International Thoroughbred December 2011

DECEMBER 2011

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Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh or Sebastian Hutch.Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

• ALFRED NOBEL • AUSSIE RULES • CANFORD CLIFFS • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MONTJEU • PEINTRE CELEBRE • POUR MOI • RIP VAN WINKLE • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • STRATEGIC PRINCE • THEWAYYOUARE • YEATS • ZOFFANY •

AT 2 YEARS1ST Coventry Stakes-Gr.2, 6f, Royal Ascot by 6 lengths1ST Maiden, 6f, Newbury, on debut by 7 lengths

AT 3 YEARS1ST Irish 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, 8f, Curragh1ST St. James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Royal Ascot1ST Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Goodwood

AT 4 YEARS1ST Lockinge Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Newbury1ST Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Royal Ascot

defeating the brilliant Goldikova

TIMEFORM RATED 122

TIMEFORM RATED 131

TIMEFORM RATED 133

Canford Cliffs bests the brilliant Goldikova in the

Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1

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Frankel remains unbeaten in the St James's Palace StakesGreat AcclaimIt's been a resurgent year for the British and Irish bloodstock industries: Galileo and Acclamation the stars

We meet the farms behind two of this year's big race winners: Swordlestown Little and Owenstown Stud

Trainer Roger Varian talks about his "extraordinary year"

Rathbarry Stud: a family business

Stallion Review 2011An in-depth look at this year's leading

stallions, we examine which young stallions will be the ones to make it

Jocelyn de Moubray: compares stallion performance

Broodmare sires and covering stats: they come under the microscope

Stallion averages: from this autumn's European yearling sales

DECEMBER 2011

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Le Havrebay 2006, 16.1 hh, by Noverre ex Marie Rheinberg

• At 2: Won 2 races, including beating VArenAr (Gr.1).

• At 3: Won Prix du Jockey-Club (10 1/2 f) Gr.1, beating Fuisse (Gr.1) and silVer Frost (Gr.1).

• Also broke the course record over 7f at Maisons-Laffitte (lr) and 2nd Gr.1 French 2000 Guineas

• By champion miler and Group 1 sire noverre, out of a half sister to champion sprinter Polar Falcon (sire of PiVotAl)

• €100,000 bonus to the Owner of his first Group winner

air CHief MarsHaLbay 2007, 16.01/2 hh, by Danehill Dancer ex Hawala

• Group winner and Gr.1 placed over 6f & 7f at 2 years

• Realised €320,000 as a yearling

• DAnehill DAncer full brother to 2 stakes performers

• His first 4 dams all won and have bred 31 winners between them, including classic, Group and stakes winners

• Covered 120 mares his first season in 2011

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Champs Elysees2003 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi)From the great Danehill sireline out of a blue hen mareFirst yearlings 2012


Dansili 1996 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi)The leading sire in Europe by stakes winners in 2011


Oasis Dream 2000 b h Green Desert ex Hope (Dancing Brave)The sire sensation of nine Gr.1 winners


Observatory 1997 ch h Distant View ex Stellaria (Roberto)Successful sire, including quadruple Gr.1 winner Twice Over


Rail Link 2003 b h Dansili ex Docklands (Theatrical)Champion racehorse and sire of Gr.3 winner Bugie d’Amore from his fi rst crop


Three Valleys 2001 ch h Diesis ex Skiable (Niniski)Stakes producing fi rst season sire


Zamindar 1994 b h Gone West ex Zaizafon (The Minstrel)Multiple Gr.1 producing sire including Zarkava and Timepiece


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Beat Hollow1997 b h Sadler’s Wells ex Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave)The leading sire in GB & Ire by percentage winners to runners in 2011 (Hyperion Statistics, minimum 50 runners) 13th October 2011


Champs Elysees2003 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi)From the great Danehill sireline out of a blue hen mareFirst yearlings 2012


Dansili 1996 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi)The leading sire in Europe by stakes winners in 2011


Oasis Dream 2000 b h Green Desert ex Hope (Dancing Brave)The sire sensation of nine Gr.1 winners


Observatory 1997 ch h Distant View ex Stellaria (Roberto)Successful sire, including quadruple Gr.1 winner Twice Over


Rail Link 2003 b h Dansili ex Docklands (Theatrical)Champion racehorse and sire of Gr.3 winner Bugie d’Amore from his fi rst crop


Three Valleys 2001 ch h Diesis ex Skiable (Niniski)Stakes producing fi rst season sire


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8 The foreword The Breeders’ Cup was not shown on TV in Hong Kong, writes Paul Haigh

11 The first word James Delahooke answers stallion Q and As

12 News and views Dutch Art and Dubawi have had price increases, but most stallion fees have remained the same as in 2011

20 Racing Post Ratings Ron Wood, the international race analyst at the Racing Post, casts his eye over the form from the Breeders’ Cup

22 He’s not lost his grip yet Alan Porter sees the Sadler’s Wells line successful at the Breeders’ Cup meeting

32 European invasion Steve Moran asks if the Euro raids on the Melbourne Cup are a good thing for breeding, punting and competition

36 Lonhro and Cape Blanco to US Alan Porter takes a look at Darley’s and Coolmore’s stallion plans for the US

42 Team Cashman With Rathbarry’s Acclamation the star sire of the year, Lissa Oliver travels to County Cork to visit the family-run stud

48 The best start ever Neil Clark meets trainer Roger Varian, who has had an “extraordinary year”

55 An EXcellent year Lissa Oliver visits Owenstown Stud and John Tuthill, the breeder of Excelebration

58 Little in name, but not in nature Swordlestown Little punches well above its weight when it comes to producing quality bloodstock

132 The Golden Gavels The bloodstock awards 2011

135 Mare of the month Desert Classic, the dam of Wrote

139 The database146 Bloodstock background

Simon Thompson, Thoroughbred Internet

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66 Annus Mirabilis It’s just been a fantastic year for Galileo, writes Sue Montgomery, as the stallion is beginning to beat his own sire’s amazing statistics

74 Keep the Faith Jason Thomas reckons commercial breeders might be advised to use a stallion after he has had a quieter second year on the track

79 Which one will it be? Jason Thomas tries to work out which of this year’s first-season sires will be the popular ones in three years’ time

84 Compare like with like... ...advises Jocelyn de Moubray when looking at the relative merits of stallion progeny results

92 The master list Hyperion’s list of stakes-winning sires through 2011

99 The biggest gamble of ‘em all Buying a broodmare is a challenge,

writes Jocelyn de Moubray, but get it right (or wrong) and it can change your life

105 The dam sires’ list Hyperion’s list of stakes-winning dam sires through 2011

110 The covering list Weatherbys’ covering stats in 2011

118 The winds of change John Sparkman reviews the US sires’ list, which was transformed by the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Churchill Downs

123 Yearling sale results Averages and medians for stallions’ yearling sales through 2011 as against covering fee in 2009

the coverAcclamation by Peter Mooney

DECEMBER 2011

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DECEMBER 2011

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Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars, Jason Walsh or Sebastian Hutch.

Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF.

• ALFRED NOBEL • AUSSIE RULES • CANFORD CLIFFS • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL •

• HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MONTJEU • PEINTRE CELEBRE • POUR MOI • RIP VAN WINKLE • ROCK OF GIBRALTAR • STARSPANGLEDBANNER • STRATEGIC PRINCE • THEWAYYOUARE • YEATS • ZOFFANY •

AT 2 YEARS1ST Coventry Stakes-Gr.2, 6f, Royal Ascot by 6 lengths

1ST Maiden, 6f, Newbury, on debut by 7 lengthsAT 3 YEARS1ST Irish 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1, 8f, Curragh1ST St. James’s Palace Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Royal Ascot

1ST Sussex Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, GoodwoodAT 4 YEARS1ST Lockinge Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Newbury1ST Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1, 8f, Royal Ascot

defeating the brilliant Goldikova

TIMEFORM RATED 122

TIMEFORM RATED 131

TIMEFORM RATED 133

Canford Cliffs bests the brilliant Goldikova in the Queen Anne Stakes-Gr.1

TAGULA - MRS MARSH (MARJU)

New for 2012.......... FEE: €17,500 ..........

❝He’s the bestI’ve ever had❞

Richard Hannon

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Frankel remains unbeaten in the St James's Palace StakesGreat AcclaimIt's been a resurgent year for the British and Irish bloodstock industries: Galileo and Acclamation the stars

We meet the farms behind two of this year's Group 1 winners: Swordlestown Little and Owenstown Stud

Trainer Roger Varian talks about his "extraordinary year"

Rathbarry Stud: a family business

Stallion Review 2011An in-depth look at this year's leading stallions, we examine which young

stallions will be the ones to make itJocelyn de Moubray: compares stallion performanceBroodmare sires and covering stats:

they come under the microscopeStallion averages: from this autumn's European yearling sales

Stallion Review 2011: British and Irish stallions

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the foreword

The whole point about straws in the wind is that they’re not always noticed. Sometimes they blow away too quickly. Sometimes they just float by and nobody notices their significance.

it may be of little interest to those involved in the Breeders’ Cup that the hong Kong Jockey Club now no longer bothers to simulcast for betting the meeting that still likes to think of itself as the world Racing Championships “the where?” you can almost hear the Average Joe in the US stands laughing. “the hong Kong what? So who the hell gives a – ?”

But wait a minute. the hong Kong Jockey Club is, by any measurement, the world’s most successful racing organisation. it’s the only one in which turnover is increasing. this season it’s averaging over hK$1billion a meeting. (that’s around $130 million).

Attendances are growing too. nearly 100,000 turned out for the Chinese new Year meeting, and if CnY is not perhaps your typical hong Kong day at the races, that was still the highest for nearly a decade. hong Kong punters are the heaviest and perhaps the most enthusiastic on earth. And they’re turning their backs on the Breeders’ Cup, just like they did on the Grand national a few years ago after that dismal farce in which only two mud-spattered nags managed to finish, and nobody except connections and sweepstake ticket holders cared very much which was which.

There are extenuating circumstances, of course. For one thing hong Kong simulcasting is rationed by government decree, some of the persons in office being holders of the comical opinion that if you reduce the number of betting opportunities you reduce the Chinese propensity to punt. (in general this attitude just tends to play into the hands of the illegal bookmakers, of whom perhaps more at a later date).

For another, the Breeders’ Cup goes off in the Far east at a time when all self-respecting citizens, and even some of the more feverish party-goers, are nicely wrapped up in bed. that may be one reason why no horses from Japan, hong Kong, Singapore, Australia or new Zealand ever turn up for it.

But hong Kongers will stay up late and get up early for an event they consider important, or worth betting on. Football often proves it. And they won’t do that anymore for the Breeders’

Cup. The turnover figures prove that. If the hKJC tote turned over just one tenth of what it does for an ordinary meeting at happy Valley, or anything approaching what it does for the Arc or the Melbourne Cup or Royal Ascot, the Breeders’ Cup would be worth its while. their customers have decided that it’s not.

If you look at the fields this year you can understand why. hardly any of the world’s top horses went to Churchill Downs. not my assessment. Study the iFhA ratings. And those that did were Goldikova in precipitous decline and So You think after a campaign that had everything in common with the retreat from Moscow.

Aidan o’Brien says: “we’re still learning about So You think” straight after the standard remarks about him having “so much natural speed”. Don’t want to rush you Aidan, but how long have you had him? Maybe a phone call to Bart Cummings might have saved a lot of time and trouble.

Bart didn’t win the Melbourne Cup this year, an omission which would once have made headlines on its own, so maybe his advice isn’t as useful as it was. With nine of the first ten home trained in europe or european imports, it must have occurred to Australians to wonder whether their national race would ever be won by an Australian, or by an Australian-bred ever again.

Maybe the news that Americain, winner last year of the 150th running and fourth this year after an unlucky run, is going to continue his career in Australia and then stand at stud there will give them hope. Something needs to be done to correct the imbalance caused by the Australian obsession with precocity and speed. if not they will continue to have some of the best sprinters in the world and some of the worst middle-distance horses and stayers.

which makes you wonder how good So You think, beautiful though he is and majestic though he looked in his Cox Plate prime, actually ever was by international standards.

So we skip ahead to the Cathay Pacific hong Kong international Races at Sha tin on December 11.

the hong Kong Mile should be an interesting race with Excelebration and Immortal Verse doing their best to bring the Frankel form to Hong Kong. So should the Vase be, with the first two in the Melbourne Cup, Dunaden and Red Cadeaux, separated at Flemington not so much by the width of a cigarette paper as by a drip of saliva on the winner’s lip, doing battle again, this time over 1m4f (or 2,400m metres as the sillies call it in hK). Although Snow Fairy or Shareta will probably laugh at them as they go past if either or both choose this race instead of the Cup.

Hong Kong lost its own Sprint for the first time in a decade in 2010 when JJ the Jetplane just edged out Rocket Man. the latter is back again, but his aura was dented in Japan last time, and if any invader is going to get the better of entrapment and the rest of the hong Kongers, it might be the Japanese mare Curren Chan, who had Rocket Man back in fourth and without obvious excuse in the Sprinters’ Stakes at nakayama in october. Good luck to Bated Breath though.

the Cup looks a gem, and will shine even more brightly if ed Dunlop decides Snow Fairy should defend her crown rather than go for the easier Vase. the reason is the clash between Ambitious Dragon and California Memory. California is a beautiful little grey who regularly completes his final two furlongs in less than 22 seconds; and Ambitious Dragon, a big, hefty son of pins, who has if anything an even more startling finishing burst.

if Snow Fairy, who is clearly as good as ever, gets burned by the Dragon, it will add substance to my guess that this gelding could have won any race he was qualified to run in at the Breeders’ Cup – if only his owner, Mr. Johnson lam, had thought it was worth sending him to such a meeting.

The Cup looks a gem, and will shine even more brightly if Ed Dunlop decides Snow Fairy should defend her

crown rather than go for the easier Vase

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Breeders’ Cup: off airThe meeting was ignored in HK ahead of its own “World Championships”, writes Paul Haigh

THE AGA KHAN STUDSSuccess Breeds Success

Pat Downes (Manager) or Julie White, Gilltown Stud. Tel: +353 45 481216 E-mail: [email protected]

Stallions in France SINNDAR • SIYOUNI www.agakhanstuds.com

Fee: €15,000

Fee: €40,000

Fee: €85,000

Sea The Stars• European Champion 3yo, winning 6 successive Gr.1 races• TFR 140 “One of the best of all time.”• Half brother to 3 other Gr.1 winners,

including World Champion Sire Galileo.

• Has covered 97 Black Type winners and the dams of 98 Black Type winners in his first two seasons.

• First foals in 2011 from a stellar book of mares

Dalakhani• Sire of 13 Stakes Performers in 2011, including the

Gr.1 Classic winners RELIABLE MAN and DUNCAN; the Gr.2 winner VADAMAR and the Group winning and Gr.1 Classic placed BARAAN.

• Sire of 4 Classic winners from his first 4 crops

• 2011 yearlings made up to 400,000gns.

Azamour• Sire of 13 Stakes Performers in 2011, including the

Gr.2 winner SHANKARDEH, the Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 Classic placed NATIVE KHAN, Gr.3 winnersLINDENTHALER and NO EXPLAINING, and LR winners COLOMBIAN, LAAJOOJ, SIREN’S SONG and ZANUGHAN.

• Sire of 24% 3-y-o Stakes performers to runners (to 11.11)

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A maiden mare, but don’t wish to spend more than £10,000 and want to sell the offspring? I try to use a proven stallion on a maiden mare. Trainers like Compton Place, and if your mare can not throw a winner by him, do you need her?

A maiden mare, but happy to spend up to £30,000 and wish to sell the offspring? Acclamation, but he will need to be a good maiden to be accepted. His stock run and they sell.

You have a black-type maiden mare and wish to sell the offspring? Oasis Dream or Invincible Spirit. If, like me, you are not a pedigree buff it is vitally important to access the extraordinary volume of information that is available and which encapsulates other peoples’ past triumphs and failures. For instance, if stallion X has been mated to 68 daughters of stallion Y without success – you need to know it. I access this info through a young Irish genius called Gary Hadden (00 353 8660 38311). I just do the conformation, temperament, and make the coffee!

Gary is a protégé of Bill Oppenheim, another genius who developed the APEX rating system of establishing stallion merit, the “go to” analysis which is now accepted world-wide as the benchmark.

I also worked with Alexandra Scrope in the early days of Juddmonte Farms, and I place her right up there as a pedigree analyst with the two afore-mentioned boffins. She is better looking than either, and history says the results were quite good!

You would like to use a first-season sire as a commercial sales prospect? Dream Ahead or Pour Moi.

A mare for an owner-breeder and happy to spend up to £30,000? Selkirk or Hernando, two wonderful servants who will hopefully manage another season or two. Bold Ruler sired Secretariat and Wajima in his last two crops, so don’t be afraid of old stallions.

A mare for an owner-breeder and wished to spend less than £10,000? Sir Percy or Manduro – both have made an excellent start in spite of all the efforts by the “chattering classes” to condemn them.

You are going to take a gamble on a sire who is yet to have runners? Paco Boy.

You would like to cover your mare with a French-based sire? Muhtathir.

You are sending your filly to race and then be covered in the US? Hard Spun.

You want to try and put a bit more speed into your family? Send it to Dandy Nicholls!

Your mare is a bit incorrect? Look Here’s dam was so offset in both knees that racing her was never an option. She produced consistently correct foals, including a Classic winner. I have just spent 10 days in Kentucky looking at multiple black-type winning fillies and mares. The soundness some of them have exhibited in spite of their conformation is extraordinary.

Your mare needs a good-moving stallion? Hat Trick.

You want an outcross for a Northern Dancer mare? Monsun – although Northern Dancer seems to inbreed very successfully these days.

You are hoping to get a filly to join a broodmare band in the future? Zamindar: providing your mares are as good as the Aga Khan’s...

Want to make sure you get an invite to the Darley lunch? Stick close to Sir Paul Arnold or Andy Smith and you should get in alright.

You would like to use a smaller, independent farm in Britain or Ireland? I don’t think I would criticise the excellent service and back-up provided by Darley and Coolmore, but if they shut me out Lanwades, Whitsbury and Rathbarry are also excellent

Do book sizes affect your decision? What is an optimum? Northern Dancer never covered more than 45 mares in a season, and breeders paid a $1 million no guarantee for his services and that was 30 years ago!

I have no doubt that if Galileo was restricted to 45 mares (which I admit is unlikely) breeders would queue up and fight for nominations at €1 million, no guarantee.

Advances in veterinary science altered the whole dynamic of the business, and the genie looks unlikely to go back in the bottle.

Are stallion fees generally still too high? No – I get paid commission on them!

Stallion Q and A:James DelahookeWhich stallion would you use if you had...?

For more insightful viewpoint from bloodstock agents, see pages 57, 69 and 71


the news

Stallion Stud 2011 fee 2012 fee % + /- Stallion Stud 2011 fee 2012 fee % + /-

Stallion fees 2012 and % change with 2011 for the major farms in Britain and Ireland (fees published when going to press)

Motivator Highclere £8,000 £5,000 -37Paco Boy £8,500 £8,000 -6 Misu Bond Norton Grove £1,500 £1,500 0Monsieur Bond £3,000 £5,000 +67

Beat Hollow Juddmonte £5,000 £5,000 0Champs Elysees £10,000 £7,500 -25Dansili £65,000 £75,000 +15Observatory £5,000 £5,000 0Rail Link £7,000 £6,000 -14Three Valleys £5,000 £5,000 0Zamindar £12,000 £10,000 -17 Approve Morristown Lattin €5,000 €5,000 0Camacho €4,000 €4,000 0Dark Angel €7,000 €12,500 +78

Alhaarth Derrinstown Stud €5,000 €4,000 -20Arcano €6,000 €6,000 0Elnadim €6,000 €5,000 -17Haatef €4,000 €4,000 0Intikhab €5,500 €5,500 0Tamayuz €15,000 €15,000 0

Archipenko Lanwades Stud £6,000 £5,000 -17Hernando private private Selkirk on app on app Sir Percy £6,000 £6,000 0

Dream Ahead Ballylinch Stud - €17,500 Intense Focus €6,000 €5,500 -8Lawman €15,000 €15,000 0Soviet Star €8,000 private n/a

Bahamian Bounty The National Stud £10,000 £8,500 -15Cockney Rebel £4,500 £4,000 -11Dick Turpin - £7,000 n/aPastoral Pursuits £7,000 £6,500 -7

Amadeus Wolf Irish National Stud €6,000 €6,000 0Art Connossieur €4,500 €4,500 0Big Bad Bob €6,000 €6,000 0Invincible Spirit €60,000 €60,000 0Jeremy €6,000 €6,000 0Lord Shanakill €7,500 €5,000 -33

Azamour Aga Khan Studs €15,000 €15,000 0Dalakhani €35,000 €40,000 +14Sea The Stars €85,000 €85,000 0Sindaar €9,500 €9,500 0Siyouni €7,000 €7,000 0

Clodovil Rathasker €9,000 €6,000 -33Fast Company €5,000 €5,000 0Thousand Words €4,500 €4,000 -11

Dutch Art Cheveley Park Stud £5,000 £12,000 +140Kyllachy £8,000 £10,000 +25Medicean £12,000 £8,000 -33Pivotal £55,000 £45,000 -18Virtual £4,000 £4,000 0

Aqlaam Shadwell £7,000 £7,000 0Haafhd £5,000 £2,500 -50Mawatheeq £5,000 £5,000 0Nayef £12,500 £12,500 0Sakhee £5,000 £7,000 +40

Equiano Newsells Park Stud £8,000 £8,000 0Mount Nelson £7,000 £6,000 -14

Avonbridge Whitsbury Manor £3,500 £3,000 -14Compton Place £6,000 £6,000 0Sakhee's Secret £5,500 £5,500 0Showcasing £5,000 £4,500 -10

Acclamation Rathbarry Stud €15,000 €35,000 +133Lilbourne Lad - €7,500 n/aMoss Vale €4,000 €4,000 0Tagula €4,000 €4,000 0

Alfred Nobel Coolmore €5,000 €4,000 -20Aussie Rules €6,000 €5,000 -17Canford Cliffs - €17,500 n/aDanehill Dancer €75,000 €60,000 -20Duke Of Marmalade €25,000 €20,000 -20Dylan Thomas €17,500 €12,500 -29Excellent Art €10,000 €10,000 0Fastnet Rock €30,000 Private n/aFootstepsinthesand €10,000 €10,000 0Galileo Private Private n/aHigh Chaparral €25,000 €25,000 0Holy Roman Emperor €10,000 €12,500 +25Hurricane Run €15,000 €12,500 -17Mastercraftsman €17,500 €15,000 -14Montjeu €75,000 Private n/aPeintre Celebre €15,000 €12,500 -17Pour Moi - €20,000 n/aRip Van Winkle €20,000 €17,500 -12Rock Of Gibraltar €17,500 €17,500 0Starspangledbanner €15,000 €10,000 -33Strategic Prince €4,000 €6,000 50Thewayyouare €6,000 €5,000 -17Yeats €9,000 €9,000 0Zoffany - €7,500 n/a

Authorized Dalham Hall Stud £15,000 £10,000 -33Dubawi £55,000 £75,000 +36Exceed and Excel £12,000 £22,500 +87Halling £10,000 £10,000 0Kheleyf £4,000 £4,000 0New Approach £22,500 £22,500 0Poet's Voice - £12,000 n/aShirocco £10,000 £7,000 -30Royal Applause Royal Studs £9,000 £9,000 0Manduro Kildangan €15,000 €10,000 -33Raven’s Pass €22,500 €22,500 0Shamardal €50,000 €50,000 0Teofilo €15,000 €25,000 +67Vale Of York €5,000 €5,000 0Iffraaj €15,000 €10,000 -33Echo Of Light €3,000 €3,000 0 Cape Cross €35,000 €35,000 0

Arakan Ballyhane Stud €4,000 €3,000 -25Captain Rio €5,000 €3,500 -30Dandy Man €3,500 €3,500 0Majestic Missile €4,000 €3,500 -12Roderic O’Connor €9,000 n/a

Makfi Tweenhills £25,000 £25,000 0Sleeping Indian £3,000 £3,000 0

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The newS iS, that there is no news. the majority of fees for stallions standing in Britain and ireland for 2012 have, on the whole, remained unchanged from 2011, stallion masters finding that retaining the

status quo is the best way forward.the good yearling sale results stopped

wide-scale continued falls in nomination prices, despite calls for such a move from many breeders. whether this inaction by stud masters becomes an effective increase or decrease in real terms will be decided by the wider economic situation.

those stallions, which have been given a fee rise, have all achieved strong racecourse results through 2011. one given one of the biggest increases is Cheveley park’s Dutch Art, who has had a 140 per cent upward move from £5,000 (originally retired to stud at £6,000) to £12,000. it is not a price which will put off many breeders from using his services.

Acclamation is at his highest fee yet of

€35,000 – though this is not the biggest price rise that he has been given, Rathbarry having moved his fee from €9,000 to €30,000 in 2008. that was subsequently dropped to €20,000 in 2009, was listed as private in 2010, while he stood at €15,000 in 2011.

The successful trio of first-season sires this year – Strategic Prince, Teofilo and Dark Angel – have all had increases between 50 and 78.5 per cent, while the ever-surprising Monsieur Bond now stands at a still highly affordable £5,000 from £3,000 – though an increase of 60 per cent.

Seven horses on this list have had their fees dropped by 33 per cent – three of which are the Darley sires of iffraaj, Manduro and Authorized, all three being reduced from €/£15,000 to €/£10,000. Coolmore has given Starspangledbanner, going into his second season at stud, a similar price move.

Dylan Thomas, whose first yearlings sold this autumn, has been dropped 28.5 per cent from €17,500 to €12,500, while Motivator’s new fee is £5,000, a 37.5 per cent decrease.

Sea the Stars’s fee is unchanged, leaving him as the most expensive stallion at stud in Britain or ireland (with a published fee); he is followed by Dubawi and Dansili, who are both standing at £75,000 and who were both increased to that for this season.

Danehill Dancer has dropped from the £75,000 mark to €60,000, and is standing at the same fee as invincible Spirit, who along with all bar one of the irish national Stud stallions, has stuck on his 2011 fee.

the other top level stallion given a price decrease is Cheveley park’s pivotal, whose fee has fallen by 18 per cent to £45,000. it is a significant fall from a career high of £85,000, which he held in the years 2007-08, and is his lowest fee since 2004.

Stallion fees 2012 and % change with 2011 for the major farms in Britain and Ireland (fees published when going to press) No change for bulk of feesDutch

Art: has a price rise for

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‘TIS THE TIME OF YEAR for the racing scene to switch from turf Flat racing to high-class international contests and top-class jumping events.

The six weeks from the start of November saw the Breeders’ Cup, the Melbourne Spring Carnival, the Japan Cup and Queen Elizabeth Cup and the bumper International Day in Hong Kong.

Racing was also highlighted in the annual Cartier Awards in London.

The Breeders’ Cup was run at Churchill Downs, which has as much appeal to the Europeans as Epsom or Newmarket must have to Stateside racegoers.

But the elements can always play a large part in disrupting training plans, as was evident, while its turf track is rather more specialist than either Breeders’ Cup regular tracks, Belmont or Santa Anita.

Only one winning favourite obliged in the 28th Breeder’s Cup and the crowds for the two days attracted just around 106,000.

It was left to Ballydoyle to carry the flag for Europe with its two

winners, Wrote and St Nicholas Abbey.

Melbourne Cup Day is, as rightly identified by Harry Herbert, the best day’s racing to take a first-time racegoer.

Australia’s Derby Day and Cup day attracted over 200,000 racegoers with some wonderful racing, as well as some great fashion as an agreeable backdrop. Black Caviar strutted her stuff to gain a 16th straight victory and hopefully she will continue to advertise Peter Moody’s exemplary handling of her.

With luck, perhaps we will get the chance to see the Queensland trainer in his shorts in Britain next year. After all, Newmarket trainer John Berry needs some competition on the fashion front.

Dunaden’s Cup victory topped a marvellous year for Sheikh Fahd al Thani. Perhaps David Redvers will lend the morning suit he wore to the Cup to Moody for Royal Ascot?

Lat year’s winner Americain ran a brave race under top weight and got a nice consolation in the Zipping Classic ten days later, while

Snow Fairy gained due reward for some consistent performances at Group 1 level against the colts with her stunning victory in the Queen Elizabeth at Kyoto, so reminiscent of her Hong Kong victory last year.

Cheltenham stewards must have breathed a sigh of relief at getting through the three days at the Open meeting with just one whip offence.

There should be spread betting on the number of times the regulations are likely to be changed between October and March as it sounds as if Paul Bittar hopes to have his take on the issue when he becomes the chief executive of the BHA in January.

Bittar is well grounded in the racing industry and comes from Wagga Wagga, sharing his birthplace with the legendary Scobie Breasley. He is non-confrontational, yet well aware of the challenges he faces. Let’s hope he has some of the success and popularity that Scobie enjoyed over here.

Australian rules are quite different to anything in the UK – you are

Bloodstock agent William Huntingdontakes a look at the varied world of racing and bloodstock

Six weeks of racing, fashion and whips

ChAMpion South African stallion Jet Master has died, reportedly from complications

following surgery on his spine.the leading sire in South

Africa for five successive seasons, Jet Master produced many local champions and multiple winners, also a number of runners who made their mark in Group races abroad.

his long list of top progeny includes the international performers pocket power, JJ the Jet plane, River Jetez, as well as ebony Flyer, Mythical Flight, Ravishing and past Master.

Jet Master, a champion racehorse in his own right, won 17 of 24 starts between 1997 and 2000, including the Group 1 Argus Guineas, the Group 1 Queens’s plate (twice) and the Group 1 Golden Spur (twice).

he retired to Klipdrif Stud in August 2001 and immediately got his second career off to a flying start getting 59 winners from 70 runners with his first crop, with 16 stakes winners among them.

those winners meant that he became the champion first-season sire in 2004. in 2007, he became champion sire for the first time, a position he has held since.

the stallion became infected with west nile Virus, which is wide-spread in the South African horse population, earlier in the year. Most horses will experience an asymptomatic infection, eliminate the virus and never exhibit any symptoms.

however, when it does

Jet Master dies after surgery complications

“But Dunaden’s Cup victory topped a

marvellous year for Sheikh Fahd

Al Thani. Perhaps David

Redvers will lend the morning suit

he wore to the Cup to Moody for Royal Ascot?

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only allowed to use your stick five times before the 100m mark, but thereafter as many times as you like but not consecutively.

Jim ”The Pumper” Cassidy fell foul of the Rosehill stewards, seemingly having a “blackout” while riding four winners. On one horse, he used the stick 12 times before the 100m mark, including seven consecutively.

He then capped this on a fourth-place getter using his stick 17 times and 11 times consecutively, again previous to the half-furlong marker. He has been banned for a month; what upset him most was the fact his mother was there to see this.

He is 48 and this was his 12th offence since March, at least it will give a pulled rib muscle time to heal.

I am not sure if any readers listen to “I’ve Never Seen Star Wars”, now in it’s fourth series on Radio 4.

Hosted by Marcus Brigstocke it allows his guests to experience events they have never previously tried.

Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, wore jeans for the first time in his life, the comedian Frank Skinner watched four episodes of Morse back to back, ate jugged hare, changed a punctured tyre and had a spray tan.

On a similar theme, former Kingsclere trainer Ian Balding accompanied his wife Emma on a first visit to Waitrose. Balding, apparently, was bemused as just what to do with the trolley at the checkout, but was impressed that Emma had taken her own plastic bags on the trip!

I cannot quite see this shopping trip becoming a habit for Balding and I am sure he will be sticking to the local village shop run by the loquacious Welshman, Wyn.

My own “Star Wars” moment came this autumn with a visit to Ffos Las, Dai Walter’s well promoted and new Welsh course.

It is further from Newmarket than Carlisle, but has been very well designed and produces a great racing surface. The staff are very welcoming and the cod and chips very sustaining.

Three two-year-old races had to be started by flag as the ground at the mile start was too soft for the stalls, but Simon McNeill and William Jordan did an excellent job of getting the runners away on a very level basis.

Only two complaints, mobile phone coverage only really works in the car park and for stable staff, staying overnight, the nearest pub is six miles away!

Cartier Awards 2011Horse of the Year: Frankel

Above: Lord Grimthorpe (left) and Sir Henry Cecil collect the Horse of the Year award for Frankel from Arnaud Bamberger

of Cartier; left, Corine Barande-Barbe, trainer of Cirrus Des Aigles, and Christophe

Ferland, trainer of Dabirsim

Above: Fitri Hay and Dr Jim Hay with the

Champion Stayer award for Fame And Glory; left,

jockey Frankie Dettori with former athlete Edwin

Moses and boxer Barry McGuigan; below, trainer Barry Hills, winner of the

Award of Merit, with his wife Penny

Cartier Award winnersTwo-year-old colt: DabirsimTwo-year-old filly: MaybeThree-year-old colt: FrankelThree-year-old filly: DanedreamSprinter: Dream AheadStayer: Fame And GloryOlder horse: Cirrus Des AiglesHorse of the Year: FrankelAward of Merit: Barry Hills

manifest, the results can be devastating. in horses who become clinically ill, the virus infects the central nervous system and the infected animal can exhibit a range of symptoms from fever, impaired vision, weakness of limbs, through to seizures and coma.

Although Jet Master had been ill and had suffered ataxia (loss of control), the horse had appeared to make a complete recovery, and it is believed that the secondary bout of ataxia in his neck was unrelated.

“it’s a common area for arthritis in older stallions,” said Barrie Grant the independent

surgical consultant who had flown to the Cape to treat the horse.

“his changes were pretty classic. he was an older horse; he’d done work as a racehorse and as a breeding stallion, and he had a great big neck on him.

Jet Master underwent implant surgery at the beginning of november to relieve the cervical spinal cord pressure surgery on his spine.

the initial prognosis was good, however he suffered a neurologic reaction and a subsequent fall in the stall.

two days later he just “stopped breathing”.


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No doubts......for leading sales consignor Ted Voute, who voices his opinion on all things bloodstock and sales-related

WITHOUT THE INFLUENCE of the Middle East, thoroughbred auctions and racing in Britain

would be a disaster area. Substantial investment in the Sport of Kings, our racing heritage, as well as our high-quality racing, has attracted many royals to participate in our elite sport.

We need to embrace involvement from abroad and accept it in the heart of our racing institution; we are an industry that so regularly ostracises many who wish to be involved.

Thoroughbreds, like art, are either an accessory or a serious hobby for many.

Our industry is full of clubs and mysterious inner circles, which

need to open up and involve new supporters and investors.

Although many racecourses accommodate owners and trainers with exclusive areas in a “bar situation”, many of the new investors, whose religion precludes alcohol, have few facilities to use and enjoy.

We have to remember that many of these new faces are from the royal families of their region. Maybe when the Queen is not attending a race meeting, perhaps those courses which boast of a Royal Box could open it up for the use of such dignitaries?

Each and every day it seems that we are anticipating a worsening financial outlook as more and more counties seem to be getting into an unsustainable debt situation.

However, it seems that investors

are still putting money into property in London in order to spend their summers with their families in Britain.

Maybe because we have a Royal Family as a strong backbone, which enjoys and participates in our sport, it has helped to pull in the involvment from foreign royal families.

But involvement from foreign entities will only last if they have success and enjoy the experience; let’s face it they are not doing it for prize-money!

As with everything in life the best is worth having and this has driven all sections of the bloodstock market this year from yearlings to horses-in-training, as well as mares and foals.

Prize-money available abroad is drawing many of our good race horses out of the country in order to pot-hunt in Australia, the US, Hong Kong and Japan, not to mention Dubai and Singapore in the spring months. If you are lucky enough to have a very good horse, there is an abundance of prize-money on offer around the world.

We look forward to next year with a further drop in foal production and as, so far, numbers of horses in training on the Flat has remained static, it means that anything worth

buying should increase in value next year; if you believe that the supply and demand theory works in racing.

With so many new investors trying to set up solid breeding operations, female bloodstock of any age will be the most beneficial recipient of that investment.

In the meantime, while we have ten stallions in England and Ireland, who stand at fees of over £50,000, we must remember that most are owned by breeders, who can fill these stallions with their own mares and that we, as the general public, are offered a chance to breed to these stallions.

It means that the number of outside nominations generally available is about the same as the old-time stallion books of 50 mares.

So, realistically, outside of the owner-breeders, who own their own stallions, there are only 500 nominations available to good mares.

If you compare this figure to the select catalogues of Arqana, Goffs and Tattersalls, which totals 1,200, then if you can get that high-class nomination, a live good-looking foal who passes the vet, then you can indeed expect a premium.

Easier said than done. Over to you.

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IT was jockeys who dominated the headlines following the 28th Breeders’ Cup in a year far from vintage if looked at from a form perspective. The Classic – the meeting’s

richest and most prestigious prize – possibly typified the meeting.

One of the weakest three-year-old crops for many a season has failed to fill the void left by the likes of Blame, Zenyatta, and Lookin At Lucky, who ran one-two-four in last year’s race and were subsequently retired.

The likes of Havre De Grace, So You Think and Uncle Mo offered hope we might still get a high-class winner, but they all came up short and the end result was Drosselmeyer recording the slowest Beyer speed figure in the race’s history. He didn’t fare much better on RPRs, being awarded 126, the lowest since Cat Thief earned 124 in 1999.

Bill Mott’s four-year-old had suffered a setback after winning last year’s Belmont Stakes and had failed to beat a rival when tried on turf in August.

But his back-to-form second behind Flat Out (disappointed at Churchill Downs) in October’s Jockey Club Gold Cup was enough to encourage his trainer to target the main event, rather than the Marathon, and the decision paid off in spectacular fashion.

Drosselmeyer is now due to head off to Keane Stud in New York – I think it is a good move for the horse as I reckon he would have struggled to top his Classic triumph.

Another one definitely off to stud is Uncle Mo after unsatisfactory blood tests threatened a reoccurrence of the liver disorder that left his Triple Crown ambitions in tatters.

His poor run in the Classic wasn’t a surprise anyway as he simply hadn’t had the conditioning required to win over a distance his pedigree suggested would stretch him.

An impressive victory over a mile in the Kelso, his last stop before the Breeders’ Cup, showed he was more than just a brilliant two-year-old, but he never had the chance to fulfil his potential.

The filly Havre De Grace had defeated males in the Woodward earlier in the season, and also had subsequent Ladies’ Classic winner Royal Delta well behind when taking the Beldame, but she never threatened. She stays in training, but is another who could find things a bit tougher in 2012.

As for So You Think, well the experiment of switching him to dirt for the first time failed to pay off, with a high knee action in the straight showing he wasn’t capable of covering the ground efficiently enough.

Aidan O’Brien’s charge has found it tougher going in Europe than Australia, where he won back-to-back Cox Plates, but his connections hope a drop back to a mile could be the answer. That may mean he could bump into Frankel, though.

If the Classic was an anti-climax,

then the Mile was a major letdown for many. The big hope was Goldikova, but she came up short in what was to be her last race.

Her chance was compromised by chasing an overly strong pace, with the inside stall perhaps forcing Olivier Peslier to sit handier than ideal, and she was overhauled by two rivals who raced much further back.

Interestingly, an RPR of 118 is her lowest figure since the 2009 Prix de la Forêt, a race in which she had also faded into third after chasing a

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of the Breeders’ Cup meeting judged by the Racing Post Ratings, writes Ron Wood, the international race analyst at the Post

1 Frankel (GB) QEII Stakes 139T2 Black Caviar (Aus) Newmarket Hcap 133T3 Canford Cliffs (GB) Queen Anne Stakes 130T Rewilding (GB) Prince Of Wales’s 130T Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Champion Stakes 130T6 Dream Ahead (GB) Prix de la Forêt 129T Excelebration (GB) QEII Stakes 129T So You Think (Ire) Eclipse Stakes 129T The Factor (US) Pat O’Brien Stakes 129A10 Danedream (Ger) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 128T Workforce (GB) Eclipse Stakes 128T

Pos Horse (country trained) Race Rating (surface)

World’s Top Racehorses: on best RPR figure achieved in 2011

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red-hot pace. While the six-year-old didn’t reach her absolute best in 2011, her first defeat on US soil owes as much to circumstance as it does to her ageing legs.

Court Vision was only fourth in the 2009 Mile and fifth last year, but he’s a multiple Grade 1 winner and has been coaxed back to form brilliantly since joining trainer Dale Romans. He earned a career-best RPR of 123.

St Nicholas Abbey again showed a liking for sharp left-handed tracks when adding the

Turf to a cv that already includes Chester’s Ormonde Stakes (G3) and the Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom. One suspects the use of Lasix for the first time also had a positive impact.

But his RPR of 124, while matching his previous best, is nothing special by top-level standards and it’s doubtful he’s suddenly become the pick of the middle-distance turf crop.

It does, however, better anything achieved this year by stablemate Cape Blanco, whose

122 in the Arlington Million was his peak figure awarded for three Grade 1 wins in the US.

This year’s winner of the Dirt Mile Caleb’s Posse not only recorded the highest RPR over

the two days, earning 127, but was also the quickest on Beyer numbers.

Regally Ready justified favouritism in the Turf Sprint, following up his win in

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1 Frankel (GB) QEII Stakes 139

2 Black Caviar (Aus) Newmarket Hcap 133

3 Canford Cliffs (GB) Queen Anne 130

Rewilding (GB) Prince Of Wales’s 130

Cirrus Des Aigles (FR) Champion Stakes 130

6 Dream Ahead (GB) Prix de la Forêt 129

Excelebration (GB) QEII Stakes 129

So You Think (Ire) Eclipse Stakes 129

10 Workforce (GB) Eclipse Stakes 128

Danedream (Ger) Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 128

Pos Horse (country trained) Race Rating

Top turf performers: on best RPR figure achieved in 2011

Pos Horse (country trained) Race Rating

1 Uncle Mo (US) Kelso Hcap 127

Caleb’s Posse (US) BC Dirt Mile 127

The Factor (US) Rebel Stakes 127

2 Animal Kingdom (US) Kentucky Derby 126

Drosselmeyer (US) BC Classic 126

3 Big Drama (US) Mr Prospector Stakes 125

Flat Out (US) Jockey Club Gold Cup 125

Havre De Grace (US) Beldame Stakes 125

Tizway (US) Whitney Hcap 125

7 Coil (US) Goodwood Stakes 123

Game On Dude (US) Goodwood Stakes 123

Royal Delta (US) BC Ladies’ Classic 123

Trappe Shot (US) True North Hcap 123

Smart Falcon (Jap) Teio Sho 123

Top dirt performers: on best RPR figure achieved in 2011

This year’s winner of the Dirt Mile Caleb’s Posse not only recorded the highest RPR over the two days, earning

127, but was also the quickest on Beyer numbers“ “

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Woodbine’s Grade 1 Nearctic Stakes, and his RPR of 122 represented a 2lb improvement.

It was a timely form boost for Roger Charlton’s Bated Breath, who was only a neck behind at Woodbine when the ground was unsuitably soft, and he now heads for the Hong Kong Sprint. It would be dangerous to get carried away, though, as British runners have an appalling 0-27 record in December’s Group 1, including only one placed effort.

It was impossible not to be impressed with Ladies’ Classic winner Royal Delta, who kick-started a profitable weekend for the Bill Mott barn.

She won with ease, posting the sort of performance that suggested she might even be competitive against males if kept in training.

Her RPR of 123 was significantly higher than the 116 Havre De Grace managed when third in the same race last season.

It’s probably best to put a line through the Filly & Mare Turf, which was won by the previously unheralded Canadian-trained Perfect Shirl. A muddling pace meant several runners were unable to show their

best, notably fast-finishing third Misty For Me and Aruna, who was continually denied a clear run.

This year’s Breeders’ Cup saw the inaugural running of the Juvenile Sprint, making it a 15-race fixture for the first time.

This race offers the speediest two-year-olds around a year-end target and Bob Baffert’s unbeaten Secret Circle took the honours.

Baffert said afterwards he’ll see if his winner can stretch out for longer distances, doubtless encouraged by the colt having proven himself at the home of the Kentucky Derby, but it will be a major surprise if one so fast and precocious can be competitive over middle-distances.

The pick of the juveniles was My Miss Aurelia, who earned an RPR of 120 in the Juvenile Fillies.

Visually it was a stunning win, one that hinted she might be up to taking on colts if pointed at next year’s Derby.

It’s true the time was far from special, but she had earlier impressed clock watchers when taking the Frizette Stakes (G1), going 0.33secs quicker than Union Rags recorded in

the Champagne Stakes (G1).Union Rags had to settle for a close

second in the Juvenile, but he looked the best horse on the day having covered much more ground than the winner Hansen.

That one is now unbeaten in three, but he lacks the scope of the runner-up and it’s doubtful he’ll confirm form on the Derby trail.

All 15 winners used Lasix, but that won’t be the case when the show returns to Santa Anita in 2012 – the drug is set to be prohibited in the two-year-old events.

That’s a sensitive issue that will provoke much debate, and with British Champions Day also cranking up the pressure, next year’s meeting could do with an equine star.

It might help if Godolphin have the ammunition of days gone by – they were only represented by two Kiaran McLaughlin-trained horses this time, the pick being Ladies’ Classic second It’s Tricky.

The main hope for the Breeders’ Cup organisers is that, much in the same vein the Champions Day management pinned their hopes upon him this year, Frankel will make it to California.

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PERFORMANCE

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• Timeform rated 118

PEDIGREE

• By sire of sires Pivotal

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He’s not lost his grip yetAlan Porter reviews the pedigrees of the Breeders’ Cup winners and, aside from Drosselmeyer, finds a proliferation of descendants from the Sadler’s Wells line

JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO, Drosselmeyer’s immediate future looked likely to consist of a farewell racecourse performance in the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, followed by a trip north to take his place as a stallion

in New York’s resurgent breeding program.Those plans, however, were in danger of

some serious review following Drosselmeyer’s victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1).

The switch from the Marathon to the Classic came about following the October-run Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) in which Drosselmeyer returned to the form that saw him win the 2010 Belmont Stakes (G1) with a strong-finishing second to the eventual Classic favourite, Flat Out. Although Drosselmeyer remained a longshot for the Classic, it had been noted that he was working extremely well approaching the big day.

His Classic victory means that Drosselmeyer becomes the leading earner for his sire, Distorted Humor.

A son of the Mr. Prospector stallion Forty Niner and out of Danzig’s graded stakes-winning daughter Danzig’s Beauty, Distorted Humor was a stakes winner at three, and a graded winner at four.

He reached his peak at five when he won a trio of graded stakes over 7f and 7f110yds, setting a track-record in the 7f Churchill Downs Handicap (G2).

Distorted Humor retired to stud at a modest fee, but sired 12 stakes winners, including Funny Cide – the champion three-year-old colt and hero of the Kentucky Dery (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) – in his first crop. He has never looked back.

He is now responsible for 106 stakes winners and 42 graded winners, and his other stars include the oft-brilliant Commentator, Flower Alley, Hystericalady, Any Given Saturday, Awesome Humor, Fourty Niners Son, Bit of Whimsy and Regal Ransom.

This year Distorted Humor has been represented by 17 individual stakes winners,

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nine of them graded, and Drosselmeyer’s victory appears to have given him an uncatchable lead in the race for the title of leading sire of 2011.

Drosselmeyer’s dam Golden Ballet was a versatile and very talented performer. A California-bred, she won her maiden in the Hollywood Nursery Stakes over 4f100yds on her fourth outing, after beginning her career with a couple of starts in half-mile dashes.

On her only other juvenile start she took the 5f100yds Cinderella Stakes by 8l. Golden Ballet continued her progress at three winning a Grade 2 and two Grade 1s.

The triumphant progress was halted next time out in the Ashland Stakes (G1) in which she went down by 2l to another excellent filly, Fleet Renee. In her only other start, Golden Ballet bade a victorious fairwell to the racetrack, leading throughout – as she had in each of her wins at three – to take the 7f Railbird Stakes (G2) by four.

Golden Ballet has already produced another accomplished runner in the Unbridled’s Song filly Stage Luck, winner of the Affectionately Handicap and third in the Ruffian Handicap (G1).

Golden Ballet’s sire Moscow Ballet had a true Classic pedigree – he was by English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky and out of a half-sister to Paul Mellon’s great runner, Mill

Reef, winner of the Epsom Derby the year after Nijinsky.

Trained in Ireland, Moscow Ballet only ran four times, winning twice over 6f and gaining a black-type win in the Railway Stakes (G3) at two. Moscow Ballet went on to be a useful regional sire in California, and sired five other graded winners in addition to Golden Ballet.

Golden Ballet’s second dam Golden Jewel Box was an unraced daughter of champion older horse, Slew O’Gold. Her grand-dam, Miss Storm Bird was by Storm Bird out of the stakes winner Nasomo (by Nasrullah, from

Golden Ballet’s sire Moscow Ballet had a true Classic

pedigree – he was by English Triple Crown winner

Nijinsky and out of a half-sister to Paul Mellon’s

great runner, Mill Reef

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Left: plans changed for Drosselmeyer in the run up to the Breeders’ Cup meeting – and for the better; above, jockey Mike Smith gets recompense for missing out on Zenyatta last year, and,

below, Joseph O’Brien coasting home in front on St Nicholas Abbey in the Turf

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the La Troienne family) mare, Sun Lover.Miss Storm Bird never won, but was a

sister to the stakes-placed English two-year-old Sungull, and a half-sister to the speedy Hawkin’s Special (Los Angeles Handicap winner (G2)), and to Chati, a tough middle-distance horse who was stakes placed over as far as 1m4f and won the Riggs Handicap (G2) and Lamplighter Handicap (G3), both on turf.

Class apart, there are some patterns worth noting. The most obvious is that Distorted Humor’s dam Danzig’s Beauty (herself a graded stakes winner) and Moscow Ballet have a similar background.

They are by Northern Dancer sons (Danzig and Nijinsky) whose dams descend from one or other of the brothers Sir Gallahad and Bull Dog, and are inbred to those siblings. Storm Bird, sire of Golden Ballet’s third dam, is also a Northern Dancer son that fits the same description.

In addition, Danzig’s Beauty’s dam is a Royal Charger/Eight Thirty cross, and Moscow Ballet’s dam a Nasrullah/Eight Thirty cross (Nasrullah being a three-parts brother to Royal Charger). We can also note that Slew O’ Gold, sire of Drosselmeyer’s grand-dam, is a son of Seattle Slew.

Seattle Slew has been tremendous foil for Distorted Humor and horses

produced on the Distorted Humor/Seattle Slew cross include Funny Cide, whose broodmare sire Slewacide is a product of the same Seattle Slew/Buckpasser cross as Slew O’Gold, as well as Any Given Saturday and the graded winners Z

Humor, Brethren and Endorsement. They are all out of mares by A.P.

Indy, a Seattle Slew son who has Buckpasser as sire of his

second dam. After Drosselmeyer’s

retirement has now been confirmed, but he could still be in line for honours as champion older male, and possibly even Horse of the Year.

The Saint’s dayWhile one Irish-trained Sadler’s Wells line horse So

You Think fell short

– albeit with a gallant effort in the Classic – another, his stable-companion St Nicholas Abbey, triumphed in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1).

Winner also of the Racing Post Trophy (G1) and the Coronation Cup (G1) at the highest level, St. Nicholas Abbey is a son of Montjeu.

His dam, the Sure Blade mare Leaping Water, produced another US graded stakes winner in the shape of Grammarian, who won the Sunset Handicap (G3) and San Gabriel Handicap (G2).

Leaping Water is half-sister to a pair of Sadler’s Wells Group/Grade 1 winners in Ballingarry and Aristotle, and she’s also half-sister to the Prix Jean Prat (G1) and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) victor Starborough and to the French Group winner Spanish Falls.

The grand-dam Flamenco Wave, a daughter of Damascus, won the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).

St. Nicholas Abbey is the first Group winner by Montjeu out of a Sharpen Up line mare, but Sharpen Up appears elsewhere in the pedigrees of his Classic winners Hurricane Run and Motivator, as well as the Group 1 winner Wall Street.

Father and son team: Aidan and Joseph O’Brien reap their rewards

Court Vision (9) gets the better of Turallure and Goldikova (white cap on rail) in the Mile


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Goldikova beaten by CourtFor just a moment in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) it appeared that the magnificent Goldikova might triumph in her quest for a fourth straight victory in the race. However, although game as ever, her ability to sustain her finishing burst is not quite what it was, and, after briefly hitting the front, she was run down by Court Vision and Turallure, who were separated by just a nose at the wire.

A six-year-old entire, Court Vision had been purchased prior to the race by Spendthrift Farm, who are to stand him at Park Stud, Ontario, Canada.

The son of Gulch, who now boasts earnings of over $3,600,000, Court Vision has a stallion pedigree on the distaff side. His dam Weekend Storm – who has produced three other stakes winners – is a sister to the Preakness Stakes (G1) winner and Classic sire Summer Squall, and a half-sister to A.P. Indy, Horse of the Year and dual leading sire.

There are actually 13 Grade 1 sires under the first three dams, and include Lemon Drop Kid and the South African sire star Al Mufti.

Court Vision is also a product of the Gulch/Storm Bird cross that produced Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) winner and leading sire Thunder Gulch.

It opened up for DeltaWith the year’s dominant older mare Havre De Grace tackling the males in the Classic – in which she finished an honourable fourth – the way was open for Royal Delta to nail down the champion three-year-old filly Eclipse Award, which she did with an impressive 2l victory over another three-year-old, It’s Tricky.

Owned and bred by the late Saud bin Khaled’s Palides Investments, Royal Delta appeared in the Keeneland Sale ring just three days after her Breeders’ Cup triumph and was knocked down to Florida-based healthcare magnate, Benjamin Leon, for $8,400,000, the third highest-price in Keeneland history behind Playful Act ($10,500,000) and Ashado ($9,000,000).

Currently plans call for Royal Delta to

remain in training in 2012.Royal Delta is from the fourth crop of the

Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Empire Maker (Unbridled), who lost the three-year-old championship to Funny Cide, but who may well have been the most talented sophomore of his crop.

Sadly for US breeders her sire is now in Japan. Overall, from Empire Maker’s first five crops, he has sired 24 stakes winners, 12 of them graded, including six other Grade 1 winners – Pioneerof the Nile, Country Star, Acoma, Mushka, Icon Project and Grace Hall, who finished second in this year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1).

Royal Delta is the second foal of her dam, Delta Princess, an A.P. Indy mare who won three Grade 3 events, and earned over $740,000. Delta Princess is a sister to the

From Empire Maker’s first five crops he has sired 24 stakes winners, 12 of them graded, including six

other Grade 1 winners

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Garden City Breeders’ Cup Handicap (G1), and three-parts sister to the Bernardini colt Biondetti, winner last year of the Gran Criterium (G1).

The second dam Lyphard’s Delta won the Nassau Stakes (G2) and is a daughter of Lyphard and the champion older mare Proud Delta. The cross of Empire Maker with mares by A.P. Indy has produced nine starters and three stakes winners, Royal Delta being joined by graded winners Charity Belle and Soaring Empire. He’s also sired Grade 1 winner Country Star out of a mare by Metfield, who, like A.P. Indy, is a son of Seattle Slew.

A double for Sadler’s Wells line In the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), the longshot Perfect Shirl completed a double for the Sadler’s Wells line in the longer turf events.

She is from the fourth crop of the Sadler’s Wells’ champion Canadian turf horse Perfect Soul, and is the only graded winner among that stallion’s quartet of stakes winners.

It’s likely that the majority of the credit for Perfect Shirl’s ability should go to her dam Lady Shirl. By the relatively obscure stallion That’s A Nice (a great-grandson of seminal Australia sire Star Kingdom), Lady Shirl

was a three-time graded winner, her most prestigious victory coming in the Flower Bowl Handicap (G1).

Lady Shirl has been a top producer – as well as Perfect Shirl her offspring includes Shakespeare, winner of seven of his eight starts with two wins coming in the Woodbine Mile (G1) and Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes (G1), and the dual graded winner Lady Shakespeare and stakes-winning

and graded-placed Fantastic Shirl. Interestingly enough, Shakespeare and

Lady Shakespeare are bred on similar lines to Perfect Shirl as they are by Theatrical, a son of Sadler’s Wells’s three-parts brother Nureyev. In tail-female line Perfect Shirl goes back to the Glamour/Striking branch of the family that stems from the great broodmare La Troienne.

Northern Afleet continues to prove In the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) the winner Amazombie earned himself a likely award as champion of his division as it was his fifth stakes win of the year, the others including the Ancient Title Stakes (G1), the Potrero Grande Stakes (G2) and Sunshine Millions Sprint.

Amazombie is a gelded son of Northern Afleet, who is by the Mr. Prospector line stallion Afleet and out of a mare by Nureyev.

Northern Afleet, who started his career inexpensively in Florida before moving to

Lady Shirl has been an exceptional producer, as well as Perfect Shirl her offspring includes Shakespeare, winner of seven of his eight starts; two of his wins

being the Woodbine Mile (G1) and Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes (G1)

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The Dirt Mile went to the PosseAnother shorter distance standout is three-year-old Caleb’s Posse, who mowed down the opposition late to take the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1).

He was capping off a busy season in which he’s demonstrated admirable toughness and versatility, running ten times and winning five races, including the Smarty Jones Stakes, the Ohio Derby (G3) at 8f, the 6f Amsterdam Stakes (G2), the 7f King’s Bishop Stakes (G1), in which he narrowly defeated Uncle Mo, who was probably the division’s most talented performer, and finally against older horses in the Dirt Mile. In a year when no second-season colt really dominated, Caleb’s Posse’s body of work may well be enough to make him a contender for the title of champion three-year-old colt.

Caleb’s Posse is by the good two-year-old and sprinter Posse (by the Deputy Minister horse, Silver Deputy).

The leading freshman sire of 2007, Posse, who now stands in New York, has been previously best represented by champion sprinter Kodiak Kowboy. Caleb’s Posse is out of Abbey’s Missy, a daughter of Slewacide (a Seattle Slew son, who is also broodmare sire of champion Funny Cide). Caleb’s Posse is the only stakes winner under the first two dams, but the third dam produced Slewacide’s four-time Grade 3 winner Mr. Ross.

Kentucky, has never been a particularly commercial stallion – he stood for $12,500 in 2011 – but he can certainly sire racehorses as he’s responsible for 33 stakes winners, including the dual Classic winner Afleet Alex and Grade 1 winners Evening Jewel, Big City Man, Negligee and Teaks North.

Amazombie is out of the In Excess mare Wilshe Amaze and this is a family that has produced little of distinction in recent times with Amazombie being the only graded winner under his first four dams.

The fillies’ sprint was a Musical RomanceA hot-looking edition of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) went to Musical Romance, whose most notable previous achievement had been to take the Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes (G2), an event that’s becoming a useful pointer to the Filly and Mare Sprint.

Musical Romance is one of two graded winners, and five stakes winners from 14 crops by the Florida stallion Concorde’s Tune.

He is a son of Concorde Bound, who in turn was by Super Concorde, a champion French two-year-old by Seattle Slew’s sire, Bold Reasoning.

The dam Candlelightdinner (by Slew Gin Fizz, a son of Relaunch), is also dam of Vuelve Ruben M., who has the distinction of being last year’s champion imported two-year-old in Puerto Rico.

The grand-dam Romantic Dinner bred a pair of stakes winners, and is grand-dam of three more, including the 2011 Oak Leaf Breeders’ Cup (G1) winner Rigoletta, and the 2011 Delta Downs Jackpot (G3) winner Gourmet Dinner.

The sixth dam Grass Shack is closely related to the leading sire Exclusive Native, and is third dam of champion racehorse and leading sire Deputy Minister.

This branch has already produced Grade 1

winners Collect The Cash and Stately Victor, who descend from Musical Romance’s fourth dam, the stakes-winning Dr. Fager mare Cricket Club.

Hansen is as hansen doesThe two juvenile dirt contests saw a muddying of the waters in the colts’ division, and a clear-cut champion emerge from the filly contest.

Going into the Juvenile Colts, the most highly-regarded two-year-old was the Dixie

Union colt, Dixie Rags. Starting as evens favourite, Dixie Rags

looked sure to win when he came to tackle long-time leader Hansen in the stretch, but he began to drift out under pressure, allowing a determined Hansen to regain the advantage.

Hansen – who is now three-for-three – is by the remarkable young sire Tapit. A son of Pulpit (A.P. Indy) and out of a three-parts sister to champion sprinter Rubiano, Tapit was trained by Michael Dickinson and won three of six starts, including the Laurel Futurity (G3) and Wood Memorial Stakes (G1).

Starting off at a modest stud fee, Tapit has already sired 32 stakes winners from his first four crops, 18 of them graded winners, with six gaining Grade 1 honours, among them champion two-year-old filly Stardom Bound.

Hansen is another example of Tapit’s astonishing prepotency as he is the first black-type horse to appear in first four dams, and you have to go back to the sixth dam to find a stakes winner from the family.

Hansen’s dam Stormy Sunday is by the Storm Cat horse Sir Cat and is the fifth stakes

The determined Hansen is by young stallion Tapit, already the sire of six Grade 1 winners

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winner for her sire out of a Storm Cat line mare, the others including Grade 1 winners Careless Jew and Tell A Kelly.

In this regard, we can note that Tapit has a double of Nijinsky where Storm Cat is by that horse’s genetic relative, Storm Bird.

In the Juvenile Fillies, My Miss Aurelia dispelled any doubts about her ability to stay the distance, blowing away two other hitherto impressive Grade 1 winners – Grace Hall and Weemissfrankie – for a 3l victory.

She is by Mr. Prospector’s two-time leading sire son Smart Strike and out of the Sea Of Secrets (Storm Cat) mare, My Miss Storm Cat.

My Miss Storm Cat is a half-sister to the West Virginia Derby (G2) winner Soul Warrior (by a grandson of Storm Cat) and her dam, Urmia, is by Meadowlake out of the graded winner Chaldea.

In turn, Chaldea is a half-sister to the Hollywood Starlet Stakes (G1) and Las Virgenes Stakes (G1) winner Cheval Volant (grand-dam of the good English runner, Finjaan). The best of the four stakes winners by Smart Strike out of Storm Cat line mares, My Miss Aurelia is inbred 2 x 4 to Mr. Prospector, who appears as sire of Smart Strike and broodmare sire of Sea Of Secrets.

The story went the way of WroteThe two-year-olds are very well catered to by the Breeders’ Cup these days as there is also a Juvenile Turf (G1), a Juvenile Fillies’ Turf (G2), and a newly added Juvenile Sprint.

The Juvenile Turf was another for the Sadler’s Wells line with High Chaparral’s son Wrote carrying the day by two and a quarter lengths.

Wrote is out of the Green Desert mare

Desert Classic and so bred on a version of the Sadler’s Wells/Danzig cross.

None of Wrote’s first three dams had previously produced a stakes winner, but his third dam Durrah is by Nijinsky and out of Special, so is a three-parts sister to Sadler’s Wells (the relatives appearing 2 x 3 in the pedigree).

Wrote is also inbred 4 x 3 to Kris, sire of the second dam of High Chaparral, and of the dam of Desert Classic.

It was pure Joy for RamseyThe Juvenile Filly Turf also went the Sadler’s Wells line way, this time to a US branch as Stephanie’s Kitten charged late to catch the front running Stopshoppingmaria.

Stephanie’s Kitten is by Kitten’s Joy, a son of El Prado – the Irish champion two-year-old and a leading sire in the US – who was champion turf male of 2004.

Kitten’s Joy has been strongly supported with mares owned by Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey, and the couple has been rewarded in superb fashion.

Currently the leading third-season sire, Kitten’s Joy has already been represented by

None of Wrote’s first three dams had previously

produced a stakes winner, but his third dam Durrah is by Nijinsky and out of

Special, so is a three-parts sister to Sadler’s Wells

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17 stakes winners, seven of them graded. Stephanie’s Kitten’s dam Unfold The Rose

is by another Ramsey stallion, the Storm Cat horse, Catienus. The grand-dam Bail Out Becky won three graded stakes, including the Del Mar Oaks Invitational (G1) and is a Red Ransom half-sister to the dam of More Than Ready, who was sire of the runner-up here. Stephanie’s Kitten is inbred 4 x 4 to Roberto, and is one of three Kitten’s Joy stakes winners with that duplication.

Secret Circle remains unbeatenThe inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint went to Secret Circle, who took his record to three-for-three.

Secret Circle is from the second crop of Eddington, and is his first stakes winner. A son of Unbridled, Eddington won the Calder Derby (G3) and was placed in three Grade 1 races at three, including the Preakness Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1), and the following year added the Gulfsteam Park Handicap (G2) and Pimlico Special Handicap (G1). His dam is the stakes-winning Dixieland Band daughter Ragtime Hope, a half-sister to graded winner Really Polish.

Photos: courtesy of the Breeders’ Cup Marathon winner Afleet Again, a first-crop scorer and a second Grade 1 winner for sire Afleet Alex

Regal reward in the Turf SprintFinally, at opposite ends of the spectrum, were the Turf Sprint and the Marathon.

Having been narrowly denied in the Juvenile Filly Turf, More Than Ready got

amends when Regally Ready took the Turf Sprint (G2). This rather continues

the theme from last year when More Than Ready’s offspring took both juvenile

turf events. Regally Ready’s dam is the French

stakes-placed King Of Kings mare, Kivi. She is out of Vilikaia (by Nureyev, so giving Kivi a 2 x 2 cross of Sadler’s Wells/Nureyev), winner of the Prix de la Porte Maillot (G3) and Prix Imprudence, and runner-up in the Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1) and Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp.

Vilikaia is a sister to the Group winner Navratilovna and a half-sister to Prix de la

Salamandre (G1) heroine Maximova – the dam of Septieme Ciel, Macoumba,

Maxigroom, Balchaia and Manureva, as well as being grand-dam of top sire Malibu Moon.

The More Than Ready/Sadler’s

Wells cross (which gives reverse Hail to Reason/Northern Dancer crosses through More Than Ready’s sire, Southern Halo, and Sadler’s Wells) has also produced Australian champion two-year-old Phelan Ready and last year’s Juvenile Turf Colt’s victor Pluck.

The 1m6f Breeders’ Cup Marathon (G2) fell to Afleet Again, who had scored his only previous stakes success in last year’s Withers Stakes (G3) at a mile.

He is from the first crop of Afleet Alex, winner of the Preakness Stakes (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1) and the champion three-year-old of his crop.

Afleet Alex has got off to a bright start with his first two crops producing 15 stakes winners, eight graded, including two Grade 1 winners.

Afleet Again’s dam Lucky Again is a stakes winning and graded-placed daughter of Wild Again, winner of the Inaugural Breeders’ Cup Classic.

With regard to this pedigree, it’s worth noting that Afleet Alex’s second dam is by Hawaii, a horse who has strong pedigree ties to Wild Again.

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European invasionSteve Moran asks whether the raids on the Melbourne Cup are a “good thing”

SIx MILLIONS DOLLARS in prize-money, Group 1 status and accorded a reverence which only Classics or weight-for-age races draw in the rest of the racing world, and yet this much loved and lauded

thoroughbred test is a handicap. It is, of course, the Melbourne Cup.

It’s handicap status may have many scratching their heads – some even deriding the 3,200 metres Flemington staying test always held on the first Tuesday in November, but they’re generally those who have tried and failed to win it.

The Cup has never been mocked in Australia since it’s inception in 1861. The attendance rose from 4,000 in it’s first year to 100,000 just 19 years later. In 1895 the throng included famed US writer Mark Twain who wrote: “Nowhere in the world have I encountered a festival of people that has such a magnificent appeal to the whole nation. The Cup astonishes me.”

A record 122,736 saw Makybe Diva win the first of three consecutive Cups in 2003. Just on 106,000 saw Dunaden claim a second straight win for the French this year.

It is branded as the race that stops the nation and that is no exaggeration. No better illustration came than in 2000 when the New Zealand galloper Pravda refused to leave the paddock and delayed the Cup.

“This is the horse that stopped the race that stops the nation,” blared a double page spread in Melbourne’s biggest selling daily newspaper.

One wonders whether the Cup was instituted as a handicap in some sort of rebellion against the traditions of our colonial English governors.

Perhaps so. Nobody seems to know for sure. It is recorded that the Victoria Turf

Club (now Victoria Racing Club) came in for some criticism when it decided its new race in would be a 2m handicap with many arguing it should be at set weights or weight-for-age. However, the decision prevailed and the fact that the Melbourne Cup remains a handicap over 3,200 metres is what makes it unique in world racing.

Australians certainly have no issue with it. Perhaps something to with our supposed sense of fair play and love of the underdog.

Nor, in my opinion, should racing purists decry it. Success in set weights races might prove any three-year-old the best of his crop, but surely to concede weight to all comers of all ages is a true test of greatness.

The international handicap And, in effect, the Melbourne Cup has become a quality handicap. There was just seven kilograms from top to bottom in this year’s Cup. Compare this to 1930 when the legendary Phar Lap carried 62.5 to claim the holy grail. That year the spread was 18kgs.

There is little doubt that the Cup has

become a better race and truly international since Dermot Weld arrived in 1993 to win it with with Vintage Crop. But even with the better quality of horses competing and the compressed weight scale it remains a handicap and it remains difficult to win for those at the top of the weights as the connections with defending champion Americain, burdened with 58kg, discovered this year. Not many defy history in the Cup.

Americain jumped from his 2010 victory with 54.5kg to 58kg. In 150 years only four horses have won back-to-back Cups (five if you count Makybe Diva twice). And one of them was Archer way back in 1860 and 1861 – the first two years of the race.

Only four horses in the past 42 years have won the Melbourne Cup with more than 56kg. Aside from Makybe Diva, 21 horses have carried 56kg or more in the Cup since 2000 and only three have finished in the first three.

Mind you, Americain was incredibly brave in finishing fourth this year given his handicap burden and a wide run. Likewise, Vinnie Roe with the same weight (58kg) when second to Makybe Diva in 2004.

A classy topweight will, I fancy, win the race in coming years but in all likelihood it will not be an Australian-bred or trained horse.

That’s the only factor which might have the locals scratching their heads – an inability, it seems, to produce a staying horse who can now compete in the iconic race.

The Cup in figuresIt was vive la France again this year. Dunaden, prepared by Mikel Delzangles and ridden by Christophe Lemaire, carried 54.5kg to win in the tightest of photo finishes from the Ed Dunlop-trained Red Cadeaux, who

For goodness sake, in Australia, breeders even

shun Derby winners. If your horse has performed

beyond a mile, then more often than not he is

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was ridden by Aussie Michael Rodd.There was certainly a strong sense of

deja vu Delzangles, who once worked for Americain’s trainer Alain de Royer Dupre, followed the 2010 path set by his former boss in running Dunaden in the Geelong Cup as his preparatory race. Like Americain, he won the lead-up and then won the Cup with the same weight as Americain.

Successive wins by the French may not be enough to declare the Cup is lost to the locals forever more, but critical analysis of the results of recent years does have alarm bells ringing.

In 12 of the past 14 years, at least one overseas-trained horse has finished in the first three and, on six occasions, two of the visitors have finished in first three.

Four overseas-trained horses have won the race in the past ten years. That’s 40 per cent of the winners from approximtely 25 per cent of the runners. Plus, they’ve had six seconds in that same period and three-time winner Makybe Diva, who carried the local flag in the decade, was bred in the northern hemisphere!

This year no fewer than 16 of the 23 runners were either overseas trained or had originally raced overseas. Six of the first seven to finish were trained in either France or England. The only exception was third-placed former European Lucas Cranach, who mid-year joined the Lee and Anthony Freedman stable.

The irony now is that Australian owners and trainers are falling over themselves to bid against each other to buy staying prospects in the UK and Europe. I wonder whether they should be looking farther afield – perhaps to

North and South America where the oceans have been less fished?

Is it really a problem on the breeding, betting and competitive fronts?The question is whether the European dominance of the Cup is a real cause for concern from a breeding, betting or competitive viewpoint?

Firstly, the competition. The Europeans have improved the quality and raised the profile of the race. No question. And the visitors are not subsidised to come to Melbourne. Prize-money of A$125,000 is paid from sixth to tenth place, but a place finish would barely cover the costs of contesting the race if you’ve travelled from another part of the world.

As to breeding, that’s a much bigger question. Australian’s have always been obsessed with speed – even moreso since the inception of the world’s richest two-year-old race, the Golden Slipper (1,200m), in 1957.

This is somewhat bizarre given the bulk of the really big prize-money races are still those at a mile and beyond. Australia’s three highest money winners – Makybe Diva, Sunline and Northerly – were all specialiasts at 1m2f and beyond.

This preoccupation with speed is borne of impatience – getting the horses to the track as two-year-olds for a quick return for owners – and the hope of securing a stallion prospect by winning at Group 1 level, up to a mile, at two or three. Nobody makes big bucks in this business without a commercially successful stallion.

For goodness sake, in Australia, breeders even shun Derby winners! If your horse has

performed beyond a mile, then more often than not he is deemed to be slow.

The success of the Europeans may precipitate a new dawn, but it won’t happen overnight.

Interest in the 2009 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, now at stud, tells a story.

In a sense, he was banished to New Zealand with no interest from the major Australian-based operations. And he stands at a relatively modest fee of NZ$9,200.

However, the good news is that he has attracted a book of 150 mares.

“The publicity about the lack of stayers in this part of the world seems to have worked for us,” said John Thompson of Rich Hill Stud where Shocking is based.

There is little doubt that the Australian-bred sprinter (say up to 7f) is as good, it not better, than any in the world. You need look no further than Black Caviar, Silent Witness, Sacred Kingdom or Rocket Man not to mention Royal Ascot winners Choisir, Miss Andretti, Takeover Target, Scenic Blast and Starspangledbanner.

But even allowing for the recent, strong international performances of middle-distance Australian-bred horses like So You Think, Igugu and Sun Classique there is little doubt there is not the same depth beyond the sprinting ranks. An argument perhaps further supported, this season, when two moderately performed UK horses Glass Harmonium and My Kingdom Of Fife emerged as Group 1 performers in Australia.

Of course, not everyone agrees the internationalisation of the Cup has necessarily been for the better and it is

The Mikel Delzangles-trained son of Nicobar, Dunaden (yellow), gets up to deny Red Cadeaux on the line in the Melbourne Cup Photo: PA

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possible this year it had a negative impact on betting turnover.

John Singleton, one of the nation’s leading owner-breeders, believes it has become too easy for overseas horses to get into the Melbourne Cup.

“I’m not being xenophobic or insular and maybe people think I’m a dinosaur, but I don’t get it,” said Singleton. “No one can explain to me satisfactorily how these European horses are rated so highly compared to our horses.”

Melbourne Cup TAB betting turnover was down nearly 15 per cent this year and Singleton argues that Australian punters were baffled by the huge international presence.

Racing Victoria’s Greg Carpenter, who handicaps the Cup, is adamant that the visitors have no preferential treatment in rating or in terms of securing a place in the field.

“The race is not being put on for internationals and they are not being guaranteed starts,” said Carpenter. “It was a little disingenuous to say a Listed win in Germany got a horse into the Melbourne Cup this year. Illo passed the ballot condition because he won a Listed race over 2400m, but it ignored the fact he was a Group 3 winner in Germany.”

The biggest day in AustraliaEuropeans or no Europeans, the Melbourne Cup remains arguably the most significant event of any type in Australia with 25,000 international visitors and an estimated economic benefit of around A$700 million per annum. And the turnover on the Cup itself, despite a decline, was more than A$83 million, on the Victorian and New South Wales TAB.

And all this in a week where they raced four times at Flemington in the space of seven days which drew 355,000 plus customers and saw the champion sprinter Black Caviar stretch her winning run to 16 from 16 in the Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic. She is headed overseas next year – most probably to Royal Ascot.

The Cup was absolutely a triumph for trainer Delzangles, who’d not had a runner before, and for jockey Lemaire, who’d not ridden here. Makybe Diva’s jockey Glen Boss had been originally booked for Dunaden, but he fractured his arm in a trackwork fall in September. In stepped Craig Williams, who was aboard in the Geelong Cup, but was then suspended for careless riding on the eve of the Cup which denied him the chance to

become the first jockey to win the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups and the Cox Plate in the same year.

The Cup was also a triumph for Ed Dunlop, who was so gracious in defeat. A bob of the head denied him the glory of claiming a first victory for an English

trainer. Thus far, the French, the Irish and the Japanese have won it.

Dunlop, enamoured with his first experience of Melbourne, said that Snow Fairy may come to Melbourne for next year’s Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. With an international rating of 122, she is rated the fourth-best mare in the world and the best at 1m2f, and was Europe’s champion three-year-old filly.

Snow Fairy has finished alongside So You Think, the 2009 and 2010 Cox Plate winner, in her past three runs in Europe and would be a worthy Cox Plate contender.

Goodness knows what will happen, though, if she wins. It might be the beginning of the end for the locals in another great Australian race.

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the pedigree piece


LoNhRo, Who ARRIVES To STAND for $30,000 at Darley @ Jonabell in 2012, is from the Turn-to line. he is, however, from a branch that hasn’t had a top-class representative in the US for some considerable time, that of Sir Gaylord.

A half-brother to Secretariat, and a top-class performer and sire in his own right, Sir Gaylord is back in the fifth generation of Lonhro’s pedigree, the line coming down from Sir Ivor and the wonderful New Zealand sire Sir Tristram through Sir Tristam’s best stallion son Zabeel to Lonhro’s own sire octagonal, champion in Australia at two and three.

Lonhro himself was a notably tough and versatile performer, winning Group races every year from two to five, and from distances between 5 and 1m2f. In all, he won 26 of 35 starts, with 24 of those victories coming in group stakes, and 11 of them in Grade 1 competition.

Although he was undefeated in seven

Lonhro: will provide a different option from Darley for US breeders

Now for something completely different…” to Britains of a certain age, that phrase will be recalled as the prelude to another round of inspired lunacy from the monty python team.

to Us breeders in 2011, however, it indicates the arrival of a pair of stallions whose sires – and in one case whose sire line – represent something new for the Us breeding industry.

the arrival of lonhro and cape Blanco is a welcome one, coming at a time when it has been suggested that the international appeal of the Us thoroughbred is in decline.

you would have had a hard time believing that after perusing the results of the recent Keeneland november sale, but there is no doubt that top-end international buyers have begun to view the north American breed as less desirable, primarily due to concerns over raceday medication, and also due to a perception that the mainstream Us racehorse has evolved primarily into a specialist dirt runner.

there is no doubt that those views are reinforced by the successes of european-breds in the Breeders’ cup turf events, and on the “turf days” at Arlington park and woodbine.

the current season has produced interesting examples of how some internationalism can prove a positive.

on the domestic front was the victory of Animal Kingdom in the Kentucky derby (g1). Animal Kingdom – winning on his first start on a true dirt surface – is from the second crop of leroidesanimaux, a son of the Blushing groom horse candy stripes, who was foaled in Brazil, but who earned a title as champion Us turf horse of 2005.

Animal Kingdom’s dam, the Acatenango mare dalicia, was imported from germany and is from a totally european family.

with his early success, leroidesanimaux has now established himself as the leading representative of the Blushing groom line in the Us.

Another sire line that may owe it’s continuation in north America to imports is that of halo.

the two-time leading sire’s most notable current representative in the Us is more than ready.

he is from a northern hemisphere crop sired by southern halo, a son of halo, who was for many years the dominant sire in Argentina.

A prolific stakes sire in the US – where he has three 2011 grade 1 winners, including the Breeders’ cup turf sprint victor regally ready – more than ready was the leading sire of two-year-olds for 2010, a honour that has also twice been his in Australia.

Are Coolmore and Darley planning to make the US thoroughbred more appealing to the international buyer?

the pedigree piece


outings at three, Lonhro enjoyed his finest season as a five-year-old when victories in ten of his 12 starts earned him honours not only as Australia’s Horse of the Year, but his official rating meant that he was the world’s leading middle-distance horse of 2004.

Although he was quick enough to win the 5f Blue Diamond Prelude, a Group 3 event, at two, and although he was a five-time Group 1 winner over the US Classic distance of 1m2f, Lonhro gave the impression that he got the longer distance on class, and was at his most deadly over 7f and a mile.

While his male-line has not been seen in the US for several generations he does have some familiar strains in the distaff side of his pedigree.

his dam is a graded winning and Grade 1-placed daughter of the Mr. Prospector stallion Straight Strike, a champion sire in New Zealand.

his second dam is by the US-bred First Consul, a son of Forli (another successful stallion import to the US), who is bred on similar lines to Special, the dam of Nureyev and grand-dam of Sadler’s Wells.

To date, Lonhro has sired 32 stakes winners, 14 of them graded, including the Group 1 winners Denman, Beaded, and Benfica.

In general, his offspring have done best as sprinter/milers, and they’ve tended to improve with age. We can also note that there are already some marked tendencies among his preferences as far as matings are concerned.

One is the notable affinity that he’s struck up with Northern Dancer horse Night Shift (a brother to the great mare Fanfreluche), this cross supplying four stakes winners, three at Group class, and including one Group 1, from only ten starters.

he’s also had a stakes winner out of a mare descending from The Minstrel – a horse bred similarly to Night Shift – and another out of a mare by Seattle Dancer, who is by The Minstrel’s three-parts brother Nijinsky, and is half-brother to Seattle Slew.

The success with Night Shift and The Minstrel would encourage trying mares descending from two other horses with pedigree similarities: Vice Regent (sire of Deputy Minister), and Storm Bird, whose sons Storm Cat and Summer Squall, are out of mares by Sir Gaylord’s half-brother, Secretariat.

The cross of Lonhro with mares descending in male-line from Northern Dancer through

A maiden mare, but don’t wish to spend more than £10,000 and want to sell the offspring? Dark Angel, Roderick O’Connor.

A maiden mare, but happy to spend up to £30,000 and wish to sell the offspring? Teofilo, Exceed And Excel.

You have a black-type maiden mare and wish to sell the offspring? Galileo.

You would like to use a first-season sire as a commercial sales prospect? Canford Cliffs.

A mare for an owner-breeder and happy to spend up to £30,000? Dalakhani.

A mare for an owner breeder and wished to spend less than £10,000? Big Bad Bob.

You are going to take a gamble on a sire who is yet to have runners ... Sakhee’s Secret.

You would like to cover your mare with a French-based sire? Elusive City.

You are sending your filly to race and then be covered in the US? Giant’s Causeway.

You want to try and put a bit more speed into your family? Invincible Spirit.

Your mare is a bit incorrect? Cape Cross.

Your mare needs a good-moving stallion? Galileo.

You want an outcross for a Northern Dancer mare? Dubawi.

You are hoping to get a filly to join a broodmare band in the future? Dalakhani.

Want to make sure you get an invite to the Darley lunch? Any Darley sire...

Had enough of both Darley and Coolmore and want to go to an independent farm in Brit-ain and Ireland? Go to a Derrinstown Stud stallion.

Do book sizes affect your decision? What is an optimum? No as choice would then be too limited. Optimum would be 120 mares.

Are stallion fees generally still too high? Yes. One only has to look at sales averages or actual individual listed sales of stallion stock to see that a minority return a profit.

Stallion Q and A:Hugo Merry

Which stallion would you use if you had...?

the pedigree piece


UNLIkE LoNhRo, whose race-record requires some exposition, Americans are already familiar with Cape Blanco, who has arrived to take up stud duties in the US this year.

A leading contender for the title of champion US turf horse of 2011, Cape Blanco made three trips from Ireland this year and won the 1m2f Arlington Million (G1), the 1m3f Man o’ War Stakes (G1) and the 1m4f Joe hirsch Turf Classic Invitational (G1), the last achieved in a game display in which he overcame a career-ending injury.

Cape Blanco had also distinguished himself in his previous seasons on the track. he was three-for-three as a juvenile taking the Tyros Stakes (G3) and Futurity Stakes (G2). At three, he earned a Classic victory in the Irish Derby (G1), and against older horses took the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) by 5l, and finished second in the king George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1).

of course, Cape Blanco is a son of Galileo, who is rapidly succeeding his sire Sadler’s Wells as the owner of the title of “The World’s Leading Sire.”

Cape Blanco is the first major son of Galileo to retire to stud in the US, but the Sadler’s Wells line has established a thriving North American branch through the agency of champion Irish two-year-old, El Prado.

That horse made his way from the lower echelons to achieve leading sire honours, while he also has a son, Medaglia D’oro, who is

not only one of the leading young sires in the country, but who is also a very successful sire of dirt performers, most notably the great mare, Rachel Alexandra.

El Prado also now appears to have a second string to his bow in kitten’s Joy, who has this year emerged as the leading third crop sire in the US.

There is actually something of a connection between Cape Blanco and El Prado as El Prado was out of a mare by Sir Ivor, by Sir Gaylord, while Cape Blanco is out of a mare by Presidium, a grandson of Sir Gaylord’s half-brother Secretariat (we’ll also note that Sir Gaylord is tucked away in the back of the pedigree).

In fact, although it may not have the obvious instant recognition factor of Galileo, there is much to intrigue in the distaff side of Cape Blanco’s pedigree.

Cape Blanco’s dam Laurel Delight, who also produced the US graded winner Mr. o’Brien, was a real 5f specialist, and a half-sister to a very fast horse in Paris house.

She is by Presidium, a half-brother to kris and Diesis, and a son of General Assembly, a Travers Stakes (G1) and Vosburgh Stakes (G1) winner by Secretariat from the same family as Exclusive Native and Deputy Minister.

Cape Blanco’s grand-dam is by Artaius, a son of Round Table, which means that Cape Blanco’s dam is a product of an extended version of the influential Bold Ruler/Round Table, Nasrullah/Princequillo cross.

As far as potential mates for Cape Blanco are concerned, it’s been well-documented that Galileo has a phenomenal strike-rate with Danehill mares, and more than a few of that line have ended up across the pond.

The other European strain that has been particularly strong with Galileo, and that would be promising here, is that of Darshaan (including his son, Mark of Esteem). Galileo has done very well with the lines of Blushing Groom (including Rahy) and Roberto (where one might particularly look for Lear Fan, Red Ransom, kris S. and Silver hawk).

Galileo has also done well with Diesis (who stood in the US) and kris, half-brothers to Cape Blanco’s broodmare sire.

Doubling Secretariat appeals here, and Galileo has Classic winner Misty For Me out of a mare by Storm Cat (dam by Secretariat), and a graded winner out of a mare by Dehere (also out of Secretariat mare). We might also be inclined to introduce the strain through Gone West and A.P. Indy (broodmare sire of 2011 US Classic-winning filly Plum Pretty, who is by the Sadler’s Wells grandson, Medaglia D’oro).

We can also note that A.P. Indy’s sire, Seattle Slew (Bold Ruler/Round Table cross) appears in the dams of more than 60 Sadler’s Wells line stakes winners (two by Galileo).

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Danzig has also been a successful one, with ten stakes winners from 123 starters. With Nureyev (who appears as broodmare sire of Zabeel) and the previously mentioned First Consul in the pedigree, one would expect Nureyev’s son Sadler’s Wells to appeal here, and Lonhro does indeed have two

stakes winners out of mares from that line. here Sadler’s Wells would be particularly interesting through El Prado, who is virtually a reverse cross to Lonhro.

As mentioned, Lonhro is out out of a mare by a son of Mr. Prospector, and we’ve often seen the pattern of breeding a stallion

to mares from his own broodmare sire line prove to be a profitable one.

For Lonhro, this has already produced a stakes winner out of a mare by Fusaichi Pegaus, and strains of Mr. Prospector might generally prove a positive here, with Gone West being one potentially fruitful avenue.

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Group 1 WinnersDARK ANGEL: Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, G1, Mill Reef Stakes, Newbury, G2; sire.EQUIANO: King's Stand Stakes (twice), Ascot, G1, Palace House Stakes, Newmarket, G3, Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, L., 2nd in July Cup, Newmarket, G1, Temple Stakes, Haydock Park, G2, Prix du Gros-Chene, Chantilly, G2, 3rc in Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte, Maisons-Laffitte, G2, 2nd in Abernant Stakes, Newmarket, L.; sire.

Group 2 WinnersHARBOUR WATCH: Richmond Stakes, Goodwood, G2.LILBOURNE LAD: Railway Stakes, Curragh, G2, Rochestown Stakes, Naas, L., 2nd in Middle Park Stakes, Newmarket, G1, Gimcrack Stakes, York, G2.

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The family business: (from left) Catherine, Niamh and Paul. Frannie Woods, Niamh’s husband is fully involved in the stud also

RATHBARRY STUD has come a long way since its founder Paul Cashman used to take his stallion Royal Pom out on the road to visit mares.

Clearly some aspects have altered since 1935, but Rathbarry itself has

changed little, its reputation for standing leading young sires cemented early on in its 70-year history and unlikely to waver in the years ahead.

Some might remember that Sheikh Mohammed stood his first ever stallion at Rathbarry, the stud purchasing 75 per cent of Taufan. Needless to say, stallion, owner and stud have all since gone on to greater heights.

Firmly established as one of the largest family-owned studs in Europe, the loss of Liam Cashman in March 2010 came as a shocking blow to the Cashman family and the bloodstock world as a whole. It is a loss that Rathbarry Stud has dealt with, ensuring that his legacy will continue – his children Paul and Niamh, together with Niamh’s husband Frannie Woods, are keeping the future of the stud secure as they continue to move forward and enhance the Rathbarry reputation still further.

Part of that future rests on the newest stallion to join the esteemed Rathbarry ranks, Lilbourne Lad, who has some mighty shoes to fill.

Joining the Rathbarry roster is frequently like signing up to become leading first-season sire, a title achieved to date by the farm’s stallions Kampala (1984), Taufan (1985), Alzao (1988), Barathea (1998), Tagula (2000), Namid (2004) and Acclamation (2007).

Such success reflects the undoubted skill of Liam Cashman in spotting a potential

stallion, Liam famously buying Barathea a few months before his Breeders’ Cup Mile success having also started Alzao off at stud.

“Liam was a great believer in pedigree,” says his wife Catherine. “Alzao was a very correct horse with very good bone and he always stamped his stock well.

“Racing was not so international then as it is now and we didn’t get to see foreign races. When Liam told Richard hannon he had a nice Alzao yearling he should look at, hannon said, ‘what’s Alzao?’”

“What he achieved with Alzao was even more impressive, given the added difficulty of marketing a horse who had only won in France and Italy.”

Investing in young racehorses in the hope they will be successful stallions is a high-risk business, but it is a necessary evil in the modern marketplace and one that has certainly served the Cashmans well.

Acclamation is the current success story and his son, Lilbourne Lad, will be joining him for the 2012 season. Undoubtedly it is the high regard held by breeders of the Cashmans’ eye for a stallion that will see their latest young stallion well-supported; the initial success of Liam’s stallions establishing his reputation and the business snowballing from there.

Clients who benefited in the early days have remained fiercely loyal and every Rathbarry stallion has a strong book of mares, usually exceeding the book’s limit.

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“It’s incredibly difficult getting stallions,” says Catherine. “There is such a lot of competition for the few owned independently. We were very lucky to get Acclamation and we badly needed a new stallion.

“Acclamation is in great demand and we see Lilbourne Lad as an option for all those people who had supported Acclamation in his cheaper days. We started looking for a back-up to Acclamation in the middle part of the season and he ticks all the right boxes.”

It is a risky venture, but, as Catherine says: “It’s a matter of making up your mind and going for it when people are prepared to sell.”

Lilbourne Lad will enjoy a gentle introduction to life away from the racecourse. keeping a successful stallion isn’t only about filling his books, you also need to maintain his fitness, and ensure that his mental health is good, so prolonging the longevity of a successful career.

“he’ll be given peace and quiet and the chance to switch off,” reports Catherine. “We like to hand graze them and get them used to their surroundings for a couple of months. It’s important they’re kept in a laidback environment.

“We start lunging them in the third week of November and gradually build up from there. once the season is over they’ll be turned out daily from eight in the morning through to the afternoon. It’s great if they can settle outside, it helps them to switch off.”

Rathbarry hasn’t shuttled stallions since Dushyantor travelled to Chile, and the farm has turned down several offers to shuttle Acclamation to Australia.

“he can generate enough income here,” points out Catherine, “so the risks and expense just don’t make sense. Covering two

books is bound to shorten a horse’s career and they need that turn out and rest in the summer.”

Catherine estimates that a horse would need to stand for at least A$20,000 to make shuttling to Australia worthwhile and the addition of US stallions to the southern hemisphere has crowded the market.

“his books have steadily increased in quality,” adds Catherine, “his fee seems to govern the class of mare.

“he has a very good book of shareholders and it has paid them to support him from day one. He got some very good mares in his first season and his 2008 book were a cut above, but next year’s looks even better.

“I do get excited, looking at his book, absolutely. he’s always over-booked and it is never an easy job to sort out the mares. The success of Dark Angel’s first crop took him up another notch as a successful sire of sires.”

That Acclamation has reached this pinnacle so early in his career is yet another plus for Lilbourne Lad, who was described by trainer

Richard hannon as “one of the toughest and most genuine two-year-olds I have ever trained.”

Winning his Group 2 (the Railway Stakes) so early in the year undoubtedly worked against Lilbourne Lad as he was then charged with a penalty and had to give weight in most of his races; he had quickly become a victim of his own success.

“The day he ran in the Middle Park it was his eighth run in top-class


rathbarry stud

Acclamation is in great demand and we saw Lilbourne Lad as an

option for all those people who had supported Acclamation in his

cheaper days

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Above: new Rathbarry stallion Lilbourne Lad, and, below, the much missed Liam Cashman


company and he looked a million dollars,” says Catherine. “he’d kept his coat and condition and took his racing so well, he got better with every race. We’re in the middle of syndicating him and people are already anxious to see him. he’ll be available to view when the sales are over.”

When it comes to choosing a prospective stallion, Catherine had worked alongside Liam for so many years that it is just second nature.

“You’re looking to the future,” she explains. “A horse’s performance takes your eye first of all. A Group 2 horse with a stronger pedigree will always be the choice ahead of a Group 1 performer; pedigree is the deciding factor.

“Conformation is important. Ideally you’re hoping a very correct horse will stamp his stock and they’ll be popular at the sales.

“We’re known as a commercial farm and if we want to stay that way we need stallions who sire two-year-old winners, showing enough promise that they’ll improve at three. No one wants to wait.

“Syndicates are in it for fun and it’s great for breeders, but they want instant success and plenty of good days out at the races. Lilbourne Lad is a great example of that type of horse, he paid for himself over and over again,” she smiles.

of course, Lilbourne Lad and Acclamation are not the only ones stealing the headlines at Rathbarry.

Tagula was himself a leading freshman and has proved consistently popular ever since, most notably as the sire of champion miler Canford Cliffs, while Moss Vale’s first crop were the pinhookers’ choice and again sold well as yearlings this season.

“We try to cater for clients at every range of fee,” points out Catherine. “We have a very loyal client base, right from the kampala days.

our history is there and they’ve been good to us and our horses have been good to them, it works both ways.”

Not many studs enjoy success at the highest level in both disciplines, but

Rathbarry has proved so successful with its Nh sires that it was necessary to open Glenview Stud in 1991, to cope with the influx of mares.

The Nh roster has included the former stalwarts Strong Gale,

Phardante, Pollerton, Perspex, husyan, king’s Ride, Good Thyne and Anshan and is currently home to Dubai Destination, Robin Des Champs (leading Nh sire in

Britain, Ireland and France) and Presenting (champion Nh

sire in 2006-07, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11).

“The quality of the land here lends itself to producing

good youngstock,” explains Catherine. “Liam would have made the most

wonderful architect. Before he bought any land he could visualise exactly which way to lay it out and could see into the future.”

Liam is, of course, greatly missed by all, but his foresight and skill has made the transition so much easier for those left behind.

“We’re very lucky that Liam had built up a great core of excellent staff who have made things so much easier for Paul, Niamh and myself to carry on the business,” Catherine says gratefully. “Anything they’ve been asked to do since Liam got ill and died they’ve done with full enthusiasm and cooperation and have made the transition easier and so much less painful for us all.”

having such good staff means that employment must be maintained all year round and Rathbarry has always run a successful pinhooking operation, the renowned Cashman eye for a horse once again making its presence felt at the top of any league table.

The fact that Paul and Niamh are fully involved and able to continue this family-run business is important to Catherine.

“Independent studs are so important, we’re able to give people the personal touch,” she says. “When people call they’re talking straight to the owner and that personal contact with us helps.

“It’s just as important for us that we’re giving the right advice – if the client makes money he’ll come back. You work that bit harder when you have a vested interest.”

Liam’s favourite saying was “one sure way of going broke is to over cover your mare”, while Catherine’s motto is “always treat the client’s mare as your own”.

Both adages ensure that the best impartial advice is always given to and go a long to ensuring that this independent family-run stud will survive strongly into the future. The Cashmans’ reputation for success looks secure for at least another generation to come.

