Breeding on a Budget Supplement 2019

PULLOUT PREVIEW Thursday, February 14, 2019

BREEDING ON A BUDGET Your essential guide to ďŹ nding value in the stallion ranks

2

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

Let the bargain hunt begin

A

FAVOURITE budget breeding story of mine of the past 12 months might just be Vintage Brut, whose exploits are outlined on this page, as one of eight examples of high-class horses by sires who stand, or stood, at smaller fees.

That is because he was bred so inexpensively and, well, so uncommercially.

He is a son of one stallion, Dick Turpin, who was exported after failing to live up to expectations, out of a mare by another little-used, long-departed name in Indesatchel.

Vintage Brut gives hope to all mare owners operating on a shoestring.

He also teaches us an important lesson, one becoming increasingly important when the lower and middle market of untried horses has become so difficult, as breeder Deborah O’Brien sent the colt into training with Tim Easterby and managed to sell him for £280,000 after he had won the Listed National Stakes.

It goes to show that, if you have faith in your stock, there are profits to be made even if they fall short of the market’s arbitrary definition of ‘commercial’.

So, if you think a stallion will suit your mare on physique, pedigree and race record, it really ought not to matter whether they are fashionable, whether they were sprinters, whether they have just been retired to stud this year and so on.

What matters most is surely trying to produce a talented athlete, whatever the raw materials.

Hopefully this supplement will help you navigate your way around those many stallions who stand in what we consider to be the budget bracket of £10,000/€12,500 and under.

MARTIN STEVENS, SENIOR BLOODSTOCK JOURNALIST

CONTENTS 4-5 Snooker star Peter Ebdon talks to us about his passion for all things bloodstock, including mating plans for new sire Harbour Law 6-7 Beranger Bussy of Haras de la Huderie speaks about Birchwood, a new recruit from Godolphin to the French stallion ranks 8 Expert jury 12-23 The Directory: British and Irish-based sires standing for a fee of £10,000/ €12,500 or less

Accidental Agent

5-year-old bay horse Delegator-Roodle (Xaar) Sadly, breeders no longer have access to Delegator, who it appears could have been an invaluable budget sire, as he died after four seasons standing at Overbury Stud at fees of just £4,000 and £5,000. The best of the late sire’s progeny is Accidental Agent, who landed an emotional victory for Eve Johnson Houghton and owner-breeder Gaie Johnson Houghton, the trainer’s mother, in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot last June.

But he also supplied multiple Group 3 winner Delectation and Listed-placed Zouk. Delegator may no longer be around but other sons of Dansili priced at £10,000/€12,500 or under are: Albaasil at Moor End Stud, Bated Breath at Banstead Manor, Famous Name at Anngrove, Mahsoob at Hedgeholme, Requinto at Coolmore and Zambezi Sun at Coolagown.

Vintage Brut

3 b c Dick Turpin-Traditionelle (Indesatchel)

Last season’s talented two-year-old is a fine advertisement for owner-breeder Deborah O’Brien’s eye for a bargain on several fronts. Granddam Mookhlesa, a daughter of Marju, was sourced for 20,000gns and she was mated with Indesatchel, then standing at Bearstone Stud for £3,000, to produce Traditionelle.

Traditionelle was in turn sent to former National Stud stallion Dick Turpin in 2015, when he was standing at just £4,000, to produce Vintage Brut – winner of two Listed races for Tim Easterby and sold on to King Power Racing for £280,000 at the Goffs London Sale.

A Bit Special: taking the US by storm with four wins from five starts, the filly has humble origins in Europe

A Bit Special

3 b f Mukhadram-Euro Empire (Bartok)

The filly taking the US by storm – having won four of her five starts, including a Grade 3 this month with her trademark thrilling turn of foot – has humble origins in Europe. She is from the first crop of Mukhadram, the Eclipse winner by Shamardal advertised at Nunnery Stud this year at £6,000, and was bred by a partnership of Langham Hall Stud, Bumble Mitchell and Sally Nicholls out of the high-class Euro Empire, a daughter of Bartok sourced for just 8,000gns. Mukhadram supplied a double-figure tally of juvenile winners and, as well as this filly, he is also responsible for William Haggas’s exciting three-time winner Jahbath.

IT

Offspring at these Rumble Inthejungle

3 ch c Bungle InthejungleGuana (Dark Angel)

Mjjack

5 gr h Elzaam-Docklands Grace (Honour And Glory) Mjjack might not have achieved the status of household name but he quietly accrued prize-money earnings of £113,965 and was sold to race in Saudi Arabia last autumn on a 260,000gns bid after winning five races and finishing placed in three highly valuable handicaps at Ascot for trainer Karl Burke. Those values are quite incredible considering the five-year-old is a son of Elzaam, who stands at Ballyhane Stud at a fee of just €4,000, and that his breeders Derrymore House Syndicate sold him for €31,000 – a very nice advance on the price of his conception but hardly a king’s ransom in terms of thoroughbred prices. Elzaam, a high-class son of influential Australian stallion Redoute’s Choice, is also responsible for Listed winner and Queen Mary Stakes third Clem Fandango, and other smart sorts like Great Prospector, Florida Times and Sarshampla.

Bungle Inthejungle proved to be the rags-to-riches story of last year’s freshman sire standings, with his first-crop offspring bred at a fee of just €5,000 including 24 winners, several with a touch of class. Best of all was Rumble Inthejungle, clear-cut winner of the Molecomb Stakes at Glorious Goodwood and a creditable third behind the outstanding pair Ten Sovereigns and Jash in the Middle Park. The Richard Spencer-trained colt was bred by Patrick Gleeson, another who appears to have a keen eye for a value sire as he also produced the useful Great Prospector from the dam Guana when he sent her to Elzaam. Bungle Inthejungle’s exploits mean he moves from the bottom of the budget sire bracket to the top, with a revised fee of €12,000 at Rathasker Stud for 2019.

3

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

Sir Dancealot

5 b g Sir Prancealot-Majesty’s Dancer (Danehill Dancer)

Great Scot

3 b c Requinto-La Rosiere (Mr Greeley)

Friends Steve Mound, Neil Clyne and Pete Thompson bred this exciting colt by sending their Mr Greeley mare La Rosiere – bought for just 1,500gns – to Requinto when he was standing at just €4,000.

Despite that, Great Scot, a £2,500 vendor buyback as a yearling at an Ascot sale, has earned just shy of £50,000 in only his first five races by winning three times, including in the Listed Ascendant Stakes.

He signed off his juvenile season when beaten only a length and a quarter into fifth after being slightly hampered in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity. Requinto, still available at €4,000 this year, is also sire of July Stakes third Broken Stones, sold to Hong Kong in a big-money deal, and useful sorts including Mojito, Offline and Usra.

The David Elsworth-trained gelding emerged as one of the most admirable performers of 2018, running 12 times and winning on four occasions, including when notching back-to-back Group 2s in the Lennox and Hungerford Stakes. He was bred by Vincent Duignan from Sir Prancealot in the Tamayuz stallion’s first season at Tally-Ho Stud at a fee of €6,000. Sir Prancealot stands in Australia only these days, but Tamayuz and his sire Nayef are both still available in the budget bracket. Duignan also produced the useful sprint handicapper Dancing Freddy from Sir Dancealot’s dam Majesty’s Dancer by sending her to another former inexpensive Tally-Ho resident in Chineur.

HAS BEEN DONE

of inexpensive stallions can strike it rich on the racetrack. Take a look eight individuals who made their mark last season By Martin Stevens Alpha Delphini

8 b g Captain Gerrard-Easy To Imagine (Cozzene)

A useful handicapper turned regular in the top sprint contests, Bryan Smart’s durable campaigner struck at the highest level when just denying Mabs Cross in the Nunthorpe last summer. The eight-year-old hails from the first crop of Captain Gerrard, a classy son of Oasis Dream available to use at Mickley Stud in Shropshire at a fee of just £2,500 this year. The stallion is also responsible for useful filly Wee Jean and Qatar Derby runner-up Gerrard’s Quest. Breeder and part-owner Marie Matthews produced Alpha Delphini – plus his Prix de l’Abbaye-winning half-brother Tangerine Trees – from her ace mare Easy To Imagine, a daughter of Cozzene and Coronation Stakes third Zarani Sidi Anna bought from Gainsborough Stud for just 5,200gns.

Three Aces in the pack

ADAAY DUE DILIGENCE HAVANA GREY

The outstanding son of Kodiac Higher rated than his Champion Sire War Front The fastest horse from the Galileo sire line

Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper 01725 518254 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk

4

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

Cue the champ as snooker ace uses pedigree expertise to help launch Harbour Law stud career INTERVIEW PETER EBDON Martin Stevens talks to the sporting star about his latest breeding venture

M

ANY inexpensive stallions will benefit from the support of their owners and various connections but Batsford Stud newcomer Harbour Law is surely the only one who has the backing of a bona fide world champion.

Peter Ebdon, who won snooker’s highest accolade by beating Stephen Hendry in a nail-biting final at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield in 2002, is advising the Classic winner’s owners Nick and Jackie Cornwell as they launch Harbour Law’s stallion career.

Primarily, Ebdon – who now combines pedigree consultancy with continuing to play on the world snooker tour – is deploying his in-depth study of thoroughbred families to help source mares for Harbour Law, who has retired to the photogenic Batsford Stud in Gloucestershire after a career in which he finished second in the Queen’s Vase and landed the St Leger at three, before finishing third to Big Orange in the Gold Cup at four.

“I’ve known Nick and Jackie a long time – our children went to the same school – but it wasn’t until many years later that I realised what big breeders they were,” Ebdon says, explaining how his association with the Cornwells began.

“I got in touch with them a few years ago to say I was thinking of setting up a professional pedigree consultancy business and asked would they like me to have a look at their mares. They’re lovely people, so enthusiastic about their horses and putting such a big investment into racing, so it has been a pleasure to help them.”

Incredibly, Ebdon finds the time to research pedigrees along with maintaining snooker practice and travelling around the world to play, as well as being a professional healer in alternative therapies.

“I’d been understudy to one of the world’s leading professional pedigree consultants in Australia for four or five years and thought I’d like to set up my own business and pass on the knowledge,” he says. “It’s been my main passion for the last 30 years.

“I’ve spent literally thousands and thousands of hours on research, I find it fascinating, not least because

Peter Ebdon, who now combines pedigree consultancy with continuing to play on the world snooker tour, with Harbour Law at Batsford Stud in Gloucestershire

pedigrees are forever changing and developing – there’s always a new crop of two-year-olds and stallions going to stud.”

Ebdon’s analysis is nothing if not thorough and from it he has acquired some vehement opinions on the best way to breed talented horses.

“I’ve gone back to the beginning of the breed and studied the most successful horses to see which ancestors were reinforced in their pedigrees, to notice consistent patterns again and again, which is why I’d encourage breeders to think more carefully about their mating selections,” he says.

“I remember reading a few years ago that only one in approximately 300 horses become stakes horses.

The reason behind that is because of the incompatibility of so many matings – most have very little chance even before the mare is covered because there’s just no compatibility there.

“There’s a lot of mating software out there – most studs have an online facility where you can test your mare – but most of those are very limited and basic as they completely dismiss the dam’s side of the pedigree. If they don’t, they look only at the damsires, so immediately 25 per

cent of the pedigree is completely dismissed and I think that’s a mistake.”

E

BDON continues: “Those tools are very useful and are fine as a guide, but you have only to look at the results other professional pedigree consultants have been getting on a consistent basis for a long time to realise you have to go deeper.

Breeders definitely put the percentages massively in their favour by using pedigree consultants.”

There is plenty in Harbour Law’s family for a pedigree pundit to get

‘I’ve gone back to the beginning of the breed and studied the most successful horses to see which ancestors were reinforced in their pedigrees’

their teeth stuck into, as he is by Lawman out of the winning mare Abunai from the fruitful Hascombe and Valiant Studs family of Beckford, Inchinor and Poet’s Word.

Unsurprisingly perhaps, considering the six-year-old’s grandsires Invincible Spirit and Pivotal were out-and-out sprinters, Ebdon feels there is scope to breed faster horses from him.

“I think it’s entirely possible that by getting those genetically compatible mares to Harbour Law we can bring out those speed influences and breed faster horses despite him being a stayer and a St Leger winner. We’ll be looking to double up on ancestors like the top milers Warning and Kris.

“That said, I think he could be a very successful jumps sire too. I’ve gone through the National Hunt stallion book and picked out 50 broodmare sires who I know will suit him straight away.”

5

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

Ebdon’s belief in his pedigree research has led to him holding some lofty ambitions.

“I don’t see why with those targeted mares Harbour Law couldn’t have a minimum 70 per cent winners to runners,” he says. “I’d love to think there’s a possibility – with the genetically compatible mares – that he could perhaps have ten per cent stakes horses to runners, which would put him in the major league.

“It’s important to reach for the stars and my goal for Nick and Jackie and for Batsford Stud is for him to become the number one dual-purpose stallion in Europe.”

A stallion in the making Harbour Law facts and figures

Harbour Law (left) winning the St Leger and (far right) finishing third in the Gold Cup

T

O THAT end, Ebdon has been helping source mares for Harbour Law. “I bought some yearlings and other mares for Nick and Jackie and selected some from their existing broodmare band,” he says. “I’d say that between those who have been bought and those already owned, Harbour Law will see 20 to 30 what I consider to be very genetically compatible mares.

“I’ve really enjoyed going to Tattersalls, being there incognito and people wondering what I’m doing there. But it’s important I’m there.

Any pedigree consultant will tell you that they’re able to see things you can’t see just on a catalogue page; we’re looking at eight or nine-generation pedigrees, for superior reinforcements, full-brothers, full-sisters, paying close attention to damlines.”

Batsford Stud’s Alan Varey cast an expert horseman’s eye over Ebdon’s selections “to make sure I wasn’t

●Colour/pedigree Bay by Lawman out of Abunai (by Pivotal) ●Age 6 making any clangers”, and the snooker maestro is confident that with repeated matings to Harbour Law his purchases will produce the goods.

●Race record Won three of eight starts, including St Leger-G1; also 2nd Queen’s Vase-L and 3rd Gold Cup-G1

“One of the things I say to all my clients is that it’s important to try a mating at least twice,” he says.

“Mendelian genetics tell us that around one in every four matings will

●Best Racing Post Rating 116 ●Standing Batsford Stud, Gloucestershire ●Fee £4,000

result in a horse inheriting recessive genes and so have little or no ability – but the brother or sister could be a champion.”

An awful lot of thought has gone

into Harbour Law’s stallion career.

For other breeders to take advantage of such a carefully considered project, the cost is just £4,000 a cover.

The THOUGHT that counts 1.

G1 winner by Oasis Dream

2.

Beat Muhaarar

3.

Higher rated than Showcasing

4.

625,000gns yearling: he’s gorgeous and well-bred

CHARMING THOUGHT It all adds up

£6,000 Oct 1, SLF

Oasis Dream – Annabelle’s Charm (Indian Ridge) Stands at Dalham Hall Stud, UK +44 (0)1638 730070 +353 (0)45 527600 darleystallions.com

Darley

6

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET Martin Stevens speaks to connections of Birchwood, a son of Dark Angel who stands at Haras de la Huderie in Normandy

High spirits at Haras de la Huderie in Normandy; (top right) Birchwood, who was recruited from the Godolphin ranks to the French stud in 2018 and who boasts Dark Angel as his sire

B

REEDERS are most comfortable using familiar names and therefore many members of the stallion ranks in Britain and Ireland will have a strong connection to each country. It is much the same for France.

Big hitters Almanzor, Le Havre and Siyouni were all trained there, for example, while Al Shaqab Racing’s top-class colts have been retired to Normandy even when their racing careers played out primarily on the other side of the Channel as the operation’s hub is Haras de Bouquetot – see Olympic Glory, Shalaa and Toronado for evidence.

Then there are those names who had no immediately obvious link to France but have been relocated after their progeny excelled there, such as Dream Ahead and Motivator.

In that respect, one sire in Normandy sticks out like a sore thumb. Birchwood, who stands at Haras de la Huderie at a fee of €5,000, is young and unproven – his first foals are arriving this year – and has the sort of conspicuously commercial profile you might more expect to see in a brochure of a British or Irish stud.

He is by a favourite of breeders and buyers in Dark Angel, source of seven Group/Grade 1 winners including Battaash, Harry Angel, Lethal Force, Mecca’s Angel and Persuasive, out of a winning mare by another popular stallion in Exceed And Excel.

Richard Fahey trained Birchwood to win three races at two, including the Superlative Stakes, and he also finished third in the National Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf that season. The horse was also a seven-furlong Listed scorer at Chester at three.

So how did Birchwood arrive in Normandy? Huderie manager Beranger Bussy explains.

“We were looking for a young, precocious horse who could provide speed and precocity to French mares,” he says. “It was in our mind to have a stallion from the Dark Angel line, but of course they aren’t easy to find and are even harder to get.

“After some searching with Ghislain Bozo from Meridian International, we found Birchwood at Godolphin. They were unsure if they really wanted to sell him, but after some time they finally decided to put him on the market.

“Lots of European breeders were interested in buying the horse and we had to fight to get the final bid.”

Bussy emphasises that it was Birchwood’s sprinting and miling ability that made him a precious commodity for France.

“That was our target: we wanted a horse with precocity in his pedigree, with performances and speed over seven to eight furlongs,” he explains.

“French mares need this. As you can see for yourself, the most successful stallions in France are mostly two-year-olds and milers, and not Classic distance horses.”

The ascent of Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winners Dabirsim, Siyouni and Wootton Bassett add weight to Bussy’s argument.

And the market response to Birchwood in his first breeding season last year appeared to endorse the Huderie team’s calculations.

“We had a very good, positive

Competitive and commercial: the profile to help a I new sire stand out

“We don’t have many precocious mares in France and it’s quite a new sport for us. The success of British horses in our two-year-old races was phenomenal last year. So it could be a good opportunity for British or Irish breeders to send precocious mares by the likes of Kodiac, Kyllachy, Pivotal, Showcasing and so on to Birchwood.

“That way, they could produce two-year-old winners eligible for French premiums and receive a bigger and quicker investment return, as well as enjoy the French ‘art de vivre’!”

response from breeders,” Bussy continues. “We offered 25 shares and they were sold in less than 48 hours.

The stud kept the other 25 shares.

Lots of professionals and breeders liked the horse and in this price range there aren’t many stallions like him in France.

“Thanks to Ghislain, the syndication was very successful. We offered shares to breeders we knew would support the horse on a

long-term basis and understand the need to send him the right mares.

“Some of the shareholders, including Jean-Baptiste Brice and Haras de la Huderie, bought some mares explicitly with the view of supporting Birchwood. We also contacted owners of suitable speed mares and other breeders to encourage them to use our new stallion.”

The result was a healthy debut book of mares.

‘Lots of European breeders were interested in the horse and we had to fight to get the final bid’ Beranger Bussy of Haras de la Huderie

“It turned out to be a very competitive year as many new stallions arrived at stud in Normandy in 2018. But there were few with Birchwood’s commercial profile and he covered 93 mares,” says Bussy.

“None came from Britain or Ireland as we didn’t advertise the horse overseas, but plenty of British and Irish breeders who board mares in France used the horse.”

Bussy’s pitch for more interest from outside France runs as thus: “At a €5,000 covering fee, we have priced him very competitively on the European market.

“The stud is very close to Deauville – just a ten-minute drive away – and it’s easy for breeders to come and see him. Of course everyone knows about the French premium system and the cost of breeding in France is also very competitive.

T HAS to be said, though, that the lure of premiums and general buoyancy of the French market has led to an overabundance of new sires in France – more than 40 last year alone.

Any breeder wishing to use a stallion in the region is spoilt for choice; surely there can’t be room for all of them to thrive.

Bussy acknowledges the issue but remains confident Birchwood will stand out from the crowd.

“Obviously, way too many stallions have retired to Normandy, but few of them are as attractive as Birchwood, few of them have such a commercial profile and few of them are so close to what the market wants,” he insists.

“Statistically, a stallion who did not win at two and ran over ten furlongs can hardly succeed in France.

“I don’t know whether there will be enough business for all of those new names here, but it says a lot that Birchwood managed to cover 93 mares last year in that environment – simply because he’s what breeders are looking for.

“We’re convinced he’s the kind of stallion French breeders need: he’s got three of the best stallions with speed and precocity in his pedigree, he’s a Superlative Stakes winner who

7

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

The French connection Birchwood facts and figures

clocked an excellent time, he was twice Group 1-placed, plus he’s from a family with speed and precocity. Last but not least, he’s a very good mover and such a nice-looking horse.

“Those breeders who entrusted their mares to him in 2018 are very enthusiastic about his first foals and are coming back to him in 2019. The Birchwood foals I’ve seen all have a good, broad head and have lots of strength and vitality.

“Haras de la Huderie will support his progeny and we hope for the best!”

It is evident that not only does Birchwood have a CV redolent of a British or Irish commercial prospect, but he also has a correspondingly marketing-savvy team behind him determined to make him a success.

The large number of beanie hats bearing the stallion’s name seen being worn by pilgrims on the recent Route des Etalons stud tour in Normandy attests to that fact.

It will be fascinating to see whether this Anglo-Irish expat in France can live up to the weight of support behind him.

In his racing pomp: Birchwood storms to victory in the Group 2 Superlative Stakes as a two-year-old in 2015

●Colour/pedigree Bay horse by Dark Angel out of Layla Jamil (by Exceed And Excel) ●Age 6

●Race record Won four of 19 starts including Superlative S-G2, City Plate-L; also 3rd National S-G1, Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf-G1

●Best Racing Post Rating 113 ●Standing Haras de la Huderie, Normandy ●Fee €5,000

ALL BUDGETS CATERED FOR ● GA RSW OOD ● IN

TELL O ● LE THA L FO ●M RCE AYSO N ● PI VOTA L ● TW ILIG HT S ● UL ON YSSE S ● UN FORT UNA TELY

Give us a call and see what’s in it for you 01638 730316 Cheveley Park Stud

www.cheveleypark.co.uk •

L @CPStudOfficial

8

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

EXPERT JURY Which new sires for 2019 who stand at £10,000/ €12,500 or less offer the best value for money and why?

Tom Blain Barton Stud manager

Luke Barry Manister House Stud manager

Ted Durcan

Former jockey turned bloodstock agent

Cathy Grassick

Bloodstock agent

Billy Jackson-Stops

Bloodstock consultant

Sioux Nation should be a commercial option as he’s a Group 1 winner at two by Scat Daddy. Havana Grey is also interesting. He actually beat Sioux Nation to win his Group 1 at three, he’s good-looking and will be well supported by good breeders, which makes a huge difference.

Sioux Nation has the race record, imposing good looks and sire-line we all want a piece of, while Kessaar is one of the best-looking horses to retire to stud this year. Rajasinghe, a Royal Ascot winner at two and a great specimen from the Choisir line we love, was tough and sound with a will to win, and Lightning Spear and James Garfield have attractive credentials for the fees they command.

I like Sioux Nation, a Royal Ascot and Group 1-winning two-year-old son of Scat Daddy with an abundance of speed and the looks to match, plus Poet’s Word. While you wouldn’t expect the latter’s offspring to be precocious, he was very talented and sound with a super temperament and is maybe more for the breeder-owner than the commercial sales ring.

Unfortunately, a son of the much-missed Society Rock, offers breeders two-year-old precocity; Lancaster Bomber, a half-brother to Excelebration

by War Front, performed with credit from seven to ten furlongs from two to four years; and Lightning Spear was a top-class miler and is by sire of sires Pivotal. All are Group 1 winners who stand at very reasonable stud fees.

Lightning Spear (below) is great value at £8,500. A Group 1-winning son of Pivotal, he raced consistently at the top level for five years. I also like James Garfield at €7,000 as he’s a tough horse from a good family who showed speed at two and three.

Who was your pick of last year’s first-season sires from that price bracket and why?

I haven’t given up on Mukhadram. His stock should be better at three and this is a big year for him.

Ruler Of The World had a Group 1 winner at the end of last year and could keep producing the goods.

War Command has done very little wrong with a heap of winners and a near 50 per cent strike-rate; he’d give your mare a great chance of a winner and we got great money this year for a yearling by him. Ruler Of The World managed to get a proper Group 1 winner [Iridessa, left] in his first crop . . . could he be the forgotten horse? He does have the Oaks favourite after all.

It was hard not to be impressed with Bungle Inthejungle – his progeny looked very professional with a great attitude in their races. War Command operated at a ratio of 46 per cent winners-to-runners in Europe in 2018 and that has to be respected, while I was also taken with Mukhadram’s end-of-season results. The two-year-olds I had dealings with all seemed solid and straightforward and he represents brilliant value at £6,000 this year.

I’m a fan of Bungle Inthejungle and have long been a fan of his sire Exceed And Excel, and he’s off to a great start thanks to the support given to him by Rathasker Stud – I look forward to seeing what the future holds. He has a great pedigree, being from a high-class speed family, and this is probably why he has upgraded his mares and done so well with his two-year-olds.

Kuroshio covered only a small number of below-average mares in 2015 yet still had six winners from 14 runners in 2018.

These included black-type performers Daphinia, Kurious and Group 2 Vintage Stakes second Dunkerron.

He impressed me so much I brokered a deal to bring him to Ireland for the 2019 breeding season. War Command’s progeny were eyecatching numerically with 16 winners, including at Listed level.

Which other young sires in that price range take your fancy and why (with or without runners)?

Twilight Son is producing good-looking stock, which is exciting for breeders and gives you a chance at the sales. He’ll have to produce it on the track, however. I’ve always liked Brazen Beau – we sold some very nice yearlings by him last year and he’s having good results in Australia. There’s no telling if he can deliver in the northern hemisphere but he must have a chance.

We’re sending mares to Galileo Gold ), El Kabeir and (right), Gutaifan. The latter has the numbers in his favour with physicals to make your imagination believe they might run a bit. Both Tally-Ho and Yeomanstown get behind their stallions, giving them a great chance.

The Gutaifan two-year-olds are compact, racy types and have impressed. They appear progressive and have a good outlook, while Mehmas has some good-looking stock who look to be very commercial.

Make Believe, who was a seriously good racehorse, and Free Eagle seem to have quality stock but it’s likely it won’t be until the second half of the season when we see the best from their progeny.

Profitable was a great racehorse and being by sire of sires Invincible Spirit makes him one to follow. Dragon Pulse has his largest crop of two-year-olds this year and I hope he can deliver the consistency of his previous books – I like that he works so well with Danzig-line mares, while Cityscape has caught the eye in what he has done from a small number of representatives.

Unfortunately and Havana Grey are good-looking horses with great two-year-old form – they’ll suit commercial breeders well, while I liked the first foals by Vadamos last year as they were an attractive bunch. Then I’m excited to see Slade Power’s progeny progress from two to three – as a racehorse he was champion older sprinter, so I expect his progeny to improve with age.

Tamayuz and Dandy Man are solid options who keep delivering. You can also get paid properly in the sales ring if you can breed a good-looking model.

Camacho ticks so many boxes – Group 1 sire, gets tough, durable trainers’ horses, lots of two-year-old winners and sales horses.

It’s a no brainer! Similar sentiments go for Dandy Man, and they both have two exceptional fillies to run for them going forward. Dragon Pulse is the other proven horse we like who flies under the radar – a great option at a low fee.

Camacho had another stellar season both on the racetrack and in the sales ring in 2018, while Bated Breath is a lovely, consistent sire who has bred winners over a multitude of trips. He has an excellent 55 per cent winners-to-runners strike-rate and, as a son of Dansili, his progeny improve with age. Both stallions have sired reliable and hard-knocking progeny and they offer great appeal to the breeder.

Camacho, Fast Company and Footstepsinthesand are stallions with excellent performance records who I strongly support. They’re capable of getting top-class performers with their colts and fillies and represent great value for money for breeders.

Fast Company, Dandy Man and Footstepsinthesand are still great value – they’ve all produced Group 1 winners and have a constant stream of winners year on year. All three can still produce good sales horses too with Fast Company’s highest-priced yearling selling for 80,000gns in 2018, while Dandy Man and Footstepsinthesand had yearlings sell for six figures.

Look at as many horses as possible before a sale. Do your research. Focus on the big breeding operations where you know they’re moving on stock for the right reasons. Follow as many horses into the ring as you can, something always falls through the gaps. It’s a question of being there when they do. I also think you can find some value buying older mares with stock to run for them, but it’s higher risk.

Work the sales hard, including keep an eye on the less obvious sales, do your homework and know what you’re willing to forgive. Try to acquire something with a good hind end and plenty of action, then keep the mare and stallion’s physical in mind when mating.

In a market lull, many breeders won’t breed their ‘lesser mares’, and their culls could be your rough diamonds!

If she pleases the eye, she’ll please the heart.

I’d always suggest you should enlist the help of a good bloodstock agent when trying to purchase the best mare you can for your budget. I’m always delighted to be of assistance!

The sales are the best place to get value with cheaper mares. Having a list and then spending as much time as possible by the ring waiting for something you like to slip through the net would be my best tip.

Which other older or more established sires are worth using at those prices and why?

Do you have any tips for sourcing a mare cheaply to send to those stallions?

9

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

NE W

DYLAN MOUTH Dylan Thomas (IRE) / Cottonmouth (IRE)

FO R2 01 9

• Winner of Premio Roma GBI Racing (Gr. 1) • Gran Premio Del Jockey Club (Gr. 1) • Gran Premio di Milano (Gr. 2) • Premio Federico Tesio (Gr. 2) • John Smith’s Silver Cup Stakes (Gr. 3) • Won over 1m1/4f - 1m6f “Dylan Mouth has proved to be very tough horse throughout his career, he has always been sound and has had a great temperament throughout. He is versatile, handles any ground and has been an extremely professional horse to deal with.” Marco Botti

CANNOCK CHASE Lemon Drop Kid (USA) / Lynnwood Chase (USA) • Winner of the Pattison Canadian International Stakes (Gr. 1) • Tercentenary Stakes, Royal Ascot (Gr. 3) • Huxley Stakes (for the Tradesman’s Cup) (Gr. 3) • Won over 10-12f

"He’s a very progressive horse that we have always liked... he’s got a turn of foot and a bit of class."

Sir Michael Stoute, Racing Post

PEACE ENVOY Power (GB) ex Hoh My Darling (GB)

“He was a very smart juvenile.”

Ryan Moore

“He reminds me very much of Rock of Gibraltar.”

Aidan O’Brien

• Winner of Jebel Ali Racecourse & Stables Anglesey Stakes (Gr.3) • Winner of Coolmore War Command Rochestown (C & G) Stakes (LR) • Placed 3rd in the Darley Prix Morny (Gr.1) (2yo Colts & Fillies) (Turf) to Lady Aurelia • 2nd in the GAIN Railway Stakes (Gr.2)

WORSALL GRANGE FARM Low Worsall, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Tel: 01642 789800 www.worsallgrange.com NOMINATIONS LUCY HORNER - Main Office: 01642 789800 Mobile: 07581107071 Email: Lucy@worsallgrange.com

10

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET The Directory

Nancy Sexton on the value to be found for breeders among the British and Irish stallion ranks for less than £10,000/€12,500 New For 2019

THERE is a perception that deep pockets are required to access the potent combination of performance and pedigree. But while we will no doubt be eager to evaluate the first crops of Roaring Lion, Cracksman, Saxon Warrior, Expert Eye et al, the same can probably be said of Lightning Spear, Poet’s Word, Havana Grey, Hawkbill and Lancaster Bomber, just some of the Group 1 winners from the past year who are available to use in their first season at a reasonable fee.

Two-year-old speed is often cited as a necessary commercial attribute, so it is refreshing to see a number of accomplished older performers join this bracket for 2019.

It would be unfair to determine a leader of the pack, but having said that, no retiree this season can boast Hawkbill’s career earnings of £3,544,995 compiled over the course of a four-year career that comprised ten wins from 24 starts.

On his day, Hawkbill was a real weapon in Godolphin’s armoury, as he showed when beating The Gurkha in the Eclipse Stakes and making all to fend off Poet’s Word in last year’s Sheema Classic. With those Group 1 victories fresh in the memory, it is also easy to forget that he won three times as a two-year-old. He also brings an interesting pedigree to the table as a Kitten’s Joy half-brother to juvenile Grade 1 winner Free Drop Billy from a John Nerud family also responsible for Cozzene.

For Poet’s Word, that Sheema Classic run marked the beginning of a fruitful season that would come to be highlighted by victories in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, in which he trounced Cracksman, and King George.

A tough, genuine horse in possession of a big finishing kick, Poet’s Word commanded 300,000gns as a yearling – “the horse moved like silk and with great authority, he had a great swagger to him,” buyer Charlie Gordon-Watson told the Racing Post last summer – and is yet another celebrated member of the Hascombe

Search on for the next freshmen destined to become stud kings and Valiant Studs family also responsible for Group 1 sire Inchinor.

That same Inchmurrin family also supports St Leger hero Harbour Law, an interesting dual-purpose prospect for Batsford Stud. The son of Lawman looked a stayer of immense potential when third in the Ascot Gold Cup on his final start and it is very likely we never saw the best of him.

Classic form is also on offer via Massaat, the 2016 2,000 Guineas runner-up. Also a smart

two-year-old who ran second in the Dewhurst Stakes, he later made a deserved breakthrough in the Hungerford Stakes and hails from a current family as a half-brother to last year’s Commonwealth Cup winner Eqtidaar.

It has to be said that one of the most appealing packages belongs to Lightning Spear. Here was a tough, reliable miler who mixed it with the best over multiple seasons, notably when defeating Expert Eye in

NEW STALLIONS STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND FOR £10,000/€12,500 OR LESS Stallion

Dylan Mouth

Age

8

Sire

Stud

Dylan Thomas

Worsall Grange

Fee

£2,000

Frontiersman

6

Dubawi

Overbury

Gustav Klimt

4

Galileo

Castle Hyde

price on application €7,500

Harbour Law

6

Lawman

Batsford

£4,000 £8,000

Havana Grey

4

Havana Gold

Whitsbury Manor

Hawkbill

6

Kitten’s Joy

Dalham Hall

£7,500

James Garfield

4

Exceed And Excel

Rathbarry

€7,000 €8,000

Jungle Cat

7

Iffraaj

Kildangan

Kessaar

3

Kodiac

Tally-Ho

€8,000

Lancaster Bomber

5

War Front

National

£8,500 £8,500

Lightning Spear

8

Pivotal

Tweenhills

Massaat

6

Teofilo

Mickley

£5,000

Master Carpenter

8

Mastercraftsman

Parsonage/GG Bloodstock

£2,000

Order Of St George

7

Galileo

Coolmore

€6,500

Poet’s Word

6

Poet’s Voice

Nunnery

£7,000

Rajasinghe

4

Choisir

National

Sioux Nation

4

Scat Daddy

Castle Hyde

£5,000 €12,500

Smooth Daddy

8

Scat Daddy

Clongiffen

€5,000

Tasleet

6

Showcasing

Nunnery

£6,000

Unfortunately

4

Society Rock

Cheveley Park

£7,500

Washington DC

6

Zoffany

Bearstone

£6,000

last year’s Sussex Stakes. Confidence can also be gleaned from his pedigree; by Pivotal, now well regarded as a sire of sires via Siyouni among others, he is out of Atlantic Destiny, a Royal Academy relation to Be My Guest.

Tattersalls Gold Cup winner Lancaster Bomber, another horse capable of holding his own among the best milers, and Coventry Stakes hero Rajasinghe are welcome additions to the National Stud’s burgeoning roster.

Lancaster Bomber is probably best remembered for his Curragh success but don’t forget he also possessed enough pace to finish placed in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, St James’s Palace, Lockinge and Dewhurst Stakes. After all, he is a son of speed influence War Front, also represented in the stallion ranks by last season’s leading third-crop American sire The Factor.

Rajasinghe, meanwhile, had US Navy Flag and Romanised behind him when breaking Ascot’s six-furlong juvenile track record in the Coventry Stakes. He shares his sire Choisir with Starspangledbanner and, should he throw stock in his own strong mould, it doesn’t take too much imagination to envisage him catching the attention of pinhookers.

Washington DC, the first son of Zoffany to stud, also brings Royal Ascot two-year-old form to the table, having captured the 2015 Windsor Castle Stakes. Following a busy juvenile season in which he also ran second in the Phoenix Stakes, he developed into a resilient sprinter, one who ultimately won six races and was placed in another 12, including the Prix de l’Abbaye and Commonwealth Cup. For sheer speed, also look no further than either Tasleet, a member of the fantastically fast family of Battaash, or Havana Grey, billed as the fastest horse from the Galileo sire line.

Tasleet held his form over a series of seasons, his victories ranging from the Rose Bowl Stakes at two to the

11

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

New for 2019 (from left): Poet’s Word, Unfortunately and Gustav Klimt; (inset) James Garfield

NEW FOR 2019

JAMES GARFIELD Record Breaking Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O and Gr.3 Winning 3-Y-O Out of a Stakes winning Royal Ascot 2-Y-O, from the immediate family of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT & KODIAC Duke of York Stakes at four. Also multiple Group 1-placed, he becomes the first son of Showcasing to stud in Britain.

As for Whitsbury Manor’s Havana Grey, that precocious front-runner for Karl Burke, nothing could get near him in the Flying Five Stakes.

An excellent juvenile season also featured a sweep of the Molecomb, Dragon and National Stakes as well as a runner-up effort in the Prix Morny, and he looks set to be well supported at the same stud that developed Showcasing.

Only stablemate Unfortunately had the measure of Havana Grey in the Prix Morny. Another tough two-year-old who was plying his trade early, Unfortunately’s Morny win followed on the heels of his victory in the Prix Robert Papin. He also trained on to take the Renaissance Stakes at three during a career that provided further cause to lament the early death of his sire Society Rock, now regarded as a fertile source of tough, fast horses.

There is also the additional allure of a £10,000 bonus to the breeder of Unfortunately’s first two-year-old winner and a free return for the breeders of all two-year-old winners from his first crop.

Their form ties in closely with Sioux Nation, the Phoenix and Norfolk Stakes winner of 2017. Like so many by Scat Daddy, Sioux Nation’s profile is one of speed and precocity – think fellow Norfolk winner No Nay Never – while he is also supported by a fast pedigree that goes back to blue hen Gay Hostess via Group 1 sprinter Catch The Blues.

With Scat Daddy off to a swift start as a sire of sires through No Nay Never and Daddy Long Legs, it is no surprise to hear he is proving popular with breeders at Castlehyde Stud.

Incidentally, that same family is also responsible for the other new Irish son of Scat Daddy, Smooth Daddy.. Best at around a mile to nine furlongs, he defeated Time Test when successful in the Fort Marcy Stakes at Belmont.

At the other end of the spectrum, Castlehyde also welcomes Order Of St George,, a stayer of real quality who ran out the wide-margin winner of the Ascot Gold Cup and a pair of

Irish St Legers.

The son of Galileo joins Coolmore as part James Garfield A high-class of their jumps two-year-old who trained on at squad, but such three and a member of the was his ability he famous Rafha dynasty also deserves to Hawkbill The earner of appeal to the Flat approximately £3.5 million, he code, particularly was a top-class performer on his those breeding to day and is related to leading sire race.

Cozzene The other son Tasleet Consistent sprinter who of Galileo new bears a striking resemblance to to Coolmore’s his sire Showcasing Castlehyde roster is quite a different proposition. Gustav Klimt was a high-class two-year-old who was later Group 1-placed from six furlongs to a mile, notably in the St James’s Palace Stakes and Irish 2,000 Guineas. Particularly appealing, however, is that he is a grandson of Rafha, the dam of Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.

This major ‘stallion family’ is also represented by Rathbarry Stud’s new recruit James Garfield, another quick horse who put up an excellent performance last summer to finish second in a 20-runner Prix Maurice de Gheest. A particularly good two-year-old, one who had the measure of Invincible Army in the Mill Reef Stakes, he also defeated Expert Eye when successful in the Greenham Stakes on his debut at three, demonstrating a pace that should sit well within the commercial market.

Speaking further of Rafha, the Kodiac tribe has gained another First season in representative in Kessaar, who joins 2019: Sioux Nation his sire at his birthplace of Tally-Ho (below); Lancaster Stud. Kessaar was John Gosden’s Bomber (left) and first two-year-old runner of the 2018 (inset) Rajasinghe season, such was his precocity, and went on to pack a fair bit in thereafter, notably when winning the Mill Reef and Sirenia Stakes, both by wide margins.

Anyone looking to tap into the emerging Iffraaj dynasty currently responsible for Wootton Bassett now has the option of Jungle Cat. Tough and sound, this likeable character was a sprinter who danced every dance; Group 2-placed on multiple occasions at two, he held his form right through to his six-year-old season when deserved Group 1 victories came his Continues page 12

Star value

FIRST YEARLINGS 2019

KODI BEAR Group 2 Winner of 4 Stakes races and €325,000 at 2 and 3 years from 7f to 8f

By Champion Sire KODIAC

90% FERTILITY IN 2018

TAGULA Sire of Champions CANFORD CLIFFS and LIMATO Proven source of precocious speed In 2018, Yearlings sold for: €75,000, €55,000, €37,000, etc.

Also Standing ACCLAMATION Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland P61TX22 • T: 00353 25 36362 E: info@rathbarrystud.com • www.rathbarrystud.com

12

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET First-crop foals in 2019 (clockwise from below): Decorated Knight, Mahsoob, Aclaim and Ardad

Hardy campaigner Mondialiste boasts exceptional pedigree From page 11 way in the Al Quoz Sprint and Sir Rupert Clarke Invitation Stakes.

Durability is also a prevailing theme in the careers of Dylan Mouth, Frontiersman and Master Carpenter.

Frontiersman is arguably the best-bred horse within this group as a Dubawi son of Ouija Board, making him a half-brother to Australia. He was also very talented on his day, as we saw when he ran second to Highland Reel in the Coronation Cup. Dylan Mouth’s career, meanwhile, spanned 14 wins in 31

starts. Along the way there were three Group 1 victories as well as a Classic success in the Derby Italiano, all of which makes his fee of £2,000 appealing.

As for Master Carpenter, he retires as the winners of seven of 53 starts. He was a busy two-year-old (Mastercraftsman’s first winner when striking on debut in April in 2013), later captured the Prix Daphnis at three and continued to hold his form right into his seven-year-old season.

He was also a versatile horse, his wins ranging from 5f to 1m2½ furlongs.

First Foals of 2019

A covering average of 108,896gns for a young stallion who stands for €12,000. It sounds too good to be true. Or is it?

Enter Irish Champion Stakes winner Decorated Knight. Admittedly, that figure was realised with the assistance of a group of mares who came under the hammer at Tattersalls from Blue Diamond Stud, the breeding operation of his owners Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Sagar.

But it is also reflective of a quality book that included Group winners/

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) – FIRST-CROP FOALS Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

No. covered in 2018

Aclaim

6

Acclamation

National

£9,500

160

Ardad

5

Kodiac

Overbury

£6,500

132

Berkshire

8

Mount Nelson

Kedrah House

Cotai Glory

7

Exceed And Excel

Tally-Ho

price on application

–

€5,000

179

Dartmouth

7

Dubawi

Shade Oak

£4,000

61

Decorated Knight

7

Galileo

Irish National

€12,000

66

El Kabeir

7

Scat Daddy

Yeomanstown

€8,000

148

Forever Now

8

Galileo

Norton Grove

£1,000

21

Galileo Gold

6

Paco Boy

Tally-Ho

€10,000

142 168

Jack Hobbs

7

Halling

Overbury

£4,000

Koropick

5

Kodiac

Hedgeholme

£2,250

15

Mahsoob

8

Dansili

Hedgeholme

£2,000

22

Mondialiste

9

Galileo

Elwick

£6,000

58

My Dream Boat

7

Lord Shanakill

Clongiffen

€4,000

61

National Defense

5

Invincible Spirit

Irish National

€8,000

64

Peace Envoy

5

Power

Worsall Grange

£2,000

59

€1,500

61

Pillar Coral

5

Zamindar

Kilbarry Lodge

Portage

7

Teofilo

Lodge Road

Profitable

7

Invincible Spirit

€800

23

Kildangan

€12,000

185 46

Shakeel

5

Dalakhani

Clongiffen

€7,000

Silver Galaxy

8

Galileo

Annshoon

poa

4

Time Test

7

Dubawi

National

£8,500

111

Wings Of Eagles

5

Pour Moi

Grange

€6,500

70

producers Princess Noor, Nouriya, Shaden, Catch Me Katie and Nebraas.

After all, Decorated Knight is a multiple Group 1-winning son of Galileo from the immediate family of champion sire Giant’s Causeway. He was also in possession of a lethal turn of foot, so fully deserving of a book of such quality, even if it was overall surprisingly light on numbers.

Speaking of well-bred sons of Galileo, a tempting fee of £6,000 grants breeders access to dual Group 1 winner Mondialiste. This hardy international campaigner First foals on the ground in 2019: Jack Hobbs

had the miling pace to strike in the Woodbine Mile and boasts an exceptional pedigree as a half-brother to the Classic-placed Impressionnante – in turn the dam of Intello – and descendant of blue hen Fall Aspen. All in all, it is an appealing package, and one that lends confidence that Elwick Stud’s strong support will ultimately be well rewarded.

Nor do they come much better bred than York and Joel Stakes winner Time Test. By Dubawi out of Group 1 winner Passage Of Time, his first book included 22 black-type performers and 22 black-type producers – among them the dams of Comic Strip, Gorella and Cannock Chase – as befits a dual Group 2 winner who was also Group 1-placed on three occasions.

It promises to be a rewarding year for the National given its roster also offers Prix de la Foret and Challenge Stakes winner Aclaim, now at a reduced fee of £9,500. By the sire of Dark Angel and from the family of Montjeu, there is a lot to like about Aclaim – and with a first book of 160 mares, among them the dams of Euro Charline and Here Comes When, he has certainly begun stud life in a strong position.

Star value Aclaim Well bred, talented horse who was supported in his first year at stud Profitable Fast son of sire of sires Invincible Spirit, he gives breeders a chance at €12,000 Cotai Glory Good-looking, well-bred horse with the support of Tally-Ho

13

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

French champion juvenile National Defense another by sire of sires Invincible Spirit There is also no shortage of fast Danehill-line horses in this bracket.

King’s Stand Stakes winner Profitable boasts proper Group 1 form at an affordable price. He was tough as well, packing in victories in the Temple and Palace House Stakes among five wins in 23 starts.

He was particularly busy in his first season, covering 185 mares, and as a fast, good-looking horse by Invincible Spirit, it would not be surprising to see him become one of the buzz names of this year’s foal market.

Invincible Spirit already boasts an enviable record as a sire of sires; next in line alongside Profitable is French champion two-year-old National Defense,, the 2016 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner who stands alongside his sire at the Irish National Stud. From the fine Anna Matrushka family also responsible for Helmet and Epaulette, his first book was highlighted by the Group 1 winners Chinese White and Voleuse De Coeurs.

Ardad covered 132 mares last year, including the dams of Bungle Inthejungle and Prince Bishop, and as a son of Kodiac who was fast and precocious enough to strike in the Flying Childers and Windsor Castle Stakes, he boasts a pretty strong commercial profile.

Hedgeholme Stud, meanwhile, is home to another fast son of Kodiac in Koropick, the Chipchase Stakes winner and Sirenia Stakes runner-up. He is from the further family of Group 1 sire Jaazeiro.

Hedgeholme’s other young horse, Earl of Sefton Stakes winner Mahsoob, is also supported by a fine pedigree as a Dansili descendant of Shadayid.

That same Green Desert sire line is also represented by Peace Envoy, a quick, hardy two-year-old who was trained by Aidan O’Brien to win the 2016 Anglesey Stakes and run third in the Prix Morny. Group 1 winner Baila Me led the way among the octet of stakes performers in his first book.

Tally-Ho Stud certainly knows what it takes to launch a stallion, having masterminded the careers of Kodiac and Danetime, so it was no surprise to see either of its younger horses, Cotai Glory and Galileo Gold, well received last year.

Record-breaking sprinter Cotai Glory, who ran second to Profitable in the King’s Stand Stakes, covered 179 mares in 2018, numbers which give him every chance of developing into the next successful sire son of Exceed And Excel.

As for Galileo Gold, another relation to Montjeu, he covered 142 mares including the dams of Jacqueline Quest, Glorious Empire and Desert Encounter. A tip-top miler, he is best remembered for his wins in the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes but was also very good at two, when his three victories included the Vintage Stakes at Goodwood.

El Kabeir was another well received new name of 2018, an unsurprising development considering he was the first son of Scat Daddy to retire to stud in

First foals in 2019 (below): Dartmouth, Wings Of Eagles and National Defense

Ireland. A striking individual who was a sales-topping yearling, he was a Grade 2 winner at two and Classic prospect at three when his wins included the Jerome and Withers Stakes. Scat Daddy is already off and running as a sire of sires via No Nay Never and Daddy Long Legs, both young stallions who have sired stakes winners on turf and dirt, and it will be fascinating to see how El Kabeir fares.

Finally, although Jack Hobbs, Shakeel, Dartmouth and My Dream Boat, who defeated Found in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, are billed as dual-purpose prospects, there is no reason why their progeny should not fare well on the Flat, perhaps in the hands of owner-breeders.

After all, Dartmouth is a Group 2-winning son of Dubawi while Shakeel won the Grand Prix de Paris. And in the case of Jack Hobbs there is the allure of gaining Hobbs, access to a Classic-winning member of the once important Sharpen Up sire line.

Similar comments apply to Derby hero Wings Of Eagles. This good-looking son of Pour Moi takes up residence at The Beeches in Ireland as part of Coolmore’s jumps Continues page 14

MUKHADRAM

Shamardal - Magic Tree (Timber Country)

First crop includes impressive Grade3 winner A BIT SPECIAL and the exciting JAHBATH £6,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

NAYEF

Gulch - Height Of Fashion (Bustino)

Consistent source of high-class talent with one of the best pedigrees in the stud book £5,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

POET’S WORD

Poet’s Voice - Whirly Bird (Nashwan)

Outstanding dual Group1winner and only horse to defeat Cracksman in 2018 £7,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

TASLEET

Showcasing - Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux)

Group1sprinter from the family of Battaash £6,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)

Discover more about the Shadwell Stallions at www.shadwellstud.com Or call Richard Lancaster, James O’Donnell or Tom Pennington on 01842 755913 Email us at: nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk

14

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

From page 13 division having spent the past season at Haras de Montaigu in Normandy, when his debut book contained the dams of seven stakes winners.

First Yearlings of 2019

The market can be a brutal arena and no sector is more keenly evaluated than first-crop sires.

Adaay, the Hungerford and Sandy Lane Stakes winner, is a good-looking horse and with stock generally thrown in his mould, was certainly one name who came out of the winter with the market seal of approval.

Led by the 180,000gns half-sister to Heartache, he returned a foal average of 31,354gns amid a chorus of positive reports.

Commercial speed is key to Adaay’s profile, as it is for those other sons of Kodiac in the pipeline. Rathbarry Stud’s Kodi Bear enjoyed his finest moment in the Celebration Mile but he was also an excellent two-year-old who found only Belardo too good in

Speedy Twilight Son is siring foals with a real Kyllachy look to them the Dewhurst Stakes. Three of his foals sold for in excess of €40,000 last winter led by a €66,000 colt – eyecatching results for a €6,000 stallion.

In a generation that promises to shape Kodiac’s legacy as a sire of sires, there is also Norfolk Stakes winner Prince Of Lir – like Adaay, an expensive breezer – to consider as well as the tough Group 3 winner Coulsty, another fast horse who swaps Rathasker Stud for Norman Court Stud this season.

The Acclamation dynasty is also well represented within this group, all of whom are fast horses that adhere to the whims of the market.

Commercially speaking, July and Richmond Stakes winner Mehmas led the way with a good average of 21,886gns and top price of 85,000gns.

He was an admirable two-year-old who was never out of the first four in eight starts, demonstrating a toughness and precocity that should stand him in good stead.

It was Dark Angel’s son Estidhkaar, however, who broke into six-figure territory thanks to a €100,000 colt who was knocked down to Ballyphilip Stud. That contributed to an overall average of 17,261gns for the Tara Stud stallion, a half-brother to Toormore who swept the 2014 July and Champagne Stakes.

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) – FIRST-CROP YEARLINGS Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Fee

Foal average in 2018

No. sold at auction in 2018

Adaay Belardo

7

Kodiac

Whitsbury Manor

7

Lope De Vega

Kildangan

£5,000

31,354gns

26

€10,000

28,559gns

Bobby’s Kitten

8

Kitten’s Joy

Lanwades

17

£10,000

8,942gns

12

Buratino

6

Exceed And Excel

Cannock Chase

8

Lemon Drop Kid

Kildangan

€5,000

12,689gns

18

Worsall Grange

£3,000

21,500gns

Charming Thought

7

4

Oasis Dream

Dalham Hall

£6,000

15,750gns

4

Coulsty Estidhkaar

8

Kodiac

Norman Court

£4,000

6,500gns

10

7

Dark Angel

Tara

€5,000

17,261gns

23

Fascinating Rock

8

Fastnet Rock

Ballylinch

€7,000

41,250gns

12

Harzand

6

Sea The Stars

Gilltown

€10,000

21,236gns

14

Kodi Bear

7

Kodiac

Rathbarry

€6,000

17,563gns

16

Life Force

8

Invincible Spirit

Moortown

€500

–

–

Marcel

6

Lawman

Anngrove

€3,000

5,511gns

9

Markaz

7

Dark Angel

Derrinstown

€6,000

16,280gns

25

Mehmas

5

Acclamation

Tally-Ho

€10,000

21,886gns

35

Mizzou

8

Galileo

Old Road

€1,750

6,350gns

2

Ol’ Man River

7

Montjeu

Arctic Tack

€2,000

5,730gns

10

Pearl Secret

10

Compton Place

Chapel

£4,000

16,050gns

20

Prince Of Lir

5

Kodiac

Ballyhane

€4,000

11,563gns

8

Proconsul

6

Galileo

Annshoon

€1,250

11,567gns

3

Strath Burn

7

Equiano

Bridge House

€4,000

–

– 19

The Last Lion

5

Choisir

Kildangan

€7,500

21,384gns

Twilight Son

7

Kyllachy

Cheveley Park

£8,000

29,543gns

35

Vadamos

8

Monsun

Tally-Ho

€7,500

15,425gns

24

Another quick son of Dark Angel, Derrinstown Stud’s Chipchase and Criterion Stakes winner Markaz, is supported by a first crop that includes the half-siblings to Rajasinghe (a colt who made 60,000gns) and Zafisio. The Equiano branch of the Acclamation sire line, meanwhile, is represented by Strath Burn, a top sprinter on his day who ran second in the Betfred Sprint Cup. The commercial leader among this bracket, however, was dual Group 1 winner Fascinating Rock, whose average of 41,250gns was buoyed by a pair of fillies who made €185,000 and €110,000. A champion older horse of Ireland, Fascinating Rock had the First yearlings this year: The Last Lion

measure of Found when successful in both the Qipco Champion Stakes and the Tattersalls Gold Cup, and retired to stud as the winner of almost £1.2 million in prize-money – a lot of horse for a €7,000 stud fee.

Others to post an opening foal average in excess of 25,000gns were Twilight Son and Belardo.

Haydock Sprint Cup and Diamond Jubilee Stakes winner Twilight Son is seemingly throwing foals with a real Kyllachy look to them. He wound up with an average close to 30,000gns for 35 sold and it does not take too much imagination to envisage him having a successful presence in some of those better sales later this year, such as the Goffs UK Premier Sale or Tattersalls October Book 2.

Belardo, meanwhile, drops to €10,000, a tempting price for a horse talented enough to win the Dewhurst and Lockinge Stakes. He returned an average of 28,559gns for 17 sold.

Similar comments also apply to Harzand. Here is a well related, good-looking son of Sea The Stars who pulled off the Epsom and Irish Derby double – all for a fee of €10,000. Given his profile, it is likely the best of his first crop are either in the hands of owner-breeders or were saved for the yearling sales; nevertheless, he had a fair showing at auction last winter, with his first foals selling for up to €60,000.

Better is also likely to come this autumn from Bobby’s Kitten.

The first son of Kitten’s Joy to stud in Europe, he was a seriously good sprinter in the US – look no further than his victory in the Breeders’ Cup

Star value Twilight Son Appeals as a likely successor to Kyllachy, he enjoyed a bold showing at the foal sales Harzand An Epsom and Irish Derby winner supported by an excellent pedigree, all for €10,000 Pearl Secret First crop of this tough sprinter caught the eye at last year’s foal sales, as illustrated by the fact 20 of 21 offered were sold

15

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

First-crop yearlings in 2019 (clockwise from left): Estidhkaar, Fascinating Rock (noseband), Harzand, Belardo and Adaay

Turf Sprint – and has been very well supported by Lanwades Stud. A female family that traces back to Tree Of Knowledge, dam of major influence Theatrical, also lends confidence.

The Last Lion had his fee trimmed last year to €7,500, a figure that looks fair value considering

seven of his first foals surpassed the €30,000 mark. There have been few tougher two-year-olds in recent seasons than this son of Choisir; out of a Group 1-placed juvenile in Mala Mala, he progressed through a busy two-year-old campaign for Mark Johnston to sweep the Brocklesby,

Sirenia and Middle Park Stakes. If his progeny possess even half his durability and precocity, they will be okay.

Darley’s other Middle Park Stakes winner on offer is Charming Thought, who defeated Ivawood and Muhaarar to take his edition in 2014.

A 625,000gns yearling, he could be in for a stronger auction showing this autumn if the progeny on show have inherited his looks.

There is a similarity to the profile of The Last Lion’s studmate Buratino.

Another plying his trade early for Johnston, he went on to defeat Air

Force Blue in the Coventry Stakes before falling short to only Shalaa in the Middle Park Stakes. He also owns an appealing background as an Exceed And Excel relation to Danehill Dancer.

Anyone looking for something Continues page 16

A classical landscape fit for thoroughbreds.

Coach House

Hellvelyn

Pearl Secret

Most precocious son of Oasis Dream

Proven source of 2yo speed

Gr.2 winning sprinter by speed sire Compton Place

ROYAL ASCOT GR.2 2YO SPRINTER And 5f 2yo Stakes winner.

SIRE OF TOP 2YO FILLY MRS DANVERS As well as 2yo Stakes winners/performers Ardenode, Bonnie Grey, Hellofahaste, La Rioja, Mister Trader.

CONSISTENT 5F STAKES WINNER

FIRST 2YOS IN 2018 Include multiple winners I Believe In You, More Than Likely, & Stakes performer The Cruising Lord, etc.

Fee: £3,000 1st October LFFR Chapel Stud Ltd Chapel Lane, Bransford, Worcestershire WR6 5JQ 01452 717 342 www.chapelstud.co.uk

BEST BOOKS TO COME…

Fee: £3,000 1st October LFFR Roisin Close 07738 279 071 roisin@chapelstud.co.uk

Coach House In partnership with Whitsbury Manor Stud and Trickledown Stud

FIRST FOALS MADE 42,000GNS, €40,000, 26,000GNS, €28,000, etc. AVERAGING OVER 4X HIS STUD FEE. Sold to Jamie Railton x2, Tally-Ho Stud, Redwall Bloodstock, Norris/Huntingdon, etc.

Fee: £4,000 1st October Pearl Secret Daniel Creighton 07597 945 219

16

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

Gutaifan a hit at foal sales and in demand again at last year’s yearling auctions

First-crop two-year-olds in 2019 (clockwise from below): Gutaifan, Gatewood, Kingston Hill and Cappella Sansevero

From page 15 different from the ubiquitous Sadler’s Wells and Danehill lines would not go far wrong in considering Tally-Ho Stud’s Vadamos, a son of Monsun from the noted Lagardere family of Val Royal. He was a top miler on his day, as he showed when winning the 2016 Prix du Moulin, and was represented by foals that sold for up to 52,000gns.

Temple Stakes hero Pearl Secret, meanwhile, offers welcome access to the Ahonoora sire line. The seven-time winner fired in a respectable average of 16,050gns last winter but even more striking was the fact that 20 of his 21 foals found new homes.

Canadian International winner Cannock Chase also had a productive season at auction, notably as the sire of colts who made €55,000 and £25,000. A win in the Tercentenary Stakes at the expense of Postponed also proves just how talented this horse was.

There was also an abundance of talent in Marcel’s brief career, one that was highlighted by a victory in the Racing Post Trophy. An imposing horse physically, he switches from the National Stud to Anngrove Stud.

Finally, pedigree is the key to Proconsul, Frankel’s younger brother who stands at a fraction of the price. Now at Annshoon Stud, he was represented by a €25,000 colt foal last winter.

First Two-Year-Olds of 2019

YEARLING S STAL

LIONS

BREEDER

S

TRAIN

ERS

It is crunch time for this group.

Do any of these sires have it in them to become the next Kodiac or Showcasing?

Despite standing at a lower level, several have already benefited from a bold auction showing to be represented in a spread of leading stables.

Take Gutaifan as a example.

All the rage at the 2017 foal sales, he made a similarly good impression during the past yearling season, where his youngsters sold for up to €360,000. Others by the stallion made 225,000gns and 200,000gns

BUY

Star value Hot Streak Attracted the attention of several respected judges during the 2018 sales season, notably when firing in an average of 126,000gns at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Sale Make Believe Well supported by his ownership group, this Classic-winning miler looks tempting at his new fee of €12,000 Ivawood Excellent at two himself, he is represented in all the major yards

First season with two-year-olds: Free Eagle

and are now with the likes of Richard Hannon, Karl Burke, Richard Fahey and Ger Lyons. Gutaifan captured the Prix Robert Papin and Gimcrack Stakes himself, so it stands to reason that his progeny, like so many from the Dark Angel line, will come to hand early.

Given that miler speed remains one of the most highly valued attributes in the thoroughbred, surely Make Believe, the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix de la Foret hero, is a tempting prospect at his new fee of €12,000. Armed with the powerful backing of Ballylinch Stud and Prince Faisal, his first crop contains a significant number of juveniles out of stakes winners and/or producers while four of his yearlings made six figures, led by a 210,000gns colt sold to Shadwell Estates.

While Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Free Eagle was a smart two-year-old, we may have to wait a little longer to see his stock to reach their full potential. However, there has to be hope within his camp that he will reward their support after a sales season that featured five six-figures yearlings, including a €400,000 colt. He ended the year with an average of 50,352gns and is now represented in the yards of Dermot Weld, Richard Hannon and Roger Varian among others.

Any breeder using Free Eagle in 2019 will receive a free return in 2020.

One of the talking points out of last

Have you thought about advertising your winners?

To advertise contact +44 (0)203 0348905 bloodstock@racingpost.com

17

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) – FIRST-CROP 2YOS

First two-year-olds this year: Outstrip and (inset) Snow Sky

Stallion

Age

8

Galileo

Rosshill

Anjaal

8

Bahamian Bounty

Rathasker

Fee

Yearling average in 2018

No. sold at auction in 2018

€500

–

–

€5,000

14,010gns

73

Brazen Beau

7

I Am Invincible

Dalham Hall

£7,000

36,304gns

46

Cable Bay

8

Invincible Spirit

Highclere

£6,500

20,024gns

58

Cappella Sansevero

7

Showcasing

Bridge House

€4,000

21,872gns

18

Due Diligence

8

War Front

Whitsbury Manor

£4,000

14,795gns

49

Fountain Of Youth

8

Oasis Dream

Bearstone

Free Eagle

8

High Chaparral

Irish National

£4,500

14,168gns

38

€12,500

50,352gns

44

French Navy

11

Shamardal

Kildangan

€4,000

5,661gns

18

Fulbright

10

Exceed And Excel

Kildangan

€4,000

8,929gn

14

Gatewood

11

Galileo

Windmill View

price on application

4,100gns

3

€10,000

41,394gns

113

Gutaifan

6

Dark Angel

Yeomanstown

Hillstar

9

Danehill Dancer

Garryrichard

€2,500

8,700gns

5

Hot Streak

8

Iffraaj

Tweenhills

£7,000

40,436gns

52

Intrinsic

9

Oasis Dream

Hedgeholme

£1,750

4,333gns

3

Ivawood

7

Zebedee

Castlehyde

€5,000

18,933gns

48

Kingston Hill

8

Mastercraftsman

Castlehyde

€5,000

14,297gns

34

Lucky Speed

9

Silvano

Sunnyhill

€1,500

13,250gns

2

Make Believe

7

Makfi

Ballylinch

€12,000

41,949gns

49

Music Master

9

Piccolo

Throckmorton Court

£2,000

800gns

2

Outstrip

8

Exceed And Excel

Dalham Hall

£5,000

18,418gns

60

Teofilo

Redmondstown

private

–

–

Dylan Thomas

Yorton

poa

8,560gns

5 sold

10

Pether’s Moon

9

Retirement Plan

We have already had a glimpse of what top sprinter Brazen Beau might be capable of courtesy of his early runners in Australia, who include Listed winner Accession and Golden Slipper Stakes favourite Tassort. The sole European-based son of Australian sire sensation I Am Invincible, he was

Stud

Altruistic

Parish Hall

year’s Tattersalls October Sale was the popularity of Temple Stakes winner Hot Streak, who was responsible for three yearlings who made 200,000gns or more. Fast and tough, he is by the same sire as Wootton Bassett and a member of powerful Height Of Fashion clan.

Sire

9

Monsun

Tullaghansleek

€1,500

–

–

Beat Hollow

Burgage

€2,500

–

–

8

Nayef

Ballycurragh

9

Galileo

Shade Oak

Sea Moon

11

Snow Sky Telescope

another to catch the imagination at the sales, notably as the sire of a trio of yearlings who hit six figures.

That powerful Invincible Spirit dynasty also has a further chance to grow via Challenge Stakes winner Cable Bay. This Group 1-placed two-year-old enjoyed a particularly

strong showing at the Goffs UK Premier Sale thanks to a pair of colts who made £150,000 and £110,000; the former is now named Al Sakeet and in the care of William Haggas.

Charlie Hills, Marco Botti and Roger Charlton also have Cable Bay two-year-olds.

–

–

–

£3,000

7,471gns

17

A good spread of representation has also come the way of July and Richmond Stakes winner Ivawood.

Also third in the Newmarket and Irish 2,000 Guineas at three, he has two-year-olds in training with his own handler Richard Hannon as well as Continues page 18

BIRCHWOOD DARK ANGEL / LAYLA JAMIL [ EXCEED AND EXCEL ]

Speed p& precocityy € 5 000 Live foal

✔ 2015 winner and record holder of the July Newmarket Gr2 Superlatives Stakes ✔ Gr 1 placed twice at 2 National stakes and Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Turf ✔ Out of a «speed and precocity» family by Dark Angel out of an EXCEED AND EXCEEL mare ✔ 93 mares covered in 2018, very tonic and expressive first foals ✔ Deauville resident stallion, an opportunity for UK and IRE breeders to enjoy some goot time in France

Haras de la Huderie 14950 Glanville • France • Beranger BUSSy • +33 (0)6 81 59 97 94 • beranger.bussy@wanadoo.fr • www.huderie.com Meridian International • Ghislain BOzO • 33 (0)6 07 59 11 19 • meridian@orange.fr

18

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET

Ruler Of The World has one star already but progeny should come into their own this year From page 17 the likes of Richard Fahey, Jim Bolger and Karl Burke.

Overall, the Green Desert sire line heads into the 2019 season with a strong hand of young representatives. Aside from the Invincible Spirit clan, the list includes Showcasing’s first son to stud, Round Tower Stakes winner Cappella Sansevero, whose sale results last season included a 140,000gns half-brother to Harry Angel.

The likes of Mark Johnston, Clive Cox and Kevin Ryan, meanwhile, will train the progeny of Fountain Of Youth, the 2014 Sapphire Stakes winner who is supported by a pedigree out of the top drawer as a son of Attraction.

Another son of Oasis Dream, Stewards’ Cup winner Intrinsic, will surely benefit from the backing of Malih Al Basti, who has sent two-year-olds by the horse to the likes of James Fanshawe and David Simcock.

Speed is also the prevailing theme

in the case of Due Diligence and Anjaal.

Due Diligence was the eight-length winner of his Saratoga debut before switching to Aidan O’Brien, for whom he ran second in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. A colt from the fast Indigo family led the way among his yearlings at 95,000gns, and with those in training with the likes of Archie Watson, Kevin Ryan and Hugo Palmer, he surely has a strong chance of making his presence felt.

July Stakes winner Anjaal, meanwhile, was represented by a 100,000gns colt who sold to Clive Cox as well as a series of youngsters who made good money to judges such as Peter and Ross Doyle – purchasers of Anjaal himself as a yearling – and Karl Burke. He is also an easy option for breeders to use as a son of Bahamian Bounty.

Juvenile Group 1 form is on show via Outstrip, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero. As a well-related son of Exceed And Excel, it is no surprise to see he has been the most popular member of the Darley Club’s intake of 2016, which also includes

Produce of first-crop three-year-olds sires in 2019 (clockwise): Rumble Inthejungle (by Bungle Inthejungle), Mid Winster (by Burwaaz) and Victory Command (by War Command); (below) Garswood filly Little Kim

those hardy campaigners Fulbright and French Navy.

And while St Leger hero Kingston Hill is now marketed under Coolmore’s dual-purpose banner, don’t forget he was also a Group 1-winning two-year-old.

Christophe Ferland has taken charge of his most expensive

EL KABEIR Scat Daddy x Great Venue

EXCEPTIONAL FIRST FOALS

yearling, Sebille, a filly sold for 60,000gns at Book 1.

First Three-Year-Olds of 2019

Already a Group 1 sire and a Derby-winning half-brother to Duke Of Marmalade; that is the profile of Ruler Of The World at a very affordable €8,000.

An injury incurred during his first season at stud means that numbers have not been on Ruler Of The World’s side. Yet despite those limitations, he came up with a two-year-old of real quality in the Fillies’ Mile heroine Iridessa, who remains high up in the Oaks betting.

Another representative, The World Is Your, was also Listed-placed, all of which bodes well for a horse who progeny should come into their own as three-year-olds.

Similar comments apply to Eclipse Stakes winner Mukhadram, who

looks to have a potential star to his credit in recent Sweetest Chant Stakes winner A Bit Special, the winner of four of her five starts for Patrick Biancone in the US. Closer to home, his triple-winning son Jahbath is one to watch too.

A striking start with his first two-year-olds has prompted a fee raise to €12,000 for Bungle Inthejungle. The Rathasker resident, himself a quick and durable juvenile, led the way within the bracket among the leading European first-crop sires thanks to 27 winners who won close to £375,000 in prize-money. It was a start reminiscent of former Rathasker resident Mujadil, especially as the group included a real speedster in Molecomb Stakes winner Rumble Inthejungle.

Another stallion with ties to Rathasker, Gregorian, also made a pleasing start as the sire of 12 juvenile winners, among them five

STALLIONS IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS) – FIRST-CROP 3YOS Stallion

Age

Sire

Stud

Aiken

10

Selkirk

Anngrove

€1,200

Albaasil

11

price on application

Dansili

Moor End

Alhebayeb

9

Dark Angel

Tara

Bungle Inthejungle

9

Exceed And Excel

Rathasker

Burwaaz

10

Exceed And Excel

Longford House

Cameron Highland

10

Galileo

Grovecourt

Oasis Dream

Chapel

£3,000 £3,000

Coach House

Colt ex Shes Ranger

Filly ex Bella Ophelia

Tel: +353 (0)45 897314 www.yeomanstown.ie

€2,000 poa

Dunaden

13

Nicobar

Overbury

10

Galileo

Killack

Oasis Dream

Irish National

€3,000 £3,500

9

poa

Garswood

9

Dutch Art

Cheveley Park

Gregorian

10

Clodovil

National

£8,000

Heeraat

10

Dark Angel

Mickley

£5,000 €1,500

Jet Away

12

Cape Cross

Arctic Tack

Kuroshio

8

Exceed And Excel

Clongiffen

€6,000

Leading Light

9

Montjeu

Grange

€3,000

Libertarian

9

New Approach

Knockhouse

Media Hype

12

Tiger Hill

Vauterhill

Mukhadram

10

Shamardal

Nunnery

£6,000 €3,500

Ocovango

Colt ex Silver Rose

8

€5,000 €12,000

El Salvador Gale Force Ten

Colt ex Maybe Now Maybe

Fee

Quest For Peace Ruler Of The World

poa poa

9

Monsun

Beeches

10

Galileo

Knockmullen House

9

Galileo

Castle Hyde

€8,000 £1,500

poa

Saddler’s Rock

11

Sadler’s Wells

Beech Tree

Slade Power

10

Dutch Art

Kildangan

€7,500

Sun Central

10

Galileo

Elusive Bloodstock

£2,000

Valirann

9

Nayef

Whytemount

€1,500

War Command

8

War Front

Castle Hyde

€8,000

19

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

Star value Ruler Of The World Limited numbers hasn’t stopped this exceptionally well-bred Derby winner from siring a legitimate Classic prospect in Iridessa Mukhadram Appears to have thrown a seriously exciting filly in A Bit Special Garswood A quality first crop that included a pair of Group winners makes a fee of £3,500 look value stakes runners. If they make the anticipated improvement he should be in for a productive season, as should Garswood, sire of Group 3 winners Cala Tarida and Little Kim, and Dunaden, who made a pleasing start considering his own progressive profile; his son, Goodwood winner The Pink’N, looks one to watch.

Not far behind Bungle Inthejungle in terms of winners last season was Dewhurst Stakes scorer War Command on 25; his first crop also included a Listed winner in Victory Command.

Top sprinter Slade Power joins this bracket for the first time at a trimmed €7,500 but there was promise to be gleaned from his early runners, who include the Round Tower Stakes runner-up Bruce Wayne – a €220,000 two-year-old – among three black-type performers.

An intriguing addition to Clongiffen Stud is Kuroshio, who returns to Europe after a good start with his sole crop of European-bred juveniles.

ARDAD

‘‘

FIRST FOALS ARE MATURE AND IMPRESSIVE

Dunaden, whose first crop are three years old in 2019; (right): Dom Carlos, by fellow first-crop three-year-old sire Gale Force Ten

A fast Group 2 winner himself in Australia, he would appear to impart plenty of pace to his progeny as illustrated by a record of six winners from 16 runners, among them the Group 2-placed Dunkerron.

Burwaaz also has not been helped

by limited representation, so it is to his credit that he has a filly of note in Curragh scorer Mid Winster.

Classic-placed Gale Force Ten supplied last season’s Windsor Castle Stakes third Dom Carlos while another son of Oasis Dream, Coach

16%

Looks are all-important in the commercial market and ARDAD is very hard to fault, with a huge walk

BILL DWAN THE CASTLEBRIDGE CONSIGNMENT

£6,500 OCT1, SLF

Kodiac’s best Royal Ascot two-year-old.

Stakes horses to runners

Only Dubawi has done better from his 2015 crop, among all British stallions 30+ runners

CITYSCAPE

than both his dam, Ouija Board, and his half-brother, Derby hero Australia FEE ON REQUEST

G1 talent by an elite stallion out of a great mare.

JACK HOBBS

£4,000 OCT1, SLF

Irish Derby winner with an outcross pedigree.

Alhebayeb has sired the winners of 22 races, including the Listed-placed Talk Or Listen, while Heeraat has two prospects of notable potential in Motakhayyel and Dahawi, both debut scorers this winter.

Continues page 21

Just Hubert The Pink’N Sweet Pearl His first two-year-olds were winning well at big tracks in 2018.

And they are certain to progress...

DUNADEN

£5,000 OCT1, SLF

The new hit young stallion with outcross lines.

HE REMINDS ME A LOT OF PRESENTING. The G1 son of HE’S EXACTLY Dubawi who was TYPE faster around Epsom THAT JOHN GOSDEN

FRONTIERSMAN

House, has fired in the winners of 18 races at the time of writing, among them several multiple scorers.

Breeders also have the option of a pair of affordable sons of Dark Angel; Group 2-winning two-year-old

9 KAYF TARA

£10,000 OCT1, SLF

Britain’s greatest jumps stallion ever.

£3,000 OCT1, SLF

Melbourne Cup hero with an eye-catching debut crop.

The five-time G1 winner by jumps influence Monsun SCHIAPARELLI £1,500 OCT1, SLF

Stamping his stock in his own magnificent mould.

OVERBURY Stud S I M ON SW EETING 07796 174926 (01386) 725552 simon@ovstud.co.uk J O BR O W N (01386) 725552 jo@ovstud.co.uk

CALL OR EMAIL AND WE’LL SEND YOU OUR BROCHURE VIDEOS AND MORE INFO AT OVSTUD.CO.UK

20

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

T H E 2 0 1 9 S TA L L I O N B O O K The No.1 global stallion guide 1/2018 12: 15 Page 2

WE THE 2019

ATHERBYS

N O I L L A T S

THE 2019 WEATHER BYS

NATIONA L HUNT stallion book

BOOK

New Coolm ore N.H. Sire ORDER OF ST GEORGE

I DUBAW

FREE TO DOWNLOAD FROM THE APP STORE

AVA I L A B L E N O W To order please contact Lauren Beetson +44 (0) 1933 440077 lbeetson@weatherbys.co.uk or visit www.bettrendsshop.co.uk to order online

21

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET ESTABLISHED STALLIONS STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS)* Stallion

Age

Aiken

11

Air Chief Marshal

12

Danehill Dancer

Longford

€2,000

Arctic Cosmos

12

North Light

Old Road

€2,500

From page 19

Established/Veteran Stallions of 2019

A mere glance at the table of proven names shows that you certainly don’t need deep pockets to access a Group 1 stallion.

Camacho hit new heights last season as the sire of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches heroine Teppal and Queen Mary Stakes winner Signora Cabello.

He can be relied upon to throw a sales type – his yearlings made up to 325,000gns – and has more than 140 two-year-olds to run for him this year, making him a safe enough bet at €12,000.

The 2017 season was a hard act

to follow for Tamayuz given it featured top-flight winners Precieuse and Blond Me but once again he wasn’t too far away from the stakes action in 2018 thanks to Group winners Hunaina, Making Light and Mustashry. His fee of €12,500 continues to look value, especially considering his ability to ignite interest in the sales ring (40,171gns yearling average in 2018).

Nor should his sire Nayef be overlooked at £5,000. Indeed, his yearlings made up to €125,000 in 2018. Meanwhile, that other golden oldie, Canford Cliffs’ sire Tagula, had yearlings sell for up to £65,000 and is still going strong at Rathbarry Stud.

Anngrove

Axxos

15

Monsun

Coolagown

12

Dansili

Banstead Manor

Blue Bresil

14

Smadoun

Yorton Farm

Bullet Train

12

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm

Fee

€1,200

€2,500 £10,000 £6,000 price on application

Captain Gerrard

14

Oasis Dream

Mickley

£2,500

Casamento

11

Shamardal

Sunnyhill

€3,000

Cityscape

13

Selkirk

Overbury

£5,000

Cockney Rebel

15

Val Royal

Batsford

£2,500 £1,500

Conduit

14

Dalakhani

Tullyraine House

Dansant

15

Dansili

Bridge

Diamond Boy

13

Mansonnien

Kilbarry Lodge

€6,000 €6,000

poa

Dragon Pulse

10

Kyllachy

Irish National

Dream Eater

14

Night Shift

Vauterhill

Eastern Anthem

15

Singspiel

Withyslade

£2,000 €1,000

£800

Elusive Pimpernel

12

Elusive Quality

Irish National

Elzaam

10

Redoute’s Choice

Ballyhane

€4,000

Equiano

14

Acclamation

Newsells Park

£6,000

Excelebration

11

Exceed And Excel

Castle Hyde

€8,000

Falco

14

Pivotal

Elusive Bloodstock

£3,000

Famous Name

14

Dansili

Anngrove

Farhh

11

Pivotal

Dalham Hall

£10,000

Fast Company

14 9

€1,000

Danehill Dancer

Kildangan

€12,000

Galileo

Green Hills

€1,000

Fuisse

13

Green Tune

Longford House

Gladiatorus

14

Silic

Withyslade

Haatef

15

Danzig

Derrinstown

€2,000

Hellvelyn

15

Ishiguru

Chapel

£3,000

poa £2,000

Jukebox Jury

13

Montjeu

Burgage

Le Cadre Noir

15

Danetime

Sweep Lane

Lethal Force

10

Dark Angel

Cheveley Park

£4,500

Libranno

11

Librettist

Clongeel

€1,000

Lovelace

15

Royal Applause

Springlodge

Mahler

15

Galileo

Beeches

Mazameer

Camacho can be relied upon to throw a sales type and he hit new heights on the track

Stud

Selkirk

Bated Breath

Finsceal Fior

Produce of established/veteran sires (clockwise from above): Teppal, Larchmont Lad and Hunaina

Sire

poa €1,500

poa €5,500

9

Green Desert

Merrington

Mores Wells

15

Sadler’s Wells

Old Road

poa

Mayson

11

Invincible Spirit

Cheveley Park

£6,000

Mount Nelson

15

Rock Of Gibraltar

Boardsmill

€6,000

€1,500

Native Ruler

13

Cape Cross

Batsford

£1,500

Nephrite

10

Pivotal

Claremount

€4,000

Pour Moi

11

Montjeu

Grange

Raven’s Pass

14

Elusive Quality

Kildangan

€5,000 €10,000

Recharge

13

Cape Cross

Shade Oak

£1,500

Requinto

10

Dansili

Castle Hyde

€4,000 €5,000

Sageburg

15

Johannesburg

Garryrichard

Sans Frontieres

13

Galileo

Beeches

€2,500

Shantaram

10

Galileo

Coolagown

€1,000 €8,000

Soldier Of Fortune

15

Galileo

Beeches

Steele Tango

13

Okavango

Lodge

poa

Stimulation

13

Choisir

Llety

poa

Swiss Spirit

10

Invincible Spirit

Batsford

Tamayuz

14

Nayef

Derrinstown

Tough As Nails

10

Dark Angel

Old Meadow

Urban Poet

13

Dynaformer

Gurteen

£3,000 €12,500 poa €500

Virtual

13

Pivotal

Woodlands

Vocalised

13

Vindication

Redmondstown

Watar

14

Marju

Moortown

poa

Workforce

12

King’s Best

Knockhouse

poa

Yorgunnabelucky

13

Giant’s Causeway

Mickley

Youmzain

16

Sinndar

Glenview

*

poa private

£1,500 poa

Who covered more than 20 mares in 2018

Barney Roy is a son of established stallion Excelebration

There was also a strong auction showing for Excelebration via a 220,000gns colt at Book 1 of Tattersalls’ October Sale. A fee of €8,000 will secure a nomination to this top miler, who hit the ground running at stud as the sire of Barney Roy and Speak In Colours.

In terms of consistency there is a lot to be said for Footstepsinthesand. The sire of six Group 1 winners overall, his winners to runners ratio in Britain and Ireland runs at 54 per cent – he can also be relied upon to throw his share of quality as the likes of Marie’s Diamond and Larchmont Lad, who swept the Anglesey and Minstrel

Stakes on Irish Oaks day last July, attest.

Other stallions who operate on a strong winners to runners ratio include Raven’s Pass (58 per cent), who broke through at Group 1 level last season courtesy of Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Royal Marine, fellow proven Group 1 sire Clodovil (58 per cent), Sir Percy (56 per cent), who was represented by a €210,000 filly at the 2018 Goffs Orby Sale and is already rolling this year as the sire of recent Astra Stakes winner Pantsonfire, and Sixties Icon (52 per cent), sire of the excellent South American performer Sixties Song Continues page 22

22

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

BLOODSTOCK SPECIAL BREEDING ON A BUDGET GOLDEN OLDIES STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS)* Stallion

Aeroplane

Age

16

Sire

Stud

Danehill Dancer

Eisenfarn

Fee

price on application

Alkaadhem

19

Green Desert

Ballycurragh

poa

And Beyond

21

Darshaan

Scarrow Hill

£500

Arcadio

17

Monsun

Arctic Tack

€4,000

Ask

16

Sadler’s Wells

Dunraven

£2,000 poa

Avonbridge

19

Averti

Oakgrove

Barely A Moment

18

Gilded Time

Coolballyshan House

Beat Hollow

22

Sadler’s Wells

Ballylinch

€5,000

Brian Boru

19

Sadler’s Wells

Longford House

€2,000

Califet

21

Freedom Cry

Boardsmill

poa

Carlotamix

15

Linamix

Coolagown

poa

poa

Camacho

17

Danehill

Yeomanstown

€12,000

Clodovil

19

Danehill

Rathasker

€10,000

Cloudings

25

Sadler’s Wells

Old Road

€3,000

Court Cave

18

Sadler’s Wells

Boardsmill

poa

Curtain Time

21

Sadler’s Wells

Woodfield Farm

Dandy Man

16

Mozart

Ballyhane

€12,500 €5,000

Doyen

19

Sadler’s Wells

Sunnyhill

Dragon Dancer

16

Sadler’s Wells

Nunstainton

Dylan Thomas

15

Danehill

Castlehyde

Fairly Ransom

18

Red Ransom

Lodge Road

Fine Grain

17

Fuji Kiseki

Longford House

Footstepsinthesand

17

Giant’s Causeway

Castlehyde

€2,500

poa €4,000 poa €1,500 €10,000

Franklins Gardens

19

Halling

East Lynch

poa

Geordieland

18

Johann Quatz

Beech Tree

£2,000

Getaway

16

Monsun

Grange

€7,500

Golden Lariat

20

Mr Prospector

Tullaghansleek

€3,000

Golden Tornado

23

Sadler’s Wells

Gurteen

Goldmark

27

Lyphard

Ballycrystal

poa €750

Haafhd

18

Alhaarth

Batsford

£2,000

Indian Haven

19

Indian Ridge

Withyslade

£1,750

Kalanisi

23

Doyoun

Boardsmill

€4,000

Kayf Tara

25

Sadler’s Wells

Overbury

£10,000

Lauro

17

Monsun

Hayes

Laverock

17

Octagonal

Blackhall

poa

Let The Lion Roar

18

Sadler’s Wells

Bridge House

Linda’s Lad

16

Sadler’s Wells

Vauterhill

Malinas

18

Lomitas

Glenview

Mamool

20

In The Wings

Clongiffen

€1,500

€2,000 €500 £1,000 poa

Milan

21

Sadler’s Wells

Grange

€8,000

Milk It Mick

18

Millkom

Norton Grove

£1,000

Millenary

22

Rainbow Quest

Nunstainton

Misternando

19

Hernando

Knockboy House

Monsieur Bond

19

Danehill Dancer

Norton Grove

poa poa £2,800

Morozov

19

Sadler’s Wells

Blackhall

€1,500

Mountain High

17

Danehill

Dunraven

£1,250 £5,000

Nayef

21

Gulch

Nunnery

Norse Dancer

19

Halling

Yorton

Notnowcato

17

Inchinor

Knockhouse

poa

Olden Times

21

Darshaan

Throckmorton Court

poa

Orientor

21

Inchinor

Sidehouse Farm

poa

Papal Bull

16

Montjeu

Coolagown

poa

poa

Passing Glance

20

Polar Falcon

Batsford

£2,000

Pastoral Pursuits

17

Bahamian Bounty

Norton Grove

£2,000

Phoenix Reach

19

Alhaarth

Winterbeck Manor

£2,000

Policy Maker

19

Sadler’s Wells

Blackrath

€2,000

Primary

16

Giant’s Causeway

Knockmullen House

poa

Prince Flori

16

Lando

Knockhouse

poa

Royal Marine: Group 1 winner for Kildangan stallion Raven’s Pass

Commercial appeal and more success on course point to a good year for Dandy Man From page 21 and who can be relied upon to throw tough runners at differing ages and distances.

Equiano is primarily regarded as an influence for speed but he is another who throws a healthy dose of durability – think The Tin Man and recent Californian stakes winner Belvoir Bay, a popular runner who successfully switches between turf and dirt.

Among the younger stallions, two from the Pivotal line stand out in Farhh and Dragon Pulse.

Farhh’s stud career has been afflicted by fertility problems but there is no doubt he’s a high-class stallion, as a first crop that includes Dee Ex Bee, Nocturnal Dragon and Wells Farhh Go illustrate. He is currently returning a strike-rate of 50 per cent, while Dragon Pulse boasts a figure of 51 per cent, which makes it easy to see how he remains well liked by trainers. He has his biggest and best bred group of two-year-olds to run for him this season.

Dandy Man has long been popular with the commercial breeder, given his propensity to throw attractive types (2018 yearlings sold for up to €185,000). He had a fine season in 2018 as the sire of Natalma Stakes heroine La Pelosa alongside stakes fillies Lady Kaya, Dandhu and

Dee Ex Bee: from the first crop of Farhh

Comedy, and with that quartet set to do battle again this season he could be on the cusp of another important year.

It’s tempting to think that the best seasons are also ahead of Jet Setting’s sire Fast Company – another popular horse with trainers – following his switch to Kildangan, while for just €7,500 you can access Rock Of Gibraltar, the sire of 16 Group 1 winners. The latter’s son, Mount Nelson, is now finding great favour as a jumps stallion but he’s also a useful tool for the Flat breeder as the likes of Librisa Breeze and Berkshire show.

Nor would it be prudent to dismiss Monsieur Bond, the sire of two Prix de l’Abbaye winners in Gilt Edge Girl and Move In Time, while another affordable sprinter, Captain Gerrard joined the Group 1 club last Gerrard, summer when Alpha Delphini won the Nunthorpe Stakes. Globetrotter Phoenix Reach is also attractively priced for a stallion who threw a horse of the quality of Elm Park.

As for Vocalised, he has gone some way to rewarding the faith of Jim Bolger as the sire of National Stakes winner Verbal Dexterity alongside Group 3 winners Cimeara and Steip Amach. He also offers something a bit different as the only source of Bold Ruler in Europe.

It wouldn’t be a surprise if a

Choose a C:C Certified Stallion ~ www.plusvital.com CHAMPION 3YO SPRINTER WITH A SIRE’S PEDIGREE

FIRST YEARLINGS MADE UP TO £50,000

FIRST 2YOS 2019

NEW FOR 2019 Bearstone Stud,

Office: 01630 647197 Mobile: 07974 948755 enquiries@bearstonestud.co.uk

Washington DC Fee: £6,000 Oct 1st SLF

Fountain Of Youth Fee: £4,500 Oct 1st SLF

View our 2019 brochure online at www.bearstonestud.co.uk

23

Racing Post Thursday, February 14, 2019

Star value

GOLDEN OLDIES STANDING IN BRITAIN & IRELAND (£10,000/€12,500 OR LESS)* Stallion

Sir Percy Well established as a fine source of tough, talented runners and popular with trainers as a result Dandy Man Looks set for another fine season with the likes of La Pelosa, Lady Kaya and Dandhu to represent him Cityscape An eyecatching start with his first three-year-olds makes this outcross an appealing option at £5,000 Group 1 winner came the way of either half-brothers Bated Breath or Cityscape this season.

Bated Breath’s season was highlighted by Group 3 winner Worth Waiting alongside the promise of two-year-olds Viadera and Space Traveller. Come the autumn he was again strong commercially, with his yearlings selling for up to €240,000 and returning an average of 47,690gns.

Cityscape hasn’t been afforded the depth of opportunities as his sibling, despite being a Group 1 winner, which makes his start all the more noteworthy. Classic trial winners Dan’s Dream and Give And Take led the way while Urban Aspect – since renamed Ka Ying Star – looks a particularly exciting recruit to Hong Kong.

The Cheveley Park Stud pair of Mayson and Lethal Force were both excellent sprinters on their day who are now supplying a volume of winners. The former has 17 stakes horses to his credit from his first three crops, including a Group 1-placed

Proclamation

Age

17

Sire

Stud

King’s Best

Longford House

Rajj

16

Danehill

Lisheen

Rock Of Gibraltar

20

Danehill

Castlehyde

Rule Of Law

19

Kingmambo

Kedrah House

Salutino

17

Monsun

Whytemount

Fee

€1,500 price on application €7,500 poa €1,500

Sandmason

22

Grand Lodge

Lacken

Scorpion

16

Montjeu

Shade Oak

poa

Shantou

26

Alleged

Burgage

Schiaparelli

16

Monsun

Overbury

Shirocco

18

Monsun

Glenview

poa

Sholokhov

20

Sadler’s Wells

Glenview

poa

£4,000 poa £1,500

Sir Percy

16

Mark Of Esteem

Lanwades

£7,000

Sixties Icon

16

Galileo

Norman Court

£6,000

Solskjaer

19

Danehill

Coolagown

Tagula

26

Taufan

Rathbarry

poa

Tau Ceti

20

Hernando

Rosshill

€800

The Carbon Unit

17

Catienus

Thistle

poa

€4,000

Touch Of Land

19

Lando

Knockhouse

Vendangeur

16

Galileo

Anngrove

€3,500

poa

Vinnie Roe

21

Definite Article

Longford House

€3,000

Walk In The Park

16

Montjeu

Grange

private

Well Chosen

19

Sadler’s Wells

Kedrah House

Westerner

21

Danehill

Castle Hyde

Produce of established/ veteran sires: Alpha Delphini (top) and Ex Patriot

poa €6,000

Where Or When

20

Danehill Dancer

Ballycrystal

poa

Yeats

18

Sadler’s Wells

Castle Hyde

€5,000

Zambezi Sun

15

Dansili

Coolagown

€2,500

*Who covered more than 20 mares in 2018

juvenile in True Mason, as well as a good following from trainers, which lends hope that a Group breakthrough is around the corner.

Elzaam is another influence for speed who has found favour with several trainers; his progeny tend to be tough sorts and with a strong winners to runners strike-rate, he’s certainly a

reliable option to get a mare going. The same could also be said for Requinto, who may well have a Classic prospect to represent him in Great Scot.

Swiss Spirit also has a volume of winners to his name, including 23 who have won as two-year-olds over the past two seasons.

Hellvelyn’s early crops contained

two talented speedsters in Mrs Danvers and La Rioja, no mean feat considering they were sired in crops that numbered 35 and 48 named foals. He is another who can be relied upon to throw good-looking stock.

Finally, a fee of only €1,000 earns a nomination to Elusive Pimpernel, a sire making a name for himself

under both codes; think Listed winners Elegant Pose and Elusive Beauty on the Flat and the likes of Ex Patriot and Coeur Sublime over jumps. He certainly has a fan in Ger Lyons, who tweeted last summer: “When will breeders wake up to this sire? He improves mares and is some value for money.”

FIRST FOALS IN 2019 GALILEO - OCCUPANDISTE (KALDOUN)

Defeated 16 Gr.1 winners A LANDMARK FAMILY Sire: GALILEO – Champion: won Gr.1 Derby S, Gr.1 Irish Derby, Gr.1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth S, etc: Multiple Champion Sire and Sire off Sires, Sires, incl: FRANKEL (Triple Champion, sire), TEOFILO (Champion 2yo, sire), NEW APPROA OACH (Champion, sir sire), RULER OF THE WORLD (Gr.1, sire), e), NATHANIEL (Gr.1, sire), SIXTIES ICON (Gr.1,, sire), sir INTELLO (Gr.1, sire) CHURCHILL, ULYSSES, etc.

Dam: OCCUPANDISTE – won 6 races, incl Gr.1 Prix de la Forêt, Gr.1 Prix Maurice de Gheest; dam of 7 winners, incl MONDIALISTE, IMPRESSIONANTE (Gr.2 Prix de Sandringham, ham, 2nd Gr.1 Poule d’Ess d’Essai des Pouliches, Gr.1 Prix d’Astarté; d’Astart herself dam of INTELLO, by GALILEO [Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club, Gr.3 .3 x 2, 3rd Gr.1 x 3, promising omising young sir sire]), ONLY ANSWER (Gr.3 Prix de Saint-Georges, Gr Gr.3 Prix du Petit Couvert, LR Prix du Cercle), PLANETAIRE (by Galileo; LR Prix Pelleas, 3rd Gr.3 La Coupe) Her grandam ELLE SEULE won Gr.2 Prix d’Astarté; dam of 10 winners, incl ELNADIM (Champion Champion Sprinter, Sprinter, sire), sir MEHTAAF (Champion, Gr.1 1,000 Guineas, dam of a Champion).

Champion).

Her dam FALL ASPEN (Gr.1 Matron on S); dam of: FOR FORT WOOD (Gr.1 Gr.1,, Champion Sir Sire), HAMAS (Gr.1, sire), NORTHERN ASPEN (Gr.1), TIMBER COUNTRY COUNTRY (Champion at 2, sire), sir BIANCONI (Gr.2 Gr.2,, sire), COLORADO DANCER (Gr.2, dam of DUBAI MILLENIUM [Champion Champion, sire of DUBAWI DUBAWI].

WI WI].

STANDING AT Elwick Stud, Sheraton Farm, Hartlepool TS27 4RB t: +44 (0) 1429 856 530 e: info@elwickstud.co.uk w: www.elwickstud.co.uk

FEE £6,000

24

Thursday, February 14, 2019 racingpost.com

Top-class Gr.2 winner at 2 years

Gr.1 sprinter/miler at 3 years

1st Superlative Stakes-Gr.2, 7f, Newmarket 1st Maiden, 7f, Curragh, by 1¾ lengths

1st 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes-L, 7f, Leopardstown, by 1¾ lengths 2nd St James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, 1m, Royal Ascot, beaten ½ length 3rd Sprint Cup Stakes-Gr.1, 6f, Haydock, beaten ¾ length 3rd Irish 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, 1m, Curragh

“ There is a double digit list of stallion sons of Galileo

who have sired at least one Group/Grade 1 winner. It is odds-on that Gustav Klimt will add his name to that list.”

Irish Field, 19th January 2019

Ne 20 w for 19

Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Tom Miller, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide Tel: 353-52 6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, John Kennedy or Cathal Murphy Tel: 353-25 31966. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Website: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.