the Rio Triple Crown.

The filly, Hunka Hunka, was close

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The one-time Clive Cox-trained Xtension, who was fourth to Makfi in the 2010 2,000 Guineas and runner-up

10.0f 10.0f 11.0f 6.5f 7.0f 7.0f 6.5f

Arkansas Derby Toyota Blue Grass Stakes Maker's Mark Mile Stakes Apple Blossom Handicap Vinery Madison Stakes Central Bank Ashland Stakes Carter Handicap Resorts World NY Casino Wood Memorial Florida Derby Elkhorn Stakes Jerome Stakes San Juan Capistrano Invitational Hcp Beaumont Stakes

Dancewiththedevil followed up her runaway Horse Chestnut Stakes win 9.0f 9.0f 8.0f 8.5f 7.0f 8.5f 7.0f 9.0f 9.0f 12.0f 8.0f 14.0f 7.0f

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Archarcharch (USA) Brilliant Speed (USA) Get Stormy (USA) Havre de Grace (USA) Shotgun Gulch (USA) Lilacs And Lace (USA) Morning Line (USA) Toby's Corner (USA) Dialed In (USA) Musketier (GER) Adios Charlie (USA) Juniper Pass (USA) Turbulent Descent (USA)

with an equally authoritative success in the Empress Club Stakes. The next five 3 3 5 4 4 3 4 3 3 9 3 4 3

C C H F F F C C C H C C F

Arch (USA) Dynaformer (USA) Stormy Atlantic (USA) Saint Liam (USA) Thunder Gulch (USA) Flower Alley (USA) Tiznow (USA) Bellamy Road (USA) Mineshaft (USA) Acatenango (GER) Indian Charlie (USA) Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Congrats (USA)

home were all trained by de Kock, led by the British-bred filly Welwitschia.

Woodman's Dancer (USA) Speed Succeeds (USA) Foolish Gal (USA) Easter Bunnette (USA) Rosieville (USA) Refinement (USA) Indian Snow (USA) Brandon's Ride (USA) Miss Doolittle (USA) Myth And Reality (GB) Teak Totem (USA) Child Bride (USA) Roger's Sue (USA)

Woodman (USA) Gone West (USA) Kiri's Clown (USA) Carson City (USA) Boston Harbor (USA) Seattle Slew (USA) A P Indy (USA) Mister Frisky (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Linamix (FR) Northern Afleet (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA) Forestry (USA)

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DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY WORLDWIDE GROUP OR GRADED STAKES WINNER

Global Stakes Results >>

Date Grade Race United States (cont) G2 16/04 Commonwealth Stakes G2 16/04 Santa Barbara Handicap G2 16/04 Jenny Wiley Stakes G2 16/04 Distaff Handicap G2 10/04 Fantasy Stakes G2 09/04 Providencia Stakes G2 09/04 Arcadia Stakes G2 09/04 Oaklawn Handicap G2 03/04 Potrero Grande Stakes G2 03/04 Swale Stakes G2 02/04 Gulfstream Oaks G2 26/03 Fair Grounds Oaks G3 30/04 Westchester Stakes G3 30/04 Wilshire Handicap G3 30/04 The Cliff's Edge Derby Trial Stakes G3 30/04 San Francisco Mile Stakes G3 30/04 Miami Mile Handicap G3 28/04 Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes G3 24/04 Inglewood Handicap G3 23/04 Coolmore Lexington Stakes G3 23/04 Ben Ali Stakes G3 23/04 Texas Mile Stakes G3 22/04 Hillard Lyons Doubledogdare Stakes G3 21/04 Appalachian Stakes G3 16/04 Charles Town Classic Stakes G3 16/04 San Simeon Handicap G3 16/04 Shakertown Stakes G3 14/04 Count Fleet Handicap G3 09/04 Comely Stakes G3 09/04 Bay Shore Stakes G3 09/04 TVG Illinois Derby G3 09/04 Las Cienegas Handicap G3 08/04 Transylvania Stakes G3 03/04 Emirates Airlines Appleton Stakes G3 03/04 Skip Away Stakes G3 02/04 Rampart Stakes G3 02/04 Excelsior Stakes

The build-up to the Kentucky Derby, won by Animal Kingdon at Churchill Downs on May 7, was a confusing period. In fact, in the key four-week period to mid-April, the favourite was beaten in every single major Derby prep race contested around two turns. The biggest shock came in the Wood Memorial Stakes as the previously unbeaten Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Uncle Mo made the running as usual, only to empty alarmingly in the closing stages to be beaten just over a length by Toby’s Corner. It later transpired that the two-year-old champion has been suffering from gastrointestinal tract infection. He missed the Kentucky Derby, as did

Dist

Horse

7.0f 10.0f 8.5f 7.0f 8.5f 9.0f 8.0f 9.0f 6.5f 7.0f 9.0f 8.5f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 8.0f 12.0f 8.5f 8.5f 9.0f 8.0f 8.5f 8.0f 9.0f 6.5f 5.5f 6.0f 8.0f 7.0f 9.0f 6.5f 8.5f 8.0f 9.5f 9.0f 9.0f

Aikenite (USA) Malibu Pier (USA) Never Retreat (USA) Nicole H (USA) Joyful Victory (CAN) Cambina (IRE) Liberian Freighter (USA) Win Willy (USA) Amazombie (USA) Travelin Man (USA) R Heat Lightning (USA) Daisy Devine (USA) Caixa Eletronica (USA) Dubawi Heights (GB) Machen (USA) Our Nautique (NZ) Successful Mission (USA) Keertana (USA) Liberian Freighter (USA) Derby Kitten (USA) Exhi (USA) Thiskyhasnolimit (USA) Embur's Song (CAN) Winter Memories (USA) Duke of Mischief (USA) Regally Ready (USA) Stratford Hill (USA) Smiling Tiger (USA) Hot Summer (USA) J J's Lucky Train (USA) Joe Vann (USA) Separate Forest (USA) Air Support (USA) Little Mike (USA) S S Stone (USA) Awesome Maria (USA) Inherit The Gold (USA)

Toby’s Corner, a stablemate of Animal Kingdom, trained by Graham Motion, who featured in last month’s issue as part of the interview with Team Valor’s Barry Irwin.

The most impressive trial winner was Dialed In, who overcame a speedfavouring track to come from miles back and pip Shackleford in the Florida Derby. Dialed In was to start favourite for the Derby – of which much more next month – but was to manage only eighth.