The Rathbarry fields: the farm has consistently produced homebreds and pin-hooked youngstock at the highest level for the Cashmans since the 1930s

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Neil Clark meets

rookie trainer Roger Varian who

had an “extraordinary

year” through 2011

WhENEVER A successful business person, or football manager steps down, we’re informed that they’ll be “a hard act to follow”. Sometimes

this can be a bit of an exaggeration.But in the case of trainer Michael Jarvis,

the phrase seems entirely appropriate. It wasn’t just that the Newmarket trainer, had, over the course of a 43-year career, won most of racing’s greatest prizes and achieved a remarkable level of consistency at the highest level.

It was the nature of the man himself. Jarvis was simply one of the most popular men in racing, someone about whom no one had a bad word.

So when his long-time assistant Roger Varian took over the running of kremlin house in February, he not only had the pressure of maintaining the stable’s record of success on the track, but also had to live up to the very high personal standards that his close friend and mentor had set.

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“If anything, Michael’s great achievements on the track are down the pecking order,” says Varian. “For those who knew Michael best, it’s what he achieved as a human being, which was his finest achievement. He was a great person.”

It’s nine months now since Varian stepped up to the plate, and three months since his predecessor’s sad death. It means that 2011 has been a year of incredibly mixed emotions for the softly-spoken 32-year-old from oxfordshire, but he has passed every test he has faced – both on and off the track – with flying colours.

Varian’s first season has been described by the Guardian’s Greg Wood as “one of the most impressive debuts of recent times”.

His very first runner Laaheb finished fourth in a Group 1 race in Dubai. His first runner on home soil, Eton Forever, landed the Spring Mile at Doncaster in April. There were to be a further 47 turf winners to come, with Varian’s strike-rate for the campaign a very healthy 21 per cent.

To cap it all, in october there was a

Group 1 success with Nahrain in the Prix de l’opera at Longchamp, and in November, great runs from Nahrain and Farraaj in the Breeders Cup.

“There were so many highlights“, Varian recalls. “We seemed to have a good, high-profile Saturday winner every three weeks or so throughout the season.”

Modestly, Varian prefers to stress the role that others have played in the stable’s great run.

“I certainly can’t take all the credit. I have a very strong staff and very good owners. having the staff, knowing that things run smoothly when you’re away, gives you enormous confidence. A lot of the staff have been here a long time.”

Varian points out Jim hiner, the yard secretary working who is opposite him. “Jim was with Michael for 41 years. he helps everything run like clockwork.”

he also praises the assistance – and support – that Jarvis’s widow Gay and the rest of Jarvis family has given him.

“Gay is very much part of the yard and has kept it flying high,” he says. “But I look out now and see another young man working very hard outside – David Eustace – the son of James Eustace.”

But kremlin house’s success in 2011 came as no surprise to Varian: “I was left in a very good position. Given the ammunition we had at our disposal I would have been

For those who knew Michael best, it’s

what he achieved as a human being,

which was his finest achievement. He was

a great person

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Eton Forever winning the Spring Mile at Doncaster in April. He was Varian’s first winner – and his first UK runner

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disappointed if we hadn’t done well”. Varian believes that the smoothness of

the handover between Jarvis and himself also contributed. “Michael confided in me two years ago about his illness and I became more heavily involved then in the training. Two years ago there was a big step up in my responsibilities,” he recalls.

Nevertheless, it can’t have been easy for Varian to come to terms with Jarvis’s illness, as well as the recent death of his own brother, which he finds it hard to talk about.

He acknowledges that “racing is a great distraction” and that it has played a role in helping him overcome the sadness.

“The sport is all-consuming, which can be

a good thing and a bad thing. In racing you are always looking forward. I suppose in that way it helps you cope with loss,” he surmises.

VarIaN’s interest in racing began as a child growing up in the 1980s, watching coverage on BBC and Channel 4. Perhaps befitting someone born in the week of the 1979 Cheltenham Festival, it was

the jumping side of the game which he first gravitated towards.

“We lived near to the point-to-point course at Kingston Blount. Between the ages of 13 and 15 I rode out at weekends for Alan and Lawney Hill, who were really helpful.”

When roger was 15 his family moved to California on account of his father’s business: “I then took a keen interest in the US racing. My father and I went to santa anita and Hollywood Park – I remember seeing alphabet soup win at santa anita before he won the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Woodbine.”

By this time, Varian had already had his heart set on becoming a jump jockey. Back in the UK he worked for 15 months for Ian and Tockie McKie “on my first ride in a point-to-point my horse turned a cartwheel and I broke a shoulder blade”, and then for Josh Gifford, for whom he rode seven winners as a conditional jockey.

“The best memory of my career as a jump jockey was riding a horse called Glitter Isle to win a handicap chase at the pre-Festival Wincanton meeting in February.”

A week after that success, Varian was off back to the US to take up the offer of a three-month spell working for Jack Fisher, the Maryland jumps trainer.

It was during this second spell in america that the incident occurred which was to change his life.

“Six weeks into my time with Jack I had a bad fall at Colonial Downs in Virginia. I smashed my wrist and the injury kept me out of the saddle for the remainder of my time there,” he says. “I had planned to return to Jack’s in the autumn, but I had an invitation from Michael and Gay Jarvis, whom I had earlier spent 10 weeks working for one summer, to go and see them in Newmarket.”

The rest, as they say, is history. Jarvis asked Varian to become his assistant and although he gave him two weeks to think about it, Varian’s mind was already made up by the time he left Newmarket.

“Jack always says that my fall was the luckiest thing that happened to me, and he was right.”

The late Michael Jarvis: when the trainer first became ill two years ago, he confided in Varian and then set about increasing the younger man’s responsiblities at Kremlin House

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It was 2001 and Kremlin House was enjoying a renaissance. “The decade started well with Holding Court winning the French Derby in 2000. By the time I’d arrived in 2001, Michael had already won the 1,000 Guineas that year with ameerat so I can’t claim any of the credit for that!”

among the big race winners that Varian was involved with included Rakti, the brilliant winner of the 2003 Champion Stakes and four other Group 1s for the yard, the 2005 Oaks heroine Eswarah, the back-to-back Chester Cup winner Anak Pekan, and the Victoria Cup and Wokingham winner Iffraaj.

Then there was the one who got away – Hala Bek, who in 2006 narrowly failed to fill the one major gap on Jarvis’s CV – an Epsom Derby win.

“He was an incredibly talented horse – it was a great shame,” recalls Varian. “Over the last ten years, the thing about the yard was its consistency. some years were better than others, but we never really had a bad campaign.”

Now, the challenge for Varian is to take Kremlin House forward to further glories. He was active at Newmarket’s yearling sales – and finds the fact that prices were up a positive.

“seeing the uncertainly surrounding the world economy it’s good that new money seems to be coming into racing at the top end,” he figures. “It’s as if there is an umbrella being held over the market. If the money comes in at the top, the hope is that it will strengthen the middle and lower ends.”

Varian is also grateful to have the continued support of Jarvis’s two main patrons – Sheikh Ahmed al Maktoum and Sheikh Hamdan al Maktoum. “The Sheikhs have been tremendously supportive. I’ve had similar allocations from them as we had had last year. It’s very pleasing.”

Boosted by his new intake, Varian also

hopes that some of the stars of 2011 will go onto further success next year.

“Sri Putra and Alainmaar look set to stay in training. Eton Forever got us off to a flyer last year and he may go back to Doncaster again for the Lincoln. He seems to be at his best early on in the season.

“Ektihaam is a very smart horse who I think a lot of. The ground wasn’t right for him in the Dewhurst – and I think we can put a line under that. He has a big future.

“Firdaws is a very nice filly. She won a maiden fillies’ stakes at Salisbury in early September and then finished third in the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket. She’s a daughter of Eswarah and should improve further. We may step her up to 1m2f.”

Talking to Varian it’s not hard to understand why Michael Jarvis was keen for him to be his successor. Both men were former jump jockeys who spent time as stable lads – and who did not come from established racing backgrounds.

Varian also shares the international outlook of his mentor. Jarvis won Derbys in France and Italy and famously landed the Prix de L’arc de Triomphe with Carroll House in 1989.

While Varian stresses how keen he is to win the bigger races at home, he’s also set his sights on the big international prizes too. “The racing world is getting smaller. The Breeders’ Cup is a meeting I’ve always loved and I hope it will feature again. Races like the Melbourne Cup, the Japan Cup and the arc would be a dream to one day contest - although I’m under no illusions about the calibre of the type of horse needed to do that.”

In the next few weeks, it’s matters closer to home which will be receiving Varian’s attention. His wife Hanako is expecting the couple’s first child. It should prove to be a very happy end to what has undoubtedly been a quite extraordinary year.

The two Sheikhs have been tremendously

supportive. I’ve similar allocations from them as we

had last year. It’s very pleasing

“

“ Seeing the uncertainly surrounding

the world economy it’s good that new

money seems to be coming into racing

at the top end

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Nahrain, Varian’s first Group 1 winner, running a gallant race to finish second in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf

Lissa Oliver meets James Tuthill, breeder of Excelebration and Dragon Pulse

Many top UK studs send their weanlings to rear on the renowned properties of the land on that Golden stretch. Owenstown stud is no exception and takes in boarders, both broodmares

and weanlings. Yearlings are successfully prepared at

Owenstown, but it’s as a producer of successful racehorses that the famous stud really sets its mark and attracts boarders.

“It’s funny,” says John Tuthill, who took over the stud on the death

of his aunt averil Whitehead in February 2010, the breeder of, amongst many others, Indian

ridge. “When you read books on

Newmarket or elsewhere on how to rear yearlings you couldn’t follow the same formula here as grass growth is so tremendous.

“The land here is renowned for producing strong yearlings with good

bone.”There’s a strong sense of

history at Owenstown, with its attractive traditional yards and ivy-clad stone buildings that have been the birthplace of such stars as Choose Me, Evening Time,

Musidora, Indiana, Humble Duty, record run, sedulous, Negligent and, most recently, Chandlery, Dragon Pulse and Excelebration, the latter of whom provided Tuthill with his first Classic success when winning the Mehl-Mulhens-rennen (G2) earlier this year.

Excelebration is perhaps better known for having the misfortune to have been born in the same year as Frankel and he twice chased him home – in the Greenham Stakes (G3) and the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) before he landed his own Group 1 when successful in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.

This year’s juveniles Chandlery, winner of the Group 2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood, and Dragon Pulse, winner of the Group 2 Futurity Stakes at The Curragh, there still remains the promise of Classic glory ahead.

Owenstown stud, together with Moygaddy stud, had originally belonged to Major Dixon, for whom Tuthill’s grandfather managed both studs. When offered the chance to buy one of the studs on Major Dixon’s retirement he chose Owenstown, which he eventually handed over to Tuthill’s aunt. It is likely to remain a family-run stud at least for the next generation as Tuthill’s son and daughter already take a keen interest.

Tuthill believes horses are “very humbling creatures” but the same can be said of Tuthill himself.

owenstown stud


An EXcellent year for Owenstown

Owenstown stud is nestled within the ‘Golden Road’ of bloodstock. A quick look at the neighbours, farms that include Ballymacoll, staffordstown, Moyglare and derrinstown studs, gives a clear indication that this stretch of pasture land, bordering on Meath and Kildare, is prized by thoroughbred breeders. It produces quality

youngstock as history, as well as future likely results, will testify.

John Tuthill with Alice, who has produced five litters of guide dogs and is now retired

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His success at Owenstown is measured on the racecourse, but what few will know of his extensive volunatary work for the Irish Guide Dogs For The Blind. Two brood bitches greet visitors to the stud and Tuthill has been a puppy walker for many years, taking a modest pride in the countless lives he has helped to change for the better.

The success that the Irish have in producing bloodstock is replicated in the field of guide dogs as there is a very high success rate of Irish-bred puppies graduating to becoming fully blown guide dogs and they are in demand all over the world.

You could call it another successful string to the Owenstown bow.

Tuthill primarily breeds yearlings for the sales ring, but he likes to keep the occasional filly to have in training, sometimes by default.

“We’d had a rotten year at the yearling sales,” he recalls, “and my aunt offered to lease one so that I wouldn’t have to train them all.

“She chose a Choisir filly and hence the name – Choose Me!”

As can often be the case, the lack of sales success can sometimes prove a blessing in disguise and Choose Me netted earnings of over £208,000, including a win in the Listed Fairy Bridge Stakes at Tipperary and numerous placings at Group level. she is now in foal to azamour.

The swings and roundabouts of breeding racehorses are never more apparent than Excelebration’s story.

“I had a yearling who went through the ring unsold and swapped it for a mare called sun shower by Indian ridge and in foal to Mull Of Kintyre,” Tuthill recounts. “she produced a colt whom I sold for €2,000 and he didn’t appear on the racecourse as a two-year-old.

“Her next was an Intikhab filly, she went for €1,200, and then in 2008 she produced a colt by Exceed And Excel. With the economic downturn I decided to reduce the number of mares here and sold her in foal to strategic Prince.”

sun shower was bought by Hugo Merry for €10,000 and bound for India.

Her colt was later sold to Marco Botti at the Doncaster Yearling sales for £20,000. Tuthill explains the price increase: “By then the Mull Of Kintyre colt had come out and won three races on the trot.”

Botti’s Excelebration has since added a great deal of value to the mare that Tuthill no longer owns and who it was revealed in October is returning from India after purchase by Coolmore.

Tuthill has been to Newmarket to see Excelebration work and can’t speak highly enough of Botti. He doesn’t like to ask too much of trainers, but values feedback from them, which can help with future mating plans.

“Physical traits we can do our best with, but feedback on temperament is hugely important,” he says.

There can sometimes be a conflict of interest between breeding for the sales ring and breeding the finished racehorse, but

Tuthill believes racecourse results speak for themselves.

“I’m neither clever enough nor wealthy enough to breed for fashion!” he points out. “We try to breed racehorses and the farm has a high-strike rate of winners.”

One of this year’s winners is the exciting two-year-old Dragon Pulse, who was narrowly beaten by Power in the Group 1 National Stakes at The Curragh. He is a son of Kyllachy whom Tuthill readily describes as “not everyone’s cup of tea.”

Tuthill quotes bloodstock economist John Lynam when likening breeding racehorses to “playing Russian Roulette with five bullets”. Dragon Pulse is a case in point.

“We’ve had our best year on the racecourse, but our worst at the sales,” grimaces Tuthill. “We got €25,000 for a half-brother to Chandlery, but an Elnadim sister to Dragon Pulse was unsold, while his dam Poetical had a stillborn foal late in the season and wasn’t covered.

“It’s very frustrating and I suppose you could easily get depressed, there’s all that success and I can’t capitalise on it. But it’s nice to be associated with a good one and

Excelebration heads Frankel on

the way out to the QEII – as we all

know Frankel was the one who came

home in front.Excelebration had the misfortune of being born in the same year as the Juddmonte colt,

but he still won twice at

Group 2 level and also picked up a

Group 1.Tuthill sold

Excelebration’s mare Sun Shower

in 2008

I’m neither clever enough nor wealthy enough to

breed for fashion! We try to breed racehorses

and the farm has a high-strike rate of winners

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A maiden mare, but don’t wish to spend more than £10,000 and want to sell the offspring? Royal Applause: he has proven and consistent sales results.

A maiden mare, but happy to spend up to £30,000 and wish to sell the offspring? High Chaparral or Acclamation. Proven and top class producers of race and sale horses.

You have a black-type maiden mare and wish to sell the offspring? Danehill Dancer or Dansili: high end fees, but both have results on the track and in the ring.

You would like to use a first-season sire as a commercial sales prospect? Dream Ahead, he was a consistent performer with speed.

A mare for an owner-breeder and happy to spend up to £30,000? Rock Of Gibraltar. He was a top two-year-old by Danehill and gets solid performers.

A mare for an owner breeder and wished to spend less than £10,000? Multiplex. He is a horse with a very good pedigree and good looks by Danehill.

You are going to take a gamble on a sire who is yet to have runners ... Paco Boy: a tough and consistent sort with speed. He will have covered a good book of mares.

You would like to cover your mare with a French-based sire? King’s Best or Muhtathir, both producing top-end racehorses.

You are sending your filly to race and then be covered in the US? Speightstown. Proven. Works well in Europe and on turf.

You want to try and put a bit more speed into your family? Pivotal or his son Excellent Art – he has had a good start with his two-year-olds, who are showing plenty of speed.

Your mare is a bit incorrect? Choose wisely, then go and see the sire of choice and make sure you view his stock.

Your mare needs a good-moving stallion? Lawman. A great-looking and good moving horse.

You want an outcross for a Northern Dancer mare? Monsun. Running out of time.

You are hoping to get a filly to join a broodmare band in the future? Galileo. Cross with Danehill line.

Want to make sure you get an invite to the Darley lunch? Exceed And Excel. Good looking horse. Ask Dawn nicely...

You want to use a smaller, independent farm in Britain and Ireland? Makfi in England, Dream Ahead in Ireland.

Do book sizes affect your decision? What is an optimum? 100 would be plenty.

Are stallion fees generally still too high? Yes.

Stallion Q and A:Liam Norris

Which stallion would you use if you had...?

to see that the formula with which I have worked is not so very far from successful.”

One frustration for Tuthill is catalogue updates, which appear valuable but in practise are difficult to utilise.

“Catalogue updates are so hard,” he explains, “we were lucky to have such important updates, but even with such a great update it’s expensive and difficult to publicise.”

With Dragon Pulse the second-highest rated two-year-old in Ireland at the time of the October Yearling sale, his valuable black-type achieved in August and september, didn’t appear on the catalogue page of his Elnadim sister.

Tuthill remains philosophical, aiming to lease the filly and then retain her for breeding saying: “as a breeding prospect I couldn’t afford to buy her equivalent in the marketplace.”

Tuthill gets such a thrill from seeing his horses run and the success that he has enjoyed as a breeder owes much to his passion for racing and he confesses: “My television is deaf from being shouted at!” His says that Excelebration’s encounters with Frankel have left him “hoarse for a week!”

But it is a long process producing horses and there are so many variables that go towards gettting a good one.

“It’s not only down to the breeder, the farm and land husbandry, it’s how good the trainer is, the jockey is, there are so many factors along the way. My role is to aim to control what I can as much as possible,” he says.

With 12 mares of his own and several permanent and seasonal boarders on the 320 acres of Owenstown Stud, Tuthill keeps a somewhat wary eye on the future.

“It’s tough times and there are a lot of challenges to this way of life,” he warns. “The lack of prize-money, for example, and the question of aI in australia. If it’s allowed in one jurisdiction it could become a global phenomenon. If I had a top stallion I would be harvesting semen and freezing it, just in case.”

But the future looks bright for Owenstown and Tuthill says: “a lot of credit for what I do is down to my staff. I have a very good assistant manager in Niamh sheehan, she has great attention for detail, and details have a huge bearing on the husbandry side of things.

“and my wife, Clare, is a very important member of the team, without her support I wouldn’t be here at Owenstown.”

Whether it’s with thoroughbreds or guide dogs, John Tuthill and his team have a winning touch with breeding and the future of Owenstown Stud is likely to be as illustrious as the history it is built on.

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Little in name, but not in natureLissa Oliver finds Swordlestown Little punching well above its weight

THE UPS AND DOWNS of operating as a small breeder are never more apparent than when talking with Mariann Klay and Des Leadon, who together founded swordlestown Little stud ten years ago.

They have enjoyed success at black-type level from the very start, but in June, they celebrated their first Group level success when Lilbourne Lad won the Group 2 railway Stakes at The Curragh, a victory that was quickly followed by Harbour Watch’s success in the Richmond Stakes (G2) at Goodwood.

However, it’s that very success that highlights the difficulties faced by small breeders – few have been as fortunate with racecourse results as Klay and Leadon, yet even swordlestown Little is struggling to pay its way.

This season swordlestown Little can boast of eight winners, while overall, and starting out with just two mares, the stud has produced 13 winners of 23 races among which five have placed or won at Listed or Group level. This year Lilbourne Lad has been retired to rathbarry as a stallion, while connections of Harbour Watch are harbouring Classic aspirations.

The great thing about the thoroughbred industry is that it is, by necessity, filled by optimists. Klay and Leadon are realistic as a team (he being the supreme optimist, she quite the opposite!), but like everyone in this game they are passionate about what they do and it’s their deep love of horseracing that keeps them in business, not the usually non-existent financial rewards.

Both are highly respected veterinary surgeons, a plus that puts swordlestown Little high on the list for clients when it comes to boarding mares – it is list of a mares that reads like a Who’s Who of racing.

Klay helped to establish the foal neonatal intensive care unit at Troytown and continues to conduct research with foals, although she retired from Troytown in order to commit full-time to the stud. Leadon is head of Clinical Pathology at the Irish Equine Centre and is known to industry professionals worldwide for his presentations at symposiums and equine conferences. He has served as president of the British Equine Veterinary Association and the World Equine Veterinary association.

This expertise is evident when viewing the facilities at swordlestown Little, particularly the purpose-built veterinary unit within the main barn. Having two such eminent vets on site means that problems can be spotted and treated earlier, often giving a significant saving in medical costs.

“The critical care that can be provided by both of us on site is so valuable,” points out Leadon. “It’s extremely stressful for a sick horse to travel, so having facilities on site is a huge benefit.”

That said, the stud also has the advantage of being less than 30 minutes from Troytown.

stress caused by travelling is one of Leadon’s specialist interests and his research has gone a long way into improving how horses are now transported. Both vets are regularly asked to travel with top-class racehorses and stallions abroad – yet another necessary financial sideline to the breeding business – but it does provide immense benefits to the stud.

Klay does all the foaling herself and, again, her veterinary expertise is a big advantage.

“When there are problems during foaling it’s critical that mare and foal are treated immediately,” she says. “All it it takes is 15 minutes to lose a horse. If a horse needs hospitalisation we can identify it and get it

Harbour Watch, who was bred by Swordlestown Little, wins the Richmond Stakes (G2) at Goodwood under jockey Richard Hughes

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there quicker.”The stud is also very close to many of the

major studs in the area. “We can send a mare to be covered at

Gilltown and have her back home here within 40 minutes,” Leadon adds.

Although being able to avail of walk-in coverings is an advantage, Klay points

out that breeders are still being hit with additional charges on top of the nomination fee, such as a surprisingly high walk-in fee and grooms fee.

The stud itself is so perfectly laid out and well managed that it’s hard to remember that the land it sits on was nothing more than a disused cattle farm only ten years ago.

“We bought the land purely by coincidence,” Klay explains. “We had been looking for a property for a long time, but we always ended up as the underbidders. Then in 1998 Swordlestown Stud came on the market, in three lots. We knew the area and liked it. This had been an old cattle farm and there was nothing on it but the barn, which was full of old rusted machinery!

“We only went to the auction because the auctioneer told us we should go. We never thought we could get it and we had really only been looking for ten acres or so. This was 56 acres, but we’ve since extended it to 80.”

They were not planning to start a stud, but as Klay says: “With land comes responsibility, you have to do something with it.”

Their first step was to build a house, which was a major nightmare.

“The first lot of walls built were blown down!” laughs Leadon. “There was a fierce storm.”

Klay then found that she had to give up her job in order to be the project manager and devote her time to the house and land. “I wanted to see the infrastructure in place,” she says, “so that we could take in boarding mares at first.”

as well as initially opening to boarders, Klay and Leadon found that their secluded setting, bordered on all sides by forest, helped ensure that bio-security measures could be stringent. For the first few years the couple provided an official equine quarantine station and horses passing through included the thoroughbred stallion Celtic swing, and Provocative, the European endurance champion owned and ridden by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum.

The primary business of the stud, however, is producing foals and Klay’s love of foals has led her to specialise in foal sales. she prepares them herself, although building such a close hands-on relationship does lead to a downside – she admits to having been found crying in the car park after a sale!

On a practical level, Klay feels that it is sometimes difficult to judge the relative merits of the horses, when they are spread across Europe with a variety of trainers.

“To have all the horses you have bred with the same trusted trainers, brought up in the one environment, would be such a perfect way of really knowing what you are producing,” she says.

She likes to keep in touch with the trainers who handle her horses and family trait insights are often very welcome. Her

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livelihood, after all, depends on racecourse success. Like their horses, Klay and Leadon are very much in the hands of their trainers.

The first horse to arrive at the farm was a retired horse from the yard of John Oxx – the pair met while riding out at Currabeg stables and they still ride out for Oxx.

“I started riding for John in 1984,” recalls Leadon. “I like to think I’m the reason he’s got no hair left! I held an amateur’s licence for 22 years and I can proudly say I have the honour of holding the title of ‘World’s Most Unsuccessful Amateur Jockey!’”

swiss-born Klay was a successful amateur from the age of 16, riding throughout Europe in the Fegentri series. she was riding in pony races from the age of six, started breeding ponies at 11, and worked in Chantilly at 14 – she can safely be described as experienced! Having been brought up on a farm in switzerland she is no stranger to the physical work required on the stud and is more than just a hands-on owner.

“We don’t employ any full-time staff, I do everything myself,” she explains.

Nevertheless, as a swiss applicant, Klay found it incredibly difficult to gain a place on the Thoroughbred Breeding Course at the Irish National stud and is grateful that a reference from Walter Haefner finally tipped the balance for her.

She went on to work at Gilltown Stud and Waikato Stud, but admits: “After working with broodmares I was dying to get back to racehorses, and I went to work at Oxx’s.” she has also ridden for Bart Cummings and Tommy smith when in australia.

she returned to switzerland to study as a vet, having always been interested in the veterinary side of things, but wrongly thinking she wouldn’t be able for the sciences required in studying.

“I spent so much time from a very young age following vets around and then later in various studs and yards that I began to think if they can do it, so can I!” she laughs.

she has the accomplishment of completing her doctorate while still an undergraduate. “Mr Oxx very kindly let me use a group of 40 of his horses for my research into respiratory disease and it is from that that the practice of taking temperatures twice a day came about. It is the best possible care you can provide for a horse, it tells you so much and allows you to detect things very early,” she insists.

all of that experience has been successfully channelled into the business at swordlestown Little, which began operations in 2001 with

those two mares. The first foal from Cascatelle Bleue, a Bluebird mare, was the alhaarth juvenile and black-type winner Mr Strong, while the first five foals of the Shernazar mare Khatela were all winners, with her best progeny to date Massive being successful at Listed level.

“You need at least, at the very least, five mares,” Klay emphasises, “in order to, hopefully, have two saleable foals.”

Most breeders are not in such a fortunate position and according to Weatherbys 93 per cent of Irish breeders own four or less mares, while 82 per cent own only one or two. Klay and Leadon took themselves to the sales to increase their broodmare band.

“We were at Deauville and a mare walked past and I just thought: ‘What is that?’” recalls Leadon. “and that’s how we ended up with Third Dimension. We had no intention of breeding NH horses, but she was just such a good horse we had to have her.”

The suave Dancer mare has produced four winners, including Theola, by Kalanisi, now among the broodmare band, and the stud’s first Cheltenham winner, Third Intention, a gelding by azamour.

In contrast to France, where breeders not only benefit from valuable premiums, but are also given tickets to the races and are included on the winners’ podium when their horse wins, Ireland and Britain are sadly reticent when it comes to acknowledging the contribution of breeders.


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“To have all the horses you have bred with the same trusted trainers, brought up in the one

environment, would be such a perfect way of really knowing

what you are producing

“

Des Leadon riding out: he says he holds the title of the ‘World’s Most Unsuccessful Amateur Jockey!’

Klay with a Mastercraftsman half-sister to the Middle Park Stakes runner-up Lilbourne Lad

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There would be no horses without breeders, who contribute to the industry in Ireland through the Foal Levy and significantly to the funding of the Racing Post Yearling Bonus scheme, all of which, though essential to maintaining the health of the industry, are an added burden for breeders.

The returns for swordlestown come on the track and another fortuitous acquisition was Miss shaan.

“We had always wanted a Darshaan mare and particularly her,” recalls Leadon.“We couldn’t get over to Deauville to buy her. so we left instructions with French agent David Powell. I rang him later to see how he’d got on and he said he hadn’t bid for her!

“He noticed the only bidders were her owners, so he waited until after the sale and managed to buy her for considerably less than the limit I’d given him.”

she is the dam of four runners, all winners, including Listed-placed Damien and the three-time winning Bahceli.

The beautifully bred sogno Verde (Green Desert ex Gothic Dream) was bought out of training as a result of the swordlestown Little connection with John Oxx.

“We knew Sogno Verde and we had known her dam and grand-dam,” Klay explains, “and she came from one of the best families established by Lady Clague, which we really admired. She took such care to assemble and nurture her families.”

Sogno Verde’s first foal was Bobbyscot, by alhaarth, a winner at two and Listed and Group placed. Her second foal is

Lilbourne Lad (acclamation) and she has a yearling colt by Dylan Thomas, who was bought for €135,000 by ross Doyle at last year’s Goffs November Foal sale. she had a Mastercraftsman filly foal and is in foal to raven’s Pass.

As every commercial breeder knows, trying to breed both a racehorse and a potential sales topper is an incredibly difficult balancing act and when it comes to planning matings Klay allows herself four commercial choices and one “wish list”.

She is forced to take a hard-line when it comes to commercial matings, although the success of swordlestown Little horses on the racecourse shows that the ultimate goal of producing a winning racehorse hasn’t been unduly compromised.

“I have sent a maiden mare to a first-season sire,” she admits, before shrugging and smiling ruefully: “It is something I would rather avoid, but it seemed appropriate for that mare in the current market.”

another problem shared by many small breeders is maintaining the broodmare band.

“It’s very scary,” Klay says. “Our mares are ageing and we need new ones. It’s very difficult to compete with more solvent purchasers for a good-looking, correct mare with a nice pedigree.”

Leadon acknowledges that the recession has made it all the harder, “everyone is trying to upgrade their mares.”

More and more the stud is becoming dependent on boarders for a regular income. Klay confesses that: “We need another income, the stud has never made money, never even paid for itself to date. We need boarders for cash flow.”

But Leadon puts it all into perspective, speaking for all those connected with the industry, when he says: “Horseracing is just such a wonderful experience, it’s one of those very rare things in life that can raise a smile and is so easy to enjoy.

“As an industry we should be marketing this much more, it’s a lovely thing to share with friends. Breeding horses requires you to have your finger on the pulse in so many countries, it’s fascinating and addictive. Our aspirations are all the same.”

On the negative side, Klay admits to feeling personally responsible when their horses don’t do well, but takes huge satisfcation from the successes that the stud has achieved.

“It’s magical. To plan a mating, to personally foal that foal, to sell them and then see them on the gallops is an achievement. There are so few who even make it that far, there are so many things to go wrong. It should never be taken for granted.”

Neither of the couple are guilty of that, both taking immense pride and appreciation of the horses they have bred.

“The thoroughbred is just so incredibly brave,” Leadon says, “the more you ask them

Veterinarian Klay enjoys working with the foals and has been known to “shed the odd tear in the car park” after selling some of their youngstock as foals

It’s very scary. Our mares are ageing and we need new ones. It’s very difficult to compete with more

solvent purchasers for a good-looking, correct mare with a nice pedigree

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Ascene at Ballydoyle in the late spring of 2010 provided, perhaps, an insight into Galileo’s success as a stallion. the son of sadler’s Wells was not his peerless sire’s best runner; that accolade

belongs to his fellow coolmore resident Montjeu, and yet Galileo, with not dissimilar opportunities, has consistently outstripped his paternal half-brother in their second careers.

the vignette concerned three derby prospects being paraded before the racing media. as st nicholas abbey, Jan Vermeer and cape Blanco lined up for a bank of photographers under aidan o’Brien’s watchful eye on the open grass infield of a covered exercise ring, the colts suddenly

heard the clattering of hooves and some feminine nickering from a group of fillies passing by but out of sight.

cue young men behaving badly. the trio launched themselves into a macho display of rearing and plunging at the end of their lead-ropes. Significantly, it was the two sons of feisty Montjeu, st nicholas abbey and Jan Vermeer, who were the first to kick off and the last to settle. the rodeo display of cape Blanco, by phlegmatic Galileo, was the most half-hearted.

“typical,” said o’Brien, who knows the stallions’ progeny better than any. “the Montjeus have brilliance, but also nervous energy. the Galileos have class, too, but they have minds of concrete.”

statistically, Galileo has some way to

Annus mirabilisGalileo continued to beat the stats and his own sire in 2011, writes Sue Montgomery of the stallion who is on the way to becoming the best sire ever

Superstar sire Galileo Photo: Peter Mooney

stallion review


GALILEO (IRE) 284 110 154 339 7,286,451 38.73 25,657MONTJEU (IRE) 185 79 129 262 4,041,928 42.7 21,848LOMITAS (GB) 81 43 66 149 3,092,163 53.08 38,175OASIS DREAM (GB) 232 95 142 385 3,004,990 40.94 12,953DANSILI (GB) 221 95 141 294 2,970,729 42.98 13,442HIGH CHAPARRAL (IRE) 186 63 98 298 2,709,458 33.87 14,567DANEHILL DANCER (IRE) 211 83 129 343 2,509,627 39.33 11,894DUBAWI (IRE) 160 76 112 278 2,479,251 47.5 15,495PIVOTAL (GB) 202 102 144 316 2,330,867 50.49 11,539SHAMARDAL (USA) 148 72 105 221 2,126,218 48.64 14,366INVINCIBLE SPIRIT (IRE) 274 110 158 499 2,120,178 40.14 7,738ROCK OF GIBRALTAR (IRE) 174 74 106 288 2,112,988 42.52 12,144DALAKHANI (IRE) 138 41 61 140 2,072,705 29.71 15,020EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) 191 74 122 347 1,946,736 38.74 10,192HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) 157 63 107 274 1,861,964 40.12 11,860CAPE CROSS (IRE) 223 90 117 312 1,668,718 40.35 7,483VERGLAS (IRE) 219 85 138 401 1,627,926 38.81 7,433KING’S BEST (USA) 187 61 82 254 1,592,323 32.62 8,515SINNDAR (IRE) 98 34 56 125 1,560,651 34.69 15,925SLICKLY (FR) 107 41 62 215 1,559,925 38.31 14,579SELKIRK (USA) 129 54 78 177 1,503,113 41.86 11,652ORATORIO (IRE) 208 85 121 367 1,450,443 40.86 6,973INTIKHAB (USA) 117 45 77 215 1,440,864 38.46 12,315HURRICANE RUN (IRE) 119 50 75 193 1,404,104 42.01 11,799DIKTAT (GB) 143 44 75 239 1,394,505 30.76 9,752FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND (GB) 138 55 96 257 1,382,725 39.85 10,020ACCLAMATION (GB) 199 80 117 339 1,375,016 40.2 6,910REFUSE TO BEND (IRE) 176 79 124 333 1,372,722 44.88 7,800MEDICEAN (GB) 185 73 117 266 1,348,535 39.45 7,289SINGSPIEL (IRE) 141 47 74 192 1,190,526 33.33 8,443ANABAA (USA) 93 34 53 122 1,171,949 36.55 12,602KINGSALSA (USA) 123 50 76 231 1,165,574 40.65 9,476DUBAI DESTINATION (USA) 184 73 106 334 1,160,635 39.67 6,308EVEN TOP (IRE) 5 2 6 8 1,144,498 40 228,900TIGER HILL (IRE) 173 55 77 246 1,131,776 31.79 6,542BIG SHUFFLE (USA) 150 56 78 285 1,121,645 37.33 7,478MONSUN (GER) 114 51 80 153 1,114,362 44.73 9,775MUHTATHIR (GB) 130 46 71 174 1,101,310 35.38 8,472ANABAA BLUE (GB) 96 38 61 169 1,097,159 39.58 11,429HAWK WING (USA) 185 63 99 288 1,084,747 34.05 5,863WHIPPER (USA) 115 46 79 198 1,078,827 40 9,381LANDO (GER) 122 46 67 204 1,075,256 37.7 8,814ONE COOL CAT (USA) 178 67 116 312 1,063,838 37.64 5,977SHIROCCO (GER) 114 38 52 162 1,057,514 33.33 9,276HALLING (USA) 126 53 79 200 1,040,068 42.06 8,255DYNAFORMER (USA) 49 23 31 64 1,031,718 46.93 21,055KYLLACHY (GB) 181 80 132 309 1,026,133 44.19 5,669ELUSIVE CITY (USA) 158 50 85 286 1,025,156 31.64 6,488AUSSIE RULES (USA) 99 40 58 142 996,360 40.4 10,064SAKHEE (USA) 97 41 63 155 978,753 42.26 10,090

Leading sires in Europe: 2011 (to November 17) courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion Runners Winners Races Won Places Money Won (£) Wnrs to Rnrs % Av. earnings Galileo 110Invincible Spirit 110Pivotal 102Oasis Dream 95Dansili 95Cape Cross 90Verglas 85Oratorio 85Danehill Dancer 83Acclamation 80Kyllachy 80Montjeu 79Refuse To Bend 79Dubawi 76Rock of Gibraltar 74

By winners

Lomitas 53.08Pivotal 50.49Shamardal 48.64Dubawi 47.50Dynaformer 46.93Refuse To Bend 44.88Monsun 44.73Kyllachy 44.19Dansili 42.98Montjeu 42.70Rock Of Gibraltar 42.52Sakhee 42.26Halling 42.06Hurricane Run 42.01Selkirk 41.86

By winners to runners(more than 1 runner)

Even Top 228,900Lomitas 38,175Galileo 25,657Montjeu 21,848Dynaformer 21,055Sinndar 15,925Dubawi 15,495Dalakhani 15,020Slickly 14,579High Chaparral 14,567Shamardal 14,366Dansili 13,442Oasis Dream 12,953Anabaa 12,602Intikhab 12,315

By average earnings

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Power: after Group 1 performances this summer the son of Oasis Dream is favourite for the 2,000 Guineas

go before he catches sadler’s Wells. the great horse won a record 14 British & Irish championships, Galileo has now won three. sadler’s Wells’ sons and daughters have won 131 Group and Grade 1 races worldwide, Galileo’s 53. But the present star of coolmore is well ahead in the numbers’ game and, granted good health and a long life, should surpass many of sadler’s Wells achievements.

In the case of this father and son, comparisons are not odious, just inevitable. Galileo now has seven crops racing; at the same stage sadler’s Wells’ offspring had 32 top-level successes to their name. and sadler’s Wells never had an annus mirabilis like Galileo’s 2011, or a crop like his class of 2008.

the eight three-year-olds Frankel, Galikova, Golden lilac, Misty For Me, nathaniel, Roderic o’connor, together and treasure Beach racked up 14 Group or Grade 1s in 2011, with back-up from older cape Blanco and Igugu and the younger Maybe to take the haul for the year to 19 from 11 individuals.

Sadler’s Wells’s most prolific crop was that of 1999, which also produced eight individual Group or Grade 1 winners. Ballingarry, Black sam Bellamy, Gossamer, High chaparral, Islington, Quarter Moon, River dancer and sholokov eventually won 19 between them, but it took them four years and, presumably, Frankel & Co ain’t finished yet.

Galileo took his third title, with Montjeu runner-up, with a record total (unsurprising given the inflationary prizes now available at elite levels) but not a record margin: he had slightly more to spare over dansili the previous year. He also topped both the winners’ and wins’ lists and had more runners than any other stallion during 2011. yes, he has large books, but so do others and his numbers on the track are a tribute to their soundness.

Physically, Galileo is a horse to gaze at for hours: neat, beautifully proportioned, an exceptionally fine mover in all his paces, and with his sire’s kind, honest attitude to life. His winners-to-runners percentage, not untypically of the modern era of large books, is historically low for a champion sire, but he has proved commercially successful, even at his large private fee and particularly with fillies, one of whom, a half-sister to Henrythenavigator’s dam sequoyah, topped the european yearling lists at 1.7 million guineas. And his first Group 1-winning son to retire to stud, Teofilo, has produced a Group 1 winner of his own, Parish Hall, from his first crop.

Galileo and the bigger, rangier Montjeu are now firmly established as Sadler’s Wells’s successors as prime sources of classic and middle-distance class, even though it comes in different packages.

sadler’s Wells, who died in april at the age of 30, would consider his baton in safe hands.

Montjeu’s second place is his best to date, bettering his third spots from 2007-2009. His eight individual top-level winners in 2011 included st nicholas abbey (coronation cup

and Breeders’ cup turf), Fame and Glory (ascot Gold cup), Masked Marvel (st leger) and derby hero Pour Moi.

Montjeu now has three derby winners (Motivator and Authorized are the others) to his credit, to Galileo’s one with new approach, and has the winter favourite for epsom in 2012, camelot.

the last champion sire not to stand at coolmore was Gainesway resident Blushing Groom, who headed the list in 1989. In the past ten years only five individuals have prevented ten clean sweeps for John Magnier’s co tipperary operation: Key of luck, Pivotal, cape cross, dansili and oasis Dream, who has finished third for the past two seasons.

Both Galileo, out of arc heroine Urban sea, and Montjeu, out of a Prix Royal-oak runner-up, were bred to excel over 1m4f, and did.

Oasis Dream, based at Banstead Manor stud, took after his sire Green desert in aptitude but is one from a stamina-imbued

Sadler’s Wells, who died in April at the age

of 30, would consider his baton in safe hands

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stallion review


A maiden mare, but don’t wish to spend more than £10,000 and want to sell the offspring? Kyllachy.

A maiden mare, but happy to spend up to £30,000 and wish to sell the offspring? Duke Of Marmalade.

You have a black-type maiden mare and wish to sell the offspring? Oasis Dream.

You would like to use a first-season sire as a commercial sales prospect? Dream Ahead / Canford Cliffs – a dead heat.

A mare for an owner breeder and happy to spend up to £30,000? Rock Of Gibraltar.

A mare for an owner breeder and wished to spend less than £10,000? Manduro.

You are going to take a gamble on a sire who is yet to have runners? Duke Of Marmalade.

You would like to cover your mare with a French-based sire? Myboycharlie.

You are sending your filly to race and then be covered in the US? Smart Strike.

You want to try and put a bit more speed into your family? Fastnet Rock / Exceed And Excel.

Your mare is a bit incorrect? Acclamation / Amadeus Wolf.

Your mare needs a good-moving stallion? Duke Of Marmalade.

You want an outcross for a Northern Dancer mare? Street Cry / Dutch Art.

You are hoping to get a filly to join a broodmare band in the future? Galileo or Sea The Stars.

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You want to go to a smaller, independent farm in Britain and Ireland? I don’t care who stands them, but Makfi looks great.

Do book sizes affect your decision? What is an optimum? Yes, but book quality is more important to me. Optimum is 100 mares.

Are stallion fees generally still too high? Find me a breeder who wants to pay more!

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distaff line – his dam is a half-sister to Irish oaks winner Wemyss Bight – and, like danehill and Pivotal before him, is a champion sprinter who can get classy middle-distance performers.

In 2011, his best performers came from different ends of the distance spectrum: Midday (nassau stakes, runner-up coronation cup) and Prohibit (King’s stand stakes). He has an excellent record with juveniles and his 2012 classic prospects are led by 2,000 Guineas fancy Power, winner of Ireland’s top two-year-old contest, the national stakes, and narrow runner-up in Britain’s, the dewhurst stakes.

Power, who was led out unsold at 50,000gns as a yearling, runs in coolmore colours, as will one by his sire who cost the county tipperary operation rather more. the colt out of Kassiopeia, from the family descended from Reprocolor, was, at 700,000gns, europe’s top-priced yearling of his sex in 2011.

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oasis dream’s studmate Dansili, who had Harbinger running for him in 2010, dropped to fourth place this year, but brought his individual Group or Grade 1 tally up to eight when progressive filly Emulous easily beat Together (subsequent Queen Elizabeth II cup winner) and Misty For Me (already a 4-time Group 1 winner, subsequent unlucky Breeders’ cup Filly & Mare turf loser) in the Matron stakes.

Reliable Famous name, who mopped up his usual share of lesser Group races and Group 1 places at around 1m2f, and Bated Breath, beaten an aggregate of a length in three top-level sprints on both sides of the atlantic, were the high-class miler’s highest earners. as for next year, speedy Requinto and longer distance prospects Fire lily, runner-up in the Prix Marcel Boussac, and entifaadha are perceived as his best juveniles.

the springer in the British and Irish lists is undoubtedly High Chaparral, who had been hitherto more appreciated in australia until his outstanding son so you think started to change perceptions in these parts.

High chaparral, winner of six Group and Grade 1s, including the epsom and curragh derbys and two Breeders’ cup turfs, was rated the fifth-best by Sadler’s Wells, after Montjeu, old Vic, Galileo and doyen.

With five crops now running, High chaparral has yet to have an Irish-conceived Group 1 winner in europe, though has had plenty of placings, notably from Golden sword, High Heeled, Unsung Heroine and Joanna. other than from so you think, his top-level strikes in the northern hemisphere have been from Redwood and Wigmore Hall, winners of the northern dancer turf stakes at Woodbine in 2010 and 2011, and Wrote, who took the Juvenile turf at the most recent Breeders’ cup meeting.

Four of the five British 2011 Classic

A maiden mare, but don’t wish to spend more than £10,000 and want to sell the offspring? A proven stallion is best – Royal Applause or Sir Percy.

A maiden mare, but happy to spend up to £30,000 and wish to sell the offspring? Acclamation or High Chaparral.

You have a black-type maiden mare and wish to sell the offspring? Acclamation or High Chaparral.

You would like to use a first-season sire as a commercial sales prospect? Hard question this season – Poet’s Voice.

A mare for an owner-breeder and happy to spend up to £30,000? Acclamation or Cape Cross.

A mare for an owner-breeder and wished to spend less than £10,000? Pastoral Pursuits or Shirocco.

You are going to take a gamble on a sire who is yet to have runners ... Sakhee’s Secret or Mount Nelson.

You would like to cover your mare with a French-based sire? Elusive City or Orpen.

You are sending your filly to race and then be covered in the US? Presuming she is returning to Europe, Distorted Humor or Street Cry.

You want to try and put a bit more speed into your family? Acclamation.

Your mare is a bit incorrect? Acclamation or Exceed And Excel.

Your mare needs a good-moving stallion? Mount Nelson or Royal Applause.

You want an outcross for a Northern Dancer mare? Dalakhani or Sir Percy.

You are hoping to get a filly to join a broodmare band in the future? Dalakhani

Want to make sure you get an invite to the Darley lunch? A GREAT lunch and parade, but NOT a good reason to use.

Do book sizes affect your decision? What is an optimum? They would if more stallion masters had a sensible limit. I use the few that do if I can, but they do not always suit. Optimum in a realist’s world of 100-110 maximum, but many stallions have been bought on a higher-numbers-covered costing.

Are stallion fees generally still too high? Most are sensible, but some stallions are definitely higher than they realistically should be.

Stallion Q and A:Oliver St LawrenceWhich stallion would you use if you had...?

With five crops now running, High Chaparral has yet to have an Irish-

conceived Group 1 winner in Europe, though has had

plenty of placings

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winners were by coolmore sires: Galileo’s Frankel, Montjeu’s Pour Moi and Masked Marvel, and danehill dancer’s dancing Rain. the exception was dynaformer’s Blue Bunting.

Danehill Dancer, who pipped sea the stars’s sire cape cross in 2009 largely due to the valuable juvenile sales race victory of lillie langtry (who did at three become a dual Group 1 winner) after two runner-up spots, is another who made his first emphatic mark on the european scene with an ex-australian, the dual Royal ascot sprint winner choisir.

dancing Rain’s success in the oaks meant five of the ten European Group 1 winners by her sire, top-class at two and best over sprint distances at three, have now been fillies.

Exceed And Excel was danehill’s best performer from his own shuttling days. the dual Group 1 sprint winner, who operates under the darley banner and is based at dalham for his northern hemisphere work, has one high-class australian runner in his own image, Helmet, and another here, nunthorpe stakes heroine Margot did.

But his best has been the miler excelebration who, but for Frankel, would have been the division’s champion three-year-old.

Galileo apart, the most prolific stallion on the British and Irish list was cheveley Park stud’s was eighth-placed Pivotal. the son of Polar Falcon, winner of a nunthorpe stakes in his racing days, not only regularly supplies Group 1 winners over a range of distances

(Kyllachy to sariska) but consistently has a higher winners-to-runners than most. His 2011 top-level star was mile filly Immortal Verse, who beat Goldikova in the Jacques le Marois and all bar Frankel and excelebration in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.

like dansili and oasis dream, he is another stallion acceptable to coolmore as they extend their range of options and his son nephrite, a 230,000gns yearling, entered the 2012 classic frame with his defeat of Born to sea at leopardstown.

The trick for a leading first-season sire is to keep it going. For Iffraaj, the record-breaking runaway 2010 winner in terms of money, wins, winners and percentages, that awkward second season has been something of an anticlimax.

the legacy of sheikh Mohammed’s favourite horse dubai Millennium lies with the best from his sole crop, Dubawi, who is, Holy Roman emperor apart, the youngest horse in the top ten.

His first Dalham Hall crop produced two 2010 top-level winners in Makfi (2,000 Guineas, Prix Jacques le Marois), Poet’s Voice (Queen Elizabeth II Stakes), Worthaad (Italian derby) plus dubawi Heights, who found fame in the Us in 2011 as winner of the yellow Ribbon stakes and Gamely stakes.

His second included the 2011 deutsches derby winner Waldpark and dubawi Gold, runner-up in the 2011 2,000 Guineas and Irish 2,000 Guineas. and his third includes

an early derby fancy in akeed Mofeed.among elite stallions, the pecking order

in any given era does not shift much. there are always exceptions, of course, but horses who produce high-class runners tend to continue to do so; their record gives them the opportunities that count for much, though some years are better than others.

any set of statistics can be analysed to the nth degree, but further down the list are a few who started low-key but have advertised themselves with a superior winners-to-runners percentages.

they include the Irish-based pair Big Bad Bob (by Bob Back and a half-brother to snow Fairy’s dam), whose limited produce include smart filly Bible Belt and has been plucked from obscurity by the Irish national stud, and tally-Ho stud’s Kodiak, a danehill half-brother to top sire Invincible spirit, who has five Listed winners to his credit from his cheaply-conceived first two crops.

But the real eyecatchers on the percentage list have been a pair with outstanding quality as well. Banstead Manor lesser light Beat Hollow, a beautifully-bred (by sadler’s Wells out of Wemyss Bight, a half-sister to oasis dream’s dam) top-level 1m2f winner on both sides of the atlantic, started brightly enough with top juvenile filly Proportional and now has two classy and progressive middle-distance performers in sea Moon and Beaten Up (both, incidentally, out of akarad mares).

and there is Monsieur Bond, a son of danehill dancer, who has the speed queen Vareta, as his third dam. Her descendants include not only her son, the top sire Zeddaan, but also dick turpin, River Falls, Halamahera and ashkalani.

not many horses get runners better than themselves, but norton Grove resident Monsieur Bond, a smart sprinter over three seasons, has already done it twice, with Prix de l’abbaye heroine Gilt edge Girl and the 2011 season’s most upwardly mobile speedster, Hoof It.

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Not many horses get runners better than themselves, but Norton Grove resident Monsieur Bond,

a smart sprinter over three seasons, has already done it twice

““Pivotal had a quieter season in 2011 than in some years, but still got the Group 1-winning filly Immortal Verse and claimed a high winners-to-runners percentage

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Keep the faith...... advises Jason Thomas with stallions whose progeny have a quieter second racing year

WWas It just me that found some of the prices paid for acclamation yearlings at this autumn’s european sales a bit bonkers?

don’t get me wrong, acclamation’s feat of siring six individual juvenile Group winners headed by the unbeaten Harbour Watch this year marks him down as one of the current best sources of speed, soundness and precocity at stud.

But does an 82,020gns sale average for this season’s yearlings conceived at a fee of €20,000 compared with a figure of 39,913gns for 2010’s yearlings produced at a fee of €30,000 actually really add up? after all, he is still the same sire that he was a year and more ago – it’s just that his books have improved, while his exploits with his juveniles this year certainly enhanced buyers’ and breeders’ perception of him.

It goes to show the importance of sire

power at the sales now. stallion names on the catalogue page have become like designer labels: for Galileo, Montjeu and acclamation read Gucci, Prada and armani.

the perennial problem for commercial breeders planning their mating plans for next year is: how can you know which sires will be in fashion when the resultant offspring comes sells in two or three years’ time – especially if considering the younger stallions whose reputations are not firmly established?

Wootton Bassett: Ifraaj’s flagbearer (now retired to Haras d’Etreham) did not really fire this year,

but his dam went back to the Darley sire again this

spring. He was also visited by Bratislava,

the dam of his Group-performing close relation Katla

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HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (IRE) 157 63 107 274 1,861,964 40.12 11,860HURRICANE RUN (IRE) 119 50 75 193 1,404,104 42.01 11,799SHIROCCO (GER) 114 38 52 162 1,057,514 33.33 9,276AUSSIE RULES (USA) 99 40 58 142 996,360 40.4 10,064IFFRAAJ (GB) 123 42 61 187 691,637 34.14 5,623LAYMAN (USA) 65 24 36 129 624,103 36.92 9,602CACIQUE (IRE) 15 8 14 24 553,004 53.33 36,867HURRICANE CAT (USA) 46 19 30 79 492,305 41.3 10,702KODIAC (GB) 74 33 51 139 455,375 44.59 6,154ICEMAN (GB) 90 41 63 151 437,876 45.55 4,865SOAVE (GER) 41 11 16 56 371,586 26.82 9,063LIBRETTIST (USA) 91 25 32 130 348,802 27.47 3,833AD VALOREM (USA) 61 24 42 110 327,909 39.34 5,376DIAMOND GREEN (FR) 81 28 44 102 325,971 34.56 4,024SLEEPING INDIAN (GB) 69 28 41 108 310,024 40.57 4,493VATORI (FR) 30 10 17 42 295,017 33.33 9,834GENTLEWAVE (IRE) 45 13 18 58 290,361 28.88 6,452IVAN DENISOVICH (IRE) 59 19 36 90 248,425 32.2 4,211MAJESTIC MISSILE (IRE) 60 16 24 81 242,091 26.66 4,035LORD OF ENGLAND (GER) 35 10 14 46 231,721 28.57 6,621BYRON (GB) 72 25 33 108 229,116 34.72 3,182MUHAYMIN (USA) 14 3 7 16 186,269 21.42 13,305APSIS (GB) 25 8 11 50 179,439 32 7,178DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT (IRE) 35 16 20 98 176,455 45.71 5,042MUNJIZ (FR) 5 4 6 8 150,344 80 30,069CARLOTAMIX (FR) 27 8 10 38 134,738 29.62 4,990ARAAFA (IRE) 41 13 18 60 129,610 31.7 3,161BERNARDINI (USA) 25 7 9 22 126,753 28 5,070ARCHANGE D’OR (IRE) 13 4 5 30 119,961 30.76 9,228DEEP IMPACT (JPN) 6 4 7 13 109,854 66.66 18,309WAR FRONT (USA) 8 5 6 14 102,276 62.5 12,784NORSE DANCER (IRE) 14 6 8 18 87,428 42.85 6,245SILVER TRAIN (USA) 3 2 5 13 85,486 66.66 28,495JOHNNY RED KERR (USA) 21 6 11 40 81,888 28.57 3,899ARAGORN (IRE) 12 3 5 22 78,623 25 6,552PROCLAMATION (IRE) 47 8 13 61 74,916 17.02 1,594INDESATCHEL (IRE) 40 7 9 52 71,753 17.5 1,794PHOENIX REACH (IRE) 21 5 11 25 70,269 23.8 3,346NIGHT TANGO (GER) 10 4 7 12 68,275 40 6,827POLICY MAKER (IRE) 14 2 3 15 60,827 14.28 4,345MOSCOW BALLET (IRE) 14 6 11 28 57,666 42.85 4,119BLUE CANARI (FR) 6 2 2 9 40,346 33.33 6,724BALMONT (USA) 16 3 6 19 38,221 18.75 2,389STRIKING AMBITION (GB) 20 5 8 13 35,644 25 1,782SPECIAL KALDOUN (IRE) 11 1 1 12 35,173 9.09 3,198FIRST SAMURAI (USA) 7 2 2 13 34,197 28.57 4,885FOL PARADE (ARG) 5 1 2 2 34,139 20 6,828GOLDEN STRAVINSKY (USA) 9 3 5 14 30,198 33.33 3,355FELICIANO (SWI) 3 0 0 7 25,000 0 8,333DELFOS (IRE) 5 1 1 8 24,870 20 4,974

Leading second-season sires in Europe: 2011 (to November 17) courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion Runners Winners Races Won Places Money Won (£) Wnrs to Rnrs % Av. earnings (£)Holy Roman Emperor 63Hurricane Run 50Iffraaj 42Iceman 41Aussie Rules 40Shirocco 38Kodiac 33Diamond Green 28Sleeping Indian 28Librettist 25Byron 25Layman 24Ad Valorem 24Hurricane Cat 19Ivan Denisovich 19

By winners

Munjiz 80.00Deep Impact 66.66Silver Train 66.66War Front 62.50Cacique 53.33Democratic Deficit 45.71Iceman 45.55Kodiac 44.59Norse Dancer 42.85Moscow Ballet 42.85Hurricane Run 42.01Hurricane Cat 41.30Sleeping Indian 40.57Aussie Rules 40.40Holy Roman Emperor 40.12


Cacique 36,867Munjiz 30,069Silver Train 28,495Deep Impact 18,309Muhaymin 13,305War Front 12,784Holy Roman Emperor 11,860Hurricane Run 11,799Hurricane Cat 10,702Aussie Rules 10,064Vatori 9,834Layman 9,602Shirocco 9,276Archange D’Or 9,228Soave 9,063

By average earnings


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Maybe they could repeat the acclamation trick: breed to a stallion in the season after their fee was increased in the wake of a flying start with a first crop and hope that those more expensively produced two-year-olds perform so well on the track that your yearling basks in their glow at the sales.

Kildangan stud resident certainly Iffraaj fits the bill. This time last year he was the golden sire after siring a record 38 individual first-crop two-year-old winners, including the unbeaten Prix Jean-luc lagardère hero Wootton Bassett.

With the Richard Fahey-trained Wootton Bassett misfiring at three and with just two minor stakes winners this year (Introvert and stay alive), Ifraaj has lost some of his lustre but he covered a star-studded book this spring, including the dams of Wootton Bassett and his close relation Katla, amadeus Wolf, coquerelle, Gerfalcon and Majestic Missile. It’s easy to imagine the results of some of those matings giving their sire’s reputation extra polish down the line.

His fee was slung up from €6,000 to €15,000, though his yearling average remained quite consistent with 2010 at around 34,000gns, with three lots breaking the six-figure mark. His average should take a hike up the rankings when his stronger crops start to hit the sale scene.

Iffraaj was streets ahead of his peers in terms of winners in 2010, but this year he was overtaken by Holy Roman Emperor and Hurricane Run, and matched by the late Iceman.

Holy Roman emperor has come to the boil this year and is top of the pile of second-crop sires by individual winners (63) and progeny earnings (£1,861,964).

though he had the most runners, there was strength in depth. His average earnings were the best on the table among active european-based sires with 20 or more runners (he was beaten by the subfertile cacique, who gave more reason to lament his absence from the stallion ranks by supplying census, dominant, Mutual trust and slumber) and his winners-to-runners ratio was a healthy 40 per cent.

Holy Roman emperor also had an outstanding representative in 2011 in the shape of six-time stakes-winner Banimpire and six more new stakes-winners in europe besides. Breeders who patronised the Coolmore sire this season, after his first-crop yielded a disappointing total of one stakes-winner and a fee slashed to €10,000 from

€17,500, must be feeling pretty smug.With this weakest crop sold this autumn,

Holy Roman emperor’s yearling average dropped through 2011 to 30,779gns from 34,612gns. In association with that fall his top

prices also dropped – in 2010 the coolmore sire had seven lots make six-figure sums, this year that had fallen to three.

as expected for a middle-distance star and son of Montjeu, the first crop of Holy Roman

Breeders who patronised Holy Roman Emperor this season, after his first-crop yielded a disappointing total of one stakes-winner and his fee was slashed to €10,000

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emperor’s coolmore studmate Hurricane Run came into full bloom this year at three with five of them striking at Group 3 level, with Memphis Tennessee also finishing a creditable third in the Irish derby.

Hurricane Run’s winners-to-runners ratio and average earnings were on a par with Holy Roman emperor, and with big books of mares covered it’s almost inconceivable that his first three sizeable books covered at fees between €30,000 and €20,000 won’t yield a star. this year he covered at a fee of €15,000.

conversely to Holy Roman’s slightly reduced yearling average, Hurricane Run’s stock rose to 38,766gns from 35,649gns, with a top price of €220,000 given by crispin de Moubray at arqana for the colt out of acqua Verde.

shirocco, in the darley corner, has a similar profile to Hurricane Run: an outstanding middle-distance performer whose first crop – including four stakes-winners plus st leger runner-up Brown Panther – came into its own this year. the son of Monsun also has the products of some large books to come and now that he has proven that he is capable of siring a big horse, more will doubtless follow.

Despite this likely rising profile, his progeny still struggle to appeal to the yearling market due to their longer term, middle-distance nature. His average of 22,686gns (slight lower than his 2010 figure) does not give a huge amount of manouevre over his £10,000 covering fee (though six horses did make more than 50,000 in various currencies).

another coolmore inmate, Aussie Rules, achieved a winner-to-runner ratio in the 40s and the impeccably bred son of danehill out of last second had a trio of three-year-old stakes winners in 2011 and one from his second crop.

one note of caution is that the quartet – Cazals, Djumama, Duck Feet and Staros – did all their winning on mainland europe. But the stallion also had his British flagbearer dinkum diamond reach the places in six stakes races and the John Hills-trained juvenile Boomerang Bob finished second in the norfolk stakes and Prix du Bois this year.

His 2011 yearling sale average also improved slightly from last year – up to 12,437gns from 11,400gns, which may not have been music to the ears of the breeders who used him at advertised fees of €12,500

and €8,000 in 2008 and 2009, but is more workable in light of his €6,000 fee for the past two seasons.

tally-Ho stud sire Kodiac seems to be building serious momentum, with bags of two-year-old winners, plus two new listed scorers to take his overall tally to five stakes winners. His 44 per cent winner-to-runner strike-rate this year was the best of any active second-crop sire, bar the sparsely-represented trio of Deep Impact, Munjiz and silver train.

the fee for the danehill three-parts brother to Invincible spirit rose to €6,500 from €4,000 this year, but his yearling average so far this year is 18,913gns and he had the right names after his stock: BBa Ireland, Gill Richardson, dwayne Woods, John Fretwell, Richard Frisby and con Marnane were among those who exceeded the £20,000/€20,000 mark to secure one of his offerings, while good and successful stud operators are promising to avail of his services this spring.

at the lower level fees, tweenhills stud resident Sleeping Indian and Ballyhane stallion Majestic Missile are ticking over nicely.

sleeping Indian boasts a decent 40 per cent winner-to-runner ratio and got a first Group winner on the board this year courtesy of night carnation, while Majestic Missile has a respectable average earnings figure of £4,209 and a 2011 yearling sale average of 18,526gns for six sold. sleeping Indian’s average dropped to 11,375gns from 16,047gns in 2010.

Tally-Ho Stud sire Kodiac seems to be building

serious momentum, with bags of two-year-old

winners, plus two new Listed scorers

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Despite Brown Panther’s rise to prominence this season (seen here winning the King

George V Stakes at Royal Ascot), Shirocco, who also got a couple of European Group

race winners this year, did not set the yearling market alight

Sleeping Indian: got a first Group winner this year

Monsieur Bond (IRE)2000 Chesnut, 16.0hhDanehill DancerMusical Essence (Song)

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Dual Group winner, who won at 2-4 years oldOver 6-7 furlongsBy Champion 2yo and Champion Sire of 2yosDanehill Dancer

AN OUTSTANDING 2011 SEASON

Almost 50% winners to runners from his 2yos in 2011Sire of Black type performers in each of his first 3 crops

Sire of –GILT EDGE GIRL, winner of (Gr1)Prix de LʼAbbayeMY NAME IS BOND, winner of (Gr3) Prix de la RochetteLADIES ARE FOREVER, winner of (Gr3) Summer StakesHOOF IT, Group 1 placed and winner of the Stewards CupMOVE IN TIME, winner of Listed, Rous Stakes and group placed

Yearlings have made up to £147,000 and averaged £42,000 in 2011

Winner of 2 Listed races and placed in the Gr.3 Ballycorus Stakes, 5thin the 2,000 Guineas beating AMADEUS WOLF,HORATIO NELSON and RED CLUN+BS

By leading sire and sire of siresDANEHILL DANCER, out of a consistentBlack Type family. Full brother to 2010 Group race Winner AIR CHIEF MARSHALL

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Monsieur Bond (IRE)2000 Chesnut, 16.0hhDanehill DancerMusical Essence (Song)

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Dual Group winner, who won at 2-4 years oldOver 6-7 furlongsBy Champion 2yo and Champion Sire of 2yosDanehill Dancer

AN OUTSTANDING 2011 SEASON

Almost 50% winners to runners from his 2yos in 2011Sire of Black type performers in each of his first 3 crops

Sire of –GILT EDGE GIRL, winner of (Gr1)Prix de LʼAbbayeMY NAME IS BOND, winner of (Gr3) Prix de la RochetteLADIES ARE FOREVER, winner of (Gr3) Summer StakesHOOF IT, Group 1 placed and winner of the Stewards CupMOVE IN TIME, winner of Listed, Rous Stakes and group placed

Yearlings have made up to £147,000 and averaged £42,000 in 2011

Winner of 2 Listed races and placed in the Gr.3 Ballycorus Stakes, 5thin the 2,000 Guineas beating AMADEUS WOLF,HORATIO NELSON and RED CLUN+BS

By leading sire and sire of siresDANEHILL DANCER, out of a consistentBlack Type family. Full brother to 2010 Group race Winner AIR CHIEF MARSHALL

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Just which one will it be?Jason Thomas tries to work out which of the first-season sires will still be popular in three years’ time

It Wasn’t JUst BReedeRs who supported acclamation in 2009 that had reason to cheer this year – so were those who sent mares to exceed and Excel in the spring after his first-crop of european two-year-olds produced

stakes-winners Flashmans Papers and Infamous angel.

darley increased the son of danehill’s fee by only £2,000 to £12,000 after his first crop raced – it has stayed there since – but, thanks to a brilliant summer of big-race success from his offspring Best terms, excelebration and Margot did, this autumn he achieved his best european yearling average since retiring to stud: 69,209gns with ten six-figure sales.

So which of this season’s first-season sires will, like Exceed And Excel, still be firing in high-class winners and be popular in three years’ time?

This season’s champion first-season sire elect is Dutch Art, with 28 individual winners (at the time of writing, two behind the deceased Red clubs) and progeny earnings of £538,645.

the cheveley Park stud stallion can lay claim to quality as well as quantity, as more than half of his runners won races and his progeny’s average earnings are £10,163, well in advance of any other freshman sire with ten or more runners.

Justifiably, his yearling average increased to 37,944gns from 25,398gns in 2010 – not a bad return off a £6,000 stud fee, which was dropped in 2011 to £5,000.

Morristown lattin stud resident Dark

Casper Netscher: the son of Dutch Art won the Gimcrack (G2)and Mill Reef Stakes (G2), and finished third in the Richmond Stakes (G2) and fifth in the Middle Park Stakes (G1)


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Angel has already endeared himself to breeders by his first crop achieving a healthy 26,710gns sale average with a high of 140,000gns and it churning out plenty of fast and precocious winners, and then, on the back of that, his second crop of yearlings selling even better this year, at an average of 33,412gns with a high of 170,000gns.

He could also continue to bask in the reflected glory of his shining sire Acclamation.

Excellent Art for coolmore and Lawman for Ballylinch stud have both made highly promising starts to their careers. excellent art’s tally of 22 winners includes three at stakes level – artistic Jewel, experience and nimohe, with the first-named a particularly exciting prospect having won a newmarket listed contest by over 3l last time out. lawman got 16 winners on the board, including at least two exciting horses – narrowly-beaten dewhurst third Most Improved and loi, who looked classic material when comfortably scoring in the

Group 3 Prix de conde.Three British or Irish first-season sires

were represented by Group 1 winners: coolmore stallion Strategic Prince and darley’s Teofilo and Manduro.

strategic Prince has probably exceeded expectations for a stallion, who has stood at just €4,000 for the past two seasons: 13 individual winners including la collina’s win in the Phoenix stakes is not a bad record for a sire who, though an early starter on the track himself, is a half-brother to decent stayer yorkshire and out of a sister to oaks winner Ramruma. His progeny might well improve with a step up in trip.

Teofilo was bookmaker Stan James’ favourite to be leading first-season sire by number of winners before the season started so his tally of 17 by mid-november – the sixth largest haul of any freshman at that stage – may be slightly below some people’s expectations.

However, Teofilo certainly seems to be transmitting class to his offspring, as dewhurst hero Parish Hall and stakes-winners Black arrow, Remember alexander and teolane demonstrate. He also has a host of unexposed maiden winners to bat

Proof of Sir Percy’s rising popularity was seen

at the yearling sales, where his yearlings sold for

an average of 37,708gns compared with

26,451gns last year

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Parish Hall after winning the Dewhurst

Stakes. His sire Teofilo,

Manduro and Strategic Prince

were the three new sires to get

Group 1 winners in 2011

stakes table


DUTCH ART (GB) 54 28 43 102 544,146 51.85 10,077DARK ANGEL (IRE) 68 26 43 132 468,857 38.23 6,895EXCELLENT ART (GB) 62 22 31 78 423,511 35.48 6,831TEOFILO (IRE) 55 17 21 45 422,937 30.9 7,690HAT TRICK (JPN) 1 1 5 0 396,965 100 396,965RED CLUBS (IRE) 72 30 45 110 384,491 41.66 5,340LAWMAN (FR) 42 16 20 44 297,550 38.09 7,085STRATEGIC PRINCE (GB) 48 14 19 47 244,199 29.16 5,087KENDARGENT (FR) 6 3 7 9 240,214 50 40,036AMADEUS WOLF (GB) 60 19 26 89 223,878 31.66 3,731MANDURO (GER) 37 7 8 25 215,402 18.91 5,822TURTLE BOWL (IRE) 16 2 6 12 214,871 12.5 13,429STORMY RIVER (FR) 32 6 9 36 186,345 18.75 5,823BALTIC KING (GB) 19 9 12 34 169,420 47.36 8,917DYLAN THOMAS (IRE) 49 11 12 44 168,166 22.44 3,432RAIL LINK (GB) 27 7 10 17 157,603 25.92 5,837SOLDIER HOLLOW (GB) 18 5 6 20 143,298 27.77 7,961VITAL EQUINE (IRE) 15 6 8 23 107,586 40 7,172JEREMY (USA) 30 5 5 28 107,483 16.66 3,583HARD SPUN (USA) 15 5 7 22 104,506 33.33 6,967SIR PERCY (GB) 26 10 13 35 94,898 38.46 3,650THREE VALLEYS (USA) 47 10 11 54 90,415 21.27 1,924EARLY MARCH (GB) 15 2 3 23 84,610 13.33 5,641SCAT DADDY (USA) 3 2 3 3 80,341 66.66 26,780KENTUCKY DYNAMITE (USA) 11 3 3 21 79,871 27.27 7,261MULTIPLEX (GB) 21 9 11 34 74,860 42.85 3,565MOSS VALE (IRE) 41 10 14 24 70,318 24.39 1,715HELIOSTATIC (IRE) 8 5 7 12 67,802 62.5 8,475SANDWAKI (USA) 13 4 5 13 66,767 30.76 5,136COCKNEY REBEL (IRE) 27 8 11 39 65,829 29.62 2,438GREAT JOURNEY (JPN) 14 2 2 13 50,905 14.28 3,636AUTHORIZED (IRE) 40 7 7 19 49,547 17.5 1,239NOTNOWCATO (GB) 23 7 7 15 36,219 30.43 1,575SHAKESPEARE (USA) 1 1 3 3 34,911 100 34,911ECHO OF LIGHT (GB) 28 4 4 22 29,912 14.28 1,068LORD DU SUD (FR) 3 1 1 7 27,931 33.33 9,310LATERAL (GB) 4 1 2 3 27,069 25 6,767ELECTRIC BEAT (GB) 7 1 1 2 22,155 14.28 3,165MISU BOND (IRE) 9 3 6 12 21,374 33.33 2,375SUN KING (USA) 1 1 1 4 18,241 100 18,241WINDSOR KNOT (IRE) 9 1 1 16 17,022 11.11 1,891HIGH COTTON (USA) 1 1 1 3 16,164 100 16,164MR VEGAS (IRE) 4 1 1 7 16,047 25 4,012JAZIL (USA) 4 2 3 1 14,690 50 3,672WEATHER WARNING (USA) 1 1 1 0 14,655 100 14,655WALK IN THE PARK (IRE) 3 0 0 4 12,586 0 4,195HUNTER STREET (GB) 5 1 2 7 12,239 20 2,448KAVAFI (IRE) 2 0 0 4 11,638 0 5,819INVASOR (ARG) 5 0 0 7 11,495 0 2,299TOYLSOME (GB) 5 0 0 5 9,766 0 1,953

Leading first- season sires in Europe: 2011 (to November 17) courtesy of Weatherbys

Stallion Runners Winners Races Won Places Money Won (£) Wnrs to Rnrs % Av. earnings Red Clubs 30Dutch Art 28Dark Angel 26Excellent Art 22Amadeus Wolf 19Teofilo 17Lawman 16Strategic Prince 14Dylan Thomas 11Sir Percy 10Three Valleys 10Moss Vale 10Baltic King 9Multiplex 9Cockney Rebel 8

By winners

Scat Daddy 66.66Heliostatic 62.50Dutch Art 51.85Kendargent 50.00Jazil 50.00Baltic King 47.36Multiplex 42.85Red Clubs 41.66Vital Equine 40.00Sir Percy 38.46Dark Angel 38.23Lawman 38.09Excellent Art 35.48Lord Du Sud 33.33Hard Spun 33.33


Hat Trick 396,965Kendargent 40,036Shakespeare 34,911Scat Daddy 26,780Sun King 18,241High Cotton 16,164Weather Warning 14,655Turtle Bowl 13,429Dutch Art 10,077Lord Du Sud 9,310Baltic King 8,917Heliostatic 8,475Soldier Hollow 7,961Teofilo 7,690Kentucky Dynamite 7,261

By average earnings


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Much has been written about the prowess of Galileo in this magazine, however the stallion achieved another first this season – he became not only a sire of winner-producing sires, but also of sires with Group race winning progeny.

his high-profile son Teofilo hit the stakes board first for his sire with Remember alexander’s victory in the Tyros stakes (G3) at Leopardstown in July. The Jessica harrington-trained runner won by 4l, coming home ahead of another by Teofilo – the one who was to go on and become Teofilo’s first Group 1 winner, the Jim bolger-trained Parish hall, winner of the Dewhurst stakes.

While bolger does not see Parish hall as a Guineas horse, who would bet against a son of Galileo getting a Derby winner in his first crop?

Teofilo’s first crop achievements were highly meritorious, but perhaps the additions that Galileo’s other first-crop sire (they are the first sons of the champion sire at stud) Heliostatic managed to add to his cV were even more noteworthy.

The stallion retired to Oak Lodge stud for the 2008 season the winner of the Group 3 Meld stakes. his prize-money earnings of just £65,000 indicates more than anything that, although he did pull a sixth out of the bag in the Irish 2,000 Guineas, the colt out of the erin’s Isle mare affianced was found wanting at the top table of Group-class company.

he retired to Oak Lodge at a fee of €6,500 and in 2009 attracted a book of just 14 mares., which fell to just 11 in 2011. he has hardly covered a black-type placed mare and has not yet seen a Group race-winning mare. conversely, Teofilo’s books have always numbered above 150, with around a third of his mares being black-type performers.

heliostatic has had just seven runners in britain and Ireland this season (high percentage considering his small books), but that small group includes four winners and crius, winner of the somerville Tattersalls stakes (G3).

It may be tempting to believe that might have been a bit of a fluky result (we all know that can happen in this weird and wonderful sport), but if you analyse that race win there is a lot more strength in depth than you might imagine – no less than three runners went onto boast of Group and Grade 1 form.

The race favourite, Farraaj (sent off a short price because he had previously beaten subsequent Group 3 winner Tell Dad in a novice stakes at sandown) was beaten two-and-a-half lengths by the heliostatic horse at newmarket. his next run came overseas – he was shipped to the us where he finished third in the Grade 1 breeders’ cup Juvenile Turf behind Wrote.

The third home in the somerville Tattersalls stakes Zip Top went onto finish

Galileo: sire of Group winner producing sires Teofilo and Heliostatic

for him next year. A young, already proven and affordable Group 1 sire son of Galileo is unlikely to go out of fashion soon.

Manduro’s season has to be described as a slow starting fire. The son of Monsun was one of the slowest high profile first-season sires to get a winner, he then had Bonfire fancied in the Group 1 Criterium International – he ran well but finished third after getting stopped in his run – before Mandaean won the very last Group 1 of the European season, the Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

The pair are the only two stakes performers for the sire, who has had seven winners (only one of which has come in Britain or Ireland).

Interestingly, despite his slow start his yearling fee increased from year one (35,919gns) to 41,100gns in year two.

Sir Percy has distinguished himself with his first crop, which featured ten winners, including Listed scorer Coquet, conditions stakes winner Cavaleiro and Fillies’ Mile fourth Salford Art. Proof of the Lanwades stallion’s rising popularity was seen at the yearling sales, where his yearlings sold for an average of 37,708gns compared with 26,451 last year.

A pair of lower-priced stallions who deserve recognition are Oak Lodge Stud’s Heliostatic, the cheapest son of the great Galileo at stud in Britain or Ireland and sire of five winners from just eight runners, including Crius, who beat subsequent Dewhurst runner-up Zip Top and Middle Park Stakes scorer Crusade when landing the Somerville Tattersall Stakes (G3), and

Tally-Ho Stud’s Baltic King, half of whose 18 runners won including Factory Time, who won just shy of £100,000 in prize-money.

Trying to pick a young stallion who’ll maintain, or rediscover, their strong start is a tricky business, though. For every Acclamation and Invincible Spirit there’s always a Fasliyev.

Some breeders may still break out in a sweat remembering how cold he went after his fee was more than trebled in the wake of his highflying first-crop two-year-olds.

Perhaps that is hint enough - that stallion farms should not be in too much of a hurry to increase stallion fees after a good first-season, especially if bearing in mind the usual lower quality second and third crops are on their way to the racecourse.

second to camelot (Montjeu) in the Racing Post Trophy (G1). although Zip Top was no threat to the easy ballydoyle winner, there is now a Group 1 place by his name, and he beat Learn, a subsequent fourth in the criterium International (G1), as well as the well-regarded John Gosden-trained Fencing.

so we return to the newmarket Group 3. The fourth horse in that race was crusade (Mr Greeley) – next time out he was dropped back to 6f and won the Middle Park stakes (G1), belying his 25/1 chances and beating the fancied Lilbourne Lad into second.

Looking away from subsequent form at the highest level, even the fifth horse in the somerville Tattersalls stakes, Letsgoroundagain, went onto win a Listed race at Pontefract.

admittedly, that is where the form lines stop, but it ain’t too bad for a horse by a stallion who stands at €5,000 and had limited chances.

heliostatic has one huge ball in his court – he is by a stallion who is turning out to be even better than his record-breaking sire sadler’s Wells.

but it seems that his dam line could be playing a part too. heliostatic is a half-brother to another first-season sire, soldier hollow (In The Wings).

and this Gestüt Fahrhof-based stallion also became a Group-winning sire this autumn when his son Pastorius won the herzog Von Ratibor-Rennen (G3) from black arrow (Teofilo), a previous winner of a Listed race.

Crius: the form for the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes winner, a son of Heliostatic, is beginning to look particularly strong

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Compare like with likeTHe reSulTS oF nearly every

stallion are determined by the quality of mares they cover. The relationship is not always a straightforward one, just occasionally a stallion gets more and better mares and fewer results,

but more often than not results on the track reflect the book a stallion covers four years earlier.

The best current example of how success and a different quality of mare can transform a stallion’s results is rathbarry Stud’s Acclamation. This year’s three-year-olds by Acclamation come from his fourth crop when he covered 109 mares at €9,000; their results do not place him among the top 30 stallions in Europe.

Conversely, the successes of his first crop of runners, which included Dark Angel, Equiano and others, meant that in 2008 he covered 151 mares at €30,000. This crop’s success has put him among the top five two-year-old sires in Europe.

The number of mares covered by a stallion tends to count against a stallion’s percentage of success as, with the obvious exception of Galileo, above a certain number a stallion will not attract mares of a similar quality.

Stallion managers try to control the quality of mares coming, but it is inevitable that, whatever the fee, in order to get the numbers they need, they have to accept those breeders who are over-mating their mares. So, in percentage terms, the results diminish.

Compare like with likeIt makes sense then to compare groups of stallions who retired to stud in the same year as they are on the same cycle of opportunity.

Most stallions cover their best books in their first two years at stud. In years three and four almost all stallions will struggle to receive support, unless their progeny are exceptionally well received at the sales.

So it is not until their sixth year at stud that the results of their first crop running as three-year-olds, in the races that really count, have

an effect on the mares they cover. To put it simply a stallion owner and

his clients, the breeders, can not assess a stallion’s true ability until he has already covered five books of mares.

Some breeders choose to avoid this lottery by using only proven sires, but then the sires who have proven themselves after five

years at stud are inevitably very expensive. Those who need to look for value should examine very closely all those sires who are at the beginning of their careers in the hope of picking one whose star is going to rise.

Those who sent mares to Acclamation in 2009, for instance, were well rewarded at this year’s sales.

In order to assess the relative abilities of a stallion, you must compare his results alongside those stallions who retired to stud in the same year, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

Moonlight Cloud: became Invincible Spirit’s sixth Group / Grade 1 winner this summer



STALLION PROGENY RATINGS AND PERFORMANCE

InvInCIble SpIrIT €10,000 385 4 1.00 44 11.00roCk of GIbralTar €45,000 314 6 1.90 33 11.00SlICkly €8,000 146 1 0.68 13 8.90SakHee £15,000 162 1 0.62 13 8.00kyllaCHy £7,500 326 4 1.20 23 7.10ZaMIndar £7,000 102 1 0.99 7 6.90SaMuM €10,000 93 4 4.30 5 5.40

fee 2006 nos foals 2006-08 Horses rated 110+ % Horses rated 95+ %

Stallions retired to stud in 2003: by % horses rated over 95

Is Spirit going to overcome those large books?For the sires who retired to stud in 2003, and Zamindar is included as he returned from the uS to Juddmonte that year, these statistics give the results they have achieved with their third, fourth and fifth crops, which is to say the leanest years.

Invincible Spirit’s first crop of two-year-olds racing in 2006 were impressive enough for his fee to go up to €35,000 in 2007 and he is the only one of this bunch of sires to have made a mark with his three-year-olds in 2011.

All of these sires are going to do a great deal better over the next two or three years. For Invincible Spirit the question is whether his results are going to improve enough to justify the €75,000 breeders paid for his services in 2008?

His three-year-olds this year include the Group 1 winner Moonlight Cloud and his two-year-olds, the potential top horses Pimpernel and Born To Sea. However, if taking into consideration the large numbers of mares he has covered in recent years, he will need to have some 20 horses from each of his next three crops achieving a rating of 95+ if he is to join the ranks of top proven sires.

Rock Of Gibraltar’s figures only include his third and fourth crops as Coolmore’s son of Danehill spent a season in Japan and so he had no three-year-old representation in Europe this year.

As a result he has lost his commercial appeal and his yearlings averaged only 35,000gns in 2011 compared with the 90,000gns averaged by Invincible Spirit’s stock.

At these prices rock of Gibraltar’s progeny look as though they could be very good value, considering the results of his third and fourth crops, and the promise shown by his two-year-olds in 2011. rock of Gibraltar had Group 1 two-year-olds in england and

in France – Samitar and Sofast – and several very promising maiden winners such as rock Me Baby and Spoil The Fun in France.

Zamindar’s results will be transformed over the next three years. Juddmonte’s son of Gone West covered small books on his return from Florida at a low fee and he has only 100 foals all together from his third, fourth and fifth years back in england.

The emergence of Zarkava and Darjina changed his appeal and through 2008 to 2010 he covered some 350 mares at £15,000 receiving strong support from leading owner breeders, such as the Aga Khan and the Wertheimer brothers.

Zamindar’s two-year-olds this year already include several top prospects and over the next three years he could establish himself as a leading sire.

Kyllachy and Sakhee both had Group 1 performing two-year-olds this year in Dragon Pulse and Salure, and if Kyllachy is the more commercial sire – his best runners are in England and Ireland – both have proved again that they can get high-class runners.

Oasis Dream on an upward commercial arcOasis Dream is still very much the commercial star of the group who retired to stud in 2004.

The exceptional success of his second and third crops saw his fee rise to £85,000 in 2011 when he covered a large book of some of the best mares in europe. His 2011 yearlings, conceived at a £30,000 fee, averaged 145,000gns at the yearling sales and, over the coming years, those that come to the market will be out of even better mares.

The only doubt regarding oasis Dream is that his fourth crop of three-year-olds were not as good as the earlier ones, and that some of his best two-year-olds, Arcano, Naaqoos and Showcasing, did not win a race at three. Zamindar

Zamindar’s two-year-olds this year already include

several top prospects and over the next three years he

could establish himself as a leading sire

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selected stallions , statistics courtesy of Jocelyn de Moubray




The yearlings from Dalakhani’s sixth crop were also very well received at the sales and Gilltown Stud’s son of Darshaan also has more and better bred horses to run for him over the coming years having covered at least 125 mares in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

The results of his fourth crop, headed by the Prix du Jockey Club winner reliable Man, put him among the top ten European stallions, which is where he is likely to establish himself, even if he is not going to produce a high proportion of two-year-old winners.

The 2004 crop at their lowest pointHigh Chaparral, Acclamation and Nayef all suffered from the commercial cycle and their fourth crops were only ordinary, and in Nayef’s case very small numbering only 55 foals.

All three will bounce back over the next few years with Acclamation having the best chance of joining the top proven sires as his success came immediately with his first crop.

High Chaparral will have Wrote and Tai

Chi racing for him next year and he has covered huge books of mares recently, while Nayef’s success in Germany and Italy counts against his commercial image in England.

Exceed And Excel the shining light from 2005There are fewer potential top sires among the group who retired to stud in 2005 and, aside from Exceed And Excel, the other two most promising of them are now in France.

exceed And excel’s third crop of three-year-olds in 2011 have transformed his standing as they include the Group 1 winners Excelebration and Margot Did.

The son of Danehill sired plenty of two-year-old winners from his first two crops and did enough to ensure support even before his top horses appeared. His future looks assured and he is likely to be very popular even at an increased fee.

Elusive City produced a Classic winner from his first crop and his progeny have retained their commercial appeal, even if he failed to receive the support in Ireland.

His chance will come in the future as he covered a large book of excellent mares in 2010 in his first year at the Haras d’etreham and is likely to have some good years on the track in 2013 and 2014.

Etreham also stands American Post, who must be one of the most consistently underrated sires in europe. The son of Bering averages only 40 foals per crop and yet has consistently produced a high proportion of very useful horses, as well as the disqualified Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner, Liliside.

His three-year-old crop included Private Eye and Il Cannone, both useful stakes horses, and he had at least three high-class 2011 two-year-olds: the stakes winners Chica Loca and American Devil, as well as Liliside’s sister Lily America, who won her last two starts most impressively. His fee has dropped for 2012 to just €5,000.

Dubawi and Shamardal heading to the topThe statistics for the sires who retired in 2006 will, in all likelihood, never be better as these are the results of their first two crops.

Darley’s Dubawi and Shamardal are clearly going to become top stallions, but it is still possible they will be joined by Gilltown’s Azamour.

Motivator and Footstepsinthesand are both useful sires, but are going to have trouble maintaining their attraction to breeders and yearling buyers over the coming years.

Dubawi’s second crop was just slightly less spectacular than his first – Waldpark failed to build on his Deustsches Derby victory and Dubawi Gold proved to be just

oaSIS dreaM £25,000 379 17 4.50 64 17.00dalakHanI €37,000 224 6 2.70 25 11.00HIGH CHaparral €25,000 406 8 2.00 28 6.90nayef £15,000 175 1 0.57 11 6.30aCClaMaTIon €9,000 261 1 0.40 14 5.40SHolokHov €5,000 166 1 0.60 5 3.00



aMerICan poST €7,000 116 2 1.70 16 14.00exCeed and exCel £7,500 319 4 1.30 36 11.00eluSIve CITy €8,000 322 3 0.90 23 7.10



Etreham also stands American Post, who must be one of the most consistently underrated sires in Europe.

The son of Bering averages only 40 foals per crop and yet has consistently produced a high proportion

of very useful horses

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dubawI £25,000 242 19 7.90 46 19.00SHaMardal €40,000 239 11 4.60 43 18.00aZaMour €25,000 163 6 3.70 28 17.00MoTIvaTor £20,000 174 4 2.30 24 14.00fooTSTepSInTHeSand £25,000 217 6 2.80 22 10.00MaMool €3,750 75 3 4.00 7 9.30wHIpper €12,000 201 4 2.00 13 6.50



below the very best in a strong group of milers.

But though the son of Dubai Millennium lacked a star, his statistics are outstanding and suggest that he will soon be joining Galileo, Danehill Dancer and Dansili among the best sires in Europe.

However he is likely to have a few relatively quiet years beforehand as in 2009 and 2010, nobody really believed he was going to make it.

Dubawi’s fee fell to £15,000 in 2009 for his fourth year at stud and he covered only 100 mares – the following year that fell to 65.

Dubawi will cover plenty of good mares by Green Desert, dam sire of Makfi and Dubawi Gold, as well as others from the Sadler’s Wells and Nijinksy lines over the coming years.

He has produced a wide variety of horses from sprinters and two-year-olds to German Classic winners and high-class uS performers.

Shamardal is going to enjoy a higher profile than Dubawi over the next few years as his success was immediate – he has always attracted large books of mares and never dropped below a €20,000 covering fee.

The stars of his second crop all had interrupted careers: Casamento, French Navy, Dubai Prince and Crackerjack King, otherwise his profile might have been higher still, but he is clearly capable of producing high-class horses and his progeny tend to be faster and more precocious than Dubawi’s, if perhaps not as tough.

Azamour was one of the stallion revelations of 2011 as the son of Night Shift’s small second crop turned out to include three high-class performers in Native Khan, Colombian and Shankardeh.

He is going to have a few quiet years unless he maintains a similar percentage of success as he covered only around 50 mares in his third and fourth years at stud before jumping to 150 in 2010.

He did, of course, maintain the support of his owner and breeder the Aga Khan, who has a very promising two-year-old filly by him called Mandistana, a brilliant winner on her debut at Saint Cloud.

Motivator has produced a respectable proportion of useful performers, though none, so far, have been anywhere near as good as he was himself.

The 12 per cent of his second crop who have achieved a rating of 95+ puts the royal Studs’s son of Montjeu among the top 15 sires in Europe, nevertheless he needs to produce a top horse soon if he is to continue to attract support.

Motivator was forced to miss the 2010 season due to an injury, which is not going to help his cause, and as on the whole his progeny are late developing stayers, they are not the types the commercial market in England and Ireland is looking for.

Footstepinthesand needs a top horse to establish his reputation as well, even if Shamalgan, Chachamaidee and Sandy’s Charm all came close to a Group 1 success.

Coolmore’s son of Giant’s Causeway has covered huge books of mares in recent years and the commercial market is going to be flooded with his progeny over the next few years.

native khan: sire azamour has done well from small crops, but needs to maintain the quality of runners


Older Stallions: by % horses rated over 95

HurrICane run €30,000 165 5 3.00 18 11.00lord of enGland private 36 2 5.60 4 11.00auSSIe ruleS €15,000 105 2 1.90 11 10.00Holy roMan eMperor private 120 1 - 12 10.00SHIroCCo £10,000 104 6 5.80 10 9.60Iffraaj €12,000 121 1 - 10 8.30kodIaC €5,000 81 0 - 5 6.20



Kodiac could be the one from 2007 None of the sires whose first three-year-olds raced in 2011 are as yet fully established, although several have shown considerable promise.

Kodiac is a son of Danehill and the large number of two-year-old winners from his first crop meant that he covered 143 mares in 2010 and so will get his chance to shine when these foals reach the track in 2013.

Aussie Rules has also made a promising start, but many of his best progeny are racing in Germany (Djumana) or France (Staros and Private Jet) and his fee fell to just €6,000 for 2010 and 2011. He may struggle to attract the right sort of support in Ireland.

Shirocco’s first crop included three Group 1 performers and several other good

performers such as Wild Coco and Mijhaar, who are likely to reach the same level in the future, yet his yearlings averaged only just over 20,000gns this year.

Shirocco’s progeny are seen as late developing stayers and so unless he produces a major Classic winner, which could of course easily happen, he is going to struggle to continue to attract mares in England.

Hurricane Run came very close to having a top winner in his first crop as Memphis Tennessee was beaten less than 2l in both the Derby and the Irish Derby and despite the lack of numbers in the son of Montjeu’s first crop, it still included a high proportion of useful horses.

Furthermore, Hurricane run’s progeny are not just out-and-out stayers as 60 per cent of their wins as three-year-olds came over 1m2f or shorter.

The problem with Hurricane run is that Memphis Tennessee: his two derby performances showcased the abilities of his sire Hurricane run




MonSun €60,000 155 6 3.90 36 23.00daneHIll danCer €75,000 432 23 5.30 80 19.00GalIleo €37,500 472 33 7.00 89 19.00aerIon - 63 4 6.30 10 16.00SelkIrk £40,000 211 10 4.70 31 15.00SInndar €20,000 135 4 3.00 20 15.00MonTjeu €125,000 370 15 4.10 50 14.00danSIlI £12,500 349 18 5.20 45 13.00Cape CroSS €50,000 355 10 2.80 43 12.00lando €7,500 199 5 2.50 21 11.00MedICean £17,500 291 8 2.70 29 10.00pIvoTal £65,000 393 12 3.10 34 8.70Hernando £12,000 129 4 3.10 10 7.80MuHTaTHIr €7,500 189 1 0.50 13 6.90TerTullIan €4,000 102 4 3.90 7 6.90kInG’S beST €35,000 342 9 2.60 22 6.40

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his smaller books are going to make it difficult for him to attract the mares he deserves, but his progeny will certainly offer good value to yearling buyers.

Galileo in a “league of his own”Among Europe’s elite older sires there has not been a great change recently, except perhaps that Galileo has moved into a league all of his own.

Coolmore’s great sire had his first really expensive crop of three-year-olds running for him in 2011; his fee having jumped from €37,500 to €150,000 in 2007 the last year his fee was not listed as private.

The crop included eight Group 1 winners, five or whom were more or less champions, and despite the large numbers of foals, 19 per cent were rated 95 or higher.

Galileo’s runners are more often than not stayers and as three-year-olds about half of their wins have been over further than 1m2f, but their class is such that this makes them more, rather than less, attractive.

Galileo’s results are likely to improve again as he now covers only the best mares, and continues to cover such large books each year.

Monsun has lacked a real star in his last two crops, but then with only 50 foals a year one training accident can take out a high proportion of the possible champions.

Schlenderhan’s veteran continues to

produce a remarkable proportion of high-class horses and had several very good looking two-year-old winners in 2011 and so there may well be another star for him in 2012.

Danehill Dancer’s results have improved with the quality of mares he has covered and he is, together with Dansili, in second place among major european sires in proportion of high-class progeny produced.

Dansili, on the other hand, is the only stallion who could possibly challenge Galileo’s place. The first two crops of Juddmonte’s son of Danehill in this period were covered at only £12,500 and it was not until he produced his two-year-olds of 2011 that his fee reached £75,000. He has been covering elite mares ever since.

Selkirk and Montjeu are the next best sources of top horses. Selkirk more or less missed a year in 2009, but his results have not declined and his progeny should still attract attention at any sale, while Montjeu has finally put to rest the prejudice about his daughters with several top racemares running for him and a spectacular start to his career as a broodmare sire.

Selkirk more or less missed a year in 2009,

but his results have not declined and his progeny

should still attract attention at any sale, while Montjeu has finally put to

rest the prejudice about his daughters

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stakes-winning sires 2011

AcclamationAlsindi (Fasliyev) 3Angels Will Fall (Bahamian Bounty) 3Harbour Watch (Woodman) 2Hitchens (Royal Academy) 3Lilbourne Lad (Green Desert) 2 LLo Zoccolo Duro (Irish River) LPonty Acclaim (Weldnaas) 3Talwar (Marju) 3 LVaniloquio (Vettori) L

Act One Silver Pond (Quest For Fame) 2

AlhaarthLaw Of The Range (Mountain Cat) LValiyr (Linamix) L

Amadeus WolfCaledonian Spring (Tagula) L

American PostAmerican Devil (Selkirk) LChica Loca (Jeune Homme) L

AnabaaGoldikova (Blushing Groom) 1 1

Anabaa BlueZinabaa (Linamix) 3 L

Antonius PiusFaustina (Cadeaux Genereux) L

ArakanDick Turpin (Sharrood) 1 2 2Trumpet Major (Cape Cross) 2

ArchInscrutable (Diesis) LStrait Of Zanzibar (Kingmambo) LSymbol Of Arch (High Yield) L

AreionBirthday Lion (Turfkonig) LIndomito (Royal Solo) LIrini (Nebos) LVanjura (Zinaad) 2 3 L

Aussie RulesCazals (Mujadil) L LDjumama (Barathea) 3 LDuck Feet (Zafonic) 3 LStaros (Anshan) L

AvonbridgeIver Bridge Lad (Ashkalani) 3

AzamourColombian (Linamix) L

Laajooj (Common Grounds) LLindenthaler (Vettori) 3Native Khan (Kendor) 3Shankardeh (Nashwan) 2Siren’s Song (Lure) LZanughan (Kahyasi) L

Bahamian BountyBogart (Tagula) LBounty Box (Bin Ajwaad) L

BahhareBalaythous (Sillery) L

Barathea Lisselan Diva (Cyrano De Bergerac) LSenza Rete (Lear Fan) L

Beat HollowBeaten Up (Akarad) 3Nature Spirits (Darshaan) LRhythm Of Light (Danehill) LSea Moon (Alleged) 2Vagabond Shoes (Singspiel) 3

BeringAdventure Seeker (Miswaki) L

BernardiniGamilati (Kingmambo) 2Theyskens’ Theory (Summer Squall) L L

BertoliniBannock (Red Ransom) L

Big Bad BobBible Belt (Bering) 3 LBible Black (Bishop Of Cashel) LBob Le Beau (Bering) L

Big ShuffleGlad Sky (Surumu) LKonig Concorde (Ile De Bourbon) 3 LSmooth Operator (Salse) 3Walero (Lagunas) 3

Black Sam BellamyEarl Of Tinsdal (Dashing Blade) 1 3

Blu Air ForceAir County (Black Minnaloushe) L

CaciqueCensus (Selkirk) 3Mutual Trust (Lear Fan) 1 3Slumber (Woodman) L

Cadeaux GenereuxCadeau For Maggi (Shavian) LRed Cadeaux (Peintre Celebre) 3 L

CamachoHumidor (Indian Ridge) L

Cape CrossBezique (Peintre Celebre) LCrystal Capella (Mark Of Esteem) 2Joviality (Night Shift) 3Khawlah (Selkirk) 2 3Namibian (Sadler’s Wells) 3 3Nayarra (Danehill) 1

Captain RioAgony And Ecstasy (Formidable) L

Celtic SwingFlowers Of Spring (Brief Truce) 3

ChevalierMonsieur Chevalier (Blues Traveller) L

ChichicastenangoBubble Chic (Grand Lodge) 3Sulle Orme (Double Bed) L

ChoisirChandlery (Mujadil) 2Choisir Shadow (Mujadil) L LCodemaster (Dahar) LStrategic Game (Marju) L L

ClodovilBeacon Lodge (Royal Academy) LCoupe De Ville (Fantastic Light) L

Compton PlaceDeacon Blues (Bishop Of Cashel) 2 3 3 3

Country ReelAbsolutly Yes (Green Tune) 3Dont Teutch (Panis) LKatmandoune (Loup Solitaire) L

CozzeneBrigantin (Poliglote) 2

CuveeAcross The Rhine (Silver Hawk) 3

DalakhaniBaraan (Grindstone) 3Duncan (Danehill) 1 2Ocean War (Royal Academy) LReliable Man (Sadler’s Wells) 1 2Seismos (Dashing Blade) LVadamar (Unfuwain) 2 L

Danehill DancerAlexander Pope (Galileo) 3Beatrice Aurore (Rainbow Quest) 3 LDancing Rain (Indian Ridge) 1 1 2

Look At Me (Kingmambo) LPirateer (Shirley Heights) LPlanteur (Giant’s Causeway) 1 2Rose Bonheur (Marju) L LSet To Music (Doyoun) LShamanova (Kahyasi) LUnaccompanied (Sadler’s Wells) LWild Wind (Sadler’s Wells) L

DanetimeAspectoflove (Caerleon) 2

DansiliBated Breath (Distant View) LBewitched (Kaldoun) 3 3Dan Tucket (Deploy) LDandino (Generous) 2Delegator (Efisio) 2Dormello (Selkirk) LDream Peace (Darshaan) 2 LEmulous (Distant View) 1 3 3Entifaadha (Kingmambo) 3Epic Love (Diesis) 3Famous Name (Quest For Fame) 3 3 3 LFerdoos (Rainbow Quest) LFire Lily (Pivotal) 3Giofra (Orpen) LGrafitti (Half A Year) LLaughing (Be My Chief) LRequinto (Entrepreneur) 2 3 LSurfrider (Rahy) 3Tenth Star (Rahy) LTestosterone (Sadler’s Wells) 2 3

Dark AngelLily’s Angel (Docksider) L

Dashing BladeDalarna (Konigsstuhl) L LSkagen (Platini) L

DaylamiIndian Days (Indian Ridge) 2 3Voila Ici (Barathea) 1Whispering Gallery (Spinning World) 3

Deep ImpactBarocci (Giant’s Causeway) L

Della FrancescaHi Molly (Wagon Master) L

Desert PrinceDouce Vie (Ela-Mana-Mou) L

Desert StyleDesert Blanc (Indian Ridge) LZiyarid (King’s Best) 3 L

The master listThere is no hiding place here: Hyperion’s stakes-winning sires in Europe & UAE, 2011


Horses are listed under their sire with the respective broodmare sire in brackets.Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including November 13th



Desert SunDunelight (Marju) L

Diamond GreenSir Eagles (Darshaan) L

DiesisDebussy (Singspiel) L

DiktatChilworth Lad (Desert Style) L LDream Ahead (Cadeaux Genereux) 1 1 1Skins Game (Akarad) 3 L

Distorted HumorRadharcnafarraige (Storm Bird) 3Shumoos (Storm Cat) 3Slow Pace (Seattle Slew) L

DocksiderDocofthebay (Efisio) L

DomedriverSt Jean Cap Ferrat (Darshaan) L

DoyenA Ma Yen (Silver Hawk) LGlady Romana (Surumu) LSneak A Peek (Shantou) 2 L

Dr DeviousSky Lazer (El Gran Senor) L

Dr FongSandagiyr (Darshaan) L

Dubai DestinationAlanza (Barathea) 3 L LFamily One (Desert Style) 2 3Mirror Lake (Sadler’s Wells) L

DubawiBlanche Dubawi (Diktat) LDubawi Gold (Green Desert) 2 L LFox Hunt (Sadler’s Wells) 3Frankenstein (Nordance) LHandassa (Diktat) LHunter’s Light (Barathea) L L LKapitale (Winged Love) 3Khor Sheed (Manila) 3 LMonterosso (Barathea) 2Nova Step (Nureyev) LPerfect Tribute (Invincible Spirit) 3 LPrince Bishop (Prospect Bay) LRed Dubawi (Homme De Loi) LSooraah (Persian Bold) LWaldpark (Acatenango) 1 L Worthadd (Rahy) 2

Dutch ArtCaspar Netscher (Singspiel) 2 2Miss Work Of Art (Pivotal) L

DynaformerAmericain (Arazi) LBlue Bunting (Linamix) 1 1 1Meeznah (Sadler’s Wells) 2 3

E DubaiSkysurfers (Night Shift) 2 L

ElnadimElnawin (Night Shift) L

Elusive CityEtive (Danehill) LFred Lalloupet (Affirmed) LMixed Intention (Danehill Dancer) L LRedemptor (Linamix) L

Elusive QualityDynamic Blitz (Zeditave) 3Elusive Kate (Lemon Drop Kid) 1 3 LTime Prisoner (Night Shift) 3

Empire MakerPrincipal Role (Sadler’s Wells) L L L

Encosta De LagoEmpowering (Nashwan) 3

Even TopCirrus Des Aigles (Septieme Ciel) 1 2 3 3 3

Exceed And ExcelBest Terms (Kris) 2 2Excelebration (Indian Ridge) 1 2 2Fulbright (Fairy King) LMargot Did (Shareef Dancer) 1 L LMasamah (Distant Relative) 2 LNideeb (In The Wings) 3Passaggio (Generous) LPyman’s Theory (Cadeaux Genereux) LSajwah (Linamix) LSpin Cycle (Spinning World) LWaveband (Wolfhound) L

Excellent ArtArtistic Jewel (Danehill) LExperience (Green Desert) 3Nimohe (Gilded Time) L

FahimOroveso (Effervescing) L

FalbravDistant Memories (Darshaan) LFanunalter (Desert Prince) 3

Fantastic LightLivandar (Caerleon) L

FasliyevAmico Fritz (Ahonoora) 3City Leader (Kenmare) L

FayruzInxile (Owington) 3 L L L L

Final AppearancePeas And Carrots (Primo Dominie) L L

FirebreakCaledonia Lady (Mark Of Esteem) L

FootstepsinthesandBarefoot Lady (Tenby) 3Chachamaidee (Danehill) 3Giant Sandman (Darshaan) 3 LSandy’s Charm (Anabaa) 3 LShamalgan (Unfuwain) 2

GalileoAltano (Lando) 3Crystal Gal (Danehill) L

David Livingston (Indian Ridge) 2Frankel (Danehill) 1 1 1 1 3Galikova (Blushing Groom) 1 2 3Galileo’s Choice (Sir Ivor) 3Golden Lilac (Danehill) 1 1 3Lagalp (Danehill) LLay Time (Green Desert) LMahbooba (Red Ransom) L LMaybe (Danehill) 1 2 3 LMisty For Me (Storm Cat) 1 1Nathaniel (Silver Hawk) 1 2Opera Gal (Barathea) LQuest For Peace (Danehill Dancer) 3 LReem (Danehill) LRoderic O’Connor (Danehill) 1Sense Of Purpose (Darshaan) 3 LToi Et Moi (Warning) LTreasure Beach (Mark Of Esteem) 1 3

Giant GentlemanEnergia Colonial (Nugget Point) L

Giant’s CausewayAwait The Dawn (Dixieland Band) 2 3Viscount Nelson (Sadler’s Wells) L

Gilded TimeVerde-Mar (Spend A Buck) L

GolanNight Serenade (Platini) L

Golden SnakeQuiza Quiza Quiza (Pelder) 1 L

Gone WestSirius Prospect (Anabaa) L

Grand SlamDear Lavinia (Montjeu) LZelimir (Zieten) L

Green TuneLacateno (Acatenango) L

HaafhdShow Rainbow (Rainbow Quest) L

HallingKing’s Hall (Turfkonig) 3Opinion Poll (Shirley Heights) 2 2

Hard SpunRed Duke (Gone West) 2

Harlan’s HolidayMendip (Coronado’s Quest) 3 3

Hat TrickDabirsim (Royal Academy) 1 1 3

Hawk WingBank Of Burden (Pivotal) 3 3 LGerfalcon (Mujadil) LNova Hawk (Sadler’s Wells) LTucuman (Spinning World) L

HeliostaticCrius (Brave Act) 3

HennessySing Softly (Miswaki) L

HernandoAlianthus (Konigsstuhl) 2 3 3 3 3

High ChaparralBaby Revolution (Orpen) LBranderburgo (Red Ransom) LEnchanted Evening (Glenstal) LLord Chaparral (Acatenango) LLucky Chappy (Distant Relative) LSo You Think (Tights) 1 1 1 3Tai Chi (Big Shuffle) 3 Wigmore Hall (Theatrical) 2

Holy Roman EmperorAn Ghalanta (Ali-Royal) LBanimpire (Kris S) 2 2 3 3 3 LCrying Lightening (Chester House) LHomecoming Queen (Diesis) LImperial Rome (Revoque) LMy Propeller (Dr Fong) LSandslash (Lycius) 3

Hunting LionRileyskeepingfaith (Ajraas) 2

Hurricane CatCat Nova (Linamix) LVizir Bere (Broadway Flyer) 3

Hurricane RunArizona Run (Spinning World) L LBallybacka Lady (Anabaa) 3Barbican (Suave Dancer) LCharleston Lady (Kingmambo) LDon’t Hurry Me (Bering) 3Freedom (Atraf) 3Future Generation (Indian Ridge) 3Kreem (Rainbow Quest) 3Mohedian Lady (Darshaan) L

IcemanDijarvo (Wolfhound) LFrederick Engels (Colonel Collins) 2 L

IffraajIntrovert (Sunday Silence) LStay Alive (Pursuit Of Love) 3

InchinorJimmy Styles (Whittingham) L

Indian CharlieSamysilver (Silver Ghost) L

Indian HavenBeachfire (Woodman) LTellovoi (Green Desert) L

IntikhabGlen’s Diamond (Rainbow Quest) 3 Tell Dad (Dansili) 3

Invincible SpiritAnam Allta (Sadler’s Wells) 3Born To Sea (Miswaki) LHooray (Machiavellian) LInvincible Ash (Brief Truce) 3Moonlight Cloud (Spectrum) 1 3 3Pimpernel (Sadler’s Wells) LSpirit Quartz (Rainbow Quest) 3

Iron MaskIzalia (Johann Quatz) L LRivabella (Highest Honor) L

Jet MasterJ J The Jet Plane (Northern Guest) 2River Jetez (Prince Florimund) 2

Johan CruyffEstejo (The Noble Player) 1

JoharAlainmaar (Sadler’s Wells) L

KahyasiKasbah Bliss (Double Bed) 1 L

KalatosOvambo Queen (Lagunas) 3 L L

KendargentKendam (Indian Rocket) 3Restiadargent (Montjeu) 2 3

Key Of LuckWhat A Charm (Linamix) L

KheleyfVladimir (Barathea) L

KingmamboCampanologist (Sadler’s Wells) 1 1Genius Beast (Sinndar) 3Ley Hunter (Unfuwain) 3Snaafy (Lahib) LWonder Of Wonders (Sadler’s Wells) L

King’s BestBest Dating (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 LCall To Battle (Sadler’s Wells) LChiberta King (Nashwan) LDalarua (Danzero) 3Modun (Sadler’s Wells) 3Regarde Moi (Night Shift) LSajjhaa (Darshaan) LSecrecy (Salse) L Workforce (Sadler’s Wells) 3

KingsalsaPump Pump Boy (Kendor) L

KodiacKohala (Ridgewood Ben) LStar Kodiak (First Trump) L

KonigstigerSaint Pellerin (Dashing Blade) LShining Glory (Acatenango) L

Kris KinAltair Star (Spinning World) L

KutubSuperstition (Saint Andrews) LTerre Du Vent (Kaldoun) LTopclas (Fasliyev) 3

KyllachyDragon Pulse (Croco Rouge) 2Noble Hachy (Daggers Drawn) LPausanias (Gone West) LRed Gulch (Lear Fan) LSole Power (Distant View) 2Stepper Point (Compton Place) L

LandoIvory Land (Peintre Celebre) 3 LScalo (Exit To Nowhere) 2

LawmanLoi (Inchinor) 3

LaymanBoldogsag (Woodman) 3Regatta (Lure) L

Le Vie Dei ColoriBellaside (Perugino) LLe Vie Infinite (Stravinsky) 3

LecroixRosello (Zinaad) L

Lemon Drop KidPisco Sour (Horse Chestnut) 2 3

LibrettistLibranno (Singspiel) 3 3

LinamixRajsaman (Lammtarra) 2 2

LomitasDanedream (Danehill) 1 1 1 2Silvaner (Monsun) 3

Lord Of EnglandAcadius (Tiger Hill) LTheo Danon (Hernando) 3 L

Majestic MissileKatla (Dr Fong) LMajestic Myles (Elnadim) L

MamoolLips Poison (Ashkalani) 2Lucas Cranach (Java Gold) 2Semina (Second Set) L

ManduroMandaean (Darshaan) 1

Marchand De SableMarchand D’or (Kendor) 3Stark Danon (Spectrum) L L

Maria’s Mon Emiyna (Sinndar) 3

MarjuBabycakes (Darshaan) LGreen Destiny (Nashwan) 3 3Lightening Pearl (Rossini) 1 3Watar (Zafonic) 2

Mark Of EsteemSir Oscar (Polish Precedent) L

MartalineAkarlina (Akarad) 3 LOzeta (Rahy) L

MartilloNostro Amico (Nebos) LOekaki (Surumu) LSpectacle Du Mars (Trempolino) L

Martino AlonsoDagda Mor (Cape Cross) 3 L L L

Medaglia D’OroPassion For Gold (Thunder Gulch) L

MediceanBankable (Sadler’s Wells) 3Cerveza (Efisio) LManieree (Caerleon) 2 3Neatico (Sadler’s Wells) LRegal Realm (Fantastic Light) 3Sapphire (Danehill) LSt Moritz (Statoblest) L L

Merchant Of VeniceAlcohuaz (Hussonet) L L

Mind Games Tangerine Trees (Cozzene) 1 3 L

Monsieur BondLadies Are Forever (Danetime) 3Move In Time (Machiavellian) L

MonsunAizavoski (Alzao) L L LAtempo (Tiger Hill) LEnergizer (Theatrical) LFebruary Sun (Old Vic) 3King Of Arnor (Sadler’s Wells) LMashoor (Zafonic) LMonblue (Bluebird) LNot For Sale (Pivotal) L LRumh (Dashing Blade) LSelkis (Grand Lodge) 2Tertullus (Be My Guest) 3

MontjeuAskar Tau (Acatenango) 3Berling (Danehill) LBernieres (Trempolino) LBlue Bajan (Darshaan) 2Camelot (Kingmambo) 1Class Is Class (Hector Protector) 3 LFame And Glory (Shirley Heights) 1 3 L LGaily Game (Caerleon) L LGradara (Orpen) LJukebox Jury (Kenmare) 1 2 LMasked Marvel (Mark Of Esteem) 1 3 LPacifique (Zafonic) 3 LPink Symphony (Darshaan) 3Pour Moi (Darshaan) 1 2Recital (Kendor) 2Sarah Lynx (Danehill) 2St Nicholas Abbey (Sure Blade) 1 3Wading (Green Desert) 2

MotivatorClinical (Elmaamul) L L LMotrice (Affirmed) LSkia (Quest For Fame) 3Tactician (Shirley Heights) L

Mr. GreeleyCrusade (Johannesburg) 1Military Bowl (Turtle Island) L

MuhayminSkallet (R B Chesne) L

MujahidBacchelli (Kendor) L

MunirMariol (Kaldoun) L

NamidHansinger (First Trump) L

NayefLui E La Luna (Alzao) LPlushenko (Sadler’s Wells) LRosa Eglanteria (Night Shift) L

Neo UniverseVictoire Pisa (Machiavellian) 1

NicobarDunaden (Kaldounevees) 3

Norse DancerDorcas Lane (Riverman) L

NoverreI’m A Dreamer (Sadler’s Wells) 3

NowogrodekIryklon (Beaconsfield) L

Oasis DreamAlbaraah (Linamix) LAnne Of Kiev (Mark Of Esteem) L LBronterre (Royal Academy) LDux Scholar (Selkirk) LFlambeau (Catrail) LGusto (Piccolo) LMidday (Kingmambo) 1 2Neebras (Halling) LPeace Of Oasis (Zafonic) LPower (Inchinor) 1 2 LProhibit (Warning) 1 3Rimth (Efisio) 3Swiss Dream (Indian Ridge) L

ObservatoryTwice Over (Caerleon) 1 2 2

Olden TimesTimes Up (Ile De Bourbon) L L

One Cool CatChardonney Tcheque (Unfuwain) LOne Clever Cat (King’s Theatre) 3 L

OratorioCherry Collect (Hernando) L L LKing Torus (Mujadil) LLolly For Dolly (Chester House) 2 3 3Temida (Red Ransom) 3

Paris HouseAmour Propre (Case Law) 3

Passing Glance Side Glance (Averti) 3 L L

Pastoral PursuitsRose Blossom (Emarati) L

Peintre CelebreAndromeda Galaxy (Alzao) LByword (Woodman) 2 3Celebrity Sevi (Sir Ivor) LPrairie Star (Arazi) 2Quesada (Dr Fong) L

PivotalEmerald Commander (Sadler’s Wells) LEntangle (Primo Dominie) 3 L L LEton Rifles (Danehill) L





Immortal Verse (Sadler’s Wells) 1 1 2Izzi Top (Zafonic) 3 LNationalism (Sadler’s Wells) LNephrite (Clantime) 3Poet (Shirley Heights) LSeta (Generous) L

PlatiniAntara (General Assembly) 3

Pleasantly PerfectSilverside (Silver Ghost) 2

Policy MakerPolarena (Marchand De Sable) L

PoligloteKasumi (Mulberry) LSolemia (Shirley Heights) LZain Al Boldan (Cardoun) L

PrizedPremio Loco (Magic Ring) 2

PyrusBarack (Lear Fan) L

RahyStrong Suit (Silver Hawk) 2 2 3

Rail LinkBugie D’amore (Efisio) 3

Red ClubsRoger Sez (Robellino) 3Vedelago (Marju) 3 L

Red RansomEmmrooz (Danehill) LEvaporation (Green Tune) LParaisa (Big Shuffle) LRansom Note (Polish Precedent) 2 3

RedbackLetsgoroundagain (Ashkalani) L

Redoute’s ChoiceElzaam (Kingmambo) LMusir (Encosta De Lago) 2Tazahum (Alzao) L

Refuse To BendSarafina (Darshaan) 1 2 2Wavering (Darshaan) 1Without Fear (Kahyasi) L L

RepricedMiles Gloriosus (Foolish Pleasure) L

ResetSet The Trend (Woodman) L

Rock Hard TenAbtaal (Valid Appeal) 3

Rock Of GibraltarAslana (Royal Academy) LCoral Wave (Rainbow Quest) 3 LRock Jock (Miswaki) LRock Me Baby (Arch) LRockatella (Cadeaux Genereux) LRockhorse (Maelstrom Lake) L LRockinante (Night Shift) 3 LSamitar (Rainbow Quest) 3

Santino (Lomitas) LSea Of Heartbreak (Rainbow Quest) 2 LSociety Rock (Key Of Luck) 1Sofast (Bering) 3Tres Rock Danon (Monsun) 3 L

Royal AcademyPolytechnicien (Seeking The Gold) 3

Royal ApplausePrince Siegfried (Darshaan) 3Saigon (First Trump) L

Sadler’s WellsClaremont (Darshaan) LMores Wells (Warning) LSaddler’s Rock (Groom Dancer) 2

SagacitySaga Dream (Manninamix) L

SahmSahpresa (Pleasant Tap) 1 3

SakheeNice Danon (Warning) LPermesso (Persian Bold) LPresvis (Never So Bold) 1 2Royal Rock (Caller I.D.) 3Tin Horse (Kendor) 1

SamumBe Fabulous (Law Society) 1 LDurban Thunder (Highland Chieftain) 1

Scat DaddyDaddy Long Legs (Meadowlake) 2

Seeking The GoldDerbaas (Storm Cat) 2

SelkirkAnnounce (Gone West) 1 3Cityscape (Distant View) 3 3Glaswegian (Lear Fan) 3Nahrain (Generous) 1 LShamali (Lycius) L

ShamardalAmaron (Bertolini) 3 LCasamento (Always Fair) 3Crackerjack King (Barathea) 2Dark Promise (Law Society) LDunboyne Express (Polish Precedent) 3Elle Shadow (Roi Danzig) 3French Navy (Woodman) 3Modern History (Private Account) LRostrum (Rainbow Quest) LSommerabend (Monsun) 2 LZazou (Lomitas) 1 3

Shinko ForestGenki (Darshaan) 3 L

ShiroccoArrigo (Last Tycoon) 2Grand Vent (Fabulous Dancer) 2Wild Coco (Sternkoenig) L

SholokhovMonami (Dashing Blade) 3Night Magic (Monsun) 2

SilvanoBold Silvano (Al Mufti) 3Kings Gambit (Al Mufti) 3

Silver TrainSilver Ocean (Mt. Livermore) L

SingspielCima De Pluie (Cozzene) 3Dordogne (Efisio) 3 LGlorious Sight (Warning) LLa Zona (Kris) L L L LLuca Brasi (Mr. Prospector) LNavarra Queen (Leone) 3 L LPrimevere (Woodman) L

SinndarGertrude Bell (Polar Falcon) 2 LShareta (Barathea) 3 L

Sir PercyCoquet (Nashwan) L

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The biggest gamble of ‘em all...is buying broodmares, writes Jocelyn de Moubray



buying broodmares

Buying broodmares, or fillies as potential mares, is probably even more arbitrary than selecting foals or yearlings. At least when you select a foal or yearling to race, or to buy to resell, you can inspect

the animal in question, and look at X-rays and scopes to get an idea of how its physique is likely to develop.

Buyers to a very large degree have to select mares blindfolded. Of course you can examine the mare herself, but you can only guess at what the foal she is carrying, or any future ones, are going to be like.

What will determine whether or not a purchase is successful is not if a foal she has produced in the past won a Group 1, but what the foal the mare is carrying now will be like – or perhaps those born in the last two years, who are more often than not unavailable for inspection.

All bloodstock sales are uncertain affairs as, aside from any question of values, people are trying to select from inspection something which cannot be seen – either the ability to run fast or to produce foals who run fast. With the mares there are even more known unknowns than is the case with sales of future or present racing stock.

Which is why the values of mares can change so quickly, in both directions.

The ups, downs and ups of VenturaA good example is Ventura who will be offered at the Tattersalls December sales for the fourth time in the last 11 years. Ventura’s first visit came in 2001 when she was offered out of training and was purchased by James Wigan’s London Thoroughbred Services for 500,000gns on behalf of George Strawbridge.

This was a big price, the equivalent of 645,000gns in 2010 terms, but then although she was only a modest stakes performer, third in a Listed race in Tralee, she came from what, at the time, looked like the best family around.

Her dam Wedding Bouquet was still young

Dalicia Animal Kingdom 2009 230,000Danedrop Danedream 2003 40,000 n/sDesert Classic Wrote 2006 45,000 n/sGryada Fame And Glory 2006 180,000Honorine Treasure Beach 2004 50,000Laurel Delight Cape Blanco 1997 28,000Love And Laughter Wigmore Hall 2006 50,000Marozia Stay Thirsty 1998 210,000Mare Aux Fees Jukebox Jury 1994 21,000 2001 150,000 n/sMerrily Dick Turpin 1998 12,000Miarixa Blue Bunting 2004 55,000 2005 95,000Mrs Marsh Canford Cliffs 2008 25,000Rosie’s Posy Dubawi Heights 2003 50,000Secret Garden Roderic O’Connor 2007 450,000Ventura Moonlight Cloud 2001 500,000 2009 58,000 2010 260,000Zaza Top Zaza Top 2008 45,000 Anna Amalia Ave 2005 150,000Bathilde Al Shemali 1997 160,000Demerger Sole Power 2000 4,000Hoity Toity Lilie Langtry 2002 15,000Model Queen Regal Parade 2001 92,000Moonlady Eishin Flash 2006 300,000 2004 280,000 2003 180,000 n/sReve d’Iman Bethrah 2006 135,000Tahara Gilt Edged Girl 1998 32,000 1997 17,000Tyranny Zoffany 2007 230,000Zameyla Serious Attitude 2005 58,000

Mare Horse Year Sold Price (gns)

Dams (sold at Tattersalls December) of 2010/11Group 1 winners

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and had a foal and a yearling by Sadler’s Wells to run and was a half-sister to the Derby winner Generous, as well as a recent 2,500,000gns foal by Sadler’s Wells.

Ventura returned to the December Sale in 2009 in foal to Manduro and was sold for 58,000gns to Cormac McCormack.

In the end, Ventura had turned out to be by far the best of her dam’s foals, while her own first four foals included a minor stakes winner in California and three disappointing performers.

But McCormack’s purchase turned out to be a spectacularly good buy as Ventura’s yearling filly at the time of her sale in 2009 – of course not available for inspection – has become this year’s Group 1 winner Moonlight Cloud.

Ventura’s owners in 2010 decided to make the most of Moonlight Cloud’s juvenile promise, she had been fourth in a Group 1 at two, and offered Ventura in 2010 when she was purchased by David Redvers for 260,000gns.

The mare’s Manduro colt was sold for €400,000 as a yearling this August and this time round she is offered in foal to Tweenhills Farm’s young sire Makfi and is likely to make significantly more in 2010, despite now being a 12-year-old.

But good mares do come from anywhereThe list of dams of Group 1 winners in 2010 and 2011 who have been sold at the December sale shows that top broodmares can come from almost anywhere, and can certainly

come from all levels of the market. If Ventura was, the first time round, the

most expensive of these, there are four who were sold for less than 20,000gns but who have gone on to produce Group 1 winners – the dams of Dick Turpin, Gilt Edged Girl, Lillie Langtry and Sole Power.

Mrs Marsh, the dam of Canford Cliffs, is due to go through the ring again this December a few minutes before Ventura.

She was bought by Redpender Stud for

25,000gns in foal to Holy Roman Emperor in December 2008.

This was an instance when the buyer knew more than anyone else about the mare as Redpender had purchased her 2007 foal, who was to become Canford Cliffs, for €46,000 and went on to sell him as a yearling in 2008 for £50,000.

Canford Cliffs may not have been a great pin-hook result, but buying his dam was a fabulous investment. Her Holy Roman

Velvet Moon 11 875,000 70,000 Last Resort 5 825,000 40,000 RebellionPink Cristal 6 720,000 460,000 Brigitta 5 650,000 1,330,000 Emerald C’mander

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Mare Age @ sale Price (gns) Revenue (gns) Best progeny

Mares sold at Tattersalls 2002: average price x 4

McCormack’s purchase turned out to be a

spectacularly good buy as Ventura’s yearling filly

at the time of her sale in 2009 – of course not

available for inspection – became this year’s Group 1

winner Moonlight Cloud

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Emperor made 100,000gns (named Mayo Lad he has run three times for Richard Hannon without showing much), the Excellent Art yearling 210,000gns, while there is a filly foal by Sea The Stars on the ground.

Mrs Marsh, still only a ten-year-old, is offered in foal to Dansili.

A mare can change your life: for the better or the worse...As is well known in Tipperary and other places where people dream about breeding thoroughbreds, if you pick the right mare she can change your address, and, of course, your life.

Looking at the list of the expensive mares sold at the Newmarket December sales in 2002 and 2003 it is also obvious that while buying mares can be extraordinarily profitable, it is also very easy to lose a great deal of money doing the same thing.

At these two sales 63 mares were sold for four times the average price or more. These included the dam of one Group 1 winner, Naaqoos, as well as the dams of four other Group winners: Mahler, Madagan, Persian Storm and Emerald Commander.

However, only seven of the 63 achieved

revenue over the following six years of more than twice the purchase price, and all of these without exception produced a stakes horse during the period.

This is, of course, only the briefest of snap shots and no definitive rules can be drawn up from such a small sample. These figures do

As is well known in Tipperary and other places where people dream about breeding thoroughbreds, if you pick the right mare she can change your

address, and, of course, your life

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Canford Cliffs: his dam Mrs Marsh was bought by Redpender Stud in 2008 after the farm had purchased Canford as a foal pinhook in 2007. The mare is due to sell at Tattersalls in foal to Dansili

Ramruma: the dual Oaks winner sold for 2,100,000gns in 2002. Her only yearling sold so far at auction made 80,000gns


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suggest that it is not the price which counts as far as future values go, but the known unknowns.

She needs to produce the goods, and quicklyWhatever price range a mare comes from her purchaser is unlikley to make money unless the mare produces a stakes winner within the next three years.

Buying a very expensive mare may increase the potential rewards, but it does not eliminate the risk – any mare will lose value fast if she is not producing winners and stakes winners.

Older mares are perhaps even more risky investments not because older mares are less likely to produce top horses, but because their value depends as much as anything on what their recent products do on the racecourse.

When you examine say an 11-year-old mare at a sale the chances are that her future value will be determined by her foal and yearling, which you have never seen.

One of the best mare purchases of recent time was the £IR470,000 Charlie Gordon Watson gave for the 11-year-old Darara on behalf of Watership Down in 1994.

The mare’s reputation was subsequently established by her 1993 Sadler’s Wells foal Darazari. He was bred and raced by the Aga Khan, and started among the favourites for the 1996 Arc de Triomphe in the same year that Watership Down sold his half-brother for 500,000gns as a yearling.

Some very expensive mares turn out to be great bargains – that £IR470,000 of 1994 is the equivalent of 750,000gns in today’s money.

However, if anyone tells you that an investment in a high-value mare is not a risk, they are either fooling themselves, you or both of you. No mare or filly will maintain her value in the auction ring unless she produces the class of horses her price suggests she should be producing, and soon.

Ramruma 7 2,100,000 80,000

Midnight Line 8 1,300,000 70,000

Lady Carla 10 1,050,000 90,000

Peintrure Rose 3 1,000,000 0 Peinted Song

Margarula 4 825,000 0

Second Burst 4 725,000 270,000

Ballade Russe 4 525,000 15,000

Bay Tree 2 450,000 300,000

Forest Express 7 400,000 20,000

Banco Suivi 6 375,000 45,000

Up Anchor 14 360,000 0

Aunty Rose 6 360,000 50,000

Vassiana 4 350,000 70,000

Tante Rose 3 350,000 0 Rose Diamond

Sundrenched 4 340,000 40,000

Arutua 10 330,000 0

Lyrical 5 300,000 120,000

Geminiani 3 300,000 170,000

Dandanna 6 300,000 280,000

Play with Fire 8 300,000 50,000

Midnight Air 14 255,000 70,000

Bright Smile 5 250,000 60,000

Sun on the Sea 3 250,000 54,000 Shimmering Surf

Vicereine 3 240,000 100,000

Velouette 3 240,000 75,000

Rose Bourbon 10 220,000 385,000 Princess Roseburg

Amazing Dream 7 210000 20,000

Dusty Answer 4 200000 560,000 Counterclaim

Niyabah 5 200000 0

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AffirmedFred Lalloupet (Elusive City) LMotrice (Motivator) L

AhonooraAmico Fritz (Fasliyev) 3

AjraasRileyskeepingfaith (Hunting Lion) 2

AkaradAkarlina (Martaline) 3 LBeaten Up (Beat Hollow) 3Skins Game (Diktat) 3 L

Al MuftiBold Silvano (Silvano) 3Kings Gambit (Silvano) 3

Ali-RoyalAn Ghalanta (Holy Roman Emperor) L

AllegedSea Moon (Beat Hollow) 2

Always FairCasamento (Shamardal) 3

AlzaoAizavoski (Monsun) L L LAndromeda Galaxy (Peintre Celebre) LFigli Fanesi (Tiger Hill) L LLui E La Luna (Nayef) LTazahum (Redoute’s Choice) LAnabaaBallybacka Lady (Hurricane Run) 3Mobaco (Slickly) LSandy’s Charm (Footstepsinthesand) 3 LSirius Prospect (Gone West) L

AnshanStaros (Aussie Rules) L

AraziAmericain (Dynaformer) LPrairie Star (Peintre Celebre) 2

ArchRock Me Baby (Rock Of Gibraltar) L

AreionTesey (Tiger Hill) L

AshkalaniFrench Fifteen (Turtle Bowl) 1 L

Iver Bridge Lad (Avonbridge) 3Letsgoroundagain (Redback) LLips Poison (Mamool) 2

AtrafFreedom (Hurricane Run) 3

AvertiSide Glance (Passing Glance) 3 L L

Bahamian BountyAngels Will Fall (Acclamation) 3

BaratheaAlanza (Dubai Destination) 3 L LCrackerjack King (Shamardal) 2Djumama (Aussie Rules) 3 LHunter’s Light (Dubawi) L L LJakkalberry (Storming Home) 3Monterosso (Dubawi) 2Opera Gal (Galileo) LShareta (Sinndar) 3 LVerglacial (Verglas) LVladimir (Kheleyf) LVoila Ici (Daylami) 1

Be My ChiefLaughing (Dansili) L

Be My GuestTertullus (Monsun) 3

BeaconsfieldIryklon (Nowogrodek) L

BeringBible Belt (Big Bad Bob) 3 LBlue Soave (Soave) LBob Le Beau (Big Bad Bob) LDon’t Hurry Me (Hurricane Run) 3Sofast (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3

BertoliniAmaron (Shamardal) 3 L

Big ShuffleParaisa (Red Ransom) LTai Chi (High Chaparral) 3

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Bishop Of CashelBible Black (Big Bad Bob) LDeacon Blues (Compton Place) 2 3 3 3

Black MinnalousheAir County (Blu Air Force) L

BluebirdMonblue (Monsun) L

Blues TravellerMonsieur Chevalier (Chevalier) L

Blushing GroomGalikova (Galileo) 1 2 3Goldikova (Anabaa) 1 1

Brave ActCrius (Heliostatic) 3

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DeployDan Tucket (Dansili) L

Desert KingTopeka (Whipper) 3 L

Desert PrinceFanunalter (Falbrav) 3

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DiktatBlanche Dubawi (Dubawi) LHandassa (Dubawi) L

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Dixieland BandAwait The Dawn (Giant’s Causeway) 2 3Discourse (Street Cry) 3

DocksiderLily’s Angel (Dark Angel) L

Double BedKasbah Bliss (Kahyasi) 1 LSulle Orme (Chichicastenango) L

DoyounSet To Music (Danehill Dancer) L

Dr FongKatla (Majestic Missile) LMy Propeller (Holy Roman Emperor) LQuesada (Peintre Celebre) L

EffervescingOroveso (Fahim) L

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Ela-Mana-MouDouce Vie (Desert Prince) L

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Erins IsleTeolane (Teofilo) L

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Horse Chestnut

Pisco Sour (Lemon Drop Kid) 2 3

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Invincible SpiritPerfect Tribute (Dubawi) 3 L

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Mr. ProspectorLuca Brasi (Singspiel) L

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Northern GuestJ J The Jet Plane (Jet Master) 2

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Old VicFebruary Sun (Monsun) 3

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PlatiniNight Serenade (Golan) LSkagen (Dashing Blade) L

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PoligloteBrigantin (Cozzene) 2

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Prince FlorimundRiver Jetez (Jet Master) 2

Private Account Modern History (Shamardal) L

Prospect BayPrince Bishop (Dubawi) L

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R B ChesneSkallet (Muhaymin) L

RahyOzeta (Martaline) LSurfrider (Dansili) 3Tenth Star (Dansili) LWorthadd (Dubawi) 2

Rainbow QuestBeatrice Aurore (Danehill Dancer) 3 LCoral Wave (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3 LFerdoos (Dansili) LGlen’s Diamond (Intikhab) 3Kreem (Hurricane Run) 3Rostrum (Shamardal) LSamitar (Rock Of Gibraltar) 3Sea Of Heartbreak (Rock Of Gibraltar) 2 LShow Rainbow (Haafhd) LSpirit Quartz (Invincible Spirit) 3

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RevoqueImperial Rome (Holy Roman Emperor) L

Ridgewood BenKohala (Kodiac) L

RivermanDorcas Lane (Norse Dancer) L

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Roi DanzigElle Shadow (Shamardal) 3

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Septieme CielCirrus Des Aigles (Even Top) 1 2 3 3 3

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SilleryBalaythous (Bahhare) L

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Summer SquallTheyskens’ Theory (Bernardini) L L

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RODERICO’CONNOR

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At 2 - 1stGr.1 Criterium International, Saint Cloud (8f)“comfortably” beating Salto & French Navy

2ndGr.1 Dubai Dewhurst Stks, Newmarket (8f)second to Frankel, beating Dream Ahead

At 3 - 1stGr.1 Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas (8f)beating Dubawi Gold, Dunboyne Express

Winning Irish 2000 Guineas

Galileo - Secret Garden (Danehill)

Dual Gr.1 Classic Winning Miler Champion’s Pedigree

Family of Champion 2yo Durtal, champion 3yo Detroit, and

outstanding Champion sire Zabeel.

“Undoubtedly a high class colt ”

The “magical”Galileo/Danehill cross of:FrankelTeofiloMaybeGolden LilacCima de Triomphe

Cuis Ghaire etc.

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covering stats


Covering statistics 2011supplied by Weatherbys from the Return Of Mares

Stallion Foal Year Mares Winning B-Type Covered Mares Mares

Covering statistics 2011 Supplied by Weatherbys

Aqlaam (GB) 2010 89 48 15Acclamation (GB) 2004 174 104 45Alfred Nobel (IRE) 2011 99 42 10Alhaarth (IRE) 1998 25 13 1Amadeus Wolf (GB) 2008 110 54 11Approve (IRE) 2011 120 46 9Arabian Gleam (GB) 2011 18 5 -Arakan (USA) 2006 62 17 1Arcano (IRE) 2011 123 79 34Archipenko (USA) 2010 69 48 10Arkadian Hero (USA) 2002 12 2 -Art Connoisseur (IRE) 2010 44 18 2Aussie Rules (USA) 2007 147 83 23Authorized (IRE) 2008 90 65 28Avonbridge (GB) 2006 34 17 2Azamour (IRE) 2006 154 100 50Bahamian Bounty (GB) 1998 89 60 13Baltic King (GB) 2008 39 12 -Beat Hollow (GB) 2003 23 15 4Bertolini (USA) 2002 29 12 1Big Bad Bob (IRE) 2006 77 47 9Black Sam Bellamy (IRE) 2004 148 35 1Bushranger (IRE) 2010 164 81 8Camacho (GB) 2006 37 12 1Cape Cross (IRE) 2001 157 118 69Captain Gerrard (IRE) 2010 62 35 3Captain Marvelous (IRE) 2009 30 13 1Captain Rio (GB) 2004 111 51 6

JUST ONE stallion (Flat sires only included here) covered over 200 mares in the spring of 2011 – and, fittingly, it was the best stallion in the world, Galileo. The Coolmore sire topped the list of busiest sires of 2011 having seen 214 mates, well ahead of the next most popular stallion, Duke Of Marmalade, who was visited by 184 mares.

And this is one statistic that has changed from 2010. Last year, the two Flat stallions who topped the 200 mark were High Chaparral and Footstepsinthesand, (rather less proven and less successful stallions). In 2010 an amazing 18 sires saw more than 150 mares, a figure which has remained pretty static for 2011.

Duke Of Marmalade’s stock was popular at the 2010 foal sales (average of 55,000gns and top price of 181,205gns) which bolstered the confidence of breeders so encouraged to use his services. Acclamation’s prominent position proved that many breeders were banking on the good year that the Rathbarry stallion enjoyed in 2011, while typically Tally-Ho has got plenty of clients into Bushranger, who is going into his third season at stud (foals seem to be appreciated at the sales). He saw exactly the same number of mares as the stud’s Kodiac, whose second crop were runners of 2011, while the farm’s Zebedee, who retired as a juvenile, was the busiest new stallion at stud last spring.

Galileo: saw a big, quality book of mares

Figures for winning mares include N.H. Flat winners. Stallions without returns to Weatherbys not included

covering stats


Galileo (IRE) 214Duke Of Marmalade (IRE) 184Acclamation (GB) 174Teofilo (IRE) 167Bushranger (IRE) 164Kodiac (GB) 164Excellent Art (GB) 163Iffraaj (GB) 161Zebedee (GB) 161Dark Angel (IRE) 159Dylan Thomas (IRE) 158Cape Cross (IRE) 157Invincible Spirit (IRE) 157Shamardal (USA) 157Azamour (IRE) 154Fastnet Rock (AUS) 150Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 150Thewayyouare (USA) 148Aussie Rules (USA) 147Lawman (FR) 147Makfi (GB) 145Dubawi (IRE) 144Mastercraftsman (IRE) 142Exceed And Excel (AUS) 134High Chaparral (IRE) 133

Stallion Mares Covered

Busiest stallions 2011Stallion Foal Year Mares Winning B-Type Covered Mares Mares

Champs Elysees (GB) 2010 88 44 15Clodovil (IRE) 2004 52 27 6Cockney Rebel (IRE) 2008 91 47 7Compton Place (GB) 1999 62 34 3Dalakhani (IRE) 2004 53 40 23Dandy Man (IRE) 2010 58 25 -Danehill Dancer (IRE) 1998 90 54 34Dansili (GB) 2001 120 98 79Dark Angel (IRE) 2008 159 75 21Daylami (IRE) 2000 105 17 1Definite Article (GB) 1997 64 11 Desideratum (GB) 2007 8 2 Dubai Destination (USA) 2004 100 12 3Dubawi (IRE) 2006 144 123 96Duke of Marmalade (IRE) 2009 184 114 57Dutch Art (GB) 2008 120 69 15Dylan Thomas (IRE) 2008 158 90 30Echo Of Light (GB) 2008 112 49 12Elnadim (USA) 2001 29 16 3Equiano (FR) 2011 127 87 34Erhaab (USA) 1995 8 4 Exceed and Excel (AUS) 2005 134 94 36Excellent Art (GB) 2008 163 77 22Fast Company (IRE) 2011 119 53 12Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2005 150 94 51Ferrule (IRE) 2007 3 1 Firebreak (GB) 2006 13 9 Footstepsinthesand (GB) 2006 129 78 31Franklins Gardens (GB) 2007 8 3 Galileo (IRE) 2002 214 170 131Getaway (GER) 2011 274 36 3Green Desert (USA) 1987 7 6 3Haafhd (GB) 2005 6 1 Haatef (USA) 2009 49 20 2Halling (USA) 1997 104 77 28Heliostatic (IRE) 2008 11 6 1Hellvelyn (GB) 2011 71 46 6Hernando (FR) 1996 8 7 4High Chaparral (IRE) 2004 133 86 34Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 2007 112 56 20Hurricane Run (IRE) 2007 57 34 13Iffraaj (GB) 2007 161 123 70Iktibas (GB) 2006 6 - -Indesatchel (IRE) 2007 25 11 4Indian Haven (GB) 2005 11 2 Intense Focus (USA) 2010 95 34 8

Zebedee: was the busiest new stallion in 2011

STIMULATIONBY A CHAMPION 2YO & CHAMPION SPRINTER

FROM THE DANEHILL SIRE LINE

Bay 2005 16.01⁄2 h.h. CHOISIR – DAMIANA (THATCHING)

Won or placed 11 times from 16 career starts, 14 of which were in pattern company.Careers earnings: £230,695 (6-7f).Won Gr.2 Challenge Stakes, 7f, Newmarket, beating a field of 14 Stakes winners, incl. Balthazaar’s Gift (Gr.2), Duff (Gr.2), Captain Marvelous (Gr.2), Major Cadeaux (Gr.2), etc.Won LR Free Handicap, 7f, Newmarket.Won Dubai Duty Free Maiden, 6f, Newbury, on debut at 2 years.2nd Gr.2 Lennox Stakes, 7f, Goodwood, beaten a neck by Paco Boy at level weights, beating Arabian Gleam (Gr.2), etc.2nd Gr.3 Horris Hill Stakes, 7f, Newbury, at 2 years.2nd LR King Charles Stakes, 7f, Newmarket, beaten a head.3rd Gr.2 Topkapi Trophy, 8f, Veliefendi, beating Collection (Gr.1), Sabirli (Gr.1d, Gr.2), etc.

Also placed twice at Royal Ascot –Gr.1 Prince of Wales’ Stakes – Gr.3 Jersey Stakes

FIRST FOALS IN 2012

TIMEFORM RATED: 121DEFEATED 9 GROUP 1 WINNERS

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STUD BROCHURE AVAILABLE ONLINE

80 MARES COVERED IN FIRST SEASON, 201119% Stakes mares • Excellent Fertility (92%)

FIRST FOALS IN 2012 • Fee: £3,000 1st Oct

“ He would have been a Gr.1 winner but for injury... He was always the best-looking horse in any race. He had the speed to win over six furlongs at two and the class to compete at the highest level .”

HUGHIE MORRISON, TRAINER

Timeform 2008: “Very smart performer”- 121Timeform 2007: “Well made colt”- 113pTimeform’s Top 100 2YOs of 2007, Incl:

Henrythenavigator 115STIMULATION 113pDark Angel 113

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Intikhab (USA) 2000 84 50 14Invincible Spirit (IRE) 2003 157 113 70Jeremy (USA) 2008 97 37 5Key of Luck (USA) 1998 15 5 -Kheleyf (USA) 2005 101 61 8Kirkwall (GB) 2000 3 - -Kodiac (GB) 2007 164 71 19Kyllachy (GB) 2003 112 62 15Lawman (FR) 2008 147 87 35Lope De Vega (IRE) 2011 130 85 43Lord Shanakill (USA) 2011 128 55 13Majestic Missile (IRE) 2007 62 24 2Major Cadeaux (GB) 2010 41 25 5Makfi (GB) 2011 145 94 50Manduro (GER) 2008 77 50 26Marju (IRE) 1992 26 17 8Mastercraftsman (IRE) 2010 142 78 29Mawatheeq (USA) 2011 42 24 8Medicean (GB) 2002 100 61 23Midnight Legend (GB) 1998 99 30 1Millkom (GB) 1998 3 - -Misu Bond (IRE) 2008 25 16 1Monsieur Bond (IRE) 2005 108 55 5Montjeu (IRE) 2001 92 75 45Moss Vale (IRE) 2008 105 44 9Motivator (GB) 2006 59 35 12Mount Nelson (GB) 2009 93 52 25Mullionmileanhour (IRE) 2011 25 10 1Multiplex (GB) 2008 118 41 2Myboycharlie (IRE) 2010 68 31 10Nayef (USA) 2004 99 68 35New Approach (IRE) 2009 124 82 53Norse Dancer (IRE) 2007 13 6 -Notnowcato (GB) 2008 50 23 2Oasis Dream (GB) 2004 123 100 84Observatory (USA) 2002 28 13 5Oratorio (IRE) 2006 28 12 3Orientor (GB) 2008 3 2 -Overbury (IRE) 1997 23 8 -Paco Boy (IRE) 2011 133 90 25Papal Bull (GB) 2009 93 37 3Pasternak (GB) 2000 16 3 -Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 2006 100 59 10Peintre Celebre (USA) 1999 60 31 9Phoenix Reach (IRE) 2007 25 5 1Piccolo (GB) 1996 37 21 -


Iffraaj: the Darley sire was visted by 123 winning mares last spring

covering stats


Galileo (IRE) 170Shamardal (USA) 125Dubawi (IRE) 123Iffraaj (GB) 123Cape Cross (IRE) 118Duke Of Marmalade (IRE) 114Invincible Spirit (IRE) 113Teofilo (IRE) 113Acclamation (GB) 104Azamour (IRE) 100Oasis Dream (GB) 100Dansili (GB) 98Exceed and Excel (AUS) 94Fastnet Rock (AUS) 94Makfi (GB) 94Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 93Dylan Thomas (IRE) 90Paco Boy (IRE) 90Equiano (FR) 87Lawman (FR) 87


Stallions with most winning mares


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Pivotal (GB) 1997 116 84 51Proclamation (IRE) 2007 35 20 -Rail Link (GB) 2008 48 33 15Raven’s Pass (USA) 2009 81 56 33Refuse to Bend (IRE) 2005 16 11 1Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 2011 150 93 48Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 2003 105 69 32Royal Applause (GB) 1998 118 73 17Sagamix (FR) 2001 16 1 -Sakhee (USA) 2003 33 21 5Sakhee’s Secret (GB) 2009 50 28 1Sea The Stars (IRE) 2010 87 65 48Selkirk (USA) 1993 20 15 7Shamardal (USA) 2006 157 125 98Shirocco (GER) 2007 75 47 18Showcasing (GB) 2011 117 67 14Sir Percy (GB) 2008 108 71 15Sixties Icon (GB) 2009 28 17 2Sleeping Indian (GB) 2007 34 22 1Soviet Star (USA) 1989 13 5 1Starspangledbanner (AUS) 2011 64 31 13Stimulation (IRE) 2011 80 47 9Strategic Prince (GB) 2008 104 39 4Striking Ambition (GB) 2007 4 3 1Sulamani (IRE) 2005 94 25 1Superior Premium (GB) 2002 5 1 -Tagula (IRE) 1997 81 33 6Tamayuz (GB) 2009 40 29 13Teofilo (IRE) 2008 167 113 60Thewayyouare (USA) 2010 148 76 9Thousand Words (GB) 2009 17 5 3Three Valleys (USA) 2008 61 29 8Tobougg (IRE) 2003 47 20 1Trans Island (GB) 2001 59 8 -Vale of York (IRE) 2011 116 61 16Verglas (IRE) 2000 66 42 15Virtual (GB) 2010 27 13 3Where Or When (IRE) 2004 12 -Windsor Knot (IRE) 2008 29 13 1Winker Watson (GB) 2010 25 17 2Yeats (IRE) 2010 176 75 16Zamindar (USA) 1998 91 57 30


Galileo (IRE) 131Shamardal (USA) 98Dubawi (IRE) 96Oasis Dream (GB) 84Dansili (GB) 79Iffraaj (GB) 70Invincible Spirit (IRE) 70Cape Cross (IRE) 69Teofilo (IRE) 60Duke Of Marmalade (IRE) 57New Approach (IRE) 53Fastnet Rock (AUS) 51Pivotal (GB) 51Azamour (IRE) 50Makfi (GB) 50Rip Van Winkle (IRE) 48Sea The Stars (IRE) 48Acclamation (GB) 45Montjeu (IRE) 45Lope De Vega (IRE) 43Exceed and Excel (AUS) 36Lawman (FR) 35Nayef (USA) 35Equiano (FR) 34High Chaparral (IRE) 34Arcano (IRE) 34Danehill Dancer (IRE) 34Raven’s Pass (USA) 33Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 32


Stallions with most black-type mares

Makfi: saw more black-type mares than the second-season stallion Sea The Stars

• Amadeus Wolf - €6,000• Art Connoisseur - €4,500• Big Bad Bob - €6,000• Invincible Spirit - €60,000• Jeremy - €6,000• Lord Shanakill - €5,000• Other services: Sale Preparation, Boarding & Foaling

Stallion Fees 2012

Irish National Stud

Contact: John Osborne Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie

Invincible Spirit

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COCKNEY REBEL

He’ll Make You Smile!

2004 Bay 16.1 h.h. by Val Royal - Factice (Known Fact)

35% winners to runners (UK/Ire)

British First Crop Sires 2011Rank Stallion Rnrs Wnrs %Wnrs/Rnrs1. DUTCH ART 45 24 532. SIR PERCY 24 10 423. MULTIPLEX 19 7 374. COCKNEY REBEL 20 7 355. NOTNOWCATO 20 6 30(Statistics by Hyperion to 31.10.11. UK/Ire runners only)

Yearlings 2011Very correct, athletic and extremely goodmovers.

Made up to 14 times his advertised fee in 2009 andsold for £80,000, £65,000, £54,000, £35,000, £33,000,£31,000, £30,000, etc.

Purchasers included Blandford Bloodstock,Bobby O'Ryan, David Redvers Bloodstock, Clive Cox,George Margarson, P. Cunningham, Peter DoyleBloodstock, etc.

Fee 2012: £4,000 Oct.1st NFNF

Standing at The National Stud, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 0XE.Tel: 00 44 (0)1638 663464, Fax: 00 44 (0)1638 665173, Email: [email protected], www.nationalstud.co.uk

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The winds of changeThe Breeders’ Cup had a dramatic effect on the US sires’ list, while things are getting interesting on the Coolmore and Darley front, writes John Sparkman

With more than $23-million on offer, the Breeders’ Cup meeting is bound to have a major effect on the sire lists, but this year the changes wrought by the Cup were

especially dramatic. on thursday november 11, Giant’s Causeway

stood atop the US sires’ list for the second consecutive year, about $900,000 ahead of tapit, with Smart Strike third $2 million behind, and Distorted humor eighth with about $2.3 million behind Giant’s Causeway.

after Drosselmeyer, by Distorted humor, won the $2.7 million first prize in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and hansen, by tapit, won $1.08 million in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) on november 5, and my miss aurelia, by Smart Strike, earned $1.08 million in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile fillies (G1), the standings had changed dramatically.

Distorted humor now has a somewhat comfortable lead over Giant’s Causeway on just over $10 million compared to Giant’s Causeway’s $9.8 million, with tapit just short of $9.8 million and the two-time leader Smart

Strike fourth with about $8.8 million. Distorted Humor has been a highly

successful sire ever since his first-crop son Funny Cide won the Kentucky Derby (G1), the Preakness Stakes (G1) and the three-year-old championship in 2003, but he has never been quite as popular at the sales as one might think. he currently stands fourth, the highest he has ever ranked, on the list of leading sires’ of yearlings by average behind a.P. indy, Street Cry and Bernardini.

With a.P. indy retired earlier this year due to infertility at the relatively early age of

Mike Smith and Drosselmeyer: the pair’s Breeders’ Cup win took sire Distorted Humor to the top of the US sires’ list

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22, leadership of the US commercial sires is definitely an open question.

Distorted humor’s credentials are just as good as any of the other obvious candidates. Street Cry, of course, has earned breeders a lot of dollars because of the exploits of Zenyatta, but he also benefits from having sired Group 1 winners on both sides of the atlantic. So has Distorted humor. Bernardini, by a.P. indy, has also sired top-level winners in Europe and the US, but his first crop are only current three-year-olds, so he has a lot more to prove than the other two.

the fourth obvious candidate is Smart Strike, who has a better overall record than any of the other three, having led the US sires list twice, sired Group winners in europe, and sired his fourth Breeders’ Cup winner when my miss aurelia romped home in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) to clinch the juvenile fillies’ championship. My Miss aurelia will be Smart Strike’s ninth american or Canadian champion.

Smart Strike, for all his greatness as a sire, though, is a rather plain horse, and he sires offspring that are usually equally plain or

worse. therefore he has never been anywhere near as popular at the sales as his record deserves. Smart Strike currently ranks 18th on the list of sires of yearlings with an average of $133,333, more than $200,000 less than his principal rivals for leading sire.

Perhaps someday buyers will figure out that Smart Strikes do not have to be beautiful to run fast, but i would not bet on it.

two horses, who have had breakout seasons this year on the racetrack stand almost $150,000 apart in yearling average this year, partly because of timing, and partly because of the irrational US prejudice against turf horses.

War Front, a good sprinter by Danzig, who won at Grade 2 level and ran second in the Vosburgh (G1) and Forego (G1) Stakes, made a big impression early in the year when his son Soldat won the Fasig-tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2), and followed up with Grade 1-winning sprinter the Factor and Del mar oaks (G1) winner Summer Soiree later in the year.

War Front has also sired irish stakes winner Warning Flag, so he should appeal to europeans as well.

Some of those victories came early enough in the year to make yearlings by War Front a hot commodity at the sales this year, and his average soared to $204,080, an amazing eighth on the list of leading sires of yearlings, ahead of such established sires as indian Charlie, medaglia d’oro, awesome again, Giant’s Causeway and Smart Strike.

War Front’s first crop has excelled on dirt, turf and synthetic, they mature early, and he gets a lot of lengthy, powerful horses, so he has become just about every commercial breeder’s idea of the next big thing.

War Front has nine stakes winners this year. Kitten’s Joy has 12, but his yearling average this year was only $64,938. the main reason is that all 12 of those stakes winners earned their black-type on turf or synthetic, and Kitten’s Joy himself was champion turf horse in 2004. most US commercial breeders simply are not interested.

Kitten’s Joy also sired a Breeders’ Cup winner, when Stephanie’s Kitten followed up her alcibiades Stakes (G1) win on synthetic with a dramatic, final furlong surge to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ turf (G2). obviously Kitten’s Joy is an excellent prospect to sire major european winners, which should improve his sales profile over time as european buyers catch on to what is happening.

that could happen sooner rather than later after his juvenile son real Solution scored an impressive debut win in italy on november 8. Like 15 of Kitten’s Joy’s 16 stakes winners to date, real Solution was bred, and in this case is still owned, by Kitten’s Joy’s owner-breeder Ken ramsay, a charmingly eccentric cell phone billionaire who supported his champion liberally when no one else would breed to him during his first few seasons.

Perhaps someday buyers will figure out that

Smart Strikes do not have to be beautiful to run fast,

but I would not bet on it

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ramsay recently announced that Kitten’s Joy will stand for $50,000 in 2012. time to reap the benefits of that support. Kitten’s Joy currently ranks 16th on the general sires’ list, but if his subsequent crops are as good as his first two, that will change.

US breeders have decided Bernardini is going to be the next big thing. the champion three-year-old of 2006 is gorgeous, has a great pedigree, and his first crop includes three Grade 1 winners, what could go wrong?

Well, the two juvenile top-level winners by Bernardini in 2010, Biondetti and a Z Warrior, did not win a race between them this year, and his three-year-old travers Stakes (G1) winner Stay thirsty was not even the best three-year-old in his own stable.

Bernardini already has two juvenile stakes winners from his second crop and he is clearly going to be a good sire, but he has shown no indication that he is going to be the second coming of northern Dancer, or indeed of his own sire a.P. indy, which is what american breeders want him to be.

Bernardini does get good horses on both sides of the atlantic, and along with his barn mates Street Cry and Medaglia D’Oro will give Sheikh mohammed’s Darley in Kentucky a strong hand at the sales for years to come.

meanwhile the Sheikh’s chief international rival, Coolmore, has taken an interesting tack in their stallion selections for the last two years at their Kentucky outpost at ashford Stud. Last year, they secured the services of

2009 champion US two-year-old and 2010 champion three-year-old Lookin At Lucky, one of the handsomer sons of Smart Strike, and this year their principal acquisition has been 2010 champion two-year-old Uncle Mo, by the dirt horse indian Charlie.

Lookin at Lucky won Grade 1s on synthetic as well as dirt, but he would look quite at home in the paddock at ascot or newmarket, but Uncle mo is the epitome of the US dirt horse, tall and overwhelmingly powerful.

While the Sheikh’s Dubawi may finally make it interesting for Coolmore on european sire lists over the next few years, the contest between Coolmore and Darley soon could be just as competitive on the US sire list.

things are just getting interesting.

Distorted Humor 1993 Forty Niner 10 118 243 48 17 10,095,641 DrosselmeyerGiant’s Causeway 1997 Storm Cat 8 131 333 39 20 9,829,684 A Shin G LineTapit 2001 Pulpit 4 115 221 52 13 9,810,913 HansenSmart Strike 1992 Mr. Prospector 12 117 246 47 12 8,817,079 My Miss AureliaMore Than Ready 1997 Southern Halo 8 164 437 37 19 8,203,313 Regally ReadyMedaglia d’Oro 1999 El Prado 4 89 187 47 10 7,560,081 Plum PrettyMalibu Moon 1997 A.P. Indy 9 116 261 44 13 7,449,269 Strike the MoonTale of the Cat 1994 Storm Cat 10 144 347 41 11 7,353,056 Gio PontiSpeightstown 1998 Gone West 4 123 207 59 12 7,242,726 Do SliceUnbridled’s Song 1993 Unbridled 12 93 181 51 8 7,162,095 La VeritaElusive Quality 1993 Gone West 10 123 308 39 15 6,752,126 SepoyFusaichi Pegasus 1997 Mr. Prospector 8 144 343 41 9 6,643,983 ImbarcoStormy Atlantic 1994 Storm Cat 10 136 261 52 11 6,268,611 Get StormyDynaformer 1985 Roberto 19 72 166 43 10 6,243,722 Blue BuntingAwesome Again 1994 Deputy Minister 10 88 167 52 9 6,236,439 Game On DudeKitten’s Joy 2001 El Prado 3 95 186 51 13 6,210,828 Stephanie’s KittenMineshaft 1999 A.P. Indy 5 68 136 50 6 5,933,618 It’s TrickyGrand Slam 1995 Gone West 10 151 328 46 12 5,683,350 ApriorityNorthern Afleet 1993 Afleet 10 117 247 47 11 5,667,881 AmazombieBernstein 1997 Storm Cat 8 176 366 48 16 5,651,557 Signature RedInclude 1997 Broad Brush 6 114 201 56 7 5,522,638 St. John’s RiverForestry 1996 Storm Cat 9 101 188 53 6 5,445,710 ShacklefordRoman Ruler 2002 Fusaichi Pegasus 3 91 154 59 4 5,440,687 Ruler On IceBernardini 2003 A.P. Indy 2 44 122 36 8 5,431,938 Stay ThirstySongandaprayer 1998 Unbridled’s Song 7 148 262 56 5 5,332,869 Foundry no ChikaraIndian Charlie 1995 In Excess (IRE) 10 86 169 50 14 5,312,158 Uncle MoMaria’s Mon 1993 Wavering Monarch 11 110 213 51 8 5,206,662 Awesome MariaYes It’s True 1996 Is It True 8 101 207 48 3 5,200,129 Earth SoundStreet Cry 1998 Machiavellian 6 117 285 41 17 5,153,359 Carlton HouseLangfuhr 1992 Danzig 11 113 251 45 5 5,020,332 Euroears

Stallion DoB Sire Crops Rnrs Wnrs % SWnrs Earnings Top performer

Leading US Sires 2011 (to November 10, 2011) results include progeny performances in all of the major international racing nations

Power. Passion. Performance.Contact Michael Hernon 001-859-293-2676 www.gainesway.com

Power. Passion. Performance.Contact Michael Hernon 001-859-293-2676 www.gainesway.com

BEARSTONE STUD THE SOURCE OF SPEED

Enquiries: Terry or Margaret Holdcroft or Mark Pennell, Bearstone Stud, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4HFOffice: 44 (0)1630 647197 Mobile: 44 (0)7974 948755 e: [email protected] w: www.bearstonestud.co.uk

All £3,500 Oct 1st Live Foal Free ReturnSpecial Offer for 2012 'Free Keep Fees' for visiting mares

FIREBREAKGroup 1 Millionaire Miler - Group 1 SireThe Leading Sire of 2YO's in GB & IRE since 2009 by

% Stakes winners to runners

Another hugely successful year, highlighted by the speedy

Group class two-year-old Caledonia Lady

and a yearling average at the major sales of over £33,000

INDESATCHELClassic-placed dual Group winnerA fast emerging son of sire of sires Danehill Dancer,and with a growing reputation

His impressive two year old strike rate thisseason equals the achievements of Royal Applause and Kheleyf

and his yearlings made up to almost £40,000

MAJOR CADEAUXTop class sprinter/miler and

multiple Group winnerAn exceptional son of an exceptional sire

with his first yearlings in 2012

Too good on the racecourse for Dutch Art (champion1st crop sire in 2011) and Holy Roman Emperor

(champion 2nd crop and 2yo sire in 2011)

and he's now aiming to emulate them at stud

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Stallion yearling sale results By sire name and including those sires with two or more yearlings sold at European yearling sales in 2011.

The 2009 covering fee in own currency is included for comparison with the sire’s median i.e. if the median is less than the covering fee, then over half of that’s sire’s sold stock was not profitable against that fee (without costs)

Academy Award (IRE) 25 122,657 23,718 5,151 3,917 unknownAcclamation (GB) 66 5,336,852 370,000 84,904 61,672 €25,000Ad Valorem (USA) 11 47,650 10,672 4,548 4,310 €7,000Alhaarth (IRE) 13 94,416 22,166 7,625 3,619 €8,000Amadeus Wolf (GB) 31 364,637 33,000 12,350 9,482 €8,000American Post (GB) 11 189,191 41,050 18,059 11,207 €7,000 Anabaa (USA) 21 1,286,802 205,254 64,340 56,034 €30,000Anabaa Blue (GB) 3 20,114 12,315 7,039 4,741 €6,000Antonius Pius (USA) 26 203,577 34,285 8,220 6,382 €5,000Apsis (GB) 2 19,293 18,062 10,128 10,128 €2,000Araafa (IRE) 11 47,744 8,210 4,557 3,199 £9,000Arakan (USA) 3 9,439 6,978 3,303 1,723 €3,000Arch (USA) 10 969,803 279,145 101,829 58,189 $25,000 Archange d’Or (IRE) 7 39,408 14,778 5,910 4,310 €4,000 Areion (GER) 6 48,849 12,315 8,548 8,404 €,5000 Assertive (GB) 12 122,305 28,571 10,702 7,499 £4,000Astronomer Royal (USA) 24 525,580 49,261 22,994 18,965 €,8000 Auction House (USA) 5 30,380 8,095 6,380 6,999 £4,000Aussie Rules (USA) 31 403,240 45,714 13,657 10,344 €8,000Authorized (IRE) 49 1,975,248 180,000 42,327 25,862 €25,000Avonbridge (GB) 20 202,126 52,000 10,611 6,382 £4,500Azamour (IRE) 17 577,832 110,837 35,690 25,862 €15,000Bachelor Duke (USA) 11 58,611 18,061 5,594 1,723 €7,500Bahamian Bounty (GB) 55 1,663,325 120,000 31,754 25,200 £10,000Balmont (USA) 2 1,065 820 559 559 €5,000Baltic King (GB) 10 106,499 50,000 11,181 6,249 €3,500Barathea (IRE) 8 155,000 73,891 20,344 9,913 €15,000Beat Hollow (GB) 11 87,725 45,000 8,374 2,625 £6,500Bernardini (USA) 3 228,833 147,783 80,091 43,103 $75,000Bernstein (USA) 2 81,809 68,000 42,949 42,949 $27,500Bertolini (USA) 22 263,047 75,000 12,554 8,810 €4,000Big Shuffle (USA) 19 375,196 42,692 20,734 18,965 €10,000 Binary File (USA) 7 42,401 12,069 6,360 7,183 unknownBlack Sam Bellamy (IRE) 8 95,501 22,000 12,534 12,172 £4,500Blackdoun (FR) 2 12,315 10,673 6,465 6,465 €,2500 Blu Air Force (IRE) 7 70,195 21,346 10,528 8,621 privateBoreal (GER) 2 8,620 4,926 4,526 4,526 €4,000

Stallion Lots Aggregate Highest Average £ Median £ 2009 covering fee

Stallion yearling results: 2011 (one or more sold) includes all 2011 Flat yearling sales



Bosun’s Watch (GB) 9 15,047 3,648 1,755 1,244 unknownByron (GB) 33 268,453 37,000 8,541 4,999 £4,000Cadeaux Genereux 7 154,761 60,000 23,213 18,900 £10,000Camacho (GB) 20 241,563 37,000 12,682 6,954 €3,000Cape Cross (IRE) 49 4,339,384 500,000 92,986 52,500 €35,000Captain Marvelous (IRE) 23 236,741 32,380 10,808 8,619 €5,000Captain Rio (GB) 10 96,186 47,619 10,099 6,895 €5,000Carlotamix (FR) 5 33,660 12,315 7,069 7,327 €2,500Catcher In The Rye (IRE) 4 23,528 12,315 6,176 5,387 €4,000Celtic Swing (GB) 7 34,887 9,851 5,232 6,033 €4,000Central Park (IRE) 5 8,093 5,000 1,699 799 £1,500Chevalier (IRE) 3 25,941 21,345 9,079 4,309 €3,500Chineur (FR) 10 71,298 19,047 7,485 5,688 €5,000Choisir (AUS) 18 279,476 61,904 16,302 11,207 €8,000Clodovil (IRE) 33 434,954 90,311 13,839 8,500 €12,000Cockney Rebel (IRE) 17 196,018 61,904 12,107 6,999 £8,000Colossus (IRE) 3 10,673 4,926 3,735 4,310 €,6000 Compton Place (GB) 28 654,616 105,000 24,548 21,525 £7,500Country Reel (USA) 27 346,483 43,513 13,474 8,621 €1500 Daggers Drawn (USA) 3 11,904 6,157 4,166 4,310 €5,000 Dai Jin (GB) 3 35,713 13,957 12,499 13,361 €7,500Dalakhani (IRE) 40 3,714,836 400,000 97,514 72,282 €50,000Danehill Dancer (IRE) 54 6,060,441 400,000 117,842 99,913 privateDanroad (AUS) 4 55,334 42,857 14,525 6,292 €3,000Dansili (GB) 22 2,688,052 480,000 128,293 92,672 £65,000Dark Angel (IRE) 49 1,689,195 170,000 36,197 25,999 €7,500Dashing Blade 4 47,618 13,957 12,499 14,223 €7,000Della Francesca (USA) 12 138,749 30,377 12,140 7,327 €4,000 Desert Prince (IRE) 6 71,837 19,704 12,571 12,714 €6,500Desert Style (IRE) 22 347,179 53,366 16,569 9,913 €,6000 Diamond Green (FR) 13 129,186 27,367 10,434 9,999 €7,000Distant Thunder (USA) 2 1,915 1,003 1,005 1,005 unknownDoyen (IRE) 13 123,423 31,198 9,969 6,896 €5,000Dr Devious (IRE) 2 19,704 11,494 10,345 10,345 €9,000Dr Fong (USA) 7 51,600 16,420 7,740 7,327 £6,000Dubai Destination (USA) 14 127,817 24,630 9,585 9,051 £7,000Dubawi (IRE) 30 2,437,165 250,000 85,300 63,827 £15,000Duke of Marmalade (IRE) 78 4,725,964 340,000 63,618 41,689 €40,000Dustoori (GB) 8 10,853 2,280 1,424 1,149 unknownDutch Art (GB) 52 1,883,872 95,000 38,039 32,550 £6,000Dyhim Diamond (IRE) 4 16,420 6,568 4,310 4,310 €3,000 Dylan Thomas (IRE) 49 1,636,404 119,047 35,066 22,412 €35,000Early March (GB) 9 65,679 18,062 7,662 6,465 €2,300Echo of Light (GB) 5 95,731 70,000 20,103 9,483 £4,000Eishin Dunkirk (USA) 18 74,340 15,508 4,337 4,166 unknownElnadim (USA) 24 505,268 78,095 22,105 19,396 €6,000Elusive City (USA) 71 2,048,647 125,000 30,297 22,000 €12,500Elusive Quality (USA) 12 1,013,076 190,000 88,644 72,975 $75,000 Enrique (GB) 4 35,303 16,420 9,266 9,483 €3,000 Exceed And Excel (AUS) 52 3,412,972 260,000 68,916 54,266 £12,000Excellent Art (GB) 60 1,821,907 210,000 31,883 19,888 €17,500




Fair Mix (IRE) 2 2,094 1,142 1,099 1,099 £2,000Falco (USA) 28 484,703 45,155 18,176 17,241 €12,000Final Appearance (IRE) 4 9,654 3,511 2,534 2,418 unknownFirebreak (GB) 6 101,395 70,000 17,744 5,513 £3,000Fol Parade (ARG) 2 24,219 19,704 12,714 12,714 unknownFootstepsinthesand (GB) 62 1,304,874 106,731 22,098 12,499 €12,500Fraam (GB) 3 11,218 4,378 3,926 3,830 unknownFragrant Wells (FR) 4 27,913 10,673 7,327 7,757 unknownFunambule (USA) 4 6,384 2,280 1,676 1,676 unknownFusaichi Pegasus (USA) 2 38,062 20,000 19,983 19,983 $30,000 Galileo (IRE) 55 14,437,421 1,700,000 275,623 162,750 privateGentlewave (IRE) 13 93,110 24,630 7,520 6,034 €4,500Giant’s Causeway (USA) 8 523,206 145,000 68,670 60,375 $125,000 Gold Away (IRE) 14 277,087 82,101 20,781 15,517 €3,500 Gold Sphinx (USA) 7 25,040 9,852 3,756 2,586 €2,500 Gold Well (GB) 2 1,693 1,313 888 888 €1,500Great Exhibition (USA) 2 7,593 7,389 3,986 3,986 €1,250 Great Journey (JPN) 7 126,845 61,576 19,026 6,896 €6,000Green Desert (USA) 12 560,087 150,000 49,007 37,771 £25,000Green Tune (USA) 19 385,872 106,732 21,324 17,241 €15,000 Haafhd (GB) 19 211,430 34,285 11,683 7,757 £8,000Haatef (USA) 20 384,462 82,100 20,184 17,672 €6,500Halling (USA) 16 478,819 86,206 31,422 31,604 £8,000Hannouma (IRE) 10 110,835 28,735 11,637 9,483 €3,000Hard Spun (USA) 2 239,572 139,572 125,775 125,775 $4,0000 Heart of Oak (USA) 6 7,205 2,280 1,260 958 unknownHenrythenavigator (USA) 18 1,076,592 150,000 62,801 42,551 $65,000Hernando (FR) 14 356,068 62,000 26,705 18,407 £12,000High Chaparral (IRE) 39 1,263,678 155,993 34,022 21,551 €10,000Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 75 2,204,743 155,993 30,866 21,000 €25,000Hurricane Cat (USA) 6 55,416 20,525 9,698 7,112 €3,000 Hurricane Run (IRE) 42 1,451,665 180,623 36,291 27,443 €20,000Idaho Quest (GB) 2 3,071 1,974 1,612 1,612 €1,300 Iffraaj (GB) 40 1,209,361 160,000 31,746 18,102 €8,000Indesatchel (IRE) 18 164,060 38,000 9,570 6,492 £3,000Indian Haven (GB) 12 90,716 17,500 7,937 4,524 €6,000Indian River (FR) 9 9,188 2,298 1,071 861 €2,500 Indian Rocket (GB) 8 116,171 37,766 15,247 9,266 €3,500Intikhab (USA) 22 532,090 115,000 25,394 10,421 €7,000Invincible Spirit (IRE) 60 5,004,568 361,247 87,579 60,344 €50,000Ishiguru (USA) 16 229,377 40,000 15,053 13,249 £3,500Ivan Denisovich (IRE) 3 13,545 10,673 4,741 2,155 €4,000 Jeremy (USA) 41 850,673 69,785 21,785 16,800 €8,000Johannesburg (USA) 11 292,336 50,903 27,905 28,350 $35,000Johnny Red Kerr (USA) 3 7,799 3,284 2,729 2,586 unknownKalanisi (IRE) 7 55,805 14,761 8,371 8,447 €6,000Kaldounevees (FR) 2 11,904 8,620 6,250 6,250 €,5000 Kallisto (GER) 2 15,599 13,136 8,189 8,189 €2,500 Keltos (FR) 2 28,735 18,062 15,085 15,085 €2,500 Kentucky Dynamite (USA) 12 128,487 49,261 11,242 7,758 €3,000 Key of Luck (USA) 6 29,224 6,666 5,114 5,603 €9,000


Kheleyf (USA) 70 1,874,554 220,000 28,118 18,949 €12,000King’s Best (USA) 39 808,953 57,471 21,779 18,965 €15,000Kingsalsa (USA) 4 52,772 20,000 13,853 13,793 €12,000 Kodiac (GB) 24 389,849 57,142 17,055 16,758 €4,000 Konigstiger (GER) 2 5,098 3,730 2,676 2,676 €3,000 Kyllachy (GB) 56 2,511,384 220,000 47,088 34,125 £10,000Lando (GER) 15 325,594 77,996 22,791 18,965 €10,000 Lawman (FR) 42 1,490,777 102,626 37,269 28,878 €20,000Layman (USA) 8 57,651 10,672 7,566 7,758 €5,000 Le Fou (IRE) 2 4,926 4,105 2,586 2,586 €1,500Lemon Drop Kid (USA) 4 435,311 155,000 114,268 126,163 $50,000Librettist (USA) 22 286,118 28,735 13,655 11,207 €7,000 Linda’s Lad (GB) 2 20,525 16,420 10,775 10,775 €3,500 Linngari (IRE) 14 223,313 53,366 16,748 12,069 €5,000 Lion Heart (USA) 2 44,564 36,945 23,396 23,396 $20,000 Literato (FR) 15 371,095 90,311 25,976 14,655 €6,000 Lomitas (GB) 3 105,089 77,996 36,780 20,689 unknownLord du Sud (FR) 2 6,157 4,926 3,232 3,232 unknownLord of England (GER) 3 147,782 69,786 51,723 57,758 €3,000 Lucky Story (USA) 4 28,570 13,333 7,499 6,500 £3,000Mahler (GB) 4 34,677 22,857 9,102 5,042 €2,500Majestic Missile (IRE) 8 118,951 55,000 15,611 11,206 €4,000 Mamool (IRE) 3 49,260 24,630 17,241 13,793 €3,750 Manduro (GER) 33 1,383,722 328,407 44,027 27,300 £20,000Marju (IRE) 18 1,123,276 213,463 65,524 37,434 €20,000Medaglia d’Oro (USA) 4 358,833 131,362 94,193 89,250 $40,000Medecis (GB) 7 116,993 61,576 17,549 15,517 €4,000Medicean (GB) 51 1,391,615 120,000 28,650 17,999 £15,000Melmac (SWE) 3 5,472 3,192 1,915 1,436 unknownMeshaheer (USA) 6 52,133 16,420 9,122 9,051 €2,500 Miesque’s Son (USA) 2 11,119 7,389 5,837 5,837 €5,000 Milk It Mick (GB) 2 12,380 9,523 6,500 6,500 £3,500Mirio (FR) 2 2,554 1,642 1,341 1,341 unknownMisu Bond (IRE) 4 28,855 9,523 7,574 8,149 £1,750Mizzen Mast (USA) 4 229,876 98,522 60,342 61,202 $17,500 Monsieur Bond (IRE) 8 268,551 140,000 35,246 17,999 £3,000Monsun (GER) 9 929,060 221,674 108,389 86,206 privateMontjeu (IRE) 30 4,997,198 520,000 174,902 156,336 privateMore Than Ready (USA) 3 149,095 65,681 52,183 59,999 $45,000 Moss Vale (IRE) 31 369,601 41,050 12,518 12,068 €4,000 Most Welcome 3 7,206 5,473 2,522 958 unknownMotivator (GB) 32 548,264 98,522 17,990 10,500 £10,000Mount Nelson (GB) 50 1,764,826 150,000 37,061 29,880 £10,000Mountain High (IRE) 2 7,387 4,761 3,878 3,878 €3,000Mr Greeley (USA) 10 465,197 100,000 48,845 47,413 $10,0000 Muhtathir (GB) 31 772,763 55,829 26,173 23,275 €15,000 Mujadil (USA) 21 353,198 75,000 17,659 12,999 €10,000Mujahid (USA) 4 19,704 7,389 5,172 5,603 €7,000 Multiplex (GB) 24 320,962 145,000 14,042 4,499 £4,000Mustameet (USA) 2 4,760 3,612 2,499 2,499 privateNamid (GB) 4 41,322 22,987 10,847 7,902 €4,000




CLODOVILPROVEN GROUP 1 SIRE BY DANEHILL

A leading sire of 2yos in 2011 with 24 individual 2yo winners* (51% winners to runners), including COUPE DE VILLE and MISS LAHAR (* to 21st October)

Also sire of SECRET ASSET, 2nd in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp in 2011

2011 yearlings made up to €110,000 (Shadwell) and are in training with Richard Hannon (3), Mick Channon and Mark Johnston, etc.

FAST COMPANYCHAMPION UK TRAINED 2YO BY DANEHILL DANCER

TFR 126, rated just 1lb behind European Champion 2yo New Approach

Defeated Gr.1 winners Raven’s Pass, Rio de la Plata, Dark Angel and Campanologist

Dam half sister to Gr.2 winner and dual Gr.1 placed HAWAJIS

FIRST CROP FOALS IN 2012

THOUSAND WORDSGROUP WINNING 2YO BY DANSILI

Bred on the same Danzig – Northern Dancer cross as leading sire OASIS DREAM

Rated above Duke of Marmalade, Cockney Rebel and Sakhee’s Secret at 2.

1st crop yearlings made €41,000, €35,000, €32,000, etc, in 2011 and are in training with Richard Hannon, David Evans, Charlie Hills, etc.

FIRST CROP 2YOS IN 2012

HAWAJIS

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5,000 1st October

4,000 1st October

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Nayef (USA) 30 1,372,436 210,000 48,034 43,103 £15,000New Approach (IRE) 38 5,049,337 500,000 139,521 105,000 £30,000Nobileo (GB) 5 7,022 2,280 1,474 1,436 unknownNombre Premier (GB) 4 27,092 19,704 7,112 3,232 privateNotnowcato (GB) 22 355,209 90,000 16,952 6,174 £6,000Oasis Dream (GB) 43 5,390,954 700,000 131,640 89,744 £30,000Observatory (USA) 5 77,716 36,945 16,320 13,793 £6,000One Cool Cat (USA) 14 105,833 25,451 7,937 5,171 €9,000Oratorio (IRE) 74 1,450,909 76,190 20,586 13,793 €17,500Orpen (USA) 18 212,437 34,482 12,392 9,051 €6,000 Overbury (IRE) 4 5,426 1,904 1,424 1,449 £3,500Panis (USA) 9 113,707 34,482 13,266 12,931 €5,000 Papal Bull (GB) 9 81,194 23,000 9,472 6,300 €7,500Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 40 615,729 61,904 16,163 9,955 £4,500Peer Gynt (JPN) 5 85,384 27,914 17,930 12,931 €2,500Peintre Celebre (USA) 21 750,968 135,000 37,548 24,137 €20,000Phoenix Reach (IRE) 2 12,000 7,000 6,300 6,300 £3,500Piccolo (GB) 15 152,312 34,482 10,662 5,460 £5,000Pistachio (GB) 3 15,040 11,859 5,264 2,188 unknownPivotal (GB) 49 4,360,347 360,000 93,435 67,999 £65,000Platini (GER) 3 94,005 86,206 32,902 4,741 €4,000Poliglote (GB) 3 38,587 31,198 13,505 6,896 €8,000 Proclamation (IRE) 2 30,323 29,523 15,919 15,919 £3,000Proud Citizen (USA) 4 174,051 114,941 45,688 28,447 $30,000Rail Link (GB) 18 247,211 52,545 14,420 11,284 £9,000Rakti (GB) 6 15,768 4,761 2,759 2,331 €5,000Ramonti (FR) 13 179,708 52,380 14,514 8,619 €5,000Ransom O’War (USA) 2 4,926 2,463 2,586 2,586 €4,500 Raven’s Pass (USA) 19 2,014,657 260,000 111,336 77,586 €40,000Red Clubs (IRE) 56 1,219,450 150,000 22,864 14,327 €10,000Redback (GB) 23 217,819 30,476 9,944 6,033 €5,000Refuse To Bend (IRE) 42 588,960 73,891 14,723 11,421 €12,000Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) 58 1,883,877 180,000 34,104 21,982 €27,500Royal Applause (GB) 74 2,533,853 260,000 35,953 29,355 £9,000Royal Assault (USA) 5 38,176 18,062 8,017 6,034 €10,000 Russian Blue (IRE) 2 41,050 24,630 21,551 21,551 €3,000 Sabiango (GER) 5 40,950 14,595 8,600 8,621 €3,000 Saddex (GB) 3 51,723 32,840 18,103 12,069 €5,000 Saffron Walden (FR) 2 11,493 6,157 6,033 6,033 €4,000 Sagacity (FR) 2 9,441 5,336 4,956 4,956 €2,500 Sageburg (IRE) 2 13,957 11,494 7,327 7,327 €3,000Sakhee (USA) 19 386,857 75,000 21,378 11,207 £8,000Sakhee’s Secret (GB) 54 1,336,665 95,000 25,991 21,500 £6,500Samum (GER) 18 309,353 57,471 18,045 18,103 €25,000 Sandwaki (USA) 2 45,976 41,050 24,137 24,137 €1,500Selkirk (USA) 2 204,630 180,000 107,431 107,431 £25,000Shahin (USA) 3 4,926 1,642 1,724 1,724 €3,500Shamardal (USA) 59 4,253,698 350,000 75,701 52,500 €20,000Shirocco (GER) 59 1,198,603 86,206 21,331 14,655 €1,000 Sholokhov (IRE) 8 334,972 164,203 43,965 22,413 €4,500 Silvano (GER) 17 354,763 41,050 21,911 18,965 €8,000






Singspiel (IRE) 28 983,687 150,000 36,888 17,850 £15,000Sinndar (IRE) 16 312,380 38,587 20,499 17,451 €10,000Sir Percy (GB) 28 862,003 260,000 32,324 22,050 £7,000Sixties Icon (GB) 8 127,723 58,000 16,763 10,094 £6,000Sleeping Indian (GB) 29 347,878 49,523 12,595 10,344 £4,000Slickly (FR) 17 455,659 197,044 28,143 12,931 €7,000 Soave (GER) 5 60,343 26,272 12,671 9,483 unknownSoldier Hollow (GB) 4 97,700 55,008 25,646 17,672 €6,500Songline (SWE) 6 23,260 9,122 4,070 3,112 unknownSpecial Quest (FR) 17 96,692 37,305 5,971 3,340 unknownSpeightstown (USA) 5 268,677 65,000 56,422 63,000 $35,000 Spirit One (FR) 2 15,599 9,031 8,189 8,189 privateSternkoenig (IRE) 2 21,346 14,778 11,207 11,207 €2,900 Stormy Atlantic (USA) 4 266,941 110,000 70,072 67,308 $45,000 Stormy River (FR) 30 592,763 102,627 20,746 17,241 €8,000 Strategic Prince (GB) 17 350,267 150,000 21,633 9,975 €6,000Street Boss (USA) 6 168,922 41,050 29,561 31,225 $25,000 Street Sense (USA) 2 134,646 114,942 70,689 70,689 $60,000 Stroll (USA) 3 20,525 9,852 7,183 6,896 €12,000Sunday Break (JPN) 11 132,591 32,840 12,656 9,483 €4,000Swedish Shave (FR) 2 2,919 1,642 1,532 1,532 unknownTagula (IRE) 10 138,854 55,000 14,579 11,559 €4,000 Tale of The Cat (USA) 3 58,290 45,155 20,402 9,482 $30,000 Tamayuz (GB) 35 1,770,894 150,000 53,126 33,600 €15,000Tapit (USA) 2 123,151 90,311 64,654 64,654 $35,000 Teofilo (IRE) 60 4,038,331 250,000 70,670 52,500 €25,000Terroir (IRE) 2 3,101 2,189 1,628 1,628 unknownTertullian (USA) 4 102,214 40,000 26,831 26,196 €4,000 Thousand Words (GB) 26 276,204 34,285 11,154 7,878 €5,000Three Valleys (USA) 15 61,592 16,420 4,311 2,940 £5,000Tiger Hill (IRE) 32 264,413 40,000 8,675 5,904 £12,000Tobougg (IRE) 7 35,870 8,095 5,380 6,000 £2,500Touch Down (GER) 2 29,556 21,346 15,517 15,517 €3,000Toylsome (GB) 3 33,661 18,062 11,781 12,069 €5,000 Trade Fair (GB) 4 17,372 5,910 4,560 4,725 £3,000Trans Island (GB) 4 12,105 6,978 3,177 2,175 €3,000 Trempolino (USA) 2 50,902 31,198 26,724 26,724 €8,000 Troon (GB) 4 4,651 1,642 1,220 1,100 unknownTurtle Bowl (IRE) 23 293,507 36,945 13,399 12,069 €3,500 Vatori (FR) 2 7,799 6,568 4,094 4,094 unknownVerglas (IRE) 66 1,520,422 172,413 24,188 14,655 €10,000 Vespone (IRE) 2 13,136 11,494 6,896 6,896 €3,000 Visindar (GB) 2 9,031 6,568 4,741 4,741 unknownVita Rosa (JPN) 2 10,398 9,030 5,459 5,459 £4,500War Chant (USA) 2 76,000 40,000 39,900 39,900 $15,000 Way of Light (USA) 5 13,135 4,926 2,758 1,293 €4,000 Whipper (USA) 31 496,449 59,113 16,815 10,345 €12,000Windsor Knot (IRE) 3 9,118 6,000 3,191 2,585 €4,000With Approval (CAN) 5 69,212 30,000 14,534 8,189 £4,500Zafeen (FR) 2 63,000 60,000 33,075 33,075 £3,000Zamindar (USA) 41 1,631,678 180,000 41,787 34,482 £15,000


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the golden gavel awards 2011

Bloodstock agent of the year: A tight contest between Peter and Ross Doyle for the multitude of winners and top-class ones bought for and trained by Richard Hannon; David Redvers for giving Sheikh Fahad Al Thani a year in racing to remember.

Most profitable racehorse of the year: Tell Dad (Intikhab) has made money at every stage of his young life.

His sire Intikhab stood at €8,000 in 2008 when his dam Don’t Tell Mum was covered; Tell Dad subsequently sold as a yearling for 72,000gns in 2010.

Trained by Richard Hannon for Andrew Tinkler, he then won £247,615 in prize-money and was sold to Lakin Bloodstock for 240,000gns at the HIT Sale.

Stallion that everyone now claims they never lost faith in: Exceed And Excel who produced the Group 1 winners Excelebration and Margot Did in the northern hemisphere (as well as Group 2 winner Best Terms) and Helmet in Australia. His yearling average jumped up by around 30,000gns this autumn.

Stallion that everyone had lost faith in: Dubai Destination. The son of Kingmambo transferred to Glenvale Stud – Rathbarry’s NH division for 2010 standing at a fee of €3,500 after a retiring to stud at a fee of £25,000.

This year, the sire has had 45 winners at a 26 per cent strike rate on the Flat with Family One, who finished second in the Prix Morny (G1), the Group 3 Sceptre Stakes winner Alanza, Tattersalls Stakes (G3) runner-up Farraaj, and multiple Group race performer Measuring Time, who was sold at the Horses in Training Sales for 310,000gns, among his leading performers.

The Golden Gavels 2011

STOP PRESS: will Sea The Stars’s foal average be the highest ever?

The inaugural bloodstock awards for the great, the good, the not so good and the mildly amusing through 2011

Stud career avoidance award: goes to Twice Over, who at seven remains in training for 2012

A new, bionic bloodstock photographer:Trevor Jones incorporatingPacemaker


Stallion buyers have woken up

to: Kyllachy, the prolific

winner-producing Cheveley Park stallion,

whose yearling average increased to 44,000gns this

autumn.Only three sires have

had more than 100 “wins” in 2011 –

Galileo, Exceed And Excel and Kyllachy.

the golden gavel awards 2011

Most overused cliché in

bloodstock: “there’s plenty

of money for the good ones”

Improved sale format:

Tattersalls October Yearling Sale

Sale format that DID NOT work:

Arqana August

Small stud of the year: Bob McCreery’s Stowell Hill for its record-breaking sale at the DBS Premier Sale of the Oasis Dream ex Ronaldsay who fetched 280,000gns.

Most overused WORD in

racing: whip

Important maiden winner: Tales Of Grimm, bought by Sir Robert Ogden for 320,000gns from Mocklershill Hill at the Craven Breeze-Up Sale. He is the winner of one maiden from one start, a race in which he beat Firdaws, the Fillies’ Mile third.

His dam, Stupendous Miss, was subsequently bought at Keeneland by Sonia Rogers for $400,000

What we have had

enough of:boutique sales

First-crop stallion surprise:Sir Percy, who had ten winners through the 2011 season (including one stakes winner), at a strike rate of 42 per cent.

His Salford Art finished fourth in the Fillies Mile (G1). Most people had forgotten he was a champion juvenile.

First-crop stallion late developer: Manduro, who is now the sire of seven winners. After a quiet summer, Bonfire ran in the Criterium International (G1).

Well fancied, the Andrew Balding-trained runner failed to get a run, ending up a fast-finishing third.

That wrong was righted by Mandaean in the last G1 of the season, the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.

Funny, Manduro still has had just one winner in Britain or Ireland and he has leapfrogged the stakes race ladder – these two Group 1 performers are his only stakes horses

Owner the bloodstock industry should be most thankful to: Paul Fudge of Waratah Thoroughbreds. After a disappointing first day’s trade at the Arqana August Sale, Fudge went to €1.7million for the Galileo ex Sanjida filly, the highest price for a European yearling since 2007 (later topped at Tattersalls).

Not only did Fudge help to turn the Arqana Sale around, but he also set the European 2011 yearling season on a positive note, reminding buyers that there is no disgrace to be seen spending a lot of money on horses.

Surprisingly successful sale:

Brightwells Breeze-Up

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CAN A GRADE 1 WINNER be said to be like a bus? It may be an unflattering comparison but Aidan O’Brien could be forgiven for likening the two, after his eight-year wait for top-level success at the

Breeders’ Cup meeting ended in great style with the victories of Wrote and St Nicholas Abbey.

It is somehow hard to believe that O’Brien last won a Grade 1 race at the Breeders’ Cup in 2003, with only Man Of Iron’s 2009 victory in the then-ungraded Marathon on the score board since.

It is fitting, therefore, that the horse that put O’Brien back among the Grade 1 winners was Wrote, winner of the Juvenile Turf (G1), a son of his last top-level Breeders’ Cup hero, High Chaparral. That stallion took the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) in 2002 and 2003, first at Arlington and then when sharing honours at Santa Anita with the dead-heating Johar.

On paper, Wrote may not have seemed the most likely candidate to break the drought for his trainer.

Finale, winner of the Summer Stakes (G3) at Woodbine for Todd Pletcher and running for the same Coolmore triumvirate as Wrote,

was sent off the 4-1 favourite, but it was the latter who triumphed by two and a quarter lengths from Excaper in the mile contest.

It is not often that future Breeders’ Cup winners debut at Roscommon, but that is where Wrote made his first racecourse appearance in August, finishing third in what the Racing Post called “a pleasing debut”.

A week later he was back in action at Cork, breaking his maiden by a short head, and was turned out again after only a week to win a premier nursery handicap at Galway. Again, this may seem an unlikely venue, but it is worth noting that O’Brien’s Irish Derby winner Treasure Beach also won that same contest.

The Royal Lodge Stakes (G2) was Wrote’s next port of call at Newmarket in September, and on lightning fast ground he could finish only third to his stable mates Daddy Long Legs and Tenth Star.

Given plenty to do in that race, and clearly not entirely comfortable on the good

Mare of the month mare of the month

Desert Classic (Green Desert-High Standard (Kris))


It is fitting that the horse that put O’Brien

back among the Grade 1 winners was Wrote,

a son of his last top-level Breeders’ Cup

hero, High Chaparral

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“Wrote and Ryan Moore galloping to Juvenile Turf victory. The Aidan O’Brien-trained High Chaparral colt is from one of the best families in the stud book

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Mare of the month mare of the month

Desert Classic (Green Desert-High Standard (Kris))


to firm going, Wrote’s connections could take heart from the race, even if few could have predicted that his next outing would encompass Grade 1 glory.

Even fewer people would have tipped the colt for Breeders’ Cup success when he made his first appearance in the sales ring at Tattersalls December Foal Sale in 2009.

When bidding stalled at 22,000gns, the colt was bought back by his breeder Rob Speers, stud groom at Mertoun Paddocks in Newmarket. Around 40 lots later, a High Chaparral brother to the Group 1-placed Lady Darshaan and half-brother to the Group 1 winner Total Gallery, was snapped up by Hugo Lascelles for 300,000gns.

But what a difference a year makes. Last October, Wrote returned to Park Paddocks for the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 2, and this time found far more friends around the ring, with MV Magnier eventually making the winning bid of 145,000gns.

That price tag was far and away above High Chaparral’s Book 2 average of 71,143gns for seven lots sold, and also far exceeded the total sale average of 32,470gns.

Wrote’s yearling price tag is also easily the highest price achieved by a foal of his dam, Desert Classic.

Prior to Wrote, the most expensive of her progeny had been Do It Yourself, a colt by Hurricane Run, who sold at Goffs Orby as a yearling for €60,000, a price that dropped to €48,000 when he was re-offered two months later at the Tattersalls December Yearling Sale.

At that sale, he was purchased by Dirk Eisele’s BBA Germany so joining his year-older half-sister Diara Angel (Hawk Wing) in Germany.

Diara Angel is now the winner of one start over 1m2f in that country, while Do It Yourself has been placed once.

Since foaling Wrote, Desert Classic has produced a filly by Excellent Art, who was withdrawn from Book 2 of this year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. Sadly her colt foal of 2011, by Yeats, has died since birth. The mare is currently back in foal to Hurricane Run.

Desert Classic, a daughter of Green

Desert bred by Maktoum Al Maktoum’s Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd, was herself something of a bargain buy, being snapped up by her current owner Speers for €24,000 at the 2006 Goffs February Sale, a price tag that looks even cheaper in view of her Grade 1-winning son.

At the time, Desert Classic had not yet been bred, and her race record was not exactly a glowing endorsement. Unplaced in five starts, her best result came when fourth of 12, beaten 3l, in a Wolverhampton maiden in 2005.

Indeed, although her own dam, High

Standard, had produced four winners from eight foals at the time, the only one to earn black-type was Al Moulatham, second by a short head in the Fairway Stakes (L) at Newmarket in 2005, but subsequently a minor performer.

Two full siblings to Desert Classic plied their trade with some success at handicap level, with Summer Song and Tartan Gigha both a winner on seven occasions.

However, while Desert Classic’s immediate family may have been no great shakes, one need not go too far back to uncover some stellar performers.

The mare’s second dam Durrah, a daughter of Nijinsky who won a maiden in France at two for Criquette Head, was superbly bred, being a three-parts sister to the disqualified 2,000 Guineas winner and outstanding sire Nureyev (Northern Dancer).

Durrah was also a sister to the Grade 2 winner Number, whose talented progeny include the Grand Criterium (G1) winner Jade Robbery, and the Grade 1-placed Bound.

Perhaps most importantly, Durrah was also a half-sister to Fairy Bridge, dam of Wrote’s paternal grandsire Sadler’s Wells, surely the greatest stallion in Britain and Ireland of the post-war era.

It may be nearly 30 years since the best performers of Wrote’s family were on the track, but his Grade 1 victory has certainly gone a long way to restoring past glories.

Durrah, a daughter of Nijinsky, was

superbly bred being a three-parts sister to the disqualified

2,000 Guineas winner and outstanding

sire Nureyev

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1 Boldogsag (FR) 2 ro f Layman (USA) -Belga Wood (USA) (Woodman (USA))2 Mashoora (IRE) 2 ch f Barathea (IRE) -Lovely Blossom (FR) (Spinning World(USA))3 Rajastani (IRE) 2 b f Zamindar (USA) -Rocky Mistress (GB) (Rock of Gibraltar(IRE))

Age: 2; Starts: 3; Wins: 3; Places: 0Earnings: £59,483

Sire: LAYMAN. Sire of 1 Stakes winners.In 2011 - BOLDOGSAG Woodman G3.

1st Dam: Belga Wood by Woodman.Dam of 6 winners:2001: MISS BELGA BOUND (fBoundary) 4 wins in USA. Broodmare.2002: BOSTON BELGA (f BostonHarbor) 3 wins at 2 and 3 in USA.2004: MINNALOUSHE (f BlackMinnaloushe) 3 wins at 4 and 5 inFrance.2005: Drogenboos (cBeaudelaire)2006: BARATOM (c Beaudelaire) 3wins at 3 and 4 in France.2008: BEOWULF (c Layman)Winner at 2 in France.2009: BOLDOGSAG (f Layman) 3wins at 2 in France, Prix des Reservoirs-

Haras d’Etreham G3.

Broodmare Sire: WOODMAN. Sire ofthe dams of 156 Stakes winners. In2011 - AMANEE Pivotal G1,ARCHARCHARCH Arch G1, BYWORDPeintre Celebre G2, HARBOUR WATCHAcclamation G2, HEADACHE Tapit G2,HURTLE MYRTLE Dane Shadow G2,BOLDOGSAG Layman G3, FIREBOLTStravinsky G3, FRENCH NAVYShamardal G3, VICTORIA’S WILDCATBellamy Road G3, ARTIC FERN LangfuhrLR, BEACHFIRE Indian Haven LR,CARBONEL Black Minnaloushe LR,COUP DE COEUR Exchange Rate LR, ITTIZ Tiznow LR, MENLO CASTLE ForestDanger LR, MILO Coats Choice LR,PRIMEVERE Singspiel LR, SET THETREND Reset LR, SYMPHONY EagleEyed LR, CELTIX Linamix LR.

1 Beaten Up (GB) 3 b g Beat Hollow(GB) - Frog (GB) (Akarad (FR))2 Al Kazeem (GB) 3 b c Dubawi (IRE) -Kazeem (GB) (Darshaan)3 Barbican (GB) 3 b g Hurricane Run(IRE) - The Faraway Tree (GB) (SuaveDancer (USA))


Sire: BEAT HOLLOW. Sire of 13 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - SEA MOON AllegedG2, BEATEN UP Akarad G3,VAGABOND SHOES Singspiel G3,NATURE SPIRITS Darshaan LR,RHYTHM OF LIGHT Danehill LR,BATTLE GROUP Top Ville LR.

1st Dam: FROG by Akarad. 5 wins at 3.Dam of 5 winners:1998: SEL (f Salse) 2 wins at 2.Broodmare.1999: FROGLET (f Shaamit) 3wins at 3. Broodmare.2000: Batto (g Slip Anchor)2002: VALE DE LOBO (f LoupSauvage) 5 wins.2003: Rivetting (g Vettori)2005: Pond (f Compton Place)ran on the flat in Belgium.2007: HARRIS TWEED (g

Hernando) 4 wins at 3, Noel Murless SLR, freebets.co.uk Stand Cup LR, 2ndHardwicke S G2.2008: BEATEN UP (g BeatHollow) 3 wins at 3, Worthington’s StSimon S G3.2009: Vow (f Motivator) unracedto date.2010: (f Sakhee)

2nd Dam: Best Girl Friend by Sharrood.unraced. Dam of PRINCIPE DOSMARES (c Vettori: C. Presidente RafaelA Paes de Barros LR, 3rd Grande PremioDezesseis de Julho G2), Best Grey (cEzzoud: 2nd Premio Villa Borghese LR,3rd Derby Italiano G1), Record Holder(c Roi Normand: 2nd Grande PremioGervasio Seabra G2), Ovo Frito (cVettori: 2nd Classico Breno Caldas LR).Grandam of TONYA.

Broodmare Sire: AKARAD. Sire of thedams of 46 Stakes winners. In 2011 -AKARLINA Martaline G3, BEATEN UPBeat Hollow G3, SKINS GAME DiktatG3, RIVER CHOICE River Mist LR.

1 Tell Dad (GB) 2 b g Intikhab (USA) -Don’t Tell Mum (IRE) (Dansili (GB))2 Saigon (GB) 2 b c Royal Applause (GB)- Luanshya (GB) (First Trump (GB))3 Hazaz (IRE) 2 b c Dubawi (IRE) - TrebleSeven (USA) (Fusaichi Pegasus (USA))


Sire: INTIKHAB. Sire of 21 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - GLEN’S DIAMONDRainbow Quest G3, TELL DAD DansiliG3, KEMPES Royal Academy LR, SILKDRUM Kenmare LR.

1st Dam: DON’T TELL MUM by Dansili.2 wins at 2 and 3. Dam of 2 winners:2006: Tell Mum (f Marju)unraced.2008: Khawatim (c Intikhab) 2wins at 2 in France, 3rd Prix de CabourgJockey Club Turquie G3.2009: TELL DAD (g Intikhab)Sold 72,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 3wins at 2, Worthington’s Horris Hill S

G3.2010: (c Intikhab)2011: (c Intikhab)

2nd Dam: Zinnia by Zilzal. ran once at2. Dam of ICESOLATOR (g One CoolCat: Betfair Betting National S LR, 3rdBathwick Tyres Greenham S G3)

Broodmare Sire: DANSILI. Sire of thedams of 1 Stakes winners. In 2011 -TELL DAD Intikhab G3.

The Intikhab/Dansili cross hasproduced: TELL DAD G3, KhawatimG3.

1 Altano (GER) 5 b c Galileo (IRE) -Alanda (GER) (Lando (GER))2 Leo Gali (IRE) 4 b f Galileo (IRE) -Reprise (GB) (Darshaan)3 Lacateno (GB) 4 b c Green Tune (USA)- Lacatena (GER) (Acatenango (GER))

Age: 3-5; Starts: 17; Wins: 7; Places: 7Earnings: £41,606

Sire: GALILEO. Sire of 102 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - CAPE BLANCOPresidium G1, FRANKEL Danehill G1,GALIKOVA Blushing Groom G1,GOLDEN LILAC Danehill G1, IGUGUIntikhab G1, MAYBE Danehill G1,MISTY FOR ME Storm Cat G1,NATHANIEL Silver Hawk G1, RODERICO’CONNOR Danehill G1, TOGETHERPennekamp G1, TREASURE BEACHMark of Esteem G1, DAVIDLIVINGSTON Indian Ridge G2, ILSAGGIATORE Snippets G2, JOHANNZOFFANY Royal Academy G2, ALTANOLando G3, GALILEO’S CHOICE Sir IvorG3, QUEST FOR PEACE Danehill DancerG3, SENSE OF PURPOSE Darshaan G3,CRYSTAL GAL Danehill LR, GALIZANIZabeel LR, LAGALP Danehill LR, LAYTIME Green Desert LR, MAHBOOBA RedRansom LR, NIWOT Noble Bijou LR,OPERA GAL Barathea LR, REEMDanehill LR, TOI ET MOI Warning LR,VIEW THE STARS Conquistador CieloLR, ARISTOCRAT Silver Hawk LR,CELESTIAL HALO High Top LR,FAMOUS PRINCE Palace Music LR,

906 - Prix des Reservoirs-Harasd’Etreham, G3, Deauville, October18, 1600m

HaloSunday Silence

Wishing WellLAYMAN ch 2002

NureyevLaiyl

AlydaressBOLDOGSAG ro f 2009

Mr ProspectorWoodman

PlaymateBELGA WOOD b 96

Al NasrMadame Belga

Belga

907 - Worthington’s St Simon Stakes,G3, Newbury, October 22, 12f

Northern DancerSadler’s Wells

Fairy BridgeBEAT HOLLOW b 97

Dancing BraveWemyss Bight

BahamianBEATEN UP b g 2008

LabusAkarad

LicataFROG b 93

SharroodBest Girl Friend

Girl Friend

908 - Worthington’s Horris HillStakes, G3, Newbury, October 22, 7f

RobertoRed Ransom

ArabiaINTIKHAB b 94

Crafty ProspectorCrafty Example

ZienelleTELL DAD b g 2009

DanehillDansili

HasiliDON’T TELL MUM b 2002

ZilzalZinnia

Ibtihaj

909 - Premio St Leger Italiano, G3,Milan, October 22, 2800m

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international databaseGran Senor (USA))3 Neatico (GER) 4 b c Medicean (GB) -Nicola Bella (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA))


Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - GITANOHERNANDO Perugino G1, ALIANTHUSKonigsstuhl G2.

1st Dam: Allure by Konigsstuhl.Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd GrosserStutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Damof 4 winners:2001: Apokalypse (f Lomitas) 3wins at 2 and 5 in France, Germany, 3rdPreis des Casino Baden-Baden LR.2002: A BEAUTIFUL MIND (fWinged Love) 2 wins at 2 and 3 inGermany. Dam of Alkhana (fDalakhani: Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rdG.P. Mercedes-Benz NiederlassungHamburg G3)2005: ALIANTHUS (c Hernando)Sold 78,817gns yearling at BBAGS. 10wins at 3, 5 and 6 in Germany, GrosserEuropa Meile-Asterblute,Rower,Ru G2,Grafenberger Meilen-Trophy G2, UVEX-Trophy Rennen G3, F Gunther vonGaertner Gedachtnisrennen G3, G.P.der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf G3(twice), G. P. des Volkswagen ZentrumNordrhein G3, EBF European BreedersFund Meile LR, 2nd Darley Oettingen-Rennen G2, Prix Perth G3, P.Freunde/Forderer Reiter RennvereinsG3, Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR,Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR, 3rdGrosser Preis der Mehl MulhensStiftung G2.2006: AMAZING TIGER (c TigerHill) 7 wins.2008: Anabasis (f High Chaparral)in training.2009: Alto Papavero (cShamardal) unraced to date.2010: American Peony (f NewApproach)

2nd Dam: Adjani by Surumu. Dam ofAcamani (g Winged Love: 2nd GrosserRadeberger Pilsner Preis LR, 3rd BMWDeutsches Derby G1, 3rd Bader PreisHurdle LR), Allure (f Konigsstuhl, seeabove), ATAMANE (g Winged Love: PrixLeon Olry-Roederer Hurdle G2, 2ndGrand Prix d’Automne Hurdle G1)

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sireof the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In2011 - ALIANTHUS Hernando G2, ILLOTertullian G3, DALARNA Dashing BladeLR.

1 Izzi Top (GB) 3 b f Pivotal (GB) - ZeeZee Top (GB) (Zafonic (USA))2 Albaraah (IRE) 3 b f Oasis Dream (GB) -Coconut Show (GB) (Linamix (FR))3 Andromeda Galaxy (FR) 3 b f PeintreCelebre (USA) - Arlesienne (IRE) (Alzao(USA))


Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 91 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - AMANEE WoodmanG1, IMMORTAL VERSE Sadler’s WellsG1, SPRING STYLE Irish River G2,ENTANGLE Primo Dominie G3,HEADSTRONG Pursuit of Love G3, IZZITOP Zafonic G3, EMERALDCOMMANDER Sadler’s Wells LR, ETONRIFLES Danehill LR, NATIONALISMSadler’s Wells LR, POET Shirley HeightsLR, SETA Generous LR, FINALAPPROACH Kahyasi LR.

1st Dam: ZEE ZEE TOP by Zafonic. 3wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prix del’Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1, 3rdVodafone Nassau S G1. Dam of 2winners:2005: Zee Zee Gee (f Galileo)unraced. Broodmare.2006: Green Top (f Green Desert)unraced.2007: ROCK N ROLL RANSOM (gRed Ransom) 4 wins.2008: IZZI TOP (f Pivotal) 2 winsat 3 at home, France, Prix de Flore G3,Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial S LR, 3rdInvestec Oaks S G1, Tweenhills PrettyPolly S LR.2010: (f Montjeu)

2nd Dam: COLORSPIN by High Top. 3wins at 2 and 3 Gilltown Stud Irish OaksG1, 4th Gold Seal Oaks S G1, YorkshireOaks G1. Dam of KAYF TARA (c Sadler’sWells: Ascot Gold Cup G1 (twice),Jefferson Smurfit Mem. Irish St LegerG1 (twice), 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1),OPERA HOUSE (c Sadler’s Wells: EverReady Coronation Cup G1, CoralEclipse S G1, King George VI & QueenElizabeth S G1, 2nd Coral Eclipse S G1,Guinness Champion S G1, Prix GanayG1, 3rd King George VI & Queen

Elizabeth S G1, CIGA Prix de l’Arc deTriomphe G1), ZEE ZEE TOP (f Zafonic,see above), Highland Dress (cLomond: 2nd Brigadier Gerard S G3,3rd Hardwicke S G2). Grandam ofNECKLACE.

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of thedams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 -WATAR Marju G2, IZZI TOP Pivotal G3,PACIFIQUE Montjeu G3, DANDIFIEDRebuttal LR, DUCK FEET Aussie Rules LR,MASHOOR Monsun LR, PEACE OFOASIS Oasis Dream LR.

The Pivotal/Zafonic cross hasproduced: IZZI TOP G1, CounterclaimG2.

1 Cityscape (GB) 5 ch c Selkirk (USA) -Tantina (USA) (Distant View (USA))2 Sommerabend (GB) 4 b c Shamardal(USA) - Sommernacht (GER) (Monsun(GER))3 Akarlina (FR) 5 gr f Martaline (GB) -Akaralda (FR) (Akarad (FR))


Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 86 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - ANNOUNCE GoneWest G1, NAHRAIN Generous G1,CITYSCAPE Distant View G3,GLASWEGIAN Lear Fan G3, SHAMALILycius LR, SHEDIAK Fairy King LR.

1st Dam: TANTINA by Distant View. 4wins at 3, Oak Tree S LR, JRA LondonOffice’s Kyoto Sceptre S LR, 3rdCharlton Hunt Supreme S G3. Dam of 3winners:2005: Scuffle (f Daylami) 3 winsat 3, 3rd oddschecker.com Snowdrop SLR. Broodmare.2006: CITYSCAPE (c Selkirk) 5wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, France,Woodies DIY Solonaway S G3, NayefJoel S G3, Prix Perth G3, Betfred GoalsGalore Superior Mile LR, 2nd PremioVittorio di Capua G1, Juddmonte RoyalLodge S G2, Bet365 Mile G2, BathwickTyres Greenham S G3, Britain’s GotTalent Paradise S LR, 3rd Queen Anne S

G1.2007: BATED BREATH (c Dansili)5 wins at 3 and 4, sportingbet.comLeisure S LR, 2nd Darley July Cup G1,Betfred Sprint Cup G1, Nearctic S G1.2008: Daintily Done (f Cacique)unraced to date.2009: Tarentaise (f Oasis Dream)unraced to date.2010: (f Dansili)

2nd Dam: DIDINA by Nashwan. 5 winsat 2 and 3 at home, USA Dahlia H G2,3rd Gamely H G1. Dam of TANTINA (fDistant View, see above), Trekking (fGone West: 2nd Santa Barbara H G2).Grandam of CRYING LIGHTENING.

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sireof the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In2011 - EMULOUS Dansili G1, SOLEPOWER Kyllachy G2, CITYSCAPE SelkirkG3, BATED BREATH Dansili LR,MOONSHINE MULLIN Albert the GreatLR.

The Selkirk/Distant View cross hasproduced: CITYSCAPE G1, TRANQUILTIGER G3.

1 French Fifteen (FR) 2 ch c TurtleBowl (IRE) - Spring Morning (FR)(Ashkalani (IRE))2 Pakal (GER) 2 b c Lord of England(GER) - Perima (GER) (Kornado (GB))3 Bonfire (GB) 2 b c Manduro (GER) -Night Frolic (GB) (Night Shift (USA))


Sire: TURTLE BOWL. Sire of 1 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - FRENCH FIFTEENAshkalani G1.

1st Dam: SPRING MORNING byAshkalani. 2 wins at 4 in France. Dam of4 winners:2004: ADDED ATTRACTION (fKendor) 3 wins at 2, 3 and 6 in France.2005: BY CHAPARRAL (f HighChaparral) Winner at 2 in France.2007: DUO VICTORIEUX (c VictoryNote) 2 wins at 2 in France.

NijinskyNiniski

Virginia HillsHERNANDO b 90

MiswakiWhakilyric

LyrismALIANTHUS b c 2005

Dschingis KhanKonigsstuhl

KonigskronungALLURE b 96

SurumuAdjani

Annaberta

914 - Prix de Flore, G3, Saint-Cloud,October 25, 2000m

NureyevPolar Falcon

Marie d’ArgonnePIVOTAL ch 93

CozzeneFearless Revival

StufidaIZZI TOP b f 2008

Gone WestZafonic

ZaizafonZEE ZEE TOP b 99

High TopColorspin

Reprocolor

915 - Prix Perth, G3, Saint-Cloud,October 30, 1600m

AtanSharpen Up

RocchettaSELKIRK ch 88

NebbioloAnnie Edge

Friendly CourtCITYSCAPE ch c 2006

Mr ProspectorDistant View

Seven SpringsTANTINA ch 2000

NashwanDidina

Didicoy

916 - Criterium International, G1,Saint-Cloud, October 30, 1600m

JOSEPHJULIUSJODIE Polish PrecedentLR.

1st Dam: Alanda by Lando. unraced.Dam of 1 winner:2006: ALTANO (c Galileo) 7 winsat 4 and 5 in France, Germany, PremioSt Leger Italiano G3.2008: Araldo (c High Chaparral)2009: (c Nayef )2010: Alito (c Big Shuffle)2011: (c Medicean)

2nd Dam: ARASTOU by Surumu.Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in1992. 4 wins at 3 in West Germany Preisder Hannoverschen Sparkassen - VGHG3, Deutscher Buchmacher StutenpreisG3, 2nd Preis der Diana - DeutschesStuten Derby G2. Dam of ABITARA (fRainbow Quest: Prix de Pomone G2),Adito (c Konigsstuhl: 2nd Grosser Preisvon Dahlwitz G3), Abacco (c PolishPrecedent: 3rd Coolmore Stud Baden-Baden Cup LR), Armstrong (c Niniski:2nd G. P. der Stadtsparkasse DortmundLR). Grandam of ALL ABOUT SAM.

Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of thedams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -ALTANO Galileo G3, KARSABRUNISpeedmaster G3, ALPHA TWO Two-Twenty-Two LR.

1 Camelot (GB) 2 b c Montjeu (IRE) -Tarfah (USA) (Kingmambo (USA))2 Zip Top (IRE) 2 b c Smart Strike (CAN) -Zofzig (USA) (Danzig (USA))3 Fencing (USA) 2 ch c Street Cry (IRE) -Latice (IRE) (Inchinor (GB))


Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 109 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - CAMELOTKingmambo G1, FAME AND GLORYShirley Heights G1, JUKEBOX JURYKenmare G1, MASKED MARVEL Markof Esteem G1, MISS KELLER WarningG1, POUR MOI Darshaan G1, SARAHLYNX Danehill G1, ST NICHOLASABBEY Sure Blade G1, BLUE BAJANDarshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2,

WADING Green Desert G2, ASKAR TAUAcatenango G3, CLASS IS CLASSHector Protector G3, GOLDENPARACHUTE Volksraad G3, GREENMOON Green Tune G3, PACIFIQUEZafonic G3, PINK SYMPHONYDarshaan G3, BERLING Danehill LR,BERNIERES Trempolino LR, GAILYGAME Caerleon LR, GRADARA OrpenLR, MAREA ALTA Grosvenor LR,MONTAHLIA Zabeel LR, MR TIPSYCasual Lies LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR,ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR,HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR, NOBLEPRINCE Dashing Blade LR, SHARPMONSharpen Up LR, SWEEPS HILL ZabeelLR.

1st Dam: TARFAH by Kingmambo. 5wins at 3 and 4, Vcbet Dahlia S G3. Damof 2 winners:2008: IDEAL (f Galileo) Winner at3.2009: CAMELOT (c Montjeu)Sold 525,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2wins at 2, Racing Post Trophy G1.2010: (f Cape Cross)2011: (c Pivotal)

2nd Dam: FICKLE by Danehill. 2 winsat 3 Chisholm Bookmakers VirginiaRated S LR. Dam of TARFAH (fKingmambo, see above)

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire ofthe dams of 48 Stakes winners. In 2011- CAMELOT Montjeu G1, MIDDAY OasisDream G1, GAMILATI Bernardini G2,ENTIFAADHA Dansili G3, ELZAAMRedoute’s Choice LR, LOOK AT MEDanehill Dancer LR, QUEEN OF TIMEOrpen LR, STRAIT OF ZANZIBAR ArchLR.

The Montjeu/Kingmambo cross hasproduced: CAMELOT G1, MOUNTHELICON LR, Uimhir A Haon G3.

1 Quiza Quiza Quiza (GB) 5 b f GoldenSnake (USA) - Quiz Chow (ITY) (Pelder(IRE))2 Beatrice Aurore (IRE) 3 b f DanehillDancer (IRE) - Mondschein (GB)

(Rainbow Quest (USA))3 Kapitale (GER) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) -Kapitol (GER) (Winged Love (IRE))


Sire: GOLDEN SNAKE. Sire of 5 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - QUIZA QUIZAQUIZA Pelder G1.

1st Dam: QUIZ CHOW by Pelder. 4 winsat 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 2 winners:2005: Raazle Daazle (c Fraam)unraced.2006: QUIZA QUIZA QUIZA (fGolden Snake) 10 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy,Premio Lydia Tesio Tris Int - LonginesG1, Premio Giuseppe Valiani LR, PremioArchidamia Mem. Manuela Tudini LR,2nd Premio Giuseppe Valiani LR,Premio Andred LR, Premio Coppa d’Orodi Siracusa LR, 3rd P.Presidente dellaRepubblica-GBI Racing G1, Oaks d’ItaliaG2, Premio Andred LR.2008: LA BIKINA (f Avonbridge)Winner at 3 in Italy.2009: Si Nos Dejan (fAvonbridge) unraced to date.2011: (c Firebreak)

Broodmare Sire: PELDER. Sire of thedams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 -QUIZA QUIZA QUIZA Golden SnakeG1.

1 Be Fabulous (GER) 4 b f Samum(GER) - Bandeira (GER) (Law Society(USA))2 Miss Lago (IRE) 3 ch f Encosta de Lago(AUS) - Athyka (USA) (Secretariat (USA))3 Shankardeh (IRE) 3 b f Azamour (IRE) -Shalamantika (IRE) (Nashwan (USA))


Sire: SAMUM. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.In 2011 - BE FABULOUS Law SocietyG1, DURBAN THUNDER HighlandChieftain G1.

1st Dam: BANDEIRA by Law Society. 2wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 4

winners:2000: BAILAMOS (g Lomitas) 5wins, Silbernes Band der Ruhr LR,Grosser Tenovis Preis-LangerHamburger LR, 2nd Merrill Lynch EuroCup G2.2001: Bushido (c Winged Love)2002: Boyscout (c Winged Love)ran on the flat in Switzerland.2003: Beautiful Delight (f TigerHill) ran on the flat in France.Broodmare.2004: BE FAITHFUL (g Samum)Winner at 3 in Germany.2005: BAILA ME (f Samum) 5wins at 3 to 5 at home, France,Germany, IVG Preis von Europa G1, 3rdHenkel Preis der Diana (Oaks) G1.2007: BE FABULOUS (f Samum)Sold 175,070gns yearling at BBAGS. 4wins at 4 in France, Prix Royal-Oak G1,Prix Scaramouche LR.2009: Bailando (c Oratorio)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: BLUMME by Jadar. 4 wins inChile, USA Premio Mil Guineas (1000Guineas) G1. Own sister to Directoria.Dam of BUSSONI (c Goofalik: PrixMaurice de Nieuil G2, 3rd Rheinland-Pokal Stadtsparkasse Kolnbonn G1,Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase G1),Baleno (c Heraldiste: 2nd FlughafenFrankfurt Trophy G2), BIAGIOTTI (fWinged Love: Stall Jenny Cup FinaleHurdle LR), Barito (g Winged Love: 2ndIffezheimer Steeplechase LR, Preis desMurgtals Hurdle LR)

Broodmare Sire: LAW SOCIETY. Sire ofthe dams of 72 Stakes winners. In 2011- BE FABULOUS Samum G1, DARKPROMISE Shamardal LR, POKER DESIVOLA Discover d’Auteuil LR.

The Samum/Law Society cross hasproduced: BAILA ME G1, BEFABULOUS G1.

1 Alianthus (GER) 6 b c Hernando (FR)- Allure (GER) (Konigsstuhl (GER))2 Empire Storm (GER) 4 b c StormingHome (GB) - Emy Coasting (USA) (El


Fairy BridgeGALILEO b 98

MiswakiUrban Sea

AllegrettaALTANO b c 2006

AcatenangoLando

LaureaALANDA b 2001

SurumuArastou

Arabeske

910 - Racing Post Trophy, G1,Doncaster, October 22, 8f


Fairy BridgeMONTJEU b 96

Top VilleFloripedes

Toute CyCAMELOT b c 2009

Mr ProspectorKingmambo

MiesqueTARFAH b 2001

DanehillFickle

Fade

911 - Premio Lydia Tesio Tris Int -Longines, G1, Rome, October 23,2000m

Northern DancerDanzig

Pas de NomGOLDEN SNAKE b 96

High LineDubian

MelodinaQUIZA QUIZA QUIZA b f 2006

Be My GuestPelder

Sheer AudacityQUIZ CHOW b 98

TirolChu Chow

Chuni

912 - Prix Royal-Oak, G1,Longchamp, October 23, 3000m

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaSAMUM ch 97

Old VicSacarina

Brave LassBE FABULOUS b f 2007

AllegedLaw Society

Bold BikiniBANDEIRA b 95

JadarBlumme

Directa

913 - G.P. der LandeshauptstadtDusseldorf, G3, Dusseldorf, October23, 1600m

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Gran Senor (USA))3 Neatico (GER) 4 b c Medicean (GB) -Nicola Bella (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA))


Sire: HERNANDO. Sire of 48 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - GITANOHERNANDO Perugino G1, ALIANTHUSKonigsstuhl G2.

1st Dam: Allure by Konigsstuhl.Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rd GrosserStutenpreis der Dreijahrigen LR. Damof 4 winners:2001: Apokalypse (f Lomitas) 3wins at 2 and 5 in France, Germany, 3rdPreis des Casino Baden-Baden LR.2002: A BEAUTIFUL MIND (fWinged Love) 2 wins at 2 and 3 inGermany. Dam of Alkhana (fDalakhani: Winner at 3 in Germany, 3rdG.P. Mercedes-Benz NiederlassungHamburg G3)2005: ALIANTHUS (c Hernando)Sold 78,817gns yearling at BBAGS. 10wins at 3, 5 and 6 in Germany, GrosserEuropa Meile-Asterblute,Rower,Ru G2,Grafenberger Meilen-Trophy G2, UVEX-Trophy Rennen G3, F Gunther vonGaertner Gedachtnisrennen G3, G.P.der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf G3(twice), G. P. des Volkswagen ZentrumNordrhein G3, EBF European BreedersFund Meile LR, 2nd Darley Oettingen-Rennen G2, Prix Perth G3, P.Freunde/Forderer Reiter RennvereinsG3, Preis des Casino Baden-Baden LR,Excelsior Hotel Ernst-Meile LR, 3rdGrosser Preis der Mehl MulhensStiftung G2.2006: AMAZING TIGER (c TigerHill) 7 wins.2008: Anabasis (f High Chaparral)in training.2009: Alto Papavero (cShamardal) unraced to date.2010: American Peony (f NewApproach)

2nd Dam: Adjani by Surumu. Dam ofAcamani (g Winged Love: 2nd GrosserRadeberger Pilsner Preis LR, 3rd BMWDeutsches Derby G1, 3rd Bader PreisHurdle LR), Allure (f Konigsstuhl, seeabove), ATAMANE (g Winged Love: PrixLeon Olry-Roederer Hurdle G2, 2ndGrand Prix d’Automne Hurdle G1)

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sireof the dams of 54 Stakes winners. In2011 - ALIANTHUS Hernando G2, ILLOTertullian G3, DALARNA Dashing BladeLR.

1 Izzi Top (GB) 3 b f Pivotal (GB) - ZeeZee Top (GB) (Zafonic (USA))2 Albaraah (IRE) 3 b f Oasis Dream (GB) -Coconut Show (GB) (Linamix (FR))3 Andromeda Galaxy (FR) 3 b f PeintreCelebre (USA) - Arlesienne (IRE) (Alzao(USA))


Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 91 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - AMANEE WoodmanG1, IMMORTAL VERSE Sadler’s WellsG1, SPRING STYLE Irish River G2,ENTANGLE Primo Dominie G3,HEADSTRONG Pursuit of Love G3, IZZITOP Zafonic G3, EMERALDCOMMANDER Sadler’s Wells LR, ETONRIFLES Danehill LR, NATIONALISMSadler’s Wells LR, POET Shirley HeightsLR, SETA Generous LR, FINALAPPROACH Kahyasi LR.

1st Dam: ZEE ZEE TOP by Zafonic. 3wins at 3 and 4 at home, France, Prix del’Opera Casino Barriere Enghien G1, 3rdVodafone Nassau S G1. Dam of 2winners:2005: Zee Zee Gee (f Galileo)unraced. Broodmare.2006: Green Top (f Green Desert)unraced.2007: ROCK N ROLL RANSOM (gRed Ransom) 4 wins.2008: IZZI TOP (f Pivotal) 2 winsat 3 at home, France, Prix de Flore G3,Swettenham Stud Fillies’ Trial S LR, 3rdInvestec Oaks S G1, Tweenhills PrettyPolly S LR.2010: (f Montjeu)

2nd Dam: COLORSPIN by High Top. 3wins at 2 and 3 Gilltown Stud Irish OaksG1, 4th Gold Seal Oaks S G1, YorkshireOaks G1. Dam of KAYF TARA (c Sadler’sWells: Ascot Gold Cup G1 (twice),Jefferson Smurfit Mem. Irish St LegerG1 (twice), 3rd Ascot Gold Cup G1),OPERA HOUSE (c Sadler’s Wells: EverReady Coronation Cup G1, CoralEclipse S G1, King George VI & QueenElizabeth S G1, 2nd Coral Eclipse S G1,Guinness Champion S G1, Prix GanayG1, 3rd King George VI & Queen

Elizabeth S G1, CIGA Prix de l’Arc deTriomphe G1), ZEE ZEE TOP (f Zafonic,see above), Highland Dress (cLomond: 2nd Brigadier Gerard S G3,3rd Hardwicke S G2). Grandam ofNECKLACE.

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of thedams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 -WATAR Marju G2, IZZI TOP Pivotal G3,PACIFIQUE Montjeu G3, DANDIFIEDRebuttal LR, DUCK FEET Aussie Rules LR,MASHOOR Monsun LR, PEACE OFOASIS Oasis Dream LR.

The Pivotal/Zafonic cross hasproduced: IZZI TOP G1, CounterclaimG2.

1 Cityscape (GB) 5 ch c Selkirk (USA) -Tantina (USA) (Distant View (USA))2 Sommerabend (GB) 4 b c Shamardal(USA) - Sommernacht (GER) (Monsun(GER))3 Akarlina (FR) 5 gr f Martaline (GB) -Akaralda (FR) (Akarad (FR))


Sire: SELKIRK. Sire of 86 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - ANNOUNCE GoneWest G1, NAHRAIN Generous G1,CITYSCAPE Distant View G3,GLASWEGIAN Lear Fan G3, SHAMALILycius LR, SHEDIAK Fairy King LR.

1st Dam: TANTINA by Distant View. 4wins at 3, Oak Tree S LR, JRA LondonOffice’s Kyoto Sceptre S LR, 3rdCharlton Hunt Supreme S G3. Dam of 3winners:2005: Scuffle (f Daylami) 3 winsat 3, 3rd oddschecker.com Snowdrop SLR. Broodmare.2006: CITYSCAPE (c Selkirk) 5wins at 2, 4 and 5 at home, France,Woodies DIY Solonaway S G3, NayefJoel S G3, Prix Perth G3, Betfred GoalsGalore Superior Mile LR, 2nd PremioVittorio di Capua G1, Juddmonte RoyalLodge S G2, Bet365 Mile G2, BathwickTyres Greenham S G3, Britain’s GotTalent Paradise S LR, 3rd Queen Anne S

G1.2007: BATED BREATH (c Dansili)5 wins at 3 and 4, sportingbet.comLeisure S LR, 2nd Darley July Cup G1,Betfred Sprint Cup G1, Nearctic S G1.2008: Daintily Done (f Cacique)unraced to date.2009: Tarentaise (f Oasis Dream)unraced to date.2010: (f Dansili)

2nd Dam: DIDINA by Nashwan. 5 winsat 2 and 3 at home, USA Dahlia H G2,3rd Gamely H G1. Dam of TANTINA (fDistant View, see above), Trekking (fGone West: 2nd Santa Barbara H G2).Grandam of CRYING LIGHTENING.

Broodmare Sire: DISTANT VIEW. Sireof the dams of 14 Stakes winners. In2011 - EMULOUS Dansili G1, SOLEPOWER Kyllachy G2, CITYSCAPE SelkirkG3, BATED BREATH Dansili LR,MOONSHINE MULLIN Albert the GreatLR.

The Selkirk/Distant View cross hasproduced: CITYSCAPE G1, TRANQUILTIGER G3.

1 French Fifteen (FR) 2 ch c TurtleBowl (IRE) - Spring Morning (FR)(Ashkalani (IRE))2 Pakal (GER) 2 b c Lord of England(GER) - Perima (GER) (Kornado (GB))3 Bonfire (GB) 2 b c Manduro (GER) -Night Frolic (GB) (Night Shift (USA))


Sire: TURTLE BOWL. Sire of 1 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - FRENCH FIFTEENAshkalani G1.

1st Dam: SPRING MORNING byAshkalani. 2 wins at 4 in France. Dam of4 winners:2004: ADDED ATTRACTION (fKendor) 3 wins at 2, 3 and 6 in France.2005: BY CHAPARRAL (f HighChaparral) Winner at 2 in France.2007: DUO VICTORIEUX (c VictoryNote) 2 wins at 2 in France.

NijinskyNiniski

Virginia HillsHERNANDO b 90

MiswakiWhakilyric

LyrismALIANTHUS b c 2005

Dschingis KhanKonigsstuhl

KonigskronungALLURE b 96

SurumuAdjani

Annaberta

914 - Prix de Flore, G3, Saint-Cloud,October 25, 2000m

NureyevPolar Falcon



StufidaIZZI TOP b f 2008

Gone WestZafonic

ZaizafonZEE ZEE TOP b 99

High TopColorspin

Reprocolor

915 - Prix Perth, G3, Saint-Cloud,October 30, 1600m

AtanSharpen Up

RocchettaSELKIRK ch 88

NebbioloAnnie Edge

Friendly CourtCITYSCAPE ch c 2006

Mr ProspectorDistant View

Seven SpringsTANTINA ch 2000

NashwanDidina

Didicoy

916 - Criterium International, G1,Saint-Cloud, October 30, 1600m

JOSEPHJULIUSJODIE Polish PrecedentLR.

1st Dam: Alanda by Lando. unraced.Dam of 1 winner:2006: ALTANO (c Galileo) 7 winsat 4 and 5 in France, Germany, PremioSt Leger Italiano G3.2008: Araldo (c High Chaparral)2009: (c Nayef )2010: Alito (c Big Shuffle)2011: (c Medicean)

2nd Dam: ARASTOU by Surumu.Champion 3yr old filly in Germany in1992. 4 wins at 3 in West Germany Preisder Hannoverschen Sparkassen - VGHG3, Deutscher Buchmacher StutenpreisG3, 2nd Preis der Diana - DeutschesStuten Derby G2. Dam of ABITARA (fRainbow Quest: Prix de Pomone G2),Adito (c Konigsstuhl: 2nd Grosser Preisvon Dahlwitz G3), Abacco (c PolishPrecedent: 3rd Coolmore Stud Baden-Baden Cup LR), Armstrong (c Niniski:2nd G. P. der Stadtsparkasse DortmundLR). Grandam of ALL ABOUT SAM.

Broodmare Sire: LANDO. Sire of thedams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -ALTANO Galileo G3, KARSABRUNISpeedmaster G3, ALPHA TWO Two-Twenty-Two LR.

1 Camelot (GB) 2 b c Montjeu (IRE) -Tarfah (USA) (Kingmambo (USA))2 Zip Top (IRE) 2 b c Smart Strike (CAN) -Zofzig (USA) (Danzig (USA))3 Fencing (USA) 2 ch c Street Cry (IRE) -Latice (IRE) (Inchinor (GB))


Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of 109 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - CAMELOTKingmambo G1, FAME AND GLORYShirley Heights G1, JUKEBOX JURYKenmare G1, MASKED MARVEL Markof Esteem G1, MISS KELLER WarningG1, POUR MOI Darshaan G1, SARAHLYNX Danehill G1, ST NICHOLASABBEY Sure Blade G1, BLUE BAJANDarshaan G2, RECITAL Kendor G2,

WADING Green Desert G2, ASKAR TAUAcatenango G3, CLASS IS CLASSHector Protector G3, GOLDENPARACHUTE Volksraad G3, GREENMOON Green Tune G3, PACIFIQUEZafonic G3, PINK SYMPHONYDarshaan G3, BERLING Danehill LR,BERNIERES Trempolino LR, GAILYGAME Caerleon LR, GRADARA OrpenLR, MAREA ALTA Grosvenor LR,MONTAHLIA Zabeel LR, MR TIPSYCasual Lies LR, BUDAPEST Doyoun LR,ERADICATE Indian Ridge LR,HURRICANE FLY Kenmare LR, NOBLEPRINCE Dashing Blade LR, SHARPMONSharpen Up LR, SWEEPS HILL ZabeelLR.

1st Dam: TARFAH by Kingmambo. 5wins at 3 and 4, Vcbet Dahlia S G3. Damof 2 winners:2008: IDEAL (f Galileo) Winner at3.2009: CAMELOT (c Montjeu)Sold 525,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2wins at 2, Racing Post Trophy G1.2010: (f Cape Cross)2011: (c Pivotal)

2nd Dam: FICKLE by Danehill. 2 winsat 3 Chisholm Bookmakers VirginiaRated S LR. Dam of TARFAH (fKingmambo, see above)

Broodmare Sire: KINGMAMBO. Sire ofthe dams of 48 Stakes winners. In 2011- CAMELOT Montjeu G1, MIDDAY OasisDream G1, GAMILATI Bernardini G2,ENTIFAADHA Dansili G3, ELZAAMRedoute’s Choice LR, LOOK AT MEDanehill Dancer LR, QUEEN OF TIMEOrpen LR, STRAIT OF ZANZIBAR ArchLR.

The Montjeu/Kingmambo cross hasproduced: CAMELOT G1, MOUNTHELICON LR, Uimhir A Haon G3.

1 Quiza Quiza Quiza (GB) 5 b f GoldenSnake (USA) - Quiz Chow (ITY) (Pelder(IRE))2 Beatrice Aurore (IRE) 3 b f DanehillDancer (IRE) - Mondschein (GB)

(Rainbow Quest (USA))3 Kapitale (GER) 3 b f Dubawi (IRE) -Kapitol (GER) (Winged Love (IRE))


Sire: GOLDEN SNAKE. Sire of 5 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - QUIZA QUIZAQUIZA Pelder G1.

1st Dam: QUIZ CHOW by Pelder. 4 winsat 2 and 3 in Italy. Dam of 2 winners:2005: Raazle Daazle (c Fraam)unraced.2006: QUIZA QUIZA QUIZA (fGolden Snake) 10 wins at 3 to 5 in Italy,Premio Lydia Tesio Tris Int - LonginesG1, Premio Giuseppe Valiani LR, PremioArchidamia Mem. Manuela Tudini LR,2nd Premio Giuseppe Valiani LR,Premio Andred LR, Premio Coppa d’Orodi Siracusa LR, 3rd P.Presidente dellaRepubblica-GBI Racing G1, Oaks d’ItaliaG2, Premio Andred LR.2008: LA BIKINA (f Avonbridge)Winner at 3 in Italy.2009: Si Nos Dejan (fAvonbridge) unraced to date.2011: (c Firebreak)

Broodmare Sire: PELDER. Sire of thedams of 3 Stakes winners. In 2011 -QUIZA QUIZA QUIZA Golden SnakeG1.

1 Be Fabulous (GER) 4 b f Samum(GER) - Bandeira (GER) (Law Society(USA))2 Miss Lago (IRE) 3 ch f Encosta de Lago(AUS) - Athyka (USA) (Secretariat (USA))3 Shankardeh (IRE) 3 b f Azamour (IRE) -Shalamantika (IRE) (Nashwan (USA))


Sire: SAMUM. Sire of 8 Stakes winners.In 2011 - BE FABULOUS Law SocietyG1, DURBAN THUNDER HighlandChieftain G1.

1st Dam: BANDEIRA by Law Society. 2wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 4

winners:2000: BAILAMOS (g Lomitas) 5wins, Silbernes Band der Ruhr LR,Grosser Tenovis Preis-LangerHamburger LR, 2nd Merrill Lynch EuroCup G2.2001: Bushido (c Winged Love)2002: Boyscout (c Winged Love)ran on the flat in Switzerland.2003: Beautiful Delight (f TigerHill) ran on the flat in France.Broodmare.2004: BE FAITHFUL (g Samum)Winner at 3 in Germany.2005: BAILA ME (f Samum) 5wins at 3 to 5 at home, France,Germany, IVG Preis von Europa G1, 3rdHenkel Preis der Diana (Oaks) G1.2007: BE FABULOUS (f Samum)Sold 175,070gns yearling at BBAGS. 4wins at 4 in France, Prix Royal-Oak G1,Prix Scaramouche LR.2009: Bailando (c Oratorio)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: BLUMME by Jadar. 4 wins inChile, USA Premio Mil Guineas (1000Guineas) G1. Own sister to Directoria.Dam of BUSSONI (c Goofalik: PrixMaurice de Nieuil G2, 3rd Rheinland-Pokal Stadtsparkasse Kolnbonn G1,Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase G1),Baleno (c Heraldiste: 2nd FlughafenFrankfurt Trophy G2), BIAGIOTTI (fWinged Love: Stall Jenny Cup FinaleHurdle LR), Barito (g Winged Love: 2ndIffezheimer Steeplechase LR, Preis desMurgtals Hurdle LR)

Broodmare Sire: LAW SOCIETY. Sire ofthe dams of 72 Stakes winners. In 2011- BE FABULOUS Samum G1, DARKPROMISE Shamardal LR, POKER DESIVOLA Discover d’Auteuil LR.

The Samum/Law Society cross hasproduced: BAILA ME G1, BEFABULOUS G1.

1 Alianthus (GER) 6 b c Hernando (FR)- Allure (GER) (Konigsstuhl (GER))2 Empire Storm (GER) 4 b c StormingHome (GB) - Emy Coasting (USA) (El


Fairy BridgeGALILEO b 98

MiswakiUrban Sea

AllegrettaALTANO b c 2006

AcatenangoLando

LaureaALANDA b 2001

SurumuArastou

Arabeske

910 - Racing Post Trophy, G1,Doncaster, October 22, 8f


Fairy BridgeMONTJEU b 96

Top VilleFloripedes

Toute CyCAMELOT b c 2009

Mr ProspectorKingmambo

MiesqueTARFAH b 2001

DanehillFickle

Fade

911 - Premio Lydia Tesio Tris Int -Longines, G1, Rome, October 23,2000m

Northern DancerDanzig

Pas de NomGOLDEN SNAKE b 96

High LineDubian

MelodinaQUIZA QUIZA QUIZA b f 2006

Be My GuestPelder

Sheer AudacityQUIZ CHOW b 98

TirolChu Chow

Chuni

912 - Prix Royal-Oak, G1,Longchamp, October 23, 3000m

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaSAMUM ch 97

Old VicSacarina

Brave LassBE FABULOUS b f 2007

AllegedLaw Society

Bold BikiniBANDEIRA b 95

JadarBlumme

Directa

913 - G.P. der LandeshauptstadtDusseldorf, G3, Dusseldorf, October23, 1600m



international databaseLR.

1 Restiadargent (FR) 2 b f Kendargent(FR) - Restia (FR) (Montjeu (IRE))2 Vaniloquio (IRE) 2 b c Acclamation(GB) - Trinity Joy (GB) (Vettori (IRE))3 Dont Teutch (FR) 2 b f Country Reel(USA) - Simonkikou (FR) (Panis (USA))


Sire: KENDARGENT. Sire of 2 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - RESTIADARGENTMontjeu G2, KENDAM Indian Rocket G3.

1st Dam: Restia by Montjeu. unraced.Dam of 1 winner:2009: RESTIADARGENT (fKendargent) 3 wins at 2 in France,Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, Prixd’Arenberg G3.2010: Jeudargent (c Kendargent)

2nd Dam: RESTIFIA by Night Shift. 4wins at 3 in France Prix Caravelle-Harasdes Granges LR.

Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of thedams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 -PARISH HALL Teofilo G1,RESTIADARGENT Kendargent G2,DEAR LAVINIA Grand Slam LR,MURANO Whipper LR,FAFINTADENIENT Sakhee LR.

1 Konig Concorde (GER) 6 b c BigShuffle (USA) - Kaiserin (GER) (Ile deBourbon (USA))2 Blu Constellation (ITY) 3 b c Orpen(USA) - Stella Celtica (ITY) (Celtic Swing(GB))3 Exciting Life (IRE) 3 b c Titus Livius(FR) - Puerto Oro (IRE) (Entrepreneur(GB))


Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of 68 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - KONIG CONCORDEIle de Bourbon G3, SMOOTHOPERATOR Salse G3, WALERO LagunasG3, GLAD SKY Surumu LR.

1st Dam: KAISERIN by Ile de Bourbon. 2wins at 3 in West Germany. Dam of 8winners:1992: Kaiserfee (f Kefaah)unraced.1993: KONIGSTANZERIN (f RoiDanzig) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany.Broodmare.1994: KAISERMOND (c Mondrian)6 wins at 2 and 5 in Germany.1995: KONIGIN TURF (f Turfkonig)Winner at 3 in Germany. Dam of KonigSpeed (c Big Shuffle: 7 wins at 3 to 5 inGermany, 2nd Wettenliep BayerischerFliegerpreis LR), Konigin Arte (f Artan:2 wins at 2 and 3 in Czech Republic,Germany, 2nd Gran Corsa Siepi di PisaHurdle LR, Altes Badener SteeplechaseLR, Bad Durrheimer Trophy Hurdle LR)1996: KONIG SHUFFLE (c BigShuffle) 12 wins at 3 to 8 in Germany,Grosser Buchmacher Springer SprintPreis G3.1997: KONIGIN SET (f SecondSet) Winner at 2 in Germany.Broodmare.1999: KONIGIN SHUFFLE (f BigShuffle) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in Germany.Broodmare.2001: Koenig Alwuhu (cAlwuhush) unraced.2002: KONIG TURF (c BigShuffle) 8 wins at 3 to 6 in France,Germany, Christlacke Europa-Meile G2.2005: KONIG CONCORDE (c BigShuffle) 4 wins at 2, 5 and 6 inGermany, Italy, Premio Chiusura G3(twice), Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen LR, 2nd Mehl-MulhensRennen (2000 Guineas) G2, DarleyOettingen-Rennen G2, Grosser Preiseder Sparkasse Hannover G2, WellnessHotel Bayerischer Fleiger Preis LR(twice), Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy LR,3rd Grosser Europa Meile G2, GrosseHessen Meile - Fraport AG Pokal G3,Sauren Fonds Service Silberne PeitscheG3, Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy G. SprintPreis LR, Fruhjahrspreis Stadt Frankfurtam Main LR.

2008: Konigin Concorde (f BigShuffle)2009: Kaiser (c Big Shuffle)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: KONIGSBLUTE by Cortez. 3wins in West Germany DillmannMemorial LR, 4th Ludwig Goebels-Erinnerungsrennen G3. Dam of KENZO(c Acatenango: Robert Pferdmenges-Rennen LR, Silbernes Pferd Rennen LR,2nd Preis der Spielbanken des LandesNRW G3), KLIMT (g Second Set: P.derFirma Erpo 3yo FruhjahrszuchtpreisLR), Karenina (f Second Set: 2ndKolner Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR).Grandam of KASUS,KONIGSTOCHTER, Konigsbote.

Broodmare Sire: ILE DE BOURBON.Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners.In 2011 - KONIG CONCORDE BigShuffle G3, TIMES UP Olden Times LR.

The Big Shuffle/Ile de Bourbon crosshas produced: KONIG CONCORDE G2,KONIG TURF G2, IRISH MAN G3,KONIG SHUFFLE G3.

1 Zazou (GER) 4 b c Shamardal (USA) -Zaza Top (GER) (Lomitas (GB))2 Rio de La Plata (USA) 6 ch c Rahy(USA) - Express Way (ARG) (Ahmad(ARG))3 Voila Ici (IRE) 6 gr c Daylami (IRE) - FarHope (GB) (Barathea (IRE))


Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 32 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - ZAZOU Lomitas G1,CRACKERJACK KING Barathea G2,SOMMERABEND Monsun G2,AMARON Bertolini G3, CASAMENTOAlways Fair G3, DUNBOYNE EXPRESSPolish Precedent G3, ELLE SHADOW RoiDanzig G3, FRENCH NAVY WoodmanG3, CAPTAIN SONADOR Kenny’s BestPal LR, DARK PROMISE Law Society LR,GINGERBREAD MAN Hurricane Sky LR,MODERN HISTORY Private Account LR,OREGON LADY Gone West LR,ROSTRUM Rainbow Quest LR.

1st Dam: ZAZA TOP by Lomitas. 4 winsat 2 to 4 in Germany, Luhrs & HolstGMBH Co. K G Stutenpreis LR, 2ndPremio Dormello G3. Dam of 4winners:2004: ZOE DREAM (g Galileo) 7wins.2005: ZHOUZHI (f Anabaa)Winner at 4 in Germany.2006: KING MAUI (c HighChaparral) Winner at 4 in Sweden.2007: ZAZOU (c Shamardal) Sold26,610gns yearling at BBAGS. 6 wins at2 to 4 in Germany, Italy, Premio RomaGBI Racing G1, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, Preis der SparkassenFinanzgruppe G3, G.P. KrefelderWirtschaft-Dr Busch Mem G3, 2nd IdeeDeutsches Derby G1, 3rd Criterium deSaint-Cloud G1, Rheinland-Pokal G1.2009: Silke Top (f Librettist)2010: (c High Chaparral)

2nd Dam: ZORINA by Shirley Heights. 1win at 2. Own sister to Nadina. Dam ofZAZA TOP (f Lomitas, see above),Zolango (c Acatenango: 2nd PremioEmanuele Filiberto LR). Grandam ofZoom.

Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of thedams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2011 -ZAZOU Shamardal G1, MALIBU PIERMalibu Moon G2, ALAURA MICHELEArch LR, SANTINO Rock of Gibraltar LR.

1 Vanjura (GER) 4 ch f Areion (GER) -Venia Legendi (GER) (Zinaad (GB))2 Emerald Commander (IRE) 4 b cPivotal (GB) - Brigitta (IRE) (Sadler’sWells (USA))3 Marcret (ITY) 4 b f Martino Alonso(IRE) - Love Secret (USA) (Secreto (USA))


Sire: AREION. Sire of 14 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - VANJURA ZinaadG2, BIRTHDAY LION Turfkonig LR,INDOMITO Royal Solo LR, IRINI NebosLR.

1st Dam: VENIA LEGENDI by Zinaad. 2

Mr ProspectorMiesque’s Son

MiesqueWHIPPER b 2001

Sadler’s WellsMyth To Reality

MilliemeTOPEKA b f 2009

DanehillDesert King

SabaahSOVANA b 2000

DarshaanPiacenza

Kahara

921 - Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte,G2, Maisons-Laffitte, November 1,1200m

KenmareKendor

Belle MeceneKENDARGENT gr 2003

LinamixPax Bella

PalaveraRESTIADARGENT b f 2009

Sadler’s WellsMontjeu

FloripedesRESTIA 2005

Night ShiftRestifia

Restikala

922 - Premio Chiusura, G3, Milan,November 5, 1400m

Bold ReasoningSuper Concorde

Prime AbordBIG SHUFFLE b 84

ElevationRaise Your Skirts

Strings AttachedKONIG CONCORDE b c 2005

NijinskyIle de Bourbon

RoseliereKAISERIN b/br 87

CortezKonigsblute

Konigswurde

923 - Premio Roma GBI Racing, G1,Rome, November 6, 2000m

Storm CatGiant’s Causeway

Mariah’s StormSHAMARDAL b 2002

MachiavellianHelsinki

Helen StreetZAZOU b c 2007

NiniskiLomitas

La ColoradaZAZA TOP ch 98

Shirley HeightsZorina

Nadia Nerina

924 - Premio Ribot, G2, Rome,November 6, 1600m

2009: FRENCH FIFTEEN (c TurtleBowl) Sold 25,284gns yearling atARAUG. 5 wins at 2 in France, CriteriumInternational G1, Fourrages T.DutertreCriteium de L’Ouest LR, 2nd PrixThomas Bryon G3.2010: (c Muhtathir)

2nd Dam: Zarzaya by Caro. unraced.Dam of ZAYDIYA (f Shernazar: GrandPrix de Nantes LR, 2nd Prix CleopatreG3), Matin de Printemps (c Kendor:2nd Prix Contessina LR), HighlandDancer (g Kendor: 2nd Prix dePontarme LR), Zeitz (c Zieten: 3rd Prixdes Chenes-Haras de la Perelle G3).Third dam of ZAREWITSCH,Zakopane, ZENT. Fourth dam ofZIYARID.

Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire ofthe dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011- FRENCH FIFTEEN Turtle Bowl G1,ALWAYS A PRINCESS LeroidesanimauxG2, LIPS POISON Mamool G2,LETSGOROUNDAGAIN Redback LR.

1 Nephrite (GB) 2 ch c Pivotal (GB) -Cape Merino (GB) (Clantime)2 Born To Sea (IRE) 2 b c Invincible Spirit(IRE) - Urban Sea (USA) (Miswaki (USA))3 Aaraas (GB) 2 b f Haafhd (GB) - Adaala(USA) (Sahm (USA))


Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 92 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - AMANEE WoodmanG1, IMMORTAL VERSE Sadler’s WellsG1, SPRING STYLE Irish River G2,ENTANGLE Primo Dominie G3,HEADSTRONG Pursuit of Love G3, IZZITOP Zafonic G3, NEPHRITE ClantimeG3, EMERALD COMMANDER Sadler’sWells LR, ETON RIFLES Danehill LR,NATIONALISM Sadler’s Wells LR, POETShirley Heights LR, SETA Generous LR,FINAL APPROACH Kahyasi LR.

1st Dam: CAPE MERINO by Clantime. 4wins at 2, 3 and 5 inc. Bovis Stakes,Ascot. Dam of 5 winners:1998: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (g

Inchinor) 7 wins at 3, 4 and 7 at home,Australia, Hong Kong, Golden Jubilee SG1, Timbercorp William Reid Australia SG1, 2nd Cathay Pacific Hong KongSprint G1, 3rd Golden Jubilee S G1,TEAC Lightning S G1 (twice), SeppeltSalinger Victoria Racing Club S G1,Hong Kong Sprint G1.2000: CAPE ST VINCENT (g ParisHouse) 3 wins at 3 to 5.2002: Cape Columbine (f Diktat)Winner at 2 viz. £100000 TattersallsAutumn Auction Stakes, Newmarket,2nd Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S G3.Broodmare.2003: Gabriella (f Cape Cross)unraced. Broodmare.2004: CAPE COBRA (g Inchinor)Winner at 3.2006: (f Oasis Dream). died at 2years.2007: (c Dubawi)2009: NEPHRITE (c Pivotal) Sold230,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 winsat 2, JRA Killavullan S G3.2010: (c Oasis Dream)

2nd Dam: Laena by Roman Warrior.Grandam of CORRYBROUGH. Thirddam of AMOUR PROPRE.

Broodmare Sire: CLANTIME. Sire ofthe dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -NEPHRITE Pivotal G3.

1 Duck Feet (IRE) 2 br/gr c Aussie Rules(USA) - Benelux (GB) (Zafonic (USA))2 Lui E La Luna (GB) 2 b c Nayef (USA) -Luna d’Estate (GB) (Alzao (USA))3 Mamath (IRE) 2 b c Le Vie Dei Colori(GB) - Mind And Life (IRE) (Monsun(GER))


Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 7 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - DJUMAMA BaratheaG3, DUCK FEET Zafonic G3, CAZALSMujadil LR, STAROS Anshan LR.

1st Dam: Benelux by Zafonic. unraced.Dam of 2 winners:2008: YOUNG STACK (c Ad

Valorem) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.2009: DUCK FEET (c AussieRules) Sold 4,635gns yearling at TISEP. 4wins at 2 in Italy, Premio GuidoBerardelli G3, Premio Vittorio Riva LR.2010: (f Kheleyf )

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of thedams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 -WATAR Marju G2, DUCK FEET AussieRules G3, IZZI TOP Pivotal G3,PACIFIQUE Montjeu G3, DANDIFIEDRebuttal LR, MASHOOR Monsun LR,PEACE OF OASIS Oasis Dream LR.

1 Iver Bridge Lad (GB) 4 b cAvonbridge (GB) - Fittonia (FR)(Ashkalani (IRE))2 Fred Lalloupet (GB) 4 b c Elusive City(USA) - Firm Friend (IRE) (Affirmed(USA))3 Definightly (GB) 5 b/br g Diktat (GB) -Perfect Night (GB) (Danzig Connection(USA))


Sire: AVONBRIDGE. Sire of 2 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - IVER BRIDGE LADAshkalani G3.

1st Dam: FITTONIA by Ashkalani.Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner:2005: Charmel’s Lad (g ComptonPlace)2006: Fitting Place (f Where OrWhen) unraced.2007: IVER BRIDGE LAD (cAvonbridge) Sold 8,000gns foal atTADEF, 1,000gns yearling at TAOC3. 5wins at 2 and 4 at home, France, Prix deSeine-et-Oise G3, FoundationDevelopments Dragon S LR, 2ndTotepool Sirenia S G3, ConnaughtFlooring Abernant S LR, williamhill.comCammidge Trophy LR, 3rd WillmottDixon Cornwallis S G3.2008: (f Pastoral Pursuits)2009: Fallible (c Piccolo) intraining.2010: (f Avonbridge)2011: (c Three Valleys)

2nd Dam: Fly For Fame by Shaadi. 3wins at 2 and 3 in France, 3rd G. P.Region Pays Loire-Derby de l’Ouest LR.

Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire ofthe dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011- FRENCH FIFTEEN Turtle Bowl G1,ALWAYS A PRINCESS LeroidesanimauxG2, LIPS POISON Mamool G2, IVERBRIDGE LAD Avonbridge G3,LETSGOROUNDAGAIN Redback LR.

1 Topeka (IRE) 2 b f Whipper (USA) -Sovana (IRE) (Desert King (IRE))2 Barbayam (GB) 2 gr f Stormy River(FR) - Senkaya (FR) (Valanour (IRE))3 Tibaldi (FR) 2 b f Motivator (GB) -Treasure Queen (USA) (Kingmambo(USA))


Sire: WHIPPER. Sire of 8 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - WIZZ KID Soviet StarG2, TOPEKA Desert King G3, MURANOMontjeu LR.

1st Dam: Sovana by Desert King.Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix MinerveG3. Dam of 3 winners:2005: Stella Rossa (f Key of Luck)ran on the flat in France.2006: MAFRA (f Kalanisi) 9 winsat 3 to 5 in France.2007: Vervono (g Verglas)unraced.2008: FIAMMELLA (f Verglas) 2wins at 3 in France.2009: TOPEKA (f Whipper) 4wins at 2 in France, Prix Miesque G3,Criterium de Lyon LR.2010: Mindelo (c Whipper)2011: (f Whipper)

2nd Dam: PIACENZA by Darshaan. 1win at 3 in France. Dam of PERUGINA (fHighest Honor: Prix Eclipse G3),Sovana (f Desert King, see above)

Broodmare Sire: DESERT KING. Sire ofthe dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -EAGLE FALLS Hussonet G1, TOPEKAWhipper G3, BLUE TOSCA Canny Lad

Night ShiftDyhim Diamond

Happy LandingTURTLE BOWL b 2002

Top VilleClara Bow

KamiyaFRENCH FIFTEEN ch c 2009

Soviet StarAshkalani

AshtarkaSPRING MORNING ch 98

CaroZarzaya

Zahra

917 - JRA Killavullan Stakes, G3,Leopardstown, October 30, 7f

NureyevPolar Falcon



StufidaNEPHRITE ch c 2009

Music BoyClantime

Penny PincherCAPE MERINO ch 91

Roman WarriorLaena

Poshteen

918 - Premio Guido Berardelli, G3,Rome, November 1, 1800m

DanzigDanehill

RazyanaAUSSIE RULES gr/ro 2003

AlzaoLast Second

AlruccabaDUCK FEET br/gr c 2009

Gone WestZafonic

ZaizafonBENELUX b 2003

CaerleonBiloxi

Wemyss Bight

919 - Prix de Seine-et-Oise, G3,Maisons-Laffitte, November 1,1200m

WarningAverti

Imperial JadeAVONBRIDGE b 2000

CaerleonAlessia

KissIVER BRIDGE LAD b c 2007


AshtarkaFITTONIA ch 99

ShaadiFly For Fame

Fly Me

920 - Prix Miesque, G3, Maisons-Laffitte, November 1, 1400m




LR.

1 Restiadargent (FR) 2 b f Kendargent(FR) - Restia (FR) (Montjeu (IRE))2 Vaniloquio (IRE) 2 b c Acclamation(GB) - Trinity Joy (GB) (Vettori (IRE))3 Dont Teutch (FR) 2 b f Country Reel(USA) - Simonkikou (FR) (Panis (USA))


Sire: KENDARGENT. Sire of 2 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - RESTIADARGENTMontjeu G2, KENDAM Indian Rocket G3.

1st Dam: Restia by Montjeu. unraced.Dam of 1 winner:2009: RESTIADARGENT (fKendargent) 3 wins at 2 in France,Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte G2, Prixd’Arenberg G3.2010: Jeudargent (c Kendargent)

2nd Dam: RESTIFIA by Night Shift. 4wins at 3 in France Prix Caravelle-Harasdes Granges LR.

Broodmare Sire: MONTJEU. Sire of thedams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 -PARISH HALL Teofilo G1,RESTIADARGENT Kendargent G2,DEAR LAVINIA Grand Slam LR,MURANO Whipper LR,FAFINTADENIENT Sakhee LR.

1 Konig Concorde (GER) 6 b c BigShuffle (USA) - Kaiserin (GER) (Ile deBourbon (USA))2 Blu Constellation (ITY) 3 b c Orpen(USA) - Stella Celtica (ITY) (Celtic Swing(GB))3 Exciting Life (IRE) 3 b c Titus Livius(FR) - Puerto Oro (IRE) (Entrepreneur(GB))


Sire: BIG SHUFFLE. Sire of 68 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - KONIG CONCORDEIle de Bourbon G3, SMOOTHOPERATOR Salse G3, WALERO LagunasG3, GLAD SKY Surumu LR.

1st Dam: KAISERIN by Ile de Bourbon. 2wins at 3 in West Germany. Dam of 8winners:1992: Kaiserfee (f Kefaah)unraced.1993: KONIGSTANZERIN (f RoiDanzig) 5 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany.Broodmare.1994: KAISERMOND (c Mondrian)6 wins at 2 and 5 in Germany.1995: KONIGIN TURF (f Turfkonig)Winner at 3 in Germany. Dam of KonigSpeed (c Big Shuffle: 7 wins at 3 to 5 inGermany, 2nd Wettenliep BayerischerFliegerpreis LR), Konigin Arte (f Artan:2 wins at 2 and 3 in Czech Republic,Germany, 2nd Gran Corsa Siepi di PisaHurdle LR, Altes Badener SteeplechaseLR, Bad Durrheimer Trophy Hurdle LR)1996: KONIG SHUFFLE (c BigShuffle) 12 wins at 3 to 8 in Germany,Grosser Buchmacher Springer SprintPreis G3.1997: KONIGIN SET (f SecondSet) Winner at 2 in Germany.Broodmare.1999: KONIGIN SHUFFLE (f BigShuffle) 2 wins at 3 and 5 in Germany.Broodmare.2001: Koenig Alwuhu (cAlwuhush) unraced.2002: KONIG TURF (c BigShuffle) 8 wins at 3 to 6 in France,Germany, Christlacke Europa-Meile G2.2005: KONIG CONCORDE (c BigShuffle) 4 wins at 2, 5 and 6 inGermany, Italy, Premio Chiusura G3(twice), Grosser Preis der VGH-Versicherungen LR, 2nd Mehl-MulhensRennen (2000 Guineas) G2, DarleyOettingen-Rennen G2, Grosser Preiseder Sparkasse Hannover G2, WellnessHotel Bayerischer Fleiger Preis LR(twice), Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy LR,3rd Grosser Europa Meile G2, GrosseHessen Meile - Fraport AG Pokal G3,Sauren Fonds Service Silberne PeitscheG3, Dallmayr Prodomo Trophy G. SprintPreis LR, Fruhjahrspreis Stadt Frankfurtam Main LR.

2008: Konigin Concorde (f BigShuffle)2009: Kaiser (c Big Shuffle)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: KONIGSBLUTE by Cortez. 3wins in West Germany DillmannMemorial LR, 4th Ludwig Goebels-Erinnerungsrennen G3. Dam of KENZO(c Acatenango: Robert Pferdmenges-Rennen LR, Silbernes Pferd Rennen LR,2nd Preis der Spielbanken des LandesNRW G3), KLIMT (g Second Set: P.derFirma Erpo 3yo FruhjahrszuchtpreisLR), Karenina (f Second Set: 2ndKolner Fruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR).Grandam of KASUS,KONIGSTOCHTER, Konigsbote.

Broodmare Sire: ILE DE BOURBON.Sire of the dams of 29 Stakes winners.In 2011 - KONIG CONCORDE BigShuffle G3, TIMES UP Olden Times LR.

The Big Shuffle/Ile de Bourbon crosshas produced: KONIG CONCORDE G2,KONIG TURF G2, IRISH MAN G3,KONIG SHUFFLE G3.

1 Zazou (GER) 4 b c Shamardal (USA) -Zaza Top (GER) (Lomitas (GB))2 Rio de La Plata (USA) 6 ch c Rahy(USA) - Express Way (ARG) (Ahmad(ARG))3 Voila Ici (IRE) 6 gr c Daylami (IRE) - FarHope (GB) (Barathea (IRE))


Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 32 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - ZAZOU Lomitas G1,CRACKERJACK KING Barathea G2,SOMMERABEND Monsun G2,AMARON Bertolini G3, CASAMENTOAlways Fair G3, DUNBOYNE EXPRESSPolish Precedent G3, ELLE SHADOW RoiDanzig G3, FRENCH NAVY WoodmanG3, CAPTAIN SONADOR Kenny’s BestPal LR, DARK PROMISE Law Society LR,GINGERBREAD MAN Hurricane Sky LR,MODERN HISTORY Private Account LR,OREGON LADY Gone West LR,ROSTRUM Rainbow Quest LR.

1st Dam: ZAZA TOP by Lomitas. 4 winsat 2 to 4 in Germany, Luhrs & HolstGMBH Co. K G Stutenpreis LR, 2ndPremio Dormello G3. Dam of 4winners:2004: ZOE DREAM (g Galileo) 7wins.2005: ZHOUZHI (f Anabaa)Winner at 4 in Germany.2006: KING MAUI (c HighChaparral) Winner at 4 in Sweden.2007: ZAZOU (c Shamardal) Sold26,610gns yearling at BBAGS. 6 wins at2 to 4 in Germany, Italy, Premio RomaGBI Racing G1, Oppenheim Union-Rennen G2, Preis der SparkassenFinanzgruppe G3, G.P. KrefelderWirtschaft-Dr Busch Mem G3, 2nd IdeeDeutsches Derby G1, 3rd Criterium deSaint-Cloud G1, Rheinland-Pokal G1.2009: Silke Top (f Librettist)2010: (c High Chaparral)

2nd Dam: ZORINA by Shirley Heights. 1win at 2. Own sister to Nadina. Dam ofZAZA TOP (f Lomitas, see above),Zolango (c Acatenango: 2nd PremioEmanuele Filiberto LR). Grandam ofZoom.

Broodmare Sire: LOMITAS. Sire of thedams of 16 Stakes winners. In 2011 -ZAZOU Shamardal G1, MALIBU PIERMalibu Moon G2, ALAURA MICHELEArch LR, SANTINO Rock of Gibraltar LR.

1 Vanjura (GER) 4 ch f Areion (GER) -Venia Legendi (GER) (Zinaad (GB))2 Emerald Commander (IRE) 4 b cPivotal (GB) - Brigitta (IRE) (Sadler’sWells (USA))3 Marcret (ITY) 4 b f Martino Alonso(IRE) - Love Secret (USA) (Secreto (USA))


Sire: AREION. Sire of 14 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - VANJURA ZinaadG2, BIRTHDAY LION Turfkonig LR,INDOMITO Royal Solo LR, IRINI NebosLR.

1st Dam: VENIA LEGENDI by Zinaad. 2

Mr ProspectorMiesque’s Son

MiesqueWHIPPER b 2001

Sadler’s WellsMyth To Reality

MilliemeTOPEKA b f 2009

DanehillDesert King

SabaahSOVANA b 2000

DarshaanPiacenza

Kahara

921 - Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte,G2, Maisons-Laffitte, November 1,1200m

KenmareKendor

Belle MeceneKENDARGENT gr 2003

LinamixPax Bella

PalaveraRESTIADARGENT b f 2009


FloripedesRESTIA 2005

Night ShiftRestifia

Restikala

922 - Premio Chiusura, G3, Milan,November 5, 1400m

Bold ReasoningSuper Concorde

Prime AbordBIG SHUFFLE b 84

ElevationRaise Your Skirts

Strings AttachedKONIG CONCORDE b c 2005

NijinskyIle de Bourbon

RoseliereKAISERIN b/br 87

CortezKonigsblute

Konigswurde

923 - Premio Roma GBI Racing, G1,Rome, November 6, 2000m

Storm CatGiant’s Causeway

Mariah’s StormSHAMARDAL b 2002

MachiavellianHelsinki

Helen StreetZAZOU b c 2007

NiniskiLomitas

La ColoradaZAZA TOP ch 98

Shirley HeightsZorina

Nadia Nerina

924 - Premio Ribot, G2, Rome,November 6, 1600m

2009: FRENCH FIFTEEN (c TurtleBowl) Sold 25,284gns yearling atARAUG. 5 wins at 2 in France, CriteriumInternational G1, Fourrages T.DutertreCriteium de L’Ouest LR, 2nd PrixThomas Bryon G3.2010: (c Muhtathir)

2nd Dam: Zarzaya by Caro. unraced.Dam of ZAYDIYA (f Shernazar: GrandPrix de Nantes LR, 2nd Prix CleopatreG3), Matin de Printemps (c Kendor:2nd Prix Contessina LR), HighlandDancer (g Kendor: 2nd Prix dePontarme LR), Zeitz (c Zieten: 3rd Prixdes Chenes-Haras de la Perelle G3).Third dam of ZAREWITSCH,Zakopane, ZENT. Fourth dam ofZIYARID.

Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire ofthe dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011- FRENCH FIFTEEN Turtle Bowl G1,ALWAYS A PRINCESS LeroidesanimauxG2, LIPS POISON Mamool G2,LETSGOROUNDAGAIN Redback LR.

1 Nephrite (GB) 2 ch c Pivotal (GB) -Cape Merino (GB) (Clantime)2 Born To Sea (IRE) 2 b c Invincible Spirit(IRE) - Urban Sea (USA) (Miswaki (USA))3 Aaraas (GB) 2 b f Haafhd (GB) - Adaala(USA) (Sahm (USA))


Sire: PIVOTAL. Sire of 92 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - AMANEE WoodmanG1, IMMORTAL VERSE Sadler’s WellsG1, SPRING STYLE Irish River G2,ENTANGLE Primo Dominie G3,HEADSTRONG Pursuit of Love G3, IZZITOP Zafonic G3, NEPHRITE ClantimeG3, EMERALD COMMANDER Sadler’sWells LR, ETON RIFLES Danehill LR,NATIONALISM Sadler’s Wells LR, POETShirley Heights LR, SETA Generous LR,FINAL APPROACH Kahyasi LR.

1st Dam: CAPE MERINO by Clantime. 4wins at 2, 3 and 5 inc. Bovis Stakes,Ascot. Dam of 5 winners:1998: CAPE OF GOOD HOPE (g

Inchinor) 7 wins at 3, 4 and 7 at home,Australia, Hong Kong, Golden Jubilee SG1, Timbercorp William Reid Australia SG1, 2nd Cathay Pacific Hong KongSprint G1, 3rd Golden Jubilee S G1,TEAC Lightning S G1 (twice), SeppeltSalinger Victoria Racing Club S G1,Hong Kong Sprint G1.2000: CAPE ST VINCENT (g ParisHouse) 3 wins at 3 to 5.2002: Cape Columbine (f Diktat)Winner at 2 viz. £100000 TattersallsAutumn Auction Stakes, Newmarket,2nd Shadwell Stud Nell Gwyn S G3.Broodmare.2003: Gabriella (f Cape Cross)unraced. Broodmare.2004: CAPE COBRA (g Inchinor)Winner at 3.2006: (f Oasis Dream). died at 2years.2007: (c Dubawi)2009: NEPHRITE (c Pivotal) Sold230,000gns yearling at TAOC1. 2 winsat 2, JRA Killavullan S G3.2010: (c Oasis Dream)

2nd Dam: Laena by Roman Warrior.Grandam of CORRYBROUGH. Thirddam of AMOUR PROPRE.

Broodmare Sire: CLANTIME. Sire ofthe dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -NEPHRITE Pivotal G3.

1 Duck Feet (IRE) 2 br/gr c Aussie Rules(USA) - Benelux (GB) (Zafonic (USA))2 Lui E La Luna (GB) 2 b c Nayef (USA) -Luna d’Estate (GB) (Alzao (USA))3 Mamath (IRE) 2 b c Le Vie Dei Colori(GB) - Mind And Life (IRE) (Monsun(GER))


Sire: AUSSIE RULES. Sire of 7 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - DJUMAMA BaratheaG3, DUCK FEET Zafonic G3, CAZALSMujadil LR, STAROS Anshan LR.

1st Dam: Benelux by Zafonic. unraced.Dam of 2 winners:2008: YOUNG STACK (c Ad

Valorem) 6 wins at 2 and 3 in Italy.2009: DUCK FEET (c AussieRules) Sold 4,635gns yearling at TISEP. 4wins at 2 in Italy, Premio GuidoBerardelli G3, Premio Vittorio Riva LR.2010: (f Kheleyf )

Broodmare Sire: ZAFONIC. Sire of thedams of 45 Stakes winners. In 2011 -WATAR Marju G2, DUCK FEET AussieRules G3, IZZI TOP Pivotal G3,PACIFIQUE Montjeu G3, DANDIFIEDRebuttal LR, MASHOOR Monsun LR,PEACE OF OASIS Oasis Dream LR.

1 Iver Bridge Lad (GB) 4 b cAvonbridge (GB) - Fittonia (FR)(Ashkalani (IRE))2 Fred Lalloupet (GB) 4 b c Elusive City(USA) - Firm Friend (IRE) (Affirmed(USA))3 Definightly (GB) 5 b/br g Diktat (GB) -Perfect Night (GB) (Danzig Connection(USA))


Sire: AVONBRIDGE. Sire of 2 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - IVER BRIDGE LADAshkalani G3.

1st Dam: FITTONIA by Ashkalani.Winner at 3. Dam of 1 winner:2005: Charmel’s Lad (g ComptonPlace)2006: Fitting Place (f Where OrWhen) unraced.2007: IVER BRIDGE LAD (cAvonbridge) Sold 8,000gns foal atTADEF, 1,000gns yearling at TAOC3. 5wins at 2 and 4 at home, France, Prix deSeine-et-Oise G3, FoundationDevelopments Dragon S LR, 2ndTotepool Sirenia S G3, ConnaughtFlooring Abernant S LR, williamhill.comCammidge Trophy LR, 3rd WillmottDixon Cornwallis S G3.2008: (f Pastoral Pursuits)2009: Fallible (c Piccolo) intraining.2010: (f Avonbridge)2011: (c Three Valleys)

2nd Dam: Fly For Fame by Shaadi. 3wins at 2 and 3 in France, 3rd G. P.Region Pays Loire-Derby de l’Ouest LR.

Broodmare Sire: ASHKALANI. Sire ofthe dams of 14 Stakes winners. In 2011- FRENCH FIFTEEN Turtle Bowl G1,ALWAYS A PRINCESS LeroidesanimauxG2, LIPS POISON Mamool G2, IVERBRIDGE LAD Avonbridge G3,LETSGOROUNDAGAIN Redback LR.

1 Topeka (IRE) 2 b f Whipper (USA) -Sovana (IRE) (Desert King (IRE))2 Barbayam (GB) 2 gr f Stormy River(FR) - Senkaya (FR) (Valanour (IRE))3 Tibaldi (FR) 2 b f Motivator (GB) -Treasure Queen (USA) (Kingmambo(USA))


Sire: WHIPPER. Sire of 8 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - WIZZ KID Soviet StarG2, TOPEKA Desert King G3, MURANOMontjeu LR.

1st Dam: Sovana by Desert King.Winner at 3 in France, 3rd Prix MinerveG3. Dam of 3 winners:2005: Stella Rossa (f Key of Luck)ran on the flat in France.2006: MAFRA (f Kalanisi) 9 winsat 3 to 5 in France.2007: Vervono (g Verglas)unraced.2008: FIAMMELLA (f Verglas) 2wins at 3 in France.2009: TOPEKA (f Whipper) 4wins at 2 in France, Prix Miesque G3,Criterium de Lyon LR.2010: Mindelo (c Whipper)2011: (f Whipper)

2nd Dam: PIACENZA by Darshaan. 1win at 3 in France. Dam of PERUGINA (fHighest Honor: Prix Eclipse G3),Sovana (f Desert King, see above)

Broodmare Sire: DESERT KING. Sire ofthe dams of 6 Stakes winners. In 2011 -EAGLE FALLS Hussonet G1, TOPEKAWhipper G3, BLUE TOSCA Canny Lad

Night ShiftDyhim Diamond

Happy LandingTURTLE BOWL b 2002

Top VilleClara Bow

KamiyaFRENCH FIFTEEN ch c 2009


AshtarkaSPRING MORNING ch 98

CaroZarzaya

Zahra

917 - JRA Killavullan Stakes, G3,Leopardstown, October 30, 7f

NureyevPolar Falcon



StufidaNEPHRITE ch c 2009

Music BoyClantime

Penny PincherCAPE MERINO ch 91

Roman WarriorLaena

Poshteen

918 - Premio Guido Berardelli, G3,Rome, November 1, 1800m

DanzigDanehill

RazyanaAUSSIE RULES gr/ro 2003

AlzaoLast Second

AlruccabaDUCK FEET br/gr c 2009

Gone WestZafonic

ZaizafonBENELUX b 2003

CaerleonBiloxi

Wemyss Bight

919 - Prix de Seine-et-Oise, G3,Maisons-Laffitte, November 1,1200m

WarningAverti

Imperial JadeAVONBRIDGE b 2000

CaerleonAlessia

KissIVER BRIDGE LAD b c 2007


AshtarkaFITTONIA ch 99

ShaadiFly For Fame

Fly Me

920 - Prix Miesque, G3, Maisons-Laffitte, November 1, 1400m



international databaseBahamian Bounty) Winner at 3 inFrance. Broodmare.2004: POPPETS SWEETLOVE (fFoxhound) 3 wins at 3 and 4.Broodmare.2005: OVERDOSE (cStarborough) Sold 2,000gns yearling atTADEY. Champion 3yr old sprinter inEurope in 2008, Champion 3yr old inItaly in 2008. 16 wins at 2 to 6, 2011 inAustria, Germany, Hungary, Italy,Slovakia, bestwetten.de GoldenePeitsche G2, Premio Carlo e FrancescoAloisi G3 (twice), Lotto HamburgTrophy G3, Lanson Cup LR.2006: POPPET’S LOVEIN (fLomitas) 3 wins at 3 and 4.2007: Poppet’s Treasure (fDansili) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2ndPrix du Cercle LR, Premio Cancelli LR.2008: Poppet’s Joy (f Bertolini)2009: Poppet’s Passion (fClodovil)2010: Majestic Mount (c ExceedAnd Excel)2011: (c Royal Applause)

2nd Dam: UPEND by Main Reef. 3 winsat 3 St Simon S G3. Dam ofMUSICANNA (f Cape Cross: William HillAtalanta S LR, 2nd Vodafone PrincessElizabeth S G3, 3rd UAE EquestrianRacing Falmouth S G1, Kingdom ofBahrain Sun Chariot S G1), Shortfall (fLast Tycoon: 2nd Daniel Prenn RoyalYorkshire S LR). Grandam of Take It ToThe Max, Wake Up Call,CONTRABAND. Third dam of UP INTIME, SUMMER FETE.

Broodmare Sire: WARNING. Sire ofthe dams of 46 Stakes winners. In 2011- MISS KELLER Montjeu G1, PROHIBITOasis Dream G1, FORETELLER DansiliG3, OVERDOSE Starborough G3,GLORIOUS SIGHT Singspiel LR, MORESWELLS Sadler’s Wells LR, NICE DANONSakhee LR, TOI ET MOI Galileo LR.

1 King’s Hall (GB) 3 ch c Halling (USA) -Konigin Turf (GER) (Turfkonig (GER))2 Neatico (GER) 4 b c Medicean (GB) -Nicola Bella (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA))

3 Poet (GB) 6 b c Pivotal (GB) - Hyabella(GB) (Shirley Heights)


Sire: HALLING. Sire of 50 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - OPINION POLLShirley Heights G2, KING’S HALLTurfkonig G3, HAKKAR Sadler’s WellsLR.

1st Dam: KONIGIN TURF by Turfkonig.Winner at 3 in Germany. Dam of 4winners:2000: Konigin Bijou (f BigShuffle). Broodmare.2001: KONIG TEMPO (gTemporal) 3 wins at 5 and 6 inDenmark, Sweden.2002: Konig Speed (c BigShuffle) 7 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany,2nd Wettenliep BayerischerFliegerpreis LR.2003: Konigin Arte (f Artan) 2wins at 2 and 3 in Czech Republic,Germany, 2nd Gran Corsa Siepi di PisaHurdle LR, Altes Badener SteeplechaseLR, Bad Durrheimer Trophy Hurdle LR.Broodmare.2004: Konigin Speed (f BigShuffle)2006: King Turf (c Kalatos)unraced.2008: KING’S HALL (c Halling)Sold 3,151gns foal at BBAGO,45,307gns yearling at BBAGS. 1 win at 3in Germany, Hessen-Pokal TraloppoG3.2009: Konigsblau (f Shamardal)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: KAISERIN by Ile de Bourbon.2 wins at 3 in West Germany. Dam ofKONIG TURF (c Big Shuffle: ChristlackeEuropa-Meile G2), KONIG SHUFFLE (cBig Shuffle: Grosser BuchmacherSpringer Sprint Preis G3), KONIGCONCORDE (c Big Shuffle: PremioChiusura G3 (twice), 2nd Mehl-MulhensRennen (2000 Guineas) G2, DarleyOettingen-Rennen G2, Grosser Preiseder Sparkasse Hannover G2)

Broodmare Sire: TURFKONIG. Sire ofthe dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 -KING’S HALL Halling G3, BIRTHDAYLION Areion LR.

USA

1 Sanagas (GER) 5 b/br g Lomitas (GB)- Scota (GER) (Marju (IRE))2 Tahoe Lake (BRZ) 5 b g Know Heights(IRE) - Tutto Charm (BRZ) (Roi Normand(USA))3 Center Divider (USA) 4 ch c Giant’sCauseway (USA) - Meridiana (GER)(Lomitas (GB))

1 Daisy Devine (USA) 3 b f Kafwain(USA) - Devil’s Dispute (USA) (Devil’sBag (USA))2 Bizzy Caroline (USA) 3 b/br f AfleetAlex (USA) - Sacre Coeur (USA) (SaintBallado (CAN))3 In Step (USA) 3 b/br f Unbridled’sSong (USA) - Strawberry Reason (USA)(Strawberry Road (AUS))

1 Great Hot (BRZ) 3 b/br f Orientate(USA) - That’s Hot (USA) (Seeking TheGold (USA))2 Groupie Doll (USA) 3 ch f Bowman’sBand (USA) - Deputy Doll (USA) (SilverDeputy (CAN))3 Mizdirection (USA) 3 gr/ro f MizzenMast (USA) - Deceptive (USA) (CleverTrick (USA))

1 Wise Dan (USA) 4 ch g Wiseman’sFerry (USA) - Lisa Danielle (USA) (WolfPower (SAF))2 Ioya Bigtime (USA) 4 b c Dynaformer(USA) - Ioya Two (USA) (Lord At War(ARG))3 Workin For Hops (USA) 4 ch g City Zip(USA) - Citi Pearl (USA) (Citidancer(USA))

1 On Fire Baby (USA) 2 gr/ro f SmokeGlacken (USA) - Ornate (USA) (GildedTime (USA))2 And Why Not (USA) 2 b f Street Cry(IRE) - Alchemist (USA) (A P Indy (USA))3 Glinda The Good (USA) 2 b f HardSpun (USA) - Magical Flash (USA)(Miswaki (USA))

1 Motor City (USA) 2 b c Street Sense(USA) - Shawgatny (USA) (DanzigConnection (USA))2 Seven Lively Sins (USA) 2 b c StormyAtlantic (USA) - Carson’s Star (USA)(Carson City (USA))3 Mr Bowling (USA) 2 b/br c Istan (USA)- Goldilock’s Bear (USA) (Irish Tower(USA))

1 Humble And Hungry (USA) 3 b cLimehouse (USA) - Cukee (USA)(Langfuhr (CAN))2 Wilkinson (USA) 3 b/br c Lemon DropKid (USA) - Tasha’s Delight (USA)(Afternoon Deelites (USA))3 Silver Medallion (USA) 3 b c Badge ofSilver (USA) - Another Vegetarian (USA)(Stalwart (USA))

1 Musical Romance (USA) 4 b/br fConcorde’s Tune (USA) -Candlelightdinner (USA) (Slew Gin Fizz(USA))2 Switch (USA) 4 b f Quiet American(USA) - Antoniette (USA) (Nicholas(USA))3 Her Smile (USA) 3 b/br f Include (USA)- Hepburn (USA) (Capote (USA))

1 My Miss Aurelia (USA) 2 b f SmartStrike (CAN) - My Miss Storm Cat (USA)(Sea of Secrets (USA))2 Grace Hall (USA) 2 b f Empire Maker(USA) - Season’s Greetings (IRE) (Ezzoud(IRE))3 Weemissfrankie (USA) 2 ch f Sunriver(USA) - Starinthemeadow (USA)(Meadowlake (USA))

1 Perfect Shirl (USA) 4 b f Perfect Soul(IRE) - Lady Shirl (USA) (That’s A Nice(USA))2 Nahrain (GB) 3 ch f Selkirk (USA) -Bahr (GB) (Generous (IRE))3 Misty For Me (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) -Butterfly Cove (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))

NureyevSoviet Star

VeruschkaSTARBOROUGH ch 94

Desert WineFlamenco Wave

Armada WayOVERDOSE b c 2005

Known FactWarning

Slightly Dangerous

OUR POPPET b 97Main Reef

UpendGay Charlotte

929 - Hessen-Pokal Traloppo, G3,Frankfurt, November 13, 2000m

Sharpen UpDiesis

Doubly SureHALLING ch 91

Green DancerDance Machine

Never A LadyKING’S HALL ch c 2008

AnfieldTurfkonig

TheklaKONIGIN TURF b 95

Ile de BourbonKaiserin

Konigsblute

930 - SYCAMORE STAKES, G3,Keeneland, October 20, 13f

931 - PIN OAK VALLEY VIEW STAKES,G3, Keeneland, October 21, 8f110yds

932 - LEXUS RAVEN RUN STAKES, G2,Keeneland, October 22, 7f

933 - FAYETTE STAKES, G2,Keeneland, October 29, 9f

934 - POCAHONTAS STAKES, G2,Churchill Downs, October 30, 8f

935 - IROQUOIS STAKES, G3,Churchill Downs, October 30, 8f

936 - COMMONWEALTH TURFSTAKES, G3, Churchill Downs,November 3, 8f 110yds

937 - SENTIENT JET BREEDERS’ CUPF&M SPRINT, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 7f

938 - GREY GOOSE BREEDERS’ CUPJUV. FILLIES, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 8f 110yds

939 - EMIRATES AIRLINES BREEDERS’CUP F&M TURF, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 11f

wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 2winners:2005: VANCOVIA (f Dream Well)2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Preis derBHF Bank LR. Broodmare.2007: VANJURA (f Areion) Sold19,607gns yearling at BBAGO.Champion 3yr old filly in Germany andItaly in 2010. 11 wins at 2 to 4 inGermany, Italy, Turkey, Premio RibotG2, Diana Trial G2, Walther J JacobsStutenmeile G3, Bremer Oster SprintCup LR, Istanbul Euro Capital of CultureTrophy LR (twice), 2nd Premio Vittoriodi Capua - C. Int G1, Premio CarloVittadini G2, Wenatex EuropaGrupperennen G3, 3rd Premio Vittoriodi Capua G1.2008: Ventiane (f Konigstiger) intraining.2009: Velayati (c Sholokhov)unraced to date.2011: Veligandu (f HurricaneRun)

2nd Dam: VECCHIA ROMAGNA bySalse. 2 wins at 2 in West Germany.Dam of Voodoo Lounge (f Turfkonig:3rd Scherping-Rennen LR, Clemens-Kleine-Dusseldorfer Stutenpreis LR).Grandam of Party Girl.

Broodmare Sire: ZINAAD. Sire of thedams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2011 -VANJURA Areion G2, ROSELLO LecroixLR, RAG TIGER Pentire LR.

The Areion/Zinaad cross has produced:VANJURA G1, ASHANTEE G3.

1 Pastorius (GER) 2 b c Soldier Hollow(GB) - Princess Li (GER) (Monsun (GER))2 Black Arrow (IRE) 2 b c Teofilo (IRE) -Fann (USA) (Diesis)3 Laeyos (GER) 2 b c Soldier Hollow(GB) - Laeya Star (GER) (Royal Dragon(USA))


Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 1Stakes winners. In 2011 - PASTORIUS

Monsun G3.

1st Dam: PRINCESS LI by Monsun. 3wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Italy. Damof 3 winners:2006: PRINCESS LALA (f RoyalDragon) Winner at 4 in Germany.2008: Point Blank (c RoyalDragon) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany,2nd Premio del Piazzale G3, 3rdBayerische Hausbau-Werte EuropaMