Budget Breeding Supplement

BREEDING ON A BUDGET PULLOUT PREVIEW Thursday, February 10, 2022

Your indispensable guide to finding value in the stallion ranks

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ELCOME to what is just about our biggest supplement in the calendar.

That’s fuelled, of course, by the fact that for every Dubawi there are multiple Dream Aheads – not to single him out but merely to emphasise that standing for something more like £7,500 than £250,000 is the reality for the vast majority of sires.

Trade was sensationally good at sales in 2021 given the Covid-19-blighted times we remain in, but stallion masters largely took a lowbrow view last year when it came to setting stud fees for 2022, and there are several stallions who feature in dispatches across the pages which follow who, in better times, would likely be pitched higher.

The choice in the ‘budget’ bracket, which we define as £10,000/€12,500 and below, is plentiful to say the least.

Among the top-class and well-bred horses who sneak in at the top are Circus Maximus, Calyx and Ulysses, while among those available if your budget is at the lower end are Sixties Icon, Coulsty and Unfortunately.

Is it wrong to have favourites? It’s not really, as I’m sure we all do.

Lightning Spear is one who I hope will make a go of his second career. The now 11-year-old was a good old stick on the track – ‘good’ is an apt word, as Goodwood was his happy hunting ground. He landed two Celebration Miles there and finally had his day in the sun when winning the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in 2018.

The horse he beat there, Expert Eye, turned the tables in the final race of his career, in what was his sixth season on the course, the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Expert Eye is another personal favourite and also features in these pages, being available at £10,000.

Our supplement kicks off with Martin Stevens’ pick of the progeny from inexpensive stallions who came up trumps last year, while Martin then takes a look at those sires who are producing the goods in terms of getting runners with Racing Post Ratings of 80-plus.

Aisling Crowe and Kitty Trice then take you through the gamut of options in Britain and Ireland in our Directory. We have done our level best to be comprehensive, but if any have slipped the net, apologies in advance.

ANDREW SCUTTS, BLOODSTOCK MANAGING EDITOR

Martin Stevens looks at eight progeny of inexpensive

Stunning bargain beauties Aldaary 4yo ch g Territories-Broughtons Revival (Pivotal) Bred by Michael Broughton When Aldaary scored by clear water in a pair of large-field handicaps at Ascot last October he clocked higher Racing Post Ratings than several Group 1-winning three-year-olds that year, so it will be fascinating to see how the William Haggas-trained gelding fares in black-type company this season.

He has done his connections a good turn at every stage of his life. Bred by Michael Broughton by sending his Pivotal mare Broughtons Revival to Territories when the stallion was standing in his first season at £12,000, he was sold as a foal to McKeever Bloodstock for 55,000gns and resold as a yearling to Shadwell for 150,000gns. He has already earned £200,000 in prize-money for Shadwell, with the promise of more to come.

Territories, also on the mark with Prix de l’Opéra heroine Rougir, Group 2-placed two-year-old Masseto and classy handicapper Rhoscolyn in 2021, stands at Dalham Hall Stud at a fee of £10,000.

‘He was one of the classiest and most consistent sprinters last year at three’

Top operators on the track: Bungle Inthejungle filly Winter Power (main) won last season’s Nunthorpe Stakes; Romantic Proposal (top) has won five races, including last year’s Group 1 Flying Five, while Twilight Jet did wonders for the profile of Twilight Son; front page: El Kabeir, pictured by Patrick McCann at Yeomanstown Stud on last month’s Irish Stallion Trail

Marianafoot 7yo ch h FootstepsinthesandMarianabaa (Anabaa) Bred by Jean-Claude Seroul Footstepsinthesand, just turned 20 and available at Coolmore at a fee of €12,500, continues to be a friend to many breeders on a budget.

The 2,000 Guineas-winning son of Giant’s Causeway has supplied a grand total of 140 black-type performers including 67 stakes winners,

Dragon Symbol 4yo gr c Cable Bay-Arcamist (Arcano) Bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud Dragon Symbol enters 2022 without a stakes victory to his name, which is incredible considering he was one of the classiest and most consistent sprinters last year at three.

He won his first four starts

before finishing a nose second to Rohaan in the Sandy Lane Stakes, coming home in front in the Commonwealth Cup but being demoted to second by the stewards, and then finishing in the first four in the July Cup, King George Stakes, Nunthorpe and Flying Five.

Upper-case or lower-case black type, the Whitsbury Manor Stud-bred colt is a fabulous ambassador for his sire Cable Bay, who was also represented by smart performers Atalis Bay, Collinsbay, King’s Lynn, Laneqash and Liberty Beach last year, and stands at Highclere Stud at just £8,000.

headed by Hong Kong stars Beauty Flame, Helene Spirit and Pure Champion.

Footstepsinthesand’s latest flagbearer is Jean-Claude Seroul’s homebred Marianafoot, who went through last year unbeaten in seven starts, culminating in a victory over the likes of Campanelle, Lope Y Fernandez and Starman in the Prix Maurice de Gheest.

Rohaan 4yo b g Mayson-Vive Les Rouges (Acclamation) Bred by Liam Phelan Rohaan is a bargain many

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stallions who came good and excelled on the track during 2021

times over. By Mayson, also responsible for last year’s King’s Stand Stakes hero Oxted and yet still available for just £6,000 at Cheveley Park Stud, he was in-utero when his breeder, County Laois dairy farmer Liam Phelan, bought the Listed-placed Acclamation mare Vive Les Rouges for a very reasonable 37,000gns.

Phelan sold a big and backward Rohaan to Oliver St Lawrence for £36,000 at the Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, and after he finished down the field on his first two starts at two he was resold to David Evans and Martin Wanless for 20,000gns at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale.

Evans has taken Rohaan from an official rating of 55 to 116, saddling him to win seven races including the Pavilion Stakes, Sandy Lane Stakes and Wokingham Handicap, and to earn nearly £185,000 in prize-money.

Romantic Proposal 6yo b m Raven’s PassPlaywithmyheart (Diktat) Bred by Fastnet Stud Romantic Proposal provided a tidy profit for Amy Lynam, who bought the daughter of Raven’s Pass for €25,000 from breeder Fastnet Stud at the Goffs November Foal Sale and resold her to Joe Foley for €55,000 at the same company’s Orby Yearling Sale.

She went into training with Amy’s father Eddie, who prepared her to win five races including last year’s Flying Five and £282,000 in earnings.

Romantic Proposal is one of

four Group/Grade 1 winners

by Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Raven’s Pass, alongside Matterhorn, Royal Marine and Tower Of London. The son of Elusive Quality is standing at Kildangan Stud at a fee of just €7,500 this year.

Sandrine 3yo b f Bobby’s KittenSeychelloise (Pivotal) Bred by Kirsten Rausing Kirsten Rausing has shown other breeders the way by breeding last year’s high-achieving two-year-old filly Sandrine from top sprinter and miler Bobby’s Kitten, who stands at her Lanwades Stud at the reasonable price of £7,000.

Sandrine carried Rausing’s distinctive white and green silks to win the Albany and Duchess of Cambridge Stakes, to finish second in the Lowther Stakes conceding 3lb to the winner Zain Claudette and to take third in the Cheveley Park Stakes, making her effort away from the favoured stands’ side rail.

Bobby’s Kitten’s first two crops have also yielded Beresford Stakes runner-up Monaasib and the highly regarded unbeaten Yarmouth novice stakes winner Heat Of The Moment.

Twilight Jet 3yo b c Twilight Son-My Lucky Liz (Exceed And Excel) Bred by Tom Radley Cheveley Park Stud could hardly have dared hope for a better ambassador for its £7,000 option Twilight Son

than his second-crop son Twilight Jet. The Tom Radley-bred colt was sold as a short yearling by Olive O’Connor Bloodstock at the Goffs February Sale, with Tally-Ho Stud the buyer at €28,000. Tally-Ho made a mighty profit when selling him to Michael O’Callaghan for a joint-top price of £210,000 at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale.

O’Callaghan saddled Twilight Jet to compete in nine Group races from May to November and welcomed him back into the winner’s enclosure after the Cornwallis Stakes at Newmarket in October.

Winter Power 4yo b f Bungle InthejungleTitian Saga (Titus Livius) Bred by Newlands House Stud Patrick Burns must be the number one fan of Bungle Inthejungle, who stands at his brother Maurice’s Rathasker Stud at a fee of €8,000, as he has bred both Lowther Stakes winner Living In The Past and last season’s Nunthorpe Stakes heroine Winter Power from the son of Exceed And Excel.

Winter Power’s pedigree shows Burns to be a budget breeder par excellence, as she is a half-sister to black-type performers Hay Chewed and Flying Sparkle, by value sires Camacho and Fast Company, out of Titian Saga, a winning daughter of Titus Livius and Nordic Living. A daughter of Nordico who was well beaten on all four starts, Nordic Living was bought as a breeding prospect by Burns for just Ir1,200gns.

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Sires who won’t break the bank despite their appeal

Golden Horn (main images) is available for a new fee of £10,000, the same as Ulysses (left), while Harzand stands at just €5,000

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Martin Stevens on the stallions whose progeny are excelling

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HERE are few more instructive guides to the strength of depth in stallions’ output than the Racing Post’s tables of sires ordered by the percentage of their runners with RPRs of 80, 100 or 115 and higher in Britain and Ireland each year.

The easily digestible statistics offer no hiding place for those who have supplied only a small number of useful offspring from large crops.

The bad news for breeders on a budget is that the tables often prove that you get what you pay for in the stallion market.

Indeed, the top sires by ratio of runners rated 80 or more in 2021 were the blue-chip names Wootton Bassett (65 per cent), Dubawi (64 per cent), War Front (64 per cent), American Pharoah (63 per cent), Galileo (60 per cent), Frankel (59 per cent), Kingman (58 per cent), Le Havre (57 per cent) and Sea The Stars (52 per cent).

It’s not all doom and gloom, though. Focusing only on those sires in the table who stand in Britain and Ireland this year at a fee of £10,000/ €12,500 or less, there were some highly respectable achievements and strong indications that there is serious value available to broodmare owners.

Golden Horn is head and shoulders above other value

sires by this measure, thanks to his 51 per cent strike-rate of runners last year rated at least 80. That’s only one point behind Sea The Stars, the same as Night Of Thunder and Shamardal, and a point above Lope De Vega.

The trouble with the brilliant Derby and Arc winner by Cape Cross is that he has proved to be less adept at siring horses with higher RPRs, and it is worth bearing in mind that what he has managed to achieve in his second career so far is on the back of having covered top-class performers and producers at Dalham Hall at his introductory fee of £60,000.

Nevertheless, he should be able to do breeders a good turn at his new fee of £10,000, and thanks to his feat of delivering nine jumps winners from 14 runners, including Leamington Novices’ Hurdle scorer Stag Horn, he will have come on to the radar of National Hunt breeders with slightly deeper pockets.

Intriguingly, it is another Derby winner from the Cape Cross line in Harzand who provided the second-best ratio of runners rated 80 or higher last year among the value sires, with a mark of 38 per cent.

The son of Sea The Stars, standing at Gilltown Stud this year at a fee of just €5,000, has produced the twice Listed-placed filly French Fusion and a good number of winners, many in mainland Europe, from his first two crops.

He has had one or two

horses in training fetch decent prices, including In The Breeze (78,000gns), Kolisi (55,000gns) and Zarkan (€50,000), and only his second runner in the National Hunt sphere, the Alan King-trained Robiola, finished a close second in a Ludlow bumper last month.

Raven’s Pass has never quite repeated the brilliance he showed on the track at stud, and he has been dogged by libido issues, but he keeps ticking over by throwing a fair few smart performers each year.

Some 38 per cent of his runners in Britain and Ireland in 2021 clocked an RPR of 80 or higher, headed by Flying Five heroine Romantic Proposal and smart sprint handicappers Soldier’s Minute and Venturous.

The son of Elusive Quality is available at Kildangan Stud at a fee of €7,500 this year and racecourse evidence in 2021 also suggested it might be no bad thing to breed a filly from him, as his daughters produced Group 1 winners Mishriff and Saffron Beach as well as Dewhurst runner-up Dubawi Legend.

Cheveley Park Stud-based Ulysses also produced a 38 per cent strike-rate of runners rated 80 or better, with just his first crop of two-year-olds last year.

The beautifully bred son of Epsom Classic winners Galileo and Light Shift supplied two black-type place-getters in Piz Badile and Gwan So, but his preponderance of exciting maiden/novice stakes winners Continues page 6

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Rated higher by Timeform than Advertise, Magna Grecia, Persian King, Phoenix Of Spain, Hello Youmzain, Soldier’s Call etc.

Rated higher by Timeform than the winners of the Epsom Derby, French 2,000 Guineas, Irish 2,000 Guineas, Irish Derby etc.

The fastest son of KINGMAN and out of a full-sister to both Gr.1-winning sprinter African Rose and to the dam of unbeaten Champion 2YO NATIVE TRAIL

First foals sold for €125,000, €115,000, €80,000, €70,000, €68,000, €65,000 etc.

Fee: €12,500 Contact: Coolmore Stud Tel: +353-52-6131298. Castlehyde Stud Tel: +353-25-31966. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Website: www.coolmore.com

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Think of him as the best budget equivalent of Frankel, Dubawi and Kingman...

UK stallions with an advertised fee ranked by GROUP WINNERS TO RUNNERS from their first northern hemisphere crop, with the TIMEFORM RATING of their best first-crop horse, and 2022 FEE

1 Frankel 20.5% 2 Dubawi 12% 3 CITYSCAPE 7.5% 4 Kingman 6% =5 Nathaniel 5% =5 Sea The Moon 5%

136 130 124 127 134 121

£200,000 £250,000 £4,000 £150,000 £15,000 £25,000

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here isn’t a stallion in the land standing for less than £200,000 ~ yes, £200,000! ~ who has better first-crop stats than Cityscape.

What’s more, his biggest, best-bred crop, conceived after his early runners were doing so well, are two-year-olds of 2022. The limelight: Cityscape will be back in it very soon...

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– including the unbeaten Aeonian, Julia Augusta, Mighty Ulysses and New Dimension – is what really suggests his best days are ahead of him.

If Ulysses were to capitalise on those encouraging early results, this could be the last year that his services can be bought for as little as £10,000.

It was far from ideal that Belardo failed to supply a black-type winner in Europe last year, with two crops conceived at fees of €15,000 to represent him, but these statistics suggest he was at least delivering a certain amount of talent on a regular basis, with a 37 per cent rate of 80-plus RPR performers.

Buyers appear to have kept the faith in the son of Lope De Vega, as his yearling average in Britain and Ireland improved from 16,205gns to 23,515gns last year and the median price went from 12,000gns to 16,000gns.

Kildangan Stud has given Belardo’s fee a trim to €9,000 this year, which should attract a good bit of business.

Territories, another Darley sire at the same stage of his career, also went for most of the year without a stakes winner in Europe until Rougir took the Prix de l’Opéra in October before selling for a record €3 million at Arqana in December.

He is in the similar position of producing a decent 35 per cent 80-plus rated performers last year, though, helped by his high-class handicapper sons Aldaary and Rhoscolyn.

Territories’ yearling average and median prices also increased last year, to 24,565gns and 22,000gns, and he looks fairly priced at £10,000 at Dalham Hall Stud this breeding season.

Awtaad, a third-season sire this year like Belardo and Territories, recorded a 36 per

‘Belardo was at least delivering a certain amount of talent on a regular basis and buyers seem to have kept faith with the son of Lope De Vega’

cent strike-rate of runners who ran to a mark of 80 or higher in 2021, but he managed to put five stakes winners on the board in Europe – the classy fillies Bellosa, Create Belief and Primo Bacio, and Italian Listed scorers Calithea and Prichi. Vintage Stakes third Austrian Theory is also his.

The son of Cape Cross’s yearling average and median also increased in 2021, to 25,191gns and 25,500gns respectively, so all things considered the decision by

‘It pays handsome tribute to Cotai Glory that he was last year’s leading first-season sire by volume of winners but also achieved a 32 per cent ratio of runners rated 80 or higher’

Derrinstown Stud to halve his fee to €5,000 this year looks generous.

It pays handsome tribute to Cotai Glory that he was last year’s leading first-season sire by volume of winners but also achieved a 32 per cent ratio of runners rated 80 or higher.

Considering that quality in quantity, he was well worth his pay rise to €8,500 at Tally-Ho Stud this year.

Mayson and Cable Bay, British-based sons of Invincible Spirit with loyal followings, come in with strike-rates of 31 and 30 per cent to confirm the impression they are wise value choices, while Prince Of Lir, Free Eagle and Rock Of Gibraltar also check in with figures of at least 30 per cent and are on offer this year at eye-catchingly bargain-basement prices.

Leading budget sires by percentage of runners with an RPR of 80 or more in 2021 Stallion Golden Horn

Runners 98

No. RPR≥80 50

% 51

Stud, location Dalham Hall, UK

2022 fee £10,000

Harzand

26

10

Raven’s Pass

50

19

38

Gilltown, Ire

€5,000

38

Kildangan, Ire

Ulysses

40

€7,500

15

38

Cheveley Park, UK

£10,000

Belardo Awtaad

59

22

37

Kildangan, Ire

€9,000

73

26

36

Derrinstown, Ire

€5,000

Territories

72

25

35

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

Vadamos

51

17

33

Grange, Ire

€6,000

Cotai Glory

71

23

32

Tally-Ho, Ire

€8,500

Prince Of Lir

41

13

32

Ballyhane, Ire

€3,500

130

40

31

Cheveley Park, UK

£6,000

Cable Bay

89

27

30

Highclere, UK

£8,000

Free Eagle

54

16

30

Irish National, Ire

€5,000

Rock Of Gibraltar

33

10

30

Coolmore, Ire

€5,000

Mayson

*Sires standing in Britain and Ireland at £10,000/€12,500 or less in 2022

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Value options: Irish 2,000 Guineas winner Awtaad (main), Prince Of Lir (top) and Cable Bay

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51% winners to runners lifetime Fee: €2,000

8% BT NH horses to runners lifetime Fee: €2,000

EQuiaNO 4th leading sire of sprinters in Europe in 2021 Fee: €2,000

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71% winners or placed horses to runners from his first crop Fee: €7,500

High flying 3YOs of 2021 inc. Gr.3 winner Dancing King & Aratus (OR 102) Fee: €5,000

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Real deal – stallions who offer outstanding value THE DIRECTORY Aisling Crowe and Kitty Trice with their guide to a selection of British and Irish stallions standing for £10,000/€12,500 or less New SIRES OF 2022 The meteoric ascent of Mehmas to the upper stratosphere of stallions continues unabated and Europe’s leading first- and second-season sire is now represented by his first son at stud, Supremacy, who was also his sire’s first Group 1 winner.

Successful in the Middle Park Stakes for trainer Clive Cox, Supremacy was retired to Yeomanstown Stud at a fee of €12,500. He was the joint-second highest-rated juvenile colt in Europe in 2020 following his victories in the Middle Park and Richmond Stakes, and boasts a better two-year-old race record than his sire, for whom a Group 1 win on the track proved elusive.

Supremacy’s pedigree screams speed; his dam Triggers Broom is by Prix Morny winner Arcano and is a half-sister to dual Group 1 Champions Mile winner Xtension and to the dam of champion sprinter Harry Angel and his Mill Reef-winning half-brother Pierre Lapin.

Triggers Broom is also a half-sister to the dam of Listed-winning sprinter Mrs Gallagher.

The late Shamardal’s influence on European breeding continues to grow, not least through the exploits of Lope De Vega and his offspring. Now the sire of 13 individual Group 1 winners, Lope De Vega also has four stallion sons at stud in Europe, with Lope Y Fernandez, at the National Stud, his first son to stand in Britain.

A handsome horse who made €900,000 as a yearling, Lope Y Fernandez was a classy two-year-old who won his maiden on debut and then

twice finished placed behind Pinatubo; first in the Chesham Stakes and then in the Vintage Stakes. He also won the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes as a juvenile.

At three and four, Lope Y Fernandez kept the best company from six furlongs to a mile and was placed in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, Prix Jean Prat, Prix Maurice de Gheest, Breeders’ Cup Mile and Queen Anne Stakes. His dam, Black Dahlia, by Dansili, has also foaled the Vintage Stakes and Oettingen Rennen winner Dark Vision. At £8,500, Lope Y Fernandez is an affordable entry point into one of the best sirelines around.

Society Rock died before his first foals could make it to the track but their impact left a tantalising glimpse into what might have been had he lived.

A’Ali, who begins his stud career at Newsells Park at £7,500, was one of those bright lights for his late sire with a trio of Group 2 successes at two and a brace of five-furlong Group victories at three.

A’Ali won the Norfolk Stakes, Prix Robert Papin and Flying Childers at two for trainer Simon Crisford and was bred

by Tally-Ho Stud, where the O’Callaghans stood Society Rock. He was a Star Bloodstock breeze-up graduate, making £135,000 to Stroud Coleman at the Goffs UK sale, and is out of Motion Lass, a Motivator half-sister to the Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed Enforcer.

For the second season running, Kodiac’s young-gun stallion sons made an impact on the track, with Ardad siring dual Group 1 winner Perfect Power in his first crop and Kodi Bear producing the Group 1-placed fillies Mystery

Angel and Measure Of Magic from his first crop plus the Group 2 winner and Phoenix Stakes third Go Bears Go in his second.

Two sons of Kodiac are new to the stallion ranks, one on either side of the Irish Sea, for 2022. Nando Parrado joins his ’uncle’ Invincible Spirit at the Irish National Stud, where the Coventry Stakes winner, who was twice second in French juvenile Group 1 contests, commands a fee of €6,000.

Bought for 165,000gns as a foal, Nando Parrado hails from an excellent Argentine family but is a half-brother to a pair of European Listed-placed winners. Their dam, Chibola, was a Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed, and is a sister to the Group 1 winner Chollo,

by Roy, who is a son of Fappiano.

Ubettabelieveit won the Flying Childers Stakes, as did Ardad, although arguably his best performance came in defeat when third to the speed

freak Golden Pal in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. A half-brother to no less than three black-type winners, including the Group 3 winner Harlem Shake and Tropical Paradise, he was part of a golden summer for breeders Ringfort Stud in 2020.

He is bred for speed, being out of a Mujadil mare, and stands at Mickley Stud for £5,000.

LM Stallions’ Roseman is from the first crop of Kingman and stands for a small fraction of his sire’s fee at £5,500. He brought €650,000 from Roger Varian at the Goffs Orby Sale and his pedigree, which was rich to begin with, could be boosted even further this season. His dam Go Lovely Rose is a Pivotal sister to the Group 1 winner Immortal Verse, dam of last season’s Cheveley Park Stakes winner Tenebrism.

Roseman demonstrated Group 1 form himself when second in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes to The Revenant and

fourth behind Circus Maximus in the Queen Anne.

His victory in the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes came at the expense of Century Dream, who also embarks on his stud career in 2022. The eight-year-old is a Cape Cross half-brother to Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner King Of Change, and is a Group 2 and Group 3 winner over a mile who was also placed at the highest level. He stands for £3,000 at Norton Grove Stud.

Showcasing is another sire to have climbed through the ranks and is now sitting proudly near the summit, with his sons sought-after stallion prospects. The latest to retire is Castlefield Stud’s Alkumait, winner of the Mill Reef Stakes in a track-record time.

Bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, Alkumait made 150,000gns as a foal and 220,000gns as a yearling, when he was purchased by Shadwell.

He is a half-brother to Listed winner The Broghie Man and

New stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name A’Ali

Age 5

Sire Society Rock

Stud, location Newsells Park, UK

Alkumait

4

Showcasing

Castlefield, Ire

€5,000

Almighwar

5

Dubawi

Garryrichard, Ire

€1,500 £3,000

Bangkok

6

Australia

Chapel, UK

Boscaccio

9

Mount Nelson

Knockhouse, Ire

Century Dream

8

Cape Cross

Norton Grove, UK

Fee £7,500

poa £3,000

Dee Ex Bee

7

Farhh

Arctic Tack, Ire

€3,500

Eagles By Day

6

Sea The Stars

Glenview, Ire

private

Fifty Stars

7

Sea The Stars

Sunnyhill, Ire

€3,000

In Swoop

5

Adlerflug

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,500

Khalifa Sat

5

Free Eagle

Lacken, Ire

€2,000

Logician

6

Frankel

Shade Oak, UK

£4,000

Lope Y Fernandez

5

Lope De Vega

National, UK

£8,500

Mildenberger

7

Teofilo

Groomsbridge, UK

£1,500

Mirage Dancer

8

Frankel

Castlefield, Ire

€3,500

Mogul

5

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000

Nando Parrado

4

Kodiac

Irish National, Ire

€6,000

Rich History

8

Dubawi

Kedrah House, Ire

€3,500

Roseman

6

Kingman

March Hare, UK

£5,500

Santiago

5

Authorized

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,500

Supremacy

4

Mehmas

Yeomanstown, Ire

€12,500

Ubettabelieveit

4

Kodiac

Mickley, UK

£5,000

Bangkok (above) and Eagles By Day

the Listed-placed Gloves Lynch, and there are juvenile Group winners under his first three dams. He starts at €5,000.

He is one of two new stallions for Capital Bloodstock at Castlefield Stud – the other being Mirage Dancer, who is the first son of Frankel at stud in Ireland. The Group 1 Metropolitan winner boasts a stallion’s pedigree, being out of the Grade 1 winner Heat Haze, a Green Desert half-sister to Dansili, Cacique, Banks Hill, Champs Elysees and Intercontinental. Mirage Dancer is priced at €3,500.

Once again, the stallions retired to National Hunt studs are of the highest calibre and there is no rule which prevents any Flat breeder from using the likes of Mogul, Santiago, Logician and In Swoop should they so wish.

Mogul, a 3,400,000gns yearling who has an outstanding pedigree as a brother to Group 1 winner Japan (incidentally, beginning his stallion career in Germany at a fee of €11,000) and Group winners Secret Gesture and Sir Isaac Newton, is bred on the same Galileo-Danehill cross as champion sire Frankel and top-class stallion Teofilo.

The dual Group 1 winner, who was a Group 2 scorer at two on Irish Champions Weekend, is out of a half-sister to Arc winner Sagamix and from the same family as last season’s Prix Morny and Middle Park winner Perfect Power. He is available for €4,000 at The Beeches Stud.

In Swoop, who defeated Torquator Tasso in the 2020 Deutsches Derby and ran second to Sottsass in the Arc that year, is an exciting new recruit for Coolmore, who have also chosen to stand him at The Beeches Stud.

The only son of the late Adlerflug at stud in the UK or Ireland, he offers breeders a Classic pedigree as a son of the Preis der Diana winner Iota and a brother to Group 1 winner Ito. He starts at €4,500.

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MOGUL

SUPREMACY

UBETTABELIEVEIT

‘At £8,500, Lope Y Fernandez is an affordable entry point into one of the best sirelines around’

affordability Mayson THE UK’S LEADING SIRE OF SPRINTERS IN 2021

11 sprinters rated 100+ by Timeform, including Gr.1 winner OXTED and Gr.2 winner ROHAAN. Leading Sires of Sprinters in Europe 2021 (3yo and up, 5f-6.5f, by earnings) Sire

Rnrs

1 Dandy Man

BT Wnrs BT w/r

Earnings

142

5

3.52%

£1,191,588

2 MAYSON

88

3

3.41%

£1,132,172

3 Dark Angel

116

5

4.31%

£1,056,341

60

1

1.67%

£962,851

168

2

1.19%

£937,685

4 Dream Ahead 5 Kodiac

Statistics courtesy of Arion Pedigrees and www.stallionguide.com

2021 yearlings made up to 75,000gns Fee: £6,000 (1st Oct. SLF)

Twilight Son A LEADING BRITISH-BASED SIRE OF 2YO STAKES HORSES IN EUROPE

incl.: TWILIGHT JET (Gr.3 winner; Gr.2 placed x 2); Listed winners BAGHED (also Gr.2 placed) and LITTLE O’KELLY, and the Gr.2 placed KHUNAN. Leading British-based Sires of 2yo Black Type Horses in Europe 2021 (by percentage of BTH to runners, 30+ runners) Sire

STAR VALUE

Lope Y Fernandez: Group 3 scorer and placed in multiple Group 1s

Another new stallion to boast excellent pedigree potential is the Irish Derby and Queen’s Vase winner Santiago.

The son of Authorized is from the same branch of Allegretta’s family tree as Tamayuz, and the top-class stallions already directly descended from the great mare include Galileo and

Sea The Stars. He also sets off at €4,500, from Castlehyde Stud.

St Leger hero Logician, meanwhile, could easily attract Flat breeders as well as National Hunt, given his £4,000 opening fee at Shade Oak.

Continues page 10

A’Ali Society Rock burned briefly but brightly; his Royal Ascot-winning son is poised to take up his mantle In Swoop A Group 1 winner who was second in the Arc, this son of Adlerflug offers breeders something different Lope Y Fernandez A grandson of Shamardal at an affordable price, Lope Y Fernandez mixed it with the best over a mile

Rnrs

BTH

%BTH/Rnrs

2022 fee

1 Dubawi

61

9

14.8%

£250,000

2 TWILIGHT SON

38

5

13.2%

£7,000

3 Frankel

62

8

12.9%

£200,000

4 Time Test

44

5

11.4%

£15,000

5 Oasis Dream

52

4

7.7%

£20,000

6 Showcasing

80

6

7.5%

£45,000

7 Bated Breath

54

4

7.4%

£15,000

Statistics courtesy of Arion Pedigrees and www.stallionguide.com

2021 yearlings made 135,000gns, 120,000gns, etc.

Fee: £7,000 (1st Oct. SLF)

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET FIRST FOALS OF 2022 The class of 2021 offered some outstanding value in their first season and one stallion in particular remains one of the most affordably priced and exciting young sires anywhere in the world.

St James’s Palace Stakes winner Without Parole stands his second season at Newsells Park Stud and does so for just £8,000. For that, breeders get a Group 1-winning miler by the reigning champion sire Frankel out of a Lemon Drop Kid mare, so he is bred on a variation of the brilliant Frankel-Kingmambo cross which is operating at 38 per cent stakes winners-to-runners.

Without Parole offers a top pedigree as a half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Tamarkuz out of an unraced half-sister to Stay Thirsty, who won the Travers Stakes and Cigar Mile and was second in the Belmont Stakes.

The dam, Without You Babe, is also a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner and multiple Grade 1-placed Andromeda’s Hero. Third dam Make Change, by Roberto, finished in the first three in eight top-level contests and also produced the French Listed winner Time Changes.

As a racehorse, Without Parole could not add further Group 1 glory to his Royal Ascot success but he was third in a trio of Grade 1 races including the Breeders’ Cup Mile. Frankel’s stock has never been higher, understandably so after an outstanding 2021 which produced his first Epsom Derby winner, and the prospect of using a Group 1-winning miler by him with a pedigree from the top drawer at a price 25 times cheaper than that of Frankel has to count as outstanding value.

The benefit of going to studs to inspect stallions cannot be overstated. No matter how many hours of study a breeder puts in poring over pedigrees, analysing statistics and scrolling through videos, nothing beats seeing the horses with your own eyes.

Ballyhane Stud’s Champions Sprint Stakes scorer Sands Of Mali catches the eye the

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‘King Of Change never finished out of the first two in his six career starts and is a half-brother to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed miler Century Dream, who starts his stallion career at Norton Grove Stud this season’ First-crop foal stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Almanaara

Sands Of Mali: top-class juvenile who was even better at three

STAR VALUE

second he walks into view. The Group 1 winner is a stunning individual and was a top-class juvenile who trained on to become even better at three.

His pedigree may be more exotic than most stallions, and the Gimcrack winner is by far the best son of Panis, but there is more than enough in there to suggest Sands Of Mali, who is standing for €5,000 in 2022, can prove a successful stallion.

Panis is by Miswaki, whose top-level winners include scorers in the Japan Cup (Marvelous Crown) and Irish 2,000 Guineas (Bachelor Duke). His highest-rated son, Black Tie Affair, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic, is the broodmare sire of Mastercraftsman, and Miswaki himself will have a place in the pedigrees of champions for years to come as the sire of Urban Sea. Sands Of Mali is out of a mare

by Indian Rocket, who is the damsire of Goken, the leading first- and second-season sire in France in 2020 and 2021. At any rate, he adds welcome genetic diversity to the gene pool and, with more than 150 mares covered in his first season, he will have more than enough foals on the ground to give him the best chance of success.

Shamardal’s influence continues to grow and with so many of his sons just at the start of their stud careers, and Lope De Vega now represented by his own sons at stud, there

is every reason to believe that the legacy of the late son of Giant’s Causeway will be a great one.

Naturally, given their exploits on the track, most of Shamardal’s sons remain beyond the reach of the smaller budget. However, Yeomanstown Stud offers a son of Shamardal with an outstanding stallion’s pedigree and a classy race record for just €5,000.

Shaman comes from one of the Elle Seule branches of the Fall Aspen family and that blue hen is the ancestress of such luminaries as Dubai Millennium, Timber Country and Fort Wood. Group 2 winner Elle Seule, who is the third dam of Shaman, has produced the July Cup winner and sire Elnadim and Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf, who is the second dam of Bangkok and the third dam of Ribchester.

She is also the dam of Only Seule, by Lyphard, who produced the Prix de la Forêt and Prix Maurice de Gheest winner Occupandiste, dam of Arlington Million and Woodbine Mile winner Mondialiste and second dam of Prix du Jockey Club winner Intello. Only Seule’s Listed-winning daughter Only Green, by Green Desert, is the dam of Shaman.

Shaman was bred by the Wertheimers and trained by Andre Fabre to be placed at

Sands Of Mali Imposing specimen who was a top-class sprinter, he offers an outcross pedigree at a bargain fee Shaman The most affordable son of the brilliant Shamardal at stud in Ireland, and from an outstanding family Without Parole A Group 1-winning miler by champion sire Frankel with an impeccable lineage; at just £8,000, he is a steal Group 3 and Listed level at two. As a three-year-old he was second in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and in the Prix Jacques le Marois, and won the Group 3 Prix la Force. At four he won the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and was third in the Prix Ganay.

King Of Change is another Group 1 winner available at a very affordable fee, in his case €6,000, and he is the only Group 1 winner from the small crops sired by Farhh.

Standing at Derrinstown Stud, King Of Change was a top-class miler, beating a field that included The Revenant, Mohaather and Veracious in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and finishing runner-up behind Magna Grecia in the 2,000 Guineas. He also won the Listed Fortune Stakes as a three-year-old.

King Of Change never finished out of the first two in his six career starts and is a

Continues page 12

Age 9

Sire Shamardal

Stud, location Mickley, UK

Fee £3,000

No. covered in 2021 15

Arizona

5

No Nay Never

Coolmore, Ire

€6,000

101

Circus Maximus

6

Galileo

Coolmore, Ire

€12,500

102

Diplomat

11

Teofilo

March Hare, UK

£1,500

na

Far Above

6

Farhh

Starfield, Ire

€5,000

142

Flash Gordon

6

Kodiac

Meelin, Ire

€1,500

na

Galileo Chrome

5

Australia

Starfield, Ire

€4,000

101

Hunting Horn

7

Camelot

Castlefield, Ire

€2,000

82

Kew Gardens

7

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

198

King Of Change

6

Farhh

Derrinstown, Ire

€6,000

70

Legends Of War

6

Scat Daddy

March Hare, UK

£4,000

na

Mr Scaramanga

8

Sir Percy

March Hare, UK

£1,000

na

Old Persian

7

Dubawi

Glenview, Ire

private

163

River Boyne

7

Dandy Man

Tara, Ire

€5,000

56

Royal Lytham

5

Gleneagles

Irish Emerald, Ire

€2,500

na

Rumble Inthejungle

6

Bungle Inthejungle

Norman Court, UK

£3,500

39

Sands Of Mali

7

Panis

Ballyhane, Ire

€5,000

152

Sergei Prokofiev

6

Scat Daddy

Whitsbury Manor, UK

£6,000

154

Shaman

6

Shamardal

Yeomanstown, Ire

€5,000

134

Son Of Rest

8

Pivotal

Meelin, Ire

€3,000

na

Southern Hills

5

Gleneagles

March Hare, UK

£2,000

na

Tip Two Win

7

Dark Angel

March Hare, UK

£2,500

na

Way To Paris

9

Champs Elysees

Coolagown, Ire

€3,500

110

Without Parole

7

Frankel

Newsells Park, UK

£8.000

83

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half-brother to the Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed miler Century Dream, who starts his stallion career at Norton Grove Stud this season.

They are out of the winning Echo Of Light mare Salacia, who is a half-sister to three stakes performers. Second dam Neptune’s Bride won the Group 3 Prix Fille de l’Air and is a Bering half-sister to Group 2 winner Sea Dart out of the Group 3 winner Wedding Of The Sea. For a stallion with limited numbers, Farhh is quite well represented at stud, with Far Above joining King Of Change in retiring to stud in 2021, while Dee Ex Bee is new for this season.

Standing at Starfield Stud for €5,000, Far Above covered in excess of 140 mares in his first season. Successful in four of his five starts, he was a classy sprinter, winning the Group 3 Palace House Stakes and the Listed Prix Kistena.

He is out of the Shamardal mare Dorraar, who was a winner at three and is out of a Dubai Millennium half-sister to Prix de l’Opéra and Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes winner Nahrain, who is the dam of Benbatl, a three-time Group 1 winner by Dubawi.

Nahrain is also a half-sister to the dam of Go Bears Go, who won the Railway Stakes last season and was third in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.

The Scat Daddy line is represented on both sides of the Irish Sea in this section through his son Sergei Prokofiev at Whitsbury Manor Stud and grandson Arizona at Coolmore’s Castlehyde Stud.

Sergei Prokofiev was a $1.1 million yearling from the final crop of Scat Daddy and was a classy performer at two for Aidan O’Brien. He won the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes and the Listed Rochestown Stakes and was also third to Calyx and Advertise in the Coventry Stakes. As a three-year-old he won the Listed Cork Stakes and was fourth behind Mabs Cross and Equilateral in the Palace House Stakes.

His dam Orchard Beach is inbred to Unbridled; she is a Tapit half-sister to the Grade 3 winner Necessary Evil and they are out of an Unbridled’s Song half-sister to the Listed winner Forest Danz. Sergei Prokofiev is standing for £6,000 this year.

Coventry Stakes winner Arizona, at €6,000, is another reasonably priced stallion from that line who offers the precocity and speed which the market demands.

Twice placed behind Pinatubo at Group 1 level, he descends from a line that has produced top-class juveniles; each of his six sires in a direct line back to Storm Bird were Group 1 winners at two.

His dam Lady Ederle is an English Channel half-sister to the dam of European champion two-year-old Dabirsim, who was a dual

‘Who would have thought that young Classic, Coventry Stakes and Group 1 winners could stand for fees that qualify them for this supplement?’

Group 1 winner as a juvenile, and his second dam Bright Generation was runner-up in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at two.

Of the mainly National Hunt-oriented stallions with their first foals this spring, two who stand at neighbouring north Cork farms stick out.

One is Glenview Stud’s Old Persian, a dual top-level winner by Dubawi from the family of Miesque, whose fee is private, and the other is Way To Paris at Coolagown Stud.

The Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner is the only son of Champs Elysees at stud and is a half-brother to a Group 1 winner. He stands for €3,500.

FIRST YEARLINGS OF 2022

and has already proven a hit with buyers at the sales.

The son of Lope De Vega won the Acomb Stakes at two and then finished second to Too Darn Hot in the Champagne Stakes before running Magna Grecia to a head in the Vertem Futurity Trophy. His seasonal reappearance at three came in the Curragh Classic, in which he turned the tables emphatically on both Too Darn Hot and Magna Grecia, earning an RPR of 120.

He is out of Lucky Clio, by Key Of Luck, who is the broodmare sire of last year’s Prix de l’Abbaye winner and Flying Five Stakes second A

It is surprising just what good value can be found in the stallion ranks when you start researching the subject. Who would have thought that young Classic, Coventry Stakes and Group 1 winners could stand for fees that qualify them for this supplement? They can, and do, starting with an exciting Guineas winner.

In Phoenix Of Spain, who stands for €12,000 at the Irish National Stud, there is an Irish 2,000 Guineas winner who beat the champion two-year-old of his generation to earn his Classic stripes,

First-crop yearling stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee

Austrian School 7 Teofilo Clongiffen, Ire €1,500 Barraquero

7

Zebedee

Claremount, Ire

Calyx

6

Kingman

Coolmore, Ire

Capri

8

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

Crystal Ocean

8

Sea The Stars

Coolmore NH, Ire

Eqtidaar

7

Invincible Spirit

Flag Of Honour

7

Inns Of Court

Foal average in 2021 na

No. covered in 2021 37

private

na

na

€12,500

34,871gns

105

€4,000

na

122

€8,000

28,751gns

302

Nunnery, UK

£5,000

11,428gns

35

Galileo

National, UK

£2,500

1,000gns

45

8

Invincible Spirit

Tally-Ho, Ire

€5,000

19,088gns

184

Invincible Army

7

Invincible Spirit

Yeomanstown, Ire

€7,500

29,090gns

112

Land Force

6

No Nay Never

Highclere, UK

£5,000

20,348gns

118

Marmelo

9

Duke Of Marmalade

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

na

na

Phoenix Of Spain

6

Lope De Vega

Irish National, Ire

€12,000

25,832gns

108 18

Portamento

Shamardal

Hedgeholme, UK

£1,500

na

Sogann

10 6

Frankel

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

na

23

Soldier’s Call

6

Showcasing

Ballyhane, Ire

€7,500

20,534gns

159

Success Days

10

€2,000

na

95

poa

na

19

£2,000

na

na

Jeremy

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

The Irish Rover

6

No Nay Never

Sweep Lane, Ire

Wusool

7

Speightstown

Lilling Hall, UK

Case Of You. Lucky Clio is a half-sister to multiple Group winner and sire Special Kaldoun.

Phoenix Of Spain was very popular at the foal sales, with his progeny selling for an average – 25,832gns for 36 sold – that was nearly double his advertised first-season fee, and a median of 21,258gns. The highest price paid was €195,000 for a three-parts sister to Lucky Vega, who has joined Phoenix Of Spain on the Irish National Stud’s team for 2022.

Coventry Stakes winner Calyx is a new entrant to our Breeding on a Budget guide, sneaking in with a €12,500 fee at Coolmore, having previously stood for €22,500 and €16,000.

One of the first colts to advertise Kingman’s prowess as a sire, with an electrifying display of acceleration at Royal Ascot in a race in which he defeated subsequent multiple Group 1 winner Advertise, the lightly raced sprinter added Ascot’s Group 3 Pavilion Stakes on his seasonal reappearance at three.

He had one more start, in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes, and was far from disgraced in running second to subsequent dual Group 1 winner Hello Youmzain.

Calyx’s pedigree could not be more current as he is related to the unbeaten Native Trail, successful in the National and Dewhurst Stakes last season and recently crowned European champion two-year-old. He is bred along very similar lines to

Godolphin’s exciting prospect, who is a son of Kingman’s close relation Oasis Dream and out of a sister to Calyx’s Group 3-winning dam Helleborine.

Another sister to both mares is Sprint Cup heroine African Rose, who has produced the Group 3 winner and Group 2-placed Fair Eva,

by Frankel. Their dam, New Orchid, was third in the Group 3 Lancashire Oaks and is a Quest For Fame half-sister to Dewhurst winner Distant Music.

The first foals by Calyx averaged 34,871gns for 24 sold, with two of them breaking through the six-figure barrier; a filly out of Listed winner We Are Ninety who brought €125,000 and a half-brother to Group 3 winner Mintd bought for €115,000 by Yeomanstown Stud.

Crystal Ocean’s first foals impressed breeders and buyers alike in 2021, with his book leaping from 163 to 302 last year. The Group 1 winner, who stands ostensibly as a National Hunt stallion at The Beeches Stud, covered a number of Flat-bred mares and those who came to market certainly caught the eye of noted judges.

Three foals by the son of Sea The Stars were offered at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale and all three were purchased as pinhook prospects. The most expensive of the trio was a colt out of a half-sister to Group 1 winners Guignol and Guiliani, who was sold by Castletown Stud to Howson and Houldsworth Bloodstock

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‘Three foals by the son of Sea The Stars were offered at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale and all three were purchased as pinhook prospects. The most expensive of the trio was a colt out of a half-sister to Group 1 winners Guignol and Guiliani’ and Aughamore Stud for 46,000gns. Guy O’Callaghan also purchased a Crystal Ocean foal at that sale, giving 30,000gns for the colt out of a winning Shamardal mare.

Back in the National Hunt realm, Crystal Ocean – who is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner Hillstar, an exciting young jumping stallion – made waves with his first foals. His crop averaged more than four times his covering fee of €8,000, headed by the €120,000 colt out of Daydream Beach, a Mahler half-sister to Grade 1 winner Airlie Beach. Kevin Ross and Ben Case bought the colt from breeder Coolmara Stables at the Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale.

Soldier’s Call is a gorgeous son of Showcasing who stands at Ballyhane Stud for €7,500 and is an exciting young stallion with plenty of attributes that should ensure he is a successful sire, not least where he is based.

Although he is not a Group 1 winner – an omission from the CV that has not prevented his sire from climbing to the higher echelons – Soldier’s Call does boast top-level form.

Successful twice over five furlongs at Group level as a two-year-old, including in the Flying Childers, he was only a neck behind Mabs Cross when third in the Prix de l’Abbaye at two. At three he was third to the brilliant Blue Point and Battaash in the King’s Stand Stakes, ahead of Group 1 winners Mabs Cross and Fairyland. Soldier’s Call was also second to Battaash in the

STAR VALUE Eqtidaar Group 1-winning sprinter who is a half-brother to a Guineas runner-up, he has the looks to match his pedigree Phoenix Of Spain The Irish 2,000 Guineas winner just creeps in under budget and his first foals really made a splash at the sales Soldier's Call Gorgeous, affordable and with a pedigree that screams speed, the son of Showcasing answers every call Nunthorpe, in which he finished in front of Mabs Cross, Ten Sovereigns and Fairyland.

He is bred to be quick, as a son of Listed Prix la Fleche winner Dijarvo, who is inbred to Nureyev through her sire Iceman, a Coventry Stakes-winning son of Polar Falcon, and her broodmare sire Wolfhound, who won the Haydock Sprint Cup. Lightning speed runs throughout his family all the way back to his fourth dam Abeer, winner of the Flying Childers and the Queen Mary Stakes.

Invincible Spirit is triple-handed in this group of stallions with Inns Of Court and Invincible Army in Ireland at Tally-Ho and Yeomanstown Studs respectively, and Eqtidaar at Shadwell in Britain.

Shadwell’s homebred Eqtidaar is one of 20 individual Group/Grade 1 winners by his sire, with his top-level success coming in the Commonwealth Cup, in

which he defeated Sands Of Mali, Sioux Nation and Invincible Army, among others. Successful on his debut at two, Eqtidaar was also second in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes at three.

He hails from a famed Kilfrush Stud family and is a half-brother to Hungerford Stakes winner Massaat, who was placed in the 2,000 Guineas, Dewhurst and Prix du Moulin, and to the Horris Hill winner Mujbar.

Their dam, Madany, is an Acclamation half-sister to Group 3 winner Dolled Up and Listed winner Zeiting, who is the dam of Group 2 winner Combat Zone and Group 3 winners Royal Empire and Scottish, and the second dam of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Precieuse.

He is an attractive bay with plenty of size and power, a strong backside and powerful forearm. At just £5,000 at Nunnery Stud, he represents value for breeders looking to use a Group 1-winning sprinter with a proven pedigree.

Yeomanstown Stud’s Invincible Army has the highest advertised fee of the three standing at €7,500. A Group winner at two, three and four, he offers precocity, consistency and toughness to breeders.

He finished second to subsequent Derby winner Masar on his debut in May of his juvenile season and then broke his maiden on his second start, before filling the runner-up position in the Continues page 14

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Molecomb to Havana Grey and the Gimcrack behind Sands Of Mali.

He climbed to the top step of the podium in the Group 3 Sirenia Stakes and then ended his juvenile season with a second in the Mill Reef. In seven starts at two he was out of the first two only once.

He beat Eqtidaar in the Group 3 Pavilion Stakes on his first start at three and was then second, beaten a nose, to Sands Of Mali in the Group 2 Sandy Lane Stakes. As a four-year-old he was successful in the Duke of York Stakes, the Chipchase Stakes and the Listed Cammidge Trophy. He was also third behind Fairyland and So Perfect in the Flying Five Stakes, in which he finished ahead of Soldier’s Call and Mabs Cross, and was a close fourth behind Glass Slippers in the Prix de l’Abbaye on his final start.

Buyers were taken with his first foals in November and they averaged 29,090gns for 24 sold, so around three times his advertised covering fee of €10,000 in 2020.

Inns Of Court was trained

by Andre Fabre for Godolphin and has an internationally recognisable family. His dam Learned Friend is a Seeking The Gold half-sister to Japan’s champion older horse of 2020, the triple Group 1 winner Fierement, by Deep Impact.

Second dam Lune D’Or was a Group 1 performer, winning the Premio Lydia Tesio and finishing third in the Yorkshire Oaks. She is a Green Tune daughter of Listed winner Luth D’Or, a half-sister to the Prix du Moulin and Prix Jacques le Marois winner Luth Enchantee.

Inns Of Court’s own race record is impressive. He ran 18 times over four seasons and was successful on his only start at two. As a three-year-old, Inns Of Court won a pair of Group 3 contests – the Prix du Palais-Royal and the Prix de la Porte Maillot – and was beaten a short head into second by Al Wukair in the Prix Jacques le Marois.

At four he was again

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successful at Group 3 level, in the Prix de Ris-Orangis, and was second to One Master, suffering another short-head defeat in a Group 1, in the Prix de la Forêt. Kept in training for another season, he won the Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chêne and the Listed Prix Servanne.

Quick and with an excellent pedigree, Inns Of Court also has the enormous benefit of standing at Tally-Ho Stud, which has become a production line for successful stallions in the past decade.

Inns Of Court, at €5,000 this year, looks set to be another.

Of the National Hunt stallions with their first yearlings in 2022, the Irish St Leger winner Flag Of Honour at the National Stud and Kilbarry Lodge’s Success Days, one of just two sons of the much-missed Jeremy at stud, are eye-catching options at £2,500 and €2,000 respectively.

FIRST TWO-YEAROLDS OF 2022 A typically diverse range of sires are represented by their first crop of two-year-olds this year, ranging from speedsters to milers and middle-distance

prospects. It is perhaps fair to say that, within this price bracket, a large number will likely throw up precocious and pacey sorts from next month onwards.

Whitsbury Manor Stud has plenty of reasons for optimism with Group 1 Flying Five Stakes winner Havana Grey, whose sire Havana Gold was the leading UK-based sire of two-year-olds in Europe last season with an excellent 32 individual winners.

Standing at a fee of £6,000 for 2022, the seven-year-old hails from a fast family, being out of a five-furlong winner and half-sister to numerous winners over the minimum trip.

A winner himself on his second start in May of his juvenile career, he readily won the Molecomb and was also second in the Prix Morny to Unfortunately. Havana Grey added the Sapphire Stakes to his CV in the July of his three-year-old campaign before his Group 1 breakthrough.

His first yearlings proved particularly popular, selling for up to £110,000 and at an average price of 27,706gns. He

has 113 first-crop juveniles to do battle in 2022.

Tasleet is another high-class sprinter whose first crop of two-year-olds have reportedly been well received by trainers.

Shadwell’s son of Showcasing also hails from a proven top-class family of sprinters, being out of a half-sister to the dam of the mighty Battaash.

Tasleet himself proved a big talent on the track, winning on his second start at two and finishing that season with a Listed strike in the Rose Bowl Stakes and two second places in Group company, including to Shalaa in the Richmond Stakes.

Tasleet landed the Duke of York Stakes at four before three second places in Group 1 company, including when just a neck behind The Tin Man in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Standing at an unchanged fee of £5,000 this year, Tasleet will have 68 juveniles representing him. His yearlings sold for an average of 25,960gns in 2021.

Gustav Klimt has routinely been advertised by Coolmore as a speed son of Galileo, and

the Superlative Stakes winner has plenty going for him as he bids to prove himself another worthy stallion son of the late perennial champion sire.

Having dropped from an opening fee of €7,500 to €4,000 this term, it is a price that looks excellent value given the seven-year-old is out of a stakes-winning full-sister to Kodiac and a half-sister to Invincible Spirit, being out of Prince Faisal’s brilliant producer Rafha.

Gustav Klimt’s first yearlings sold for up to £60,000, at an average of 16,049gns, while he has 66 two-year-old runners this season.

Tally-Ho Stud is renowned for producing prolific first-season sires – think Mehmas, Cotai Glory and Galileo Gold for starters.

In Kessaar it has another freshman sire who should prove highly commercial at a fee of €5,000, being another son of Kodiac, whose Ardad proved one of the sensations among last year’s first-season sires.

Bred by Tally-Ho, Kessaar was a 100,000gns purchase by Hugo Merry from Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling

Sale and became a tough and consistent performer for John Gosden on his sole season in training, with victories in the Mill Reef and Sirenia Stakes the highlights.

His first crop of yearlings sold for up to €100,000, at an average of 27,656gns, off an opening fee of €8,000. He will be represented by 77 two-year-olds in 2022.

Tweenhills Stud resident Lightning Spear has both the looks and talent to make an impact despite smaller numbers (21 first-crop two-year-olds this term).

A 260,000gns purchase by David Redvers from Book 1, the son of the late, great Pivotal may not have the biggest first crop on his side owing to early sub-fertility issues but has plenty to recommend him off a 2022 fee of £5,000.

A tough campaigner from three to seven, Lightning Spear won on his sole start at two and progressed through the ranks to Group company, which ultimately yielded a memorable Sussex Stakes success along with two Celebration Miles plus a further six placings at the highest level.

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STAR VALUE

Gustav Klimt Son of Galileo has the pedigree to get off to a good start Havana Grey High-class performer’s £6,000 fee should turn heads Lightning Spear Teak-tough son of Pivotal from a good family

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His first book of yearlings sold for up to £81,900, at an average price of 28,111gns.

Speed-oriented sire Unfortunately is another who looks competitively priced, at €3,500, given he is a Prix Morny-winning son of the ill-fated Society Rock.

A half-brother to a five-furlong Group 2 winner in Temple Stakes scorer Look Busy, Unfortunately stood at Cheveley Park Stud upon retirement in 2019 before a move to Oak Lodge Stud.

A champion juvenile in France, having also landed the Prix Robert Papin, Unfortunately has a Group-race win on his CV as a three-year-old too, having finished his career with success in the Renaissance Stakes for the Karl Burke yard.

His first crop of yearlings sold for an average of 13,608gns, from an opening fee of €7,500.

He has 34 two-year-olds to go to war with this term.

By the late Zoffany and the

winner of the Windsor Castle Stakes after scoring in the April of his juvenile campaign, Washington DC is a fascinating first-season sire for Bearstone Stud.

A 75,000gns purchase as a foal from Tattersalls, he made €340,000 to BBA Ireland at Goffs Orby and is a half-brother to last season’s Chester Vase runner-up Sandhurst.

Not only a high-class talent at two – he finished a fine second to Air Force Blue in the Phoenix Stakes – Washington DC proved durable over three further busy seasons for Aidan O’Brien, with highlights including his victory in the Phoenix Sprint Stakes and placings in the Commonwealth Cup and Prix de l’Abbaye.

Washington DC’s first yearlings sold for an average of 15,494gns in 2021 and he will have 47 runners to represent him this season. He stands for £3,500.

Rajasinghe has had his price clipped from his 2019 fee of £5,000 to £3,000 over the last

two seasons. The National Stud resident is an intriguing prospect, being a Coventry Stakes-winning son of the top-class Choisir and a half-brother to a Listed-placed speedster in Kurland.

Other bargain sires with their first juvenile runners in 2022 include Rathbarry Stud’s James Garfield, winner of the Mill Reef and second in the Prix Maurice de Gheest, who stands at a fee of €4,000.

There is also Mickley Stud’s Massaat (£4,000), a Teofilo half-brother to Commonwealth Cup hero Eqtidaar and winner of the Hungerford Stakes and second in the 2,000 Guineas; Starfield Stud resident Smooth Daddy (€4,000), a Grade 3-winning son of Scat Daddy from the family of Caracolero and Majestic Prince; and Master Carpenter (£1,000), March Hare Stud’s ultra-tough Group-winning son of Mastercraftsman whose family traces back to the great Rafha.

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£1000

MASTER CARPENTER [MASTERCRAFTSMAN X FRINGE]

£1000

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£4000

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£2500

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First-crop two-year-old stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee Yearling average in 2021

Frontiersman 9 Dubawi Overbury, UK £1,000 7,619gns

No. covered in 2021 78

Gustav Klimt

7

Galileo

Coolmore, Ire

€4,000

16,049gns

Harbour Law

9

Lawman

Batsford, UK

£2,000

na

51 8

Havana Grey

7

Havana Gold

Whitsbury Manor, UK

£6,000

27,706gns

125 136

Idaho

9

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€3,500

2,380gns

James Garfield

7

Exceed And Excel

Rathbarry, Ire

€4,000

17,917gns

21

SOUTHERN HILLS

DIPLOMAT

Kessaar

6

Kodiac

Tally-Ho, Ire

€5,000

27,656gns

41

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£2000

£1500

Lightning Spear Massaat Master Carpenter

11

Pivotal

Tweenhills, UK

£5,000

28,111gns

33

9

Teofilo

Mickley, UK

£4,000

15,833gns

69

Mastercraftsman

March Hare, UK

£1,000

800gns

na

11

Order Of St George 10

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€6,500

12,794gns

312

Poet’s Word

9

Poet’s Voice

Boardsmill, Ire

€6,000

800gns

229

Rajasinghe

7

Choisir

National, UK

£3,000

1,666gns

36

Sioux Nation

7

Scat Daddy

Coolmore, Ire

€10,000

35,043gns

61

Smooth Daddy Tasleet

11

Scat Daddy

Starfield, Ire

€4,000

19,382gns

21

9

Showcasing

Nunnery, UK

£5,000

25,960gns

34

Unfortunately

7

Society Rock

Oak Lodge, Ire

€3,500

13,608gns

18

US Navy Flag

7

War Front

Coolmore, Ire

€12,500

58,438gns

59

Washington DC

9

Zoffany

Bearstone, UK

£3,500

15,494gns

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET FIRST THREE-YEAROLDS OF 2021 Last year’s leading first-season sire by winners, Cotai Glory continues to stand for a fee that is within budget of smaller breeders, having been raised to €8,500 from €5,000

by Tally-Ho. Having supplied 35 individual winners last year, headed by Prix Robert Papin and Prix du Bois winner Atomic Force, the son of Exceed And Excel has continued his winning run into the new year and should carry on providing breeders and owners with a constant supply of classy performers.

An appealing aspect to Cotai Glory is the fact he trained on well, winning a Newbury Group 3 sprint at four to add to his Scarbrough Stakes success from Kingsgate Native as a three-year-old. He was also a neck second to Profitable in the King’s Stand Stakes and, as a five-year-old, third to Marsha in the Nunthorpe Stakes.

His studmate, Galileo Gold, holds plenty of appeal too. The son of Paco Boy defied many expectations when becoming the first freshman sire of 2021 to supply a top-level winner in Phoenix Stakes scorer Ebro River.

A Classic winner thanks to his victory in the 2,000

‘Being a beautifully bred son of Galileo out of a full-sister to Giant’s Causeway and You’resothrilling, it is likely the best is yet to come from Decorated Knight’

Guineas, Galileo Gold also won the St James’s Palace and Vintage Stakes, and was placed in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and Sussex Stakes. He stands for an increased, but as with Cotai Glory, still very reasonable fee of €7,000, from €5,000 in 2021.

Galileo Gold has supplied six black-type horses from his

first crop, including French Group 3 winner and Prix Marcel Boussac third Oscula, Empress Fillies’ Stakes winner System and Prix Robert Papin third Hellomydarlin.

Being a beautifully bred son of the late Galileo and out of a full-sister to Giant’s Causeway and You’resothrilling, it is

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Decorated Knigh tM promising start las ade a t term, with some unexpo sed prospects to com e El Kabeir In astu te hands and capable of fu rther improvement Galileo Gold Surp rised many last year an d hi progeny should im s prove at three

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likely the best is yet to come from Decorated Knight.

Standing for an unchanged fee of €7,500 this year, Decorated Knight got off to a promising start with his first two-year-olds last season, his winners including the dual scorer Wind Your Neck In and Silver Bullet Lady.

Given the ten-year-old came into his own at four and five, as evidenced by wins in the Tattersalls Gold Cup, Jebel Hatta and Irish Champion Stakes, plenty can be expected of Decorated Knight as his first three-year-olds hit the track over the coming months.

As a blue-blooded son of the perennial champion sire with a top-class, durable CV, he looks particularly good value.

The National Stud had two promising first-crop sires last term. While Time Test’s fee now stands at £15,000 after a string of Group-race results, Aclaim is eligible for our supplement and has plenty going for him too after supplying the most

two-year-old winners of any British-based first-season sire in 2021.

The son of Acclamation, a €130,000 purchase by Stephen Hillen from Goffs Orby, had only one run at two, when shedding his maiden tag at Kempton in December 2015, but flourished during the following two seasons.

He won the Challenge Stakes on his last run at three and closed out his career at four with victories in the Park Stakes and Group 1 Prix de la Forêt. He was also runner-up to Brando in the Prix Maurice de Gheest.

His first crop last year was headed by Cachet, who was runner-up in the Rockfel Stakes and third in the Fillies’ Mile, and Jacinda, who was second in the Premio Dormello.

There is every reason to believe Aclaim is very good value at £6,000, particularly given he was £9,500 last term.

Yeomanstown Stud is a byword for the production of

top-class stallions, and the operation’s El Kabeir got off to a good start in his second career with five 2021 black-type performers from 16 individual winners.

Among them were leading Italian colt Don Chicco, who struck in the Gran Criterium and Premio Giuseppe de Montel, and Masekela, who was beaten just a short head by the subsequently crowned champion two-year-old colt Native Trail in the Superlative Stakes at Newmarket.

The son of Scat Daddy was a high-class operator during his racing career too, winning the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs and a brace of Grade 3 events, and running third to Frosted in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial Stakes.

Standing at a fee of €6,000, having stood at €8,000 for his first three seasons, El Kabeir has proven capable of siring Group-class horses at an affordable price.

Bearstone Stud has been Continues page 18

First-crop three-year-old stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Aclaim 9 Acclamation National, UK £6,000 64 Berkshire

11

Mount Nelson

Kedrah House, Ire

€3,500

183

Cotai Glory

10

Exceed And Excel

Tally-Ho, Ire

€8,500

113

Dartmouth

10

Dubawi

Shade Oak, UK

£2,500

65

Decorated Knight

10

Galileo

Irish National, Ire

€7,500

44

El Kabeir

10

Scat Daddy

Yeomanstown, Ire

€6,000

43

Forever Now

11

na

Galileo Gold

9

Galileo

Norton Grove, UK

£1,000

Paco Boy

Tally-Ho, Ire

€7,000

38

Highland Reel

10

Galileo

Coolmore, Ire

€10,000

104

Jack Hobbs

10

Halling

Overbury, UK

£3,000

163

Mahsoob

11

Dansili

Meiklehaugh, UK

Mattmu

10

Indesatchel

My Dream Boat

10

poa

11

Bearstone, UK

£2,500

na na

Lord Shanakill

Starfield, Ire

€2,500

TARA STUD

National Defense

8

Invincible Spirit

Irish National, Ire

€8,000

35

Pillar Coral

8

Zamindar

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

116

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Postponed

11

Dubawi

Dalham Hall, UK

£6,000

100

Profitable

10

Invincible Spirit

Kildangan, Ire

€12,500

168

Ribchester

9

Iffraaj

Kildangan, Ire

€12,500

150

Ulysses

9

Galileo

Cheveley Park, UK

£10,000

118

Wings Of Eagles

8

Pour Moi

Coolmore NH, Ire

€4,000

13

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Brilliance on a budget Harry Angel £12,500

Golden Horn £10,000

Territories £10,000

Postponed £6,000

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BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

‘A fine performer on the track and from the family of top-level winners Mastery and Kirklees, Cable Bay stands out as a potential improver on a realistic budget at his home in Highclere’

HEDGEHOLME STUD INTRODUCING NEW RECRUIT

BURATINO

BY EXCEED AND EXCEL – BERGAMASK (KINGMAMBO) The only son of Exceed And Excel standing in Britain

WINNER OF THE GROUP 2 COVENTRY STAKES AT ROYAL ASCOT (6F) BEATING AIR FORCE BLUE (TRIPLE GR.1 WINNER) BY 2L AND ACHIEVING A REPORT FROM RACING POST OF “IMPRESSIVE” Also winner of the Listed Woodcote Stakes at Epsom and second to Shalaa in the Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes Buratino is the sire of over 40 worldwide winners including: Snapraeterea - Group 2-placed at two and dual Listed winner at 3, rated 110 Run for Me - Listed second place in GP der Mehl-Mulhens-Stiftung Macasai - Listed third place in Premio Criterium Femminile

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busy in the stallion transfer market and Mattmu rejoins its growing roster having stood at the Shropshire establishment in 2017 and 2018.

By dual Group 3-winning miler and French 2,000 Guineas runner-up Indesatchel, Mattmu has enjoyed an excellent strike-rate with his few offspring to have run. They include dual winner Favourite Child, who was just touched off in a Listed race at Longchamp in October, and another dual scorer in Matty Too. Mattmu was a consistent and classy performer on the track, winning the Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte and Rockingham Stakes from nine starts at two. He won the Phoenix Sprint Stakes and was third in the Nunthorpe at three, and concluded his career aged five with victory in the Great St Wilfrid Handicap.

He is reintroduced to the British market at a fee of £2,500.

Postponed proved a top-class middle-distance performer as an older horse, so there was always expectation that progeny of the son of Dubawi would come into their own at three years of age and over.

A smashing-looking horse who cost 360,000gns from Tattersalls Book 1, Postponed was precocious enough to win on the second of three starts at two, before working his way up the ranks at three to land the Great Voltigeur Stakes.

He won the King George VI

STAR VALUE

Coulsty Really hard to argue that this Grade 1-producing sire is not the embodiment of star value at just €4,000 Due Diligence Best cro ps set to make their mark in the years ahead Twilight Son Consistent source of winners who has more in the locker

and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, plus the Prix Foy, as a four-year-old, but was not done there and scaled even greater heights at five, when he swept up a trio of top-flight scores in the Dubai Sheema Classic, Coronation Cup and Juddmonte International.

Having originally stood for a fee of £20,000, the half-brother to Premio Lydia Tesio winner God Given now stands at £6,000.

His four individual winners include Almohandesah, who ran well in black-type company last year, and Kempton novice winner Rochebrune.

MORE ESTABLISHED SIRES A fine performer on the track and from the family of top-level winners Mastery and Kirklees, Cable Bay stands out as a potential improver on a realistic budget at his home in Highclere.

The son of Invincible Spirit was retired to stud in 2016 and has been unlucky to have not yet produced a Group 1 winner. Dragon Symbol was first past the post in last year’s Commonwealth Cup but was demoted to second place, while Temple Stakes winner Liberty Beach was third in both the King’s Stand and Prix de l’Abbaye of 2020.

A half-brother to tough Australian Group 2 winner Mister Sea Wolf and a full-sibling to the Listed-winning Phoenix Stakes fourth Indigo Balance, Cable Bay will have the opportunity to secure that elusive top-level

strike with quality books at a price of £8,000.

The fee for Cheveley Park Stud’s Twilight Son was justifiably raised to £7,000 from £5,000 for this term, the ten-year-old having been one of the leading second-crop sires last season by winners and black-type performers.

By the stud’s much-missed Kyllachy, Twilight Son was himself a top-class performer – winning the Haydock Sprint Cup and Diamond Jubilee Stakes – and it appears he is passing on plenty of that class to his progeny.

Having already sired the multiple Italian Group-winning filly Aria Importante, he bagged a second Group victor in the tenacious Twilight Jet, while Listed Cecil Frail Stakes winner and Renaissance Stakes second Twilight Spinner looks a filly of immense promise for connections.

A prolific sire of high-class winners, Twilight Son looks an obvious candidate for any breeder on a limited budget.

With his best crop due to sell as yearlings this year, Due Diligence has a platform on which to build on his fine start at Whitsbury Manor Stud.

The son of War Front, who stands for a fee of £5,000 at the Hampshire operation, has already shown his capability at producing Group-class sprinters, for example Cornwallis Stakes winner and Lowther Stakes third Good Vibes, Sirenia Stakes scorer Streamline and Blenheim Stakes victor Sir Boris.

At a reduced fee, down from

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More established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less First-crop 4yos in 2022

More established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less First-crop 5yos in 2022

Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Affinisea 11 Sea The Stars Whytemount, Ire poa 324

Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Altruistic 11 Galileo Rosshill, Ire €500 7

Awtaad

9

Belardo

10

Bobby’s Kitten

11

Cape Cross

Derrinstown, Ire

€5,000

16

Lope De Vega

Kildangan, Ire

€9,000

182

Cable Bay

11

Invincible Spirit

Highclere, UK

£8,000

68

Due Diligence

11

War Front

Whitsbury Manor, UK

£5,000

72 48

Kitten’s Joy

Lanwades, UK

£7,000

15

Free Eagle

11

High Chaparral

Irish National, Ire

€5,000

9

Exceed And Excel

Hedgeholme, UK

£3,000

25

Golden Horn

10

Cape Cross

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

82

Cannock Chase

11

Lemon Drop Kid

Vauterhill, UK

poa

10

Hillstar

12

Danehill Dancer

Garryrichard, Ire

poa

na

Coulsty

11

Kodiac

Rathasker, Ire

€4,000

104

Estidhkaar

10

Dark Angel

Tara, Ire

€3,000

20

Fascinating Rock

11

Fastnet Rock

Burgage, Ire

poa

Fountain Of Youth

11

Oasis Dream

Millbry Hill, UK

£2,000

Buratino

Intrinsic

12

Oasis Dream

Hedgeholme, UK

£1,750

15

Kingston Hill

11

Mastercraftsman

Nunstainton, UK

£2,000

33

26

Lucky Speed

12

Silvano

Sunnyhill, Ire

poa

23

na

Music Master

12

Piccolo

Throckmorton Court, UK

poa

na

£2,000

52

Harzand

9

Sea The Stars

Derrinstown, Ire

€5,000

76

Pether’s Moon

12

Dylan Thomas

Yorton Farm, UK

Marcel

9

Lawman

Anngrove, Ire

poa

na

Sea Moon

14

Beat Hollow

Burgage, Ire

poa

74

Mizzou

11

Galileo

Old Road, Ire

poa

na

Snow Sky

11

Nayef

Ballycurragh, Ire

poa

na

12

Galileo

Shade Oak, UK

£3,000

100

Ol’ Man River

10

Montjeu

Arctic Tack, Ire

€1,500

27

Telescope

Parish Hall

13

Teofilo

Redmondstown, Ire

private

13

Pearl Secret

13

Compton Place

Norton Grove, UK

£2,000

6

First-crop 6yos in 2022

Prince Of Lir

8

Kodiac

Ballyhane, Ire

€3,500

52

Proconsul

9

Galileo

Annshoon, Ire

poa

na

Territories

10

Invincible Spirit

Dalham Hall, UK

£10,000

123

Twilight Son

10

Kyllachy

Cheveley Park, UK

£7,000

62

Vadamos

11

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€6,000

244

Walzertakt

13

Montjeu

Chapel, UK

£2,500

na

‘The fee for Cheveley Park Stud’s Twilight Son was justifiably raised to £7,000 from £5,000 for this term, the ten-year-old having been one of the leading second-crop sires last season by winners and black-type performers’

Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Albaasil 14 Dansili Moor End, UK poa na Alhebayeb

12

Dark Angel

Tara, Ire

€3,000

8

Bungle Inthejungle

12

Exceed And Excel

Rathasker, Ire

€8,000

105

€4,500

50

poa

279 104

Gregorian

13

Clodovil

Rathasker, Ire

Jet Away

15

Cape Cross

Arctic Tack, Ire

Kuroshio

11

Exceed And Excel

Starfield, Ire

€5,000

Leading Light

12

Montjeu

Dunraven, UK

£2,500

23

Libertarian

12

New Approach

Knockhouse, Ire

poa

na

Ocovango

12

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

Quest For Peace

14

Galileo

Knockmullen House, Ire

€2,500

86

poa

na na

Sun Central

13

Galileo

Elusive Bloodstock, UK

poa

Top Trip

13

Dubai Destination

Vauterhill, UK

poa

na

Valirann

12

Nayef

Whytemount, Ire

poa

156

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‘Bungle Inthejungle’s progeny have continued to go from strength to strength, with a maiden Group 1 winner coming courtesy of Winter Power in a fine demonstration of raw speed in last season’s Nunthorpe Stakes’

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£6,000 in 2021, and with much more to come, the stakes-winning Diamond Jubilee runner-up appears good value.

Bungle Inthejungle’s progeny have continued to go from strength to strength, with a maiden Group 1 winner coming courtesy of Winter Power in a fine demonstration of raw speed in last season’s Nunthorpe Stakes.

The fee for the Exceed And Excel 12-year-old has remained unchanged at €8,000 despite his daughter’s York success, a fact unlikely to have passed any shrewd breeder by.

Bungle Inthejungle has also produced a Lowther Stakes winner in Living In The Past, as well as Molecomb Stakes victor and Middle Park third Rumble Inthejungle, from seven stakes performers overall.

Fellow Rathasker Stud resident Coulsty has emerged over the last 12 months as a real ally for the smaller breeder, notably via a first top-level winner in Shantisara, who beat a quality field in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes at Keeneland that included Empress Josephine and Technical Analysis – and by five lengths and more.

Standing for an unchanged fee of €4,000, the son of Kodiac has done superbly given modest opportunities, having also produced Princess Margaret Stakes scorer Santosha, and stakes winners Sopran Aragorn and Suicide Squad.

Kodiac’s sons continue to

go from strength to strength and Coulsty’s rise to Grade 1-winning sire was one of the unsung stallion stories of 2021.

Another speedy and precocious son of Kodiac, Ballyhane Stud’s Prince Of Lir, produced a genuine high-class performer in Norfolk Stakes winner and Phoenix Stakes runner-up The Lir Jet. A £170,000 purchase by Stroud Coleman from Bansha House Stables at the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale, Prince Of Lir, a half-brother to five-furlong Listed scorer Nitro Boost, beat subsequent Middle Park Stakes winner The Last Lion in his first two starts, including in the Norfolk.

Standing for an unchanged €3,500, the eight-year-old is also responsible for two Listed-placed performers in Puerto Princesa and Queen Of Rio. Bobby’s Kitten was responsible for one of last year’s leading juvenile fillies in Duchess of Cambridge and Albany Stakes winner Sandrine, a homebred of Kirsten Rausing’s, and the Lanwades Stud stallion can build on that momentum from a fee of £7,000.

A son of the popular Kitten’s Joy – whose name on these shores has cropped up in recent years with the likes of Roaring Lion and Kameko – the full-brother to Grade 2 scorer Camelot Kitten was a talented performer on the track, with a Grade 1 success, beating No Nay Never in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint of 2014, a career-defining highlight.

As a Classic-winning son of Cape Cross from a fine Shadwell family, Awtaad’s fee of €5,000, down from £10,000 last year, will surely tempt some breeders on a budget into booking in their mare.

A winner on his second start at two, Awtaad moved through the ranks to supplement a Listed success in his second season with victory over Galileo Gold in the Irish 2,000 Guineas. He was also third to that rival in the St James’s Palace Stakes and won the Boomerang Stakes on his penultimate start.

His leading progeny include last season’s Desmond Stakes and Royal Ascot heroine Create Belief, Primo Bacio, a stakes-winning daughter of a half-sister to Bocca Baciata, and the lightly raced King Charles II Stakes winner Bellosa.

With the Derrinstown sire’s offspring likely to improve with age, and with his fee cut in half, there are definite reasons to believe the handsome nine-year-old is good value.

Free Eagle has already produced a quality horse in Khalifa Sat, winner of the Cocked Hat Stakes and runner-up in the Derby, and Moyglare Stud’s beautifully bred son of High Chaparral could find a niche as a leading dual-purpose sire in the years to come.

Not only was he a top-class racehorse, winning the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, he also comes from one of the best families in the stud book, being out of the brilliant Polished Gem, the dam of dual

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Established stallions standing in Britain and Ireland for £10,000/€12,500 or less Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Aiken 14 Selkirk Anngrove, Ire poa na

Name Age Sire Stud, location Fee No. covered in 2021

Mayson 14 Invincible Spirit Cheveley Park, UK £6,000 71

Al Kazeem

14

Dubawi

Oakgrove, UK

private

17

Milan

24

Sadler’s Wells

Coolmore NH, Ire

Arctic Cosmos

15

North Light

Old Road, Ire

poa

na

Mores Wells

18

Sadler’s Wells

Old Road, Ire

Ask

19

Sadler’s Wells

Willow Wood, UK

poa

13

Norse Dancer

22

Halling

Blue Bresil

17

Smadoun

Glenview, Ire

poa

215

Passing Glance

23

Polar Falcon

Bullet Train

15

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm, Ire

private

na

Phoenix Reach

22

Alhaarth

Winterbeck Manor, UK

Carlotamix

17

Linamix

Coolagown, Ire

poa

9

Planteur

15

Danehill Dancer

Chapel, UK

Cityscape

16

Selkirk

Overbury, UK

£4,000

29

Policy Maker

22

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath, Ire

poa

56

Clodovil

22

Danehill

Rathasker, Ire

private

4

Primary

19

Giant’s Causeway

Tullyraine House, UK

poa

na

Court Cave

21

Sadler’s Wells

Boardsmill, Ire

€4,000

45

Raven’s Pass

17

Elusive Quality

Kildangan, Ire

€7,500

46

Curtain Time

24

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm, Ire

poa

na

Rock Of Gibraltar

23

Danehill

Coolmore, Ire

€5,000

38

Diamond Boy

16

Mansonnien

Kilbarry Lodge, Ire

poa

na

Saddex

19

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath, Ire

poa

71

Doyen

22

Sadler’s Wells

Sunnyhill, Ire

poa

49

Sans Frontieres

16

Galileo

Vauterhill, UK

poa

na

Dragon Dancer

19

Sadler’s Wells

Nunstainton, UK

£1,500

27

Scalo

15

Lando

Yorton Farm, UK

£2,000

17

Dragon Pulse

13

Kyllachy

Irish National, Ire

€2,000

14

Schiaparelli

19

Monsun

Overbury, UK

£2,000

28

Dream Ahead

14

Diktat

Bearstone, UK

£7,500

na

Scorpion

20

Montjeu

Old Road, Ire

poa

21

Eastern Anthem

18

Singspiel

Withyslade, UK

£1,250

9

Shantaram

13

Galileo

Coolagown, Ire

€1,000

21

Eliot

16

Tiger Hill

Blackrath, Ire

€1,000

7

Shirocco

21

Monsun

Glenview, Ire

private

118

Elzaam

13

Redoute’s Choice

Ballyhane, Ire

€5,000

92

Sholokhov

23

Sadler’s Wells

Glenview, Ire

private

83

Elusive Pimpernel

15

Elusive Quality

Irish National, Ire

€2,000

84

Sir Percy

19

Mark Of Esteem

Lanwades, UK

£7,000

26

Equiano

17

Acclamation

Irish National, Ire

€2,000

65

Sixties Icon

19

Galileo

Norman Court, UK

£3,000

30

Falco

17

Pivotal

Elusive Bloodstock, UK

poa

62

Soldier Of Fortune

18

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

€8,000

202

Famous Name

17

Dansili

Anngrove, Ire

€1,000

na

Steele Tango

17

Okawango

Lodge Farm, UK

poa

na

Feel Like Dancing

12

Galileo

Whytemount, Ire

private

51

Swiss Spirit

13

Invincible Spirit

Batsford, UK

£2,500

9

Footstepsinthesand

20

Giant’s Causeway

Coolmore, Ire

€12,500

101

Tamayuz

17

Nayef

Derrinstown, Ire

€7,000

45

Frammassone

17

Fraam

Peel Hall, UK

£2,000

na

Tau Ceti

23

Hernando

Rosshill, Ire

poa

8

Gamut

23

Spectrum

Rosshill, Ire

poa

9

Tough As Nails

13

Dark Angel

Blackrath, Ire

€1,500

22

Gentlewave

19

Monsun

Yorton Farm, UK

£3,500

45

Universal

13

Dubawi

Groomsbridge, UK

£2,000

19

Getaway

19

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€9,000

164

Urban Poet

16

Dynaformer

Gurteen, Ire

Gladiatorus

17

Silic

Windmill View, Ire

poa

na

Vendangeur

19

Galileo

Haafhd

21

Alhaarth

Batsford, UK

£2,000

8

Walk In The Park

20

Hellvelyn

18

Ishiguru

Chapel, UK

£2,500

5

Watar

17

Holy Roman Emperor

18

Danehill

Coolmore, Ire

€10,000

75

Well Chosen

Indian Haven

22

Indian Ridge

Chapel, UK

£1,500

5

Jukebox Jury

16

Montjeu

Burgage, Ire

€6,500

175

Kamsin

17

Samum

Annshoon, Ire

€3,500

na

Linda’s Lad

19

Sadler’s Wells

Yorton Farm, UK

£2,500

Magician

12

Galileo

Meelin, Ire

Mahler

18

Galileo

Coolmore NH, Ire

Malinas

21

Lomitas

Masterstroke

13

Maxios

14

€8,000

36

poa

na

Nunstainton, UK

£2,000

28

Batsford, UK

£3,000

93

poa

4

£4,000

77

poa

9

Anngrove, Ire

€2,000

na

Montjeu

Coolmore NH, Ire

private

226

Marju

Moortown, Ire

poa

10

23

Sadler’s Wells

Kedrah House, Ire

€7,500

26

Westerner

23

Danehill

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

110

Where Or When

23

Danehill Dancer

Ballycrystal, Ire

poa

na

Workforce

15

King’s Best

Knockhouse, Ire

€2,500

na

31

Yeats

21

Sadler’s Wells

Coolmore NH, Ire

€5,000

180

€4,000

na

Yorgunnabelucky

16

Giant’s Causeway

Mickley, UK

£2,000

39

€5,000

162

Youmzain

19

Sinndar

Glenview, Ire

private

30

Coolagown, Ire

€3,500

46

Zambezi Sun

18

Dansili

Coolagown, Ire

€2,000

23

Monsun

Yorton Farm, UK

£3,000

59

Covering numbers as recorded in Weatherbys’ Return of Mares

Monsun

Coolmore NH, Ire

€7,000

309

Irish St Leger heroine Search For A Song and multiple Group winner Custom Cut among numerous black-type performers.

Free Eagle has amassed a consistent record in his second career – offspring also include last year’s March Stakes winner Dancing King and the talented Justifier (now named Beauty Smile), and a reduced fee at the Irish National Stud of €5,000 should prove

appealing to breeders under both codes.

A dual Derby winner from a typically in-depth Aga Khan family, Harzand is the product of a union between Gilltown Stud resident Sea The Stars and Hazariya, a Group 3 winner and half-sister to Irish Oaks third Hazarista, and a reduction in his fee to €5,000 makes him an attractive proposition at Derrinstown.

Harzand was fifth on his sole

start at two before breaking his maiden by 16 lengths on his seasonal reappearance at three. A win in the Ballysax Stakes was followed by a brave success at Epsom, an even more credible result given he lost a shoe in the build-up to the race. His final win came in the Irish equivalent.

The Aga Khan homebred is a regular supplier of winners, for all that he has yet to get a real standout horse, and in recent

poa = price on application; na = not available

times he has been covering Flat and National Hunt mares.

For a third of the price when he started out at stud, he looks sure to have his supporters.

Alhebayeb won the July Stakes in a productive career for Richard Hannon snr and Shadwell and, as a son of the ever popular Dark Angel standing at a fee of €3,000, will undoubtedly have his supporters among the ranks of smaller breeders.

The 12-year-old, who is out of the Indian Ridge mare Miss Indigo – a half-sister to the Listed-winning Oaks fourth Musetta – was retired to Tara Stud in 2015. He has supplied five stakes scorers, including Italian Group 3 winner Aurelius In Love and Listed winners Abama, Talk Or Listen and Cathkin Peak.

A Dark Angel half-brother to the ill-fated National Stakes victor Toormore, out of the

Danetime mare Danetime Out, Tara’s Estidhkaar is another son of the Yeomanstown Stud stalwart to stand in Ireland for a more than affordable fee.

Also available at €3,000, the Champagne and Superlative Stakes winner had his first black-type winner last spring when Belcarra struck in Germany, while he has also produced three further Groupor Listed-placed performers in

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Dream Ahead (left) Proven Group 1 sire at an affordable price Mayson Consistent producer of high-class winners Planteur Best is surely yet to come from sire of champion stayer

‘Dream Ahead rates a most exciting addition to Bearstone Stud’s – and indeed the British – stallion ranks, standing for just £7,500 having already proved himself more than capable of siring top-class horses’

From page 21

Wonka Willy, Keniote and The King Geremia.

Already the sire of a top-level winner in Savatoxl, who struck in The Goodwood in Australia, the fee for Starfield Stud’s Kuroshio has been clipped to €5,000 from €6,000 this term.

The son of Exceed And Excel has a fine pedigree too, being a Group-winning full-brother to Believe’N’Succeed, the dam of ill-fated Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck and Bounding, a top-level winner in New Zealand. Kuroshio’s dam Arctic Drift is in turn out of the Grade 1 winner November Snow.

Kuroshio is responsible for seven stakes performers overall, with two further Group winners in Australian-based La Rocque and Coral Charge scorer Kurious, who subsequently made 900,000gns to Hillwood Bloodstock at the

Tattersalls December Mare Sale in 2020.

Hedgeholme Stud welcomes a recruit from Ireland to its ranks this year in Buratino, a Godolphin homebred who struck in the Coventry Stakes and was twice placed at the top level at two.

Having stood at Darley’s Kildangan Stud, Buratino has been introduced to British breeders at a fee of £3,000, having previously stood at Kildangan at €5,000 since 2017.

The son of Exceed And Excel never finished outside of the top three in all of his starts at two, while he was also fourth in the Sandy Lane Stakes at three.

He has been responsible for the dual Listed winner Snapraeterea and multiple winners The Blue Panther and Round Six. He appeals at a commercial level for the smaller breeder.

Pearl Secret embarks on his second season at Norton Grove Stud for a fee of £2,000, a fair price for a son of Compton Place whose career highlights included victories in the Temple Stakes and Scurry Stakes.

Having previously resided at Bucklands Farm and then Chapel Stud, Pearl Secret has sired 17 individual winners, including multiple French scorer Forbidden Secret and dual Italian winner Under Secret.

A Group-winning son of Oasis Dream and champion filly Attraction, Fountain Of Youth takes up his first season at Millbry Hill Stud for a fee of £2,000, having stood at Bearstone Stud since his retirement from racing in 2015.

Fountain Of Youth’s pedigree is rock-solid, being a half-brother to York Stakes scorer and Juddmonte

International third Elarqam and the Listed scorer Maydanny, and he cost Demi O’Byrne 420,000gns as a yearling from Book 1.

Gregorian, meanwhile, a son of veteran sire Clodovil, stands for €4,500 at Rathasker and has 12 stakes performers to his credit, including Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte winner Plainchant and the high-class Queen Jo Jo.

ESTABLISHED SIRES

Dream Ahead rates a most exciting addition to Bearstone Stud’s – and indeed the British – stallion ranks, standing for just £7,500 having already proved himself more than capable of siring top-class horses.

A joint-champion two-year-old, with Frankel no less, and then a champion sprinter at three, Dream Ahead has been a good

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operator in his second career too.

He is the sire of 53 stakes performers, of whom 13 are Group winners, with four having come at Group 1 level.

Bearstone Stud’s Glass Slippers is a prime example of the talent he passes on, the mighty mare having won the Abbaye, Flying Five and Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, while the teak-tough British Champions Sprint Stakes winner Donjuan Triumphant landed his biggest success at Ascot on his 37th and final career start.

Talking of Ascot, there is also Dream Of Dreams, Saeed Suhail’s popular chestnut gelding who deservedly won last year’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes, plus Al Wukair, Al Shaqab’s Prix Jacques le Marois winner and 2,000 Guineas third who has made a fine start at stud himself.

Given Dream Ahead’s record, a fee of £7,500 looks a no-brainer for breeders on a budget.

Kildangan’s Raven’s Pass returns a winner-to-foals-ofracing-age strike-rate of 46 per cent and, standing for a fee of €7,500, is another proven stallion who offers excellent value.

He is the sire of 37 black-type winners and 15 Group winners overall,

including last season’s Flying Five winner Romantic Proposal – who features on our opening spread – Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère winner Royal Marine, Kilboy Estate Stakes scorer Lemista and Japanese top-level victor Tower Of London.

The 17-year-old continues to show that age is no barrier to success.

Planteur is a somewhat different model, although he too has shown what he is capable of via the exploits of last year’s champion stayer Trueshan, the Goodwood Cup and Prix du Cadran winner who is back for more in 2022.

The son of Danehill Dancer has sired six stakes winners overall and has thrust Chapel Stud into the spotlight, with other notable runners including last year’s Gran Premio del Jockey Club winner Road To Arc and Swedish Listed scorer Plantstepsdream.

Standing for £4,000 this term, Prix Ganay winner Planteur hails from a top-class family that includes Peintre Celebre, and he is a half-brother to the dam of French Classic winner Persian King.

Other sires from the stud advertised at a breeders-on-abudget fee are Indian Haven (£1,500) and Hellvelyn (£2,500).

Lanwades Stud stalwart Sir

Percy remained in fine form last term, with the promising Montrose Fillies’ Stakes winner Kawida to look forward to, and his yearlings continuing to sell well in the ring.

The Derby-winning son of Mark Of Esteem has sired 50 stakes performers, headed by top-level winners Sir John Hawkwood and Wake Forest, along with the likes of Park Hill Stakes winner Alyssa and Lancashire Oaks scorer Lady Tiana.

He is also making a mark as a broodmare sire of late, with Shine So Bright, Indie Angel and Romantic Time all striking in Group company.

At an unchanged fee of £7,000, Sir Percy looks a good call.

Overbury Stud’s roster may be dominated by the likes of first-season sire sensation Ardad and exciting National Hunt stallion Jack Hobbs, but the consistent Cityscape is certainly worth a second glance at a fee of £4,000.

The 16-year-old son of Selkirk will have his biggest crop of juveniles this year and has already produced four individual top-flight winners in Argentina from 36 stakes performers and 12 individual Group scorers overall.

Tamayuz is a proven Group 1 sire who stands for an affordable fee of €7,000. The

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Derrinstown Stud resident is another on this list who has consistently produced the goods, with four top-flight winners including Lockinge Stakes victor Mustashry, EP Taylor Stakes winner Blond Me and Sprint Cup hero G Force.

Moreover, the venerable son of Nayef’s progeny has been popular in the ring, with his yearlings selling for up to 130,000gns last year.

A new recruit to the Irish stallion scene, having previously stood at Ashford Stud in Kentucky and in France and Italy in more recent times, Magician looks a shrewd signing by Meelin Stud as a dual-purpose prospect.

Introduced at a fee of €4,000, the Irish 2,000 Guineas hero is a full-brother to American Grade 3 winner Apple Betty and the stakes-winning Outstanding. He is out of a stakes-winning six-furlong scorer in Mozart mare Absolutelyfabulous and from the family of Listen and Sequoyah.

The son of Galileo has already made a respectable start with runners under both codes, having sired Champagne Stakes third Cardini among a handful of black-type performers on the Flat, and dual winning hurdler Bashful Boy.

Another experienced sire in Norman Court Stud’s Sixties Icon surely has to be considered excellent value at £3,000, having sired 30 stakes performers including three Group 1 winners, while Coolmore’s Rock Of Gibraltar (€5,000) heads into yet another covering season having sired 85 black-type winners and 16 Group or Grade 1 winners, including Society Rock, Mount Nelson, Prince Gibraltar and Eagle Mountain.

Cheveley Park Stud resident Mayson is another to stand out, being an ultra-reliable producer of tough and talented horses, and all for a fee of just £6,000.

The son of Invincible Spirit’s stock has soared with the exploits of July Cup and King’s Stand Stakes winner Oxted, as well as the likes of rags-to-riches Sandy Lane Stakes winner Rohaan and Prix Morny third True Mason.

It is a similar tale with Equiano, now a resident at the Irish National Stud having been a reliable member of the Newsells Park Stud team.

Standing at a fee of €2,000, the same price as studmate Dragon Pulse, the 17-year-old is a noted speed influence and has sired top-class sprinters The Tin Man and Belvoir Bay from 29 stakes performers and 13 Group winners.

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The well-bred Swiss Spirit is another who can be relied on to provide plenty of winners at a bargain fee, in his case £2,500.

Based at Batsford Stud, the son of Invincible Spirit struck in Group 3 company during his racing days and is likely to provide breeders with an injection of pace.

Ballyhane Stud stallion Elzaam, sire of Group 1 winner Champers Elysees, is another who remains at an affordable fee, €5,000, while another fine servant, Rathasker Stud’s veteran Clodovil, can be considered equally fine value.

He operated off the same price in 2021 but is in a private capacity this year.

The son of Danehill has the likes of Gregorian, Nahoodh, Es Que Love and Shining Emerald to his name.

Bullet Train is arguably best known as the three-parts brother and pacemaker to Frankel but, standing at a private fee at Woodfield Farm Stud, he has shown he can get winners under both codes, including Australian Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Chapada and stakes-winning Whiskey Train.

Al Kazeem, another to stand for a private fee, this time at Oakgrove Stud, is another sire with Group 1 success to his name thanks to Aspetar.

1 st 3yos in

2022

Already 5 first crop winners in 2022, inc.

IMPRESSIVE DEBUT WINNERS BENNETOT, LOUVETOT & JORDANELLA BENNETOT

BENNETOT

Winner by 2L on debut

LOUVETOT

JORDANELLA

Winner on debut

JORDANELLA

Winner by 3.5L on debut

DEVASBOY

Winner at 2 & 3yo

CATAPUM

Winner at 2 & 3yo AL SHAQAB RACING

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€ 5.000 LF

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Thursday, February 10, 2022 racingpost.com

Brilliance on a budget Profitable ¤12,500

Ribchester ¤12,500

Belardo ¤9,000

Raven’s Pass ¤7,500

The stallions: extremely capable.

The fees: excessively reasonable.

Call the Noms Team at Kildangan Stud on +353 (0)45 527600

Darley