Owner-breeder Charlotte Weber of Live Oak Stud, Ocala, Florida, unearthed a potential replacement after her flagbearer, To Honor And Serve, could manage only a distant third in the

Age

Sex

4 4 6 4 3 3 6 5 5 3 3 3 6 4 3 6 5 5 6 3 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 4 3 4 5 4 5

C F M F F F G H H C F F H F C G H M G C C C F F H C C C F C C F C G H F G

Sire

Dam

Broodmare Sire

Yes It's True (USA) Malibu Moon (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Mr Greeley (USA) Tapit (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Bertrando (USA) Monarchos (USA) Northern Afleet (USA) Trippi (USA) Trippi (USA) Kafwain (USA) Arromanches (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Distorted Humor (USA) Pins (AUS) Successful Appeal (USA) Johar (USA) Bertrando (USA) Kitten's Joy (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) Sky Mesa (USA) Unbridled's Song (USA) El Prado (IRE) Graeme Hall (USA) More Than Ready (USA) A P Indy (USA) Hold That Tiger (USA) Malibu Moon (USA) Silver Train (USA) Silver Deputy (CAN) Forestry (USA) Smart Strike (CAN) Spanish Steps (USA) Birdstone (USA) Maria's Mon (USA) Gold Token (USA)

Silverlado (USA) Blue Moon (FR) Lisieux (USA) Hot Chipotle (USA) Wild Lucy Black (USA) Await (IRE) Anachristina (USA) City Fair (USA) Wilshe Amaze (USA) West Side Dancer (USA) Yellow Heat (USA) Devil's Dispute (USA) Edyta (USA) Rosie's Posy (IRE) Ready's Gal (USA) French Tide (CAN) Ava Knowsthecode (USA) Motokiks (USA) Anachristina (USA) Blush (USA) Soldera (USA) Lovely Regina (USA) Embur Sunshine (CAN) Memories of Silver (USA) My Lady Amelia (USA) Kivi (USA) Harmony Lodge (USA) Shandra Smiles (USA) Summer Delight (USA) Delta Sensation (USA) Polish Flower (USA) Separata (CHI) Gaze (USA) Hay Jude (USA) Sing And Swing (CAN) Discreetly Awesome (USA) Melissa's Sunshine (USA)

Saint Ballado (CAN) Lomitas (GB) Steady Growth (CAN) Victory Gallop (CAN) Wild Again (USA) Peintre Celebre (USA) Slewpy (USA) Carson City (USA) In Excess Gone West (USA) Gold Fever (USA) Devil's Bag (USA) Skip Away (USA) Suave Dancer (USA) More Than Ready (USA) Dauphin Fabuleux (CAN) Cryptoclearance (USA) Storm Cat (USA) Slewpy (USA) Menifee (USA) Polish Numbers (USA) Deputy Minister (CAN) Bold Ruckus (USA) Silver Hawk (USA) Real Courage (USA) King of Kings (IRE) Hennessy (USA) Cahill Road (USA) Quiet American (USA) Thunder Gulch (USA) Danzig (USA) Sam M (USA) Danzig (USA) Wavering Monarch (USA) Dixieland Band (USA) Awesome Again (CAN) Personal Flag (USA)

Florida Derby, when Brilliant Speed also came from last to lift the Blue Grass Stakes. He too, went on to the main event, finishing seventh to Animal Kingdom.

Archarcharch gave his 70-year-old trainer Jinks Fires a thrill when defying odds of 25-1 in the Arkansas Derby, although the fast-improving runner-up, Nehro, who was also second in the Louisiana Derby, took some of the plaudits and went on to prove them spot-on with an excellent runner-up effort in the Derby, in which Archarcharch was 15th of the 19 runners.

There was an even bigger surprise in the three-year-old fillies’ division as the

49-1 chance Lilacs And Lace made all to take the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland.

Havre de Grace looks a potential champion older filly. Even before the Apple Blossom Handicap she could already boast a recent verdict over Blind Luck and she added another notable scalp when coasting home in front of the dual Grade 1 scorer Switch.

Morning Line put near misses in both the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and the Donn Handicap behind him when taking the Carter Handicap, while Get Stormy and Shotgun Gulch both enjoyed their inaugural Grade 1 wins in the Maker’s Mark Mile and the Vinery Madison Stakes respectively.

Leading global sires by stakes winners Horse

Born

Sire

Stands/Stood

Encosta de Lago (AUS) More Than Ready (USA) Redoute’s Choice (AUS) Exceed And Excel (AUS) Galileo (IRE) Northern Afleet (USA) Indian Charlie (USA) Flying Spur (AUS) Street Cry (IRE) Harlan’s Holiday (USA) Wild Event (USA) O’Reilly (NZ) Dubawi (IRE) Captain Al (SAF) Western Winter (USA) Lonhro (AUS) Pins (AUS) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) Smart Strike (CAN) Thunder Gulch (USA) King Kamehameha (JPN)

1993 1997 1996 2000 1998 1993 1995 1992 1998 1999 1993 1993 2002 1996 1992 1998 1996 1999 1992 1992 2001

Fairy King (USA) Southern Halo (USA) Danehill (USA) Danehill (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Afleet (CAN) In Excess Danehill (USA) Machiavellian (USA) Harlan (USA) Wild Again (USA) Last Tycoon Dubai Millennium (GB) Al Mufti (USA) Gone West (USA) Octagonal (NZ) Snippets (AUS) Danehill (USA) Mr Prospector (USA) Gulch (USA) Kingmambo (USA)

AUS IRE USA AUS AUS AUS IRE IRE AUS USA USA AUS USA AUS USA USA BRZ NZ UK AUS SAF SAF AUS NZ IRE AUS USA USA AUS JPN

BTH BTW GH GW 23 22 18 17 19 8 10 15 15 12 9 7 11 11 7 14 11 16 12 7 14

12 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

12 10 14 8 13 3 8 7 8 5 6 6 6 5 4 8 6 5 6 4 10

8 4 7 2 4 3 3 4 4 3 5 5 2 2 4 3 3 1 4 2 4

BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

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The Australian effect continues to exert its influence, with the top four all based there. In truth there hasn’t been much change over the last month, with Encosta de Lago asserting his position thanks to another nine Black Type Horses and three Black Type Winners.

More Than Ready and Redoute’s Choice also had three BTWs, and Galileo added seven BTHs. In contrast – and nothing should be read into this – Harlan’s Holiday and Street Cry failed to add to their BTW tally, and the same applies to Giant’s Causeway, who temporarily no longer figures in the list.

Two interesting arrivals are Dubawi and Pins, one well known in the northern hemisphere, the other less so.

Dubawi had three BTWs in three

countries plus 2,000 Guineas runnerup Dubawi Gold. Given his rate of progress he will surely figure more as the season goes on.

Based at Waikato Stud at NZ$40,000, Pins was a Group 1 winner at a mile and a quarter and is responsible for 38 stakes winners, including eight in Group 1s led by champion filly Katie Lee, Cox Plate winner El Segundo and Ambitious Dragon, successful in the Hong Kong Derby and Queen Elizabeth II Cup this year. Ambitious Dragon is high-class and it will be fascinating to see whether he gets the chance to do some globetrotting. Be that as it may, Pins’s percentage of stakes winners to runners is 7.4%, a creditable score.

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DATA BOOK EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN STALLION STATS

Leading Flat sires 2011 by earnings Name

YOF

Galileo Danehill Dancer Verglas Kingsalsa Slickly Dansili Dubawi Oasis Dream Invincible Spirit Muhtathir Oratorio Elusive City Diktat Hawk Wing Montjeu High Chaparral Shamardal One Cool Cat Singspiel Anabaa Blue Tiger Hill Refuse To Bend Dynaformer High Yield Fasliyev Footstepsinthesand Pivotal Blu Air Force

1998 1993 1994 1996 1996 1996 2002 2000 1997 1995 2002 2000 1995 1999 1996 1999 2002 2001 1992 1998 1995 2000 1985 1997 1997 2002 1993 1997 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Dubai Destination 1999 Rock Of Gibraltar 1999 Sinndar 1997 Dalakhani 2000 King's Best 1997 Indian Rocket 1994 Selkirk 1988 Azamour 2001 Cape Cross 1994 Panis 1998 Fantastic Light 1996 Numerous 1991 Monsun 1990 Beat Hollow 1997 Dr Devious 1989 Aussie Rules 2003 Iffraaj 2001 Hurricane Run 2002 Enrique 1996 Orpen 1996 Gold Away 1995 Medicean 1997 Shirocco 2001 Take Risks 1989 Pastoral Pursuits 2001

Sire

Rnrs

Wnrs

%WR

Races

AWD

Earnings (£)

Sadler's Wells Danehill Highest Honor Kingmambo Linamix Danehill Dubai Millennium Green Desert Green Desert Elmaamul Danehill Elusive Quality Warning Woodman Sadler's Wells Sadler's Wells Giant's Causeway Storm Cat In The Wings Anabaa Danehill Sadler's Wells Roberto Storm Cat Nureyev Giant's Causeway Polar Falcon Sri Pekan Danehill Kingmambo Danehill Grand Lodge Darshaan Kingmambo Indian Ridge Sharpen Up Night Shift Green Desert Miswaki Rahy Mr Prospector Konigsstuhl Sadler's Wells Ahonoora Danehill Zafonic Montjeu Barathea Lure Goldneyev Machiavellian Monsun Highest Honor Bahamian Bounty

106 100 135 97 76 102 74 106 137 77 108 78 94 104 88 91 66 93 62 63 90 87 17 56 84 66 99 67 55 94 84 58 57 90 44 60 40 96 55 47 64 53 67 65 44 39 52 66 81 48 89 46 34 28

24 25 33 26 21 26 23 31 30 21 23 21 22 29 21 20 20 25 16 16 21 25 6 17 25 19 21 28 12 21 17 13 11 18 10 16 12 19 8 16 10 13 24 22 13 10 15 12 15 10 21 12 9 6

22.6 25.0 24.4 26.8 27.6 25.5 31.1 29.3 21.9 27.3 21.3 26.9 23.4 27.9 23.9 22.0 30.3 26.9 25.8 25.4 23.3 28.7 35.3 30.4 29.8 28.8 21.2 41.8 21.8 22.3 20.2 22.4 19.3 20.0 22.7 26.7 30.0 19.8 14.6 34.0 15.6 24.5 35.8 33.9 29.6 25.6 28.9 18.2 18.5 20.8 23.6 26.1 26.5 21.4

27 32 42 28 26 35 25 38 39 26 28 32 27 38 23 24 22 39 22 19 25 29 6 22 32 24 24 36 23 24 21 20 16 19 13 17 13 22 12 24 11 14 30 30 14 13 16 12 19 10 26 12 9 7

10.4 8.7 8.4 8.8 9.9 9.9 8.3 7.4 7.3 9.6 8.5 7.5 8.3 9.6 11.5 10.5 8.4 7.9 10.6 9.4 10.2 8.9 10.1 9.1 7.5 7.9 8.2 7.1 7.9 9.4 8.6 11.3 10.1 9.3 6.9 8.8 9.4 9.1 7.7 9.6 11.2 10.6 10.2 8.7 9.1 7.1 10.3 10.4 7.4 9.8 8.9 10.0 10.2 8.4

584,459 464,641 451,856 442,526 438,110 425,295 404,155 387,112 379,684 347,205 339,839 329,878 325,356 318,854 313,496 310,595 308,890 300,767 292,549 290,468 288,522 278,744 267,856 264,981 261,492 257,655 256,458 248,309 243,952 243,765 240,637 238,259 237,594 232,085 231,249 227,055 226,271 225,798 220,015 214,634 211,262 210,085 209,128 208,331 205,019 203,604 199,965 199,137 198,660 194,679 192,700 190,022 189,887 189,776

SH

%

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

5.7 5.0 0.7 1.0 2.6 6.9 8.1 8.5 2.9 0.0 0.9 3.9 3.2 1.9 8.0 2.2 9.1 2.2 6.5 0.0 4.4 1.2 11.8 0.0 1.2 4.6 4.0 3.0 3.6 1.1 4.8 5.2 7.0 0.0 4.6 8.3 10.0 2.1 0.0 2.1 4.7 11.3 1.5 1.5 11.4 5.1 5.8 0.0 1.2 2.1 1.1 2.2 0.0 3.6

SW

%

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

1.9 2.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 3.9 4.1 3.8 0.7 0.0 0.9 3.9 1.1 1.0 2.3 1.1 4.6 1.1 6.5 0.0 2.2 0.0 5.9 0.0 1.2 1.5 1.0 0.0 3.6 0.0 3.6 1.7 5.3 0.0 0.0 3.3 7.5 1.0 0.0 2.1 0.0 5.7 0.0 1.5 4.6 2.6 1.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.1 2.2 0.0 0.0

Leading sires of two-year-olds 2011 by earnings Name

*Dark Angel Indian Rocket Whipper Kheleyf *Excellent Art *Dutch Art Dubai Destination Footstepsinthesand Dansili Country Reel

YOF

2005 1994 2001 2001 2004 2004 1999 2002 1996 2000 Holy Roman Emperor 2004 Gold Away 1995 *Red Clubs 2003 Invincible Spirit 1997 Kyllachy 1998 Bertolini 1996 Elusive City 2000 Antonius Pius 2001 Tiger Hill 1995 One Cool Cat 2001 Acclamation 1999 Nombre Premier 1994 Tiznow 1997 *Teofilo 2004 Verglas 1994 *Cockney Rebel 2004 Intikhab 1994 Panis 1998 Le Vie Dei Colori 2000 Layman 2002

Sire

Acclamation Indian Ridge Miesque's Son Green Desert Pivotal Medicean Kingmambo Giant's Causeway Danehill Danzig Danehill Goldneyev Red Ransom Green Desert Pivotal Danzig Elusive Quality Danzig Danehill Storm Cat Royal Applause Kendor Cee's Tizzy Galileo Highest Honor Val Royal Red Ransom Miswaki Efisio Sunday Silence

Rnrs

Wnrs

14 7 6 7 5 9 4 5 2 3 16 6 16 3 9 9 7 7 4 8 7 1 1 2 6 4 2 5 2 3

6 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 1 3 1 1 0 1 1

%WR

42.9 28.6 33.3 28.6 40.0 33.3 25.0 40.0 100.0 66.7 6.3 16.7 12.5 66.7 33.3 11.1 14.3 14.3 0.0 25.0 28.6 100.0 100.0 50.0 50.0 25.0 50.0 0.0 50.0 33.3

Races

AWD

7 2 2 3 2 5 2 2 2 2 1 1 3 2 3 1 1 2 0 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 0 1 1

5.0 5.1 4.8 5.0 6.0 5.0 4.8 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.1 5.3 5.0 4.5 5.2 5.3 0.0 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 6.0 5.2 5.0 5.0 0.0 5.0 5.5

Earnings (£)

33,985 26,637 26,420 24,850 23,189 23,022 22,844 21,578 21,155 20,043 19,897 17,586 16,583 16,336 15,744 14,674 13,186 12,072 11,985 11,866 11,504 11,206 10,344 10,112 10,095 9,645 9,119 8,922 8,788 8,448

Top horse

Tough As Nails Chope Star Whip Rule Pinodeipalazzi Raphael Santi Miss Work Of Art Family One Skadar Lake Requinto Dont Teutch Ishvana Louve Rouge Jack Who's He Gold Lace Noble Hachy Picante Magic City Maria Pius Pearl Of Grace He's So Cool Lilbourne Lad Latifolie Tiz Terrific Parish Hall Silverheels Cockney Fire Sweet Chilli Khanbaligh Abruzzo Nel Cuore Farasha

Galileo leads but Blu Air Force also flying Thanks mainly to the brilliant 2,000 Guineas success of Frankel, Galileo has wasted no time in assuming his accustomed position at the head of the table. He leads from another Coolmore stallion, Danehill Dancer, whose son Planteur triumphed in the Prix Ganay.

So it’s much as usual so far, though for once the numbers game is not being ‘won’ by Coolmore. Two representing the Irish National Stud, Invincible Spirit (137) and Verglas (135) – the latter sadly passed away in May at the age of 17 – have both had more runners than any others in the table.

In terms of stakes winners, Juddmonte sires are doing well, with Dansili and Oasis Dream both having four on the scoresheet, a figure matched by the late lamented Singspiel.

Predictably, Dubawi is doing handsomely in percentages, with 23 winners from 74 runners (31%), but even that can’t match Blu Air Force’s tally.

Based at Azienda Agricola Luciani, this sire has appeared in these notes before. He does not get many horses who earn a rating of 100+ but he does get winners, and with 28 from 67, or nearly 42%, Blu Air Force is out on his own at this stage.

Dark Angel will take some pegging back Earned (£)

10,216 9,655 10,707 10,344 11,853 10,148 22,845 10,345 12,233 12,802 11,009 13,362 8,419 10,733 8,620 11,034 7,283 8,189 7,241 6,885 3,432 11,207 10,345 10,112 3,238 8,312 4,976 5,302 8,620 6,034

Dark Angel, who was retired to Morristown Lattin after just one season on the track, in which he won four times, highlighted by the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, has ideal credentials for a stallion likely to make a mark with his first crop.

His racing profile is right, his pedigree is right – he is by Acclamation, a notable success with his two-year-olds – and he has the ammunition, with nearly 90 foals from a book of 114.

Dark Angel’s progeny look the part too, having sold well at auction last year, and while Dutch Art and Excellent Art have made a promising enough start, Dark Angel is the star, zooming along with six winners from 14 runners.

It is early days but Dark Angel could take some catching numerically.

Statistics to May 1; first-season sire*

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DATA BOOK OVERSEAS STAKES RESULTS WINNERS Breeder Appleby Lodge Stud Aston House Stud Aston House Stud Aston House Stud Aston Mullins Stud Ballybrennan Stud Ltd Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballygallon Stud Limited Ballykilbride Stud Ballykilbride Stud Barnett Ltd, W and R Barnett Ltd, W and R Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Barronstown Stud Barronstown Stud Barton Stud Partnership Bearstone Stud Biddestone Stud Black Horse Farm Bolton Grange Bricklow Ltd Brownstown Stud Partnership Buckley & Tower Bloodstock, K Buckley, Sir R J Buerkle, D Burke, Mr J Burke, Mr J Byrne, P Byrne P, Eimear Mulhern & B Grassick Callanan, Mr M J G Cantillon & Mr E Cantillon, Mr D Carradale Castlemartin Stud & Skymarc Farm Ceka Ireland Limited Chapman, Mrs J A Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Chevington & Westbury Bloodstock Chevington Stud Clarke, M Cliveden Stud Ltd Coogan, M Cooke, B Cosgrove, Mrs B Cullen, K and Mrs Cullinan, J Daly, E J Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley Darley David Jamison Bloodstock David Jamison Bloodstock Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dayton Investments Ltd Dermody, J Donlon, B Ellis Stud Partnership Elsdon Farms Epona Bloodstock Ltd Erhardt, Mr J Fabre, Mrs Elisabeth Ferrand, B & N Fittocks Stud Fitzgerald, Miss A G B Bloodstock Limited Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Georgestown Stud Gleeson, Mr and Mrs L & A Glending Bloodstock Glending Bloodstock Grangecon Stud Gredley, W J Grundy Bloodstock Grundy Bloodstock Grundy Bloodstock S R L Hannon, T Hardy, Lady Hascombe & Valiant Studs Hayes, Mrs M Helshaw Grange Stud Ltd Highclere Stud Highfort Stud Hunscote House Farm Stud Iceton, D G Irish National Stud Johnson Houghton & Mrs R F Johnson Houghton, Mrs H Jones, J P Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd

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Winner Domeside (GB) Bezique (GB) Boz (GB) Belliche (GB) Dubawi Heights (GB) Black Ranger (IRE) Bearheart (IRE) Spirit Quartz (IRE) Spirit Quartz (IRE) Dule’s Dream (IRE) Calantha (IRE) Granary (GB) Granary (GB) Sir Eagles (IRE) Sir Eagles (IRE) Harry Reich (IRE) Botanique (IRE) Never The Waiter (GB) Fire Line (GB) Flying Destination (GB) Val C (GB) Parmeenion (GB) Dixlesio (IRE) Amadeus Mozart (IRE) James Joyce (IRE) Triple Plea (GB) Touch Of Roc (GB) Love Shack (IRE) Love Shack (IRE) Questi Amori (IRE) No Explaining (IRE) Beacon Hill (IRE) Mourasana (GB) Cambina (IRE) Eomer (IRE) Macho (IRE) Premium Charge (GB) Dream Stride (GB) Perica (GB) Tia Kia (IRE) Almaguer (GB) Corioliss (IRE) Labrit (GB) Alaska Tempest (IRE) Hawk Island (IRE) Nova Valorem (IRE) Young Stack (IRE) Al Rep (IRE) Stanstill (IRE) Infidelite (GB) Canadian (IRE) Donatorio (GB) Fort Belvedere (GB) Wavering (IRE) Sonbol (GB) Concordat (GB) Avongrove (GB) Grand Vent (IRE) Pine Creek (GB) Modern History (IRE) Paperchain (GB) Festival City (GB) Montgolfier (GB) Deal Breaker (GB) Prolific (IRE) Rosa Bonheur (USA) Planteur (IRE) Aizavoski (IRE) Planteur (IRE) Peinture Abstraite (GB) Sano di Pietro (GB) Palms Of Victory (IRE) Faidibiri (IRE) Lord Victor (GB) Aspasia de Mileto (GB) Calitor (IRE) Quesada (IRE) Piquetera (GB) Hail Holy Queen (IRE) Cheetah (GB) Lord Antani (IRE) Red Anthem (GB) Pentathlon (IRE) Icedance (IRE) O’Kelly Hammer (IRE) Chocapix (IRE) Mac Row (IRE) Asterrlini (IRE) Perfect Courtesy (IRE) Cima de Pluie (GB) Place In The Sun (GB) Stay Alive (IRE) One Slick Chick (IRE) Valhillen (GB) Group Captain (GB) Exhibition (IRE) Needwood Lad (GB) Salvation (GB) La Rubia (IRE) Harry Can Say (GB) Redesignation (IRE) Mister Segway (IRE) Averoo (GB) Bellaside (IRE) Caciquini (GB) Park View (GB) Canalside (GB) Glaswegian (GB)

Sire Domedriver (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Grand Lodge (USA) Halling (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) Aragorn (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) One Cool Cat (USA) Celtic Swing (GB) Singspiel (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) Diamond Green (FR) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Kyllachy (GB) Firebreak (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Beat Hollow (GB) Iffraaj (GB) Mozart (IRE) Danehill (USA) Silver Patriarch (IRE) Shirocco (GER) Holy Bull (USA) Holy Bull (USA) Choisir (AUS) Azamour (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Shirocco (GER) Hawk Wing (USA) Marju (IRE) Haafhd (GB) Footstepsinthesand (GB) Medicean (GB) Kingsalsa (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Spectrum (IRE) Verglas (IRE) Halling (USA) Ivan Denisovich (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) Ad Valorem (USA) Ad Valorem (USA) Trade Fair (GB) Statue of Liberty (USA) Diktat (GB) Tiger Hill (IRE) King’s Best (USA) King’s Best (USA) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Selkirk (USA) Tiger Hill (IRE) Shirocco (GER) Doyen (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Green Desert (USA) Monsun (GER) Night Shift (USA) Compton Place (GB) Mr Greeley (USA) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Monsun (GER) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) Daggers Drawn (USA) Pyrus (USA) Needwood Blade (GB) Hurricane Run (IRE) Marju (IRE) Peintre Celebre (USA) Oratorio (IRE) Highest Honor (FR) Tiger Hill (IRE) One Cool Cat (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Storming Home (GB) Verglas (IRE) Intikhab (USA) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Le Vie Dei Colori (GB) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) Dubai Destination (USA) Iffraaj (GB) One Cool Cat (USA) Bertolini (USA) Dr Fong (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Needwood Blade (GB) Montjeu (IRE) Barathea (IRE) Hurricane Run (IRE) Key Of Luck (USA) Dansili (GB) Averti (IRE) Le Vie Dei Colori (GB) Cacique (IRE) With Approval (CAN) Nayef (USA) Selkirk (USA)

Age/sex 5h 3f 7h 3f 4f 3c 3c 3c 3c 3f 3f 7m 7m 3c 3c 3c 3f 4c 3f 4g 4f 3c 3c 8g 8h 4f 3c 4f 4f 4c 4f 3c 3f 3f 3c 3c 4g 6h 3c 4f 9g 5h 3c 3c 6h 3c 3c 3c 5g 3f 3c 3c 3c 3f 3f 3c 3f 3c 3c 3c 3f 3c 4c 6g 5h 3f 4c 5h 4c 3f 3c 6h 5h 4c 3f 3c 3f 4f 3f 4f 3c 4c 6g 3f 3c 5m 2c 4f 7g 4c 5h 3f 5m 6g 9g 6h 5h 4f 5m 3f 6g 3c 6g 4f 3c 4f 5m 3c

Dam Buck’s Fizz (GB) Batik (IRE) Dali’s Grey (GB) Emanant (GB) Rosie’s Posy (IRE) Shoshana (IRE) Guana (FR) Crystal Gaze (IRE) Crystal Gaze (IRE) Zakiyya (USA) Maze Garden (USA) All Grain (GB) All Grain (GB) Daftiyna (IRE) Daftiyna (IRE) Arpege (IRE) Magnolia Lane (IRE) Talighta (USA) Alexander Ballet (GB) Fly For Fame (GB) Valjarv (IRE) Phi Phi (IRE) Sabaah Elfull (GB) Lindesberg (GB) Crumpetsfortea (IRE) Biscay (GB) Touch Of Class (GER) Love Spiel (CAN) Love Spiel (CAN) Light And Airy (GB) Claustra (FR) Alegranza (IRE) Mamoura (IRE) Await (IRE) Jakarta Jade (IRE) Beldon Hill (USA) Kallavesi (USA) Summer Daze (USA) Exhibitor (USA) Antioquia (GB) Cerita (IRE) Queen’s Ransom (IRE) Galette (GB) El Opera (IRE) Crimphill (IRE) Utr (USA) Benelux (GB) Swizzle (GB) Fervent Wish (GB) Loyal Love (USA) Vimy Ridge (FR) Relish (IRE) Sweet Folly (IRE) Summertime Legacy (GB) Dorrati (USA) African Peace (USA) Vituisa (GB) Housa Dancer (FR) Valley Of Gold (FR) Fatefully (USA) Papabile (USA) Harvest Festival (IRE) Velvet Lady (GB) Photo Flash (IRE) Photo Flash (IRE) Rolly Polly (IRE) Plante Rare (IRE) Arlesienne (IRE) Plante Rare (IRE) Peinture Bleue (USA) Special Delivery (IRE) Cala-Holme (IRE) Angelico (IRE) La Victoria (GER) Fabulous Speed (USA) Winning Sequence (FR) Queen Of Fire (GB) Pot Pourri (GB) Gabare (FR) Kassiyra (IRE) Suaad (IRE) Russian Rose (IRE) Nawaiet (USA) Sloats Burg (USA) Aladiyna (IRE) Lina Bella (FR) Kointreau (IRE) Alithini (IRE) Kate Maher (IRE) Grey Way (USA) Star On Stage (GB) Pursuit of Life (GB) Ms Mary C (IRE) Dancing Nelly (GB) Alusha (GB) Moonbi Ridge (IRE) Polish Girl (GB) Birdie (GB) Jamaiel (IRE) Hampton Lucy (IRE) Disregard That (IRE) Aplysia (USA) Roo (GB) Brockton Saga (IRE) Zorleni (GB) Bayswater (GB) Bayswater (GB) Starfan (USA)

Ctry Spa Ity Ity Ity Usa Ity Fr Ity Ity Ity Ity Qtr Qtr Ity Ity Ity Fr Hk Fr Qtr Qtr Ity Spa Sin Sin Fr Fr Usa Usa Ity Usa Gny Fr Usa Fr Sin Mac Jpn Ity Fr Fr Ity Spa Ity Aus Fr Ity Ity Aus Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Usa Hk Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Fr Ity Ity Mac Spa Fr Gny Fr Fr Usa Ity Fr Fr Swe Fr Fr Fr Gr Fr Ity Ity Ity Gr Gny Fr Den Aus Fr Spa Spa Fr Fr Usa Spa Gr Aus Fr Fr

Date 24/4/11 10/4/11 26/4/11 01/5/11 30/4/11 04/5/11 13/4/11 17/4/11 07/5/11 23/4/11 27/4/11 21/4/11 04/5/11 10/4/11 24/4/11 03/5/11 08/5/11 13/4/11 19/4/11 05/5/11 14/4/11 18/4/11 24/4/11 29/4/11 08/4/11 10/4/11 22/4/11 08/4/11 01/5/11 08/4/11 16/4/11 01/5/11 01/5/11 09/4/11 08/5/11 18/3/11 15/4/11 12/4/11 25/4/11 09/4/11 07/5/11 13/4/11 08/5/11 23/4/11 16/4/11 08/5/11 29/4/11 17/4/11 23/4/11 11/4/11 16/4/11 16/4/11 19/4/11 19/4/11 20/4/11 23/4/11 24/4/11 24/4/11 26/4/11 29/4/11 06/5/11 08/5/11 09/5/11 29/4/11 01/5/11 08/4/11 10/4/11 29/4/11 30/4/11 11/5/11 11/5/11 04/5/11 23/4/11 29/4/11 10/4/11 09/5/11 01/5/11 17/4/11 08/4/11 23/4/11 25/4/11 23/4/11 11/5/11 17/4/11 24/4/11 24/4/11 05/5/11 08/4/11 26/4/11 24/4/11 28/4/11 01/5/11 08/4/11 25/4/11 07/5/11 30/4/11 20/4/11 03/5/11 16/4/11 24/4/11 17/4/11 03/5/11 23/4/11 08/5/11 08/4/11 17/4/11 20/4/11 24/4/11

Racecourse Zarzuela Milan Milan Rome Hollywood Park Rome Le Croise-Laroche Rome Rome Pisa Rome Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Milan Milan Milan Senonnes-Pouance Sha Tin Cholet Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Florence Zarzuela Kranji Kranji Saint-Malo Chateaubriant Aqueduct Belmont Park Rome Keeneland Frankfurt Saint-Cloud Santa Anita Dax Kranji Taipa Kawasaki Florence Nancy Saint-Cloud Rome Zarzuela Siracusa Randwick Dax Rome Rome Oakbank Salon-De-Provence Bordeaux Le Bouscat Bordeaux Le Bouscat Longchamp Longchamp Argentan Marseille Borely Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Toulouse Fontainebleau Evreux Chantilly Golden Gate Sha Tin Saint-Cloud Longchamp Toulouse Longchamp Longchamp Longchamp Rome Pisa Taipa Zarzuela Agen Dusseldorf Nort-Sur-Erdre Saint-Cloud Keeneland Florence La Teste De Buch Longchamp Jagersro Longchamp Angers Bordeaux Le Bouscat Athens Nancy Milan Milan Rome Athens Saarbrucken Nantes Copenhagen Canterbury Maisons-Laffitte Antela Zarzuela Ajaccio Maisons-Laffitte Hollywood Park Zarzuela Athens Cranbourne Argentan Longchamp

Distance 1m2f110y 1m 1m2f 7f110y 1m 6f 1m1f 6f 6f 6f 1m 5f 6f 5f 5f 1m2f 1m2f110y 6f 1m1f110y 1m 5f 1m2f 1m1f 6f 6f 1m1f 1m1f165y 1m 1m 6f 1m 6f110y 1m2f 1m1f 1m2f110y 1m1f 6f110y 1m 7f110y 1m4f 1m2f110y 1m1f 1m2f110y 1m2f110y 1m2f 7f 1m 1m 2m2f 1m1f 1m4f 1m1f110y 1m2f 1m2f 1m4f110y 7f165y 1m3f 1m2f 1m3f 1m 7f 6f 1m4f 1m 6f 1m 1m2f 1m2f 1m2f110y 1m1f165y 1m4f 7f110y 1m3f 5f55y 1m 1m1f55y 1m 1m1f 1m 1m5f 6f 1m7f 1m7f110y 6f 1m2f 1m6f110y 5f 1m 1m4f 1m2f 7f 1m 1m1f 6f165y 1m4f 6f 7f165y 1m4f 1m 1m1f 1m4f 1m 1m 7f 1m1f 7f110y 1m1f165y 1m

Prize-money (£) 15,517 24,137 (L) 8,620 5,172 38,462 (Gr3) 6,465 6,034 8,620 34,482 (Gr3) 4,310 4,741 4,043 4,043 10,775 24,137 (L) 6,034 5,172 30,124 6,034 4,043 4,043 4,310 4,310 25,564 9,418 5,172 8,621 7,692 10,000 8,620 20,962 4,310 12,500 57,692 (Gr2) 5,172 9,418 9,364 13,420 6,034 6,897 7,759 5,172 4,310 4,310 40,327 (L) 5,172 6,465 73,275 (Gr3) 13,268 6,034 6,034 6,034 14,655 14,655 10,345 11,638 10,345 63,879 (Gr2) 12,500 23,707 (L) 10,345 6,466 12,069 9,615 54,129 10,345 63,879 (Gr2) 22,414 (L) 147,776 (Gr1) 10,345 14,655 8,620 8,620 8,472 20,690 5,172 10,345 (L) 3,017 12,069 19,615 4,310 7,328 10,345 4,789 9,052 4,310 7,759 4,091 5,603 34,482 (G3) 4,741 73,275 (Gr3) 6,797 5,172 5,172 5,760 11,471 20,259 5,172 4,310 4,310 7,759 14,615 12,931 7,929 5,735 7,328 34,483 (Gr3)

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DATA BOOK OVERSEAS WINNERS Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Juddmonte Farms Ltd Keles, H Keles, H Kelly, Mrs L Kennard & Whitsbury Manor Stud, Major and Mrs R B Khosla & Templeton Stud, Mr & Mrs V Kildaragh Stud Kildaragh Stud Kilfrush Stud Kilfrush Stud Kilfrush Stud Knight & E Cantillon, J Lees & Cummings Bloodstock Leinster Stud Leinster Stud Llety Stud Llety Stud Lynch Bages Ltd Lyons, M Matt Duffy & Newtown Stud, M McCartan, P McGlynn, M McGlynn, M McLoughney, J M McMahon Madden, Miss K Minster Stud Monaghan, T Monaghan, T Mulhern J Flynn & Abbeville Stud, E Mulryan & M C Fahy, L Murphy, A Murphy, C Murphy, Miss J Murphy, Miss J N P Bloodstock Limited N P Bloodstock Limited N P Bloodstock Limited N P Bloodstock Limited N P Bloodstock Limited Newsells Park Stud Newsells Park Stud Limited Newstead Breeding Llc Niarchos Family, The Noonan, M Norelands Bloodstock Nunn, S O’Connor, J B O’Leary, E O’Rourke, Mrs P K Paget Bloodstock Paget Bloodstock & Churchtown House Stud Parker, A Peacock, Mrs L Percival, R G Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Prendergast & J Foley, K Prendergast, Mrs B Queen, The Queen, The Rabbah Bloodstock Limited Rathasker Stud Richmond-Watson, J H Robinson, G and Mrs Rockfield Farm Rockwell Bloodstock Rockwell Bloodstock Round Hill Stud Round Hill Stud Round Hill Stud Savoy Street Partnership, The Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shadwell Estate Company Limited Shutford Stud Smith & Grennanstown Stud, M Smith & Sally Mullen, H Speedlith Group St Clare Hall Stud Stanley Estate & Stud Company & New England Stud Staughton & Mrs O Staughton, Miss J Stourbank Stud Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho Stud Taylor, Mr B J Team Valor Tinnakill Bloodstock Ltd Tower Bloodstock Trainers House Enterprises Limited Tullamaine Castle Stud Tuthill & Mrs A Whitehead, J F Twelve Oaks Stud Walsh, Mrs N Watson, Mr & Mrs R T Whisperview Trading Ltd White & D McGregor, L Whitehead & JF Tuthill, Mrs A Williams, O J Winterbeck Manor Stud

For full list see www.ownerbreeder.co.uk Dance Moves (GB) Postcode (GB) Hunting Tartan (GB) Mutual Trust (GB) Announce (GB) Hunting Tartan (GB) Aviate (GB) Non Stop (GB) Exclusive Boy (IRE) Princess Zahra (IRE) Tucuman (GB) Shine For Me (GB) Aneel (GB) Bay Shore (IRE) Bay Shore (IRE) Glorious Sight (IRE) Wazn (IRE) Dream Peace (IRE) Magkiora (GB) Silent Victory (GB) Leo For Ever (IRE) Leo For Ever (IRE) Fifth Ave (GB) Keen Bidder (GB) Pour Moi (IRE) Zona Cero (IRE) Floriade (IRE) Xtension (IRE) Maldon Prom (IRE) Tatoosh (IRE) Carimo (IRE) Ace Of Aces (IRE) Hammerfest (GB) Pinodeipalazzi (IRE) Pinodeipalazzi (IRE) Wade Giles (IRE) Salto Nel Buio (IRE) Por Una Cabeza (GB) Credito d’Imposta (IRE) Oregon Lady (IRE) Oregon Lady (IRE) Supreme Wisdom (GB) Reliable Man (GB) Toss The Dice (IRE) Da Capo (IRE) Reliable Man (GB) Al Muthanaa (GB) Practitioner (GB) Provide (IRE) Planet Elder (GB) Maria Pius (IRE) Alta Quota (IRE) Prisca Vivaz (IRE) Lear Keye (IRE) Pyrenees (IRE) Sebastian Flyte (GB) Campanillas (IRE) Martial Law (IRE) Farley Star (GB) State Gathering (GB) Shimsake (GB) Babylone (IRE) Miss Crissy (IRE) Rudi Valentino (IRE) Miss Faustina (IRE) Kingdom Of Fife (GB) Kingdom Of Fife (GB) Good Morning Dubai (IRE) Irish Applause (IRE) Desert Sage (GB) Overdose (GB) Ottaviano Augusto (IRE) Eastern Empire (GB) Maurice Utrillo (IRE) Inside Track (IRE) Epic Love (IRE) Epic Love (IRE) Street Band (IRE) Giu La Testa (IRE) Mustaqer (IRE) Crafty Roberto (GB) Riqa (GB) Funon (IRE) Sabratah (GB) Finisterien (IRE) Masteroftherolls (IRE) Perfect Friend (GB) Venomous (GB) Witty (GB) Newby (GB) Duri Duri (GB) The Sundance Kid (IRE) Ladyanne (IRE) Copper Penny (GB) Tropical Flore (IRE) Aratan (IRE) Pirate Ship (IRE) Kataragama (GB) Khartum (IRE) Fatti Nostri (IRE) Combat Zone (IRE) Cross The Boundary (IRE) Mood Music (GB) Tellovoi (IRE) Lan Pham Ti (IRE) Evening Frost (IRE) Primo Dilettante (GB) Subitodopo (GB)

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Dansili (GB) Dansili (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) Cacique (IRE) Selkirk (USA) Oasis Dream (GB) Dansili (GB) Beat Hollow (GB) Choisir (AUS) Oratorio (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) Royal Applause (GB) Danehill Dancer (IRE) Kheleyf (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Whipper (USA) Dansili (GB) Kyllachy (GB) Silent Times (IRE) Choisir (AUS) Choisir (AUS) Avonbridge (GB) Auction House (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Noverre (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Xaar (GB) Kheleyf (USA) Xaar (GB) Fasliyev (USA) Antonius Pius (USA) Fantastic Light (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Kheleyf (USA) Azamour (IRE) Barathea (IRE) Verglas (IRE) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Shamardal (USA) Shamardal (USA) Oratorio (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) Medicean (GB) Peintre Celebre (USA) Dalakhani (IRE) Pivotal (GB) Dr Fong (USA) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Antonius Pius (USA) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Tagula (IRE) Hawkeye (IRE) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) Observatory (USA) Montjeu (IRE) Galileo (IRE) Alzao (USA) Royal Applause (GB) Nayef (USA) Dubai Destination (USA) Verglas (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) Antonius Pius (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Kingmambo (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Dark Angel (IRE) Selkirk (USA) Starborough (GB) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) Dubai Destination (USA) Sadler’s Wells (USA) Bertolini (USA) Dansili (GB) Dansili (GB) Desert Style (IRE) Muhtathir (GB) Dalakhani (IRE) Intikhab (USA) Dubawi (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) Whipper (USA) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Reel Buddy (USA) Red Ransom (USA) Singspiel (IRE) Compton Place (GB) Dr Fong (USA) Chevalier (IRE) Redback (GB) Dansili (GB) Big Shuffle (USA) Arakan (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Hawk Wing (USA) Choisir (AUS) Choisir (AUS) Refuse To Bend (IRE) Red Clubs (IRE) Kyllachy (GB) Indian Haven (GB) Librettist (USA) Invincible Spirit (IRE) Primo Valentino (IRE) Fraam (GB)

3c 4c 4c 3c 4f 4c 4f 5h 4c 4f 3c 6h 4c 2f 2f 3f 4c 3f 4f 2f 4c 4c 3f 4c 3c 6h 3f 4c 4g 5m 7h 4g 4c 2c 2c 4g 3c 3c 3c 4f 4f 3c 3c 3c 5h 3c 4g 4g 3g 3c 2f 2f 3f 4c 6h 4c 3f 5h 7m 4g 6m 4c 3f 4g 4f 6g 6g 3f 2f 4f 6h 3c 5g 5g 4g 3f 3f 3g 3f 5g 3g 3f 3c 3f 2c 3c 5m 3c 5m 6h 3f 6h 3f 4f 3f 4c 5g 5m 3c 3c 5g 2c 7g 3c 3f 2f 5g 7h

Dance Routine (GB) Posteritas (USA) Delta (GB) Posteritas (USA) Hachita (USA) Delta (GB) Emplane (USA) High And Low (GB) Ivy Lodge (IRE) Dablana (IRE) Spinamix (GB) Polished Up (GB) Marula (IRE) Marillen (IRE) Marillen (IRE) Zelding (IRE) New Story (USA) Truly A Dream (IRE) Never Enough (GER) River City Moon (USA) Hetty (IRE) Hetty (IRE) Cozette (IRE) Lady-Love (GB) Gwynn (IRE) Thoroughly (IRE) Sharapova (IRE) Great Joy (IRE) Misty Peak (IRE) Dictatrice (FR) Barnabas (ITY) Mikes Baby (IRE) Bathilde (IRE) Spring Will Come (IRE) Spring Will Come (IRE) Tekindia (FR) Brief Lullaby (IRE) Adamas (IRE) Anna Kareena (IRE) Oregon Trail (USA) Oregon Trail (USA) Happy At Last (GB) On Fair Stage (IRE) Seltitude (IRE) Specificity (USA) On Fair Stage (IRE) Mail The Desert (IRE) Macina (IRE) Uliana (USA) Celestial Lagoon (JPN) Santa Rosarii (IRE) Red Zinger (USA) Hunzy (IRE) Ohreoh (USA) Belsay (GB) Aravonian (GB) West Brooklyn (USA) Tree Tops (GB) Girl Of My Dreams (IRE) Flag (GB) Betrothal (IRE) Abime (USA) Seracina (GB) Melody Island (IRE) Boston Ivy (USA) Fairy Godmother (GB) Fairy Godmother (GB) Min Asl Wafi (IRE) Irish Lover (USA) Prairie Flower (IRE) Our Poppet (IRE) Moon Legend (USA) Possessive Artiste (GB) Sabria (USA) True Crystal (IRE) Leopard Hunt (USA) Leopard Hunt (USA) Savoy Street (GB) Deraasaat (GB) Al Ihtithar (IRE) Mowazana (IRE) Thamarat (GB) Baqah (IRE) Marika (GB) Foreplay (IRE) Miss Sally (IRE) Four Legs Good (IRE) Snake Dancer (IRE) Sita (IRE) Petarga (GB) Somersault (GB) Faypool (IRE) Gillipops (IRE) Makara (GB) Turfquelle (IRE) Thoroughly (IRE) Mona Stella (USA) Torrealta (GB) Innishere (IRE) Monocouche (IRE) Zeiting (IRE) So So Lucky (IRE) Something Blue (GB) Kloonlara (IRE) French Fern (IRE) Evening Time (IRE) Jezadil (IRE) Comtesse Noire (CAN)

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Saint-Cloud Le Croise-Laroche Al Rayyan Chantilly Chantilly Al Rayyan Churchill Downs Marseille Borely Izmir Istanbul Argentan Chantilly Warwick Farm Bordeaux Le Bouscat Bordeaux Le Bouscat Longchamp Warwick Farm Saint-Cloud Athens La Teste De Buch Siracusa Siracusa Santa Anita Turf Paradise Saint-Cloud Zarzuela La Teste De Buch Sha Tin Taipa Taby Marseille Borely Hollywood Park Saint-Cloud Rome Rome Sha Tin Milan Siracusa Rome Keeneland Churchill Downs Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Maisons-Laffitte Cologne Chantilly Al Rayyan Sha Tin Florence Longchamp Rome Siracusa Zarzuela Siracusa Happy Valley Santa Anita Longchamp Sandown Lakeside Hollywood Park Santa Anita Athens Lyon La Soie Maisons-Laffitte Happy Valley Al Rayyan Randwick Randwick Al Rayyan Florence Gulfstream Park Berlin-Hoppegarten Milan Sha Tin Kranji Athens Saint-Cloud Longchamp Taby Rome Mijas Pisa Chantilly Longchamp Maisons-Laffitte Saint-Cloud Saint-Cloud Al Rayyan Saint-Cloud Cholet Zarzuela Rome Argentan Al Rayyan Athens Salon-De-Provence Zarzuela Taipa Maisons-Laffitte Rome Milan Longchamp Rome Munich Rome Velka Chuchle Tarbes Treviso Milan

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FLASHBACK

June 4, 1986 Walter Swinburn is thrilled after guiding Shahrastani to victory over Dancing Brave in the Derby

GEORGE SELWYN

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hergar was expected to win the Derby – the only person who could have got him beat was me.

Whereas I felt I earned earn my money on Shahrastani.”

So says Walter Swinburn of his second Epsom Classic, now remembered as much for his triumph as Greville Starkey’s defeat aboard the favourite Dancing Brave.

Settled at the rear of the field, Dancing Brave flew home in the straight but could only get to within half a length of Shahrastani at the line.

Swinburn says: “It was always the plan to ride Shahrastani prominently – he was a galloper with a high cruising speed, but he lacked a turn of foot.

“The Dancing Brave team were concerned not only about the trip but

how he would handle the undulations.

As it turned out he didn’t enjoy Epsom.

“People forget that the Derby is the ultimate test of the thoroughbred.

Shahrastani handled the course best on the day and the rest is history.

“I felt sorry for Greville at the time and that feeling only increased in subsequent years.

“Shahrastani was very impressive when taking the Irish Derby but he wasn’t the same horse in the King George [fourth to Dancing Brave].”

A third win on Lammtarra in 1995 sealed Swinburn’s love affair with the Derby. The Aldbury trainer only has eyes for one runner in this year’s race.

“I was very impressed with the Queen’s Carlton House in the Dante – he ticks all the boxes for me.”

THOROUGHBRED OWNER & BREEDER INC PACEMAKER

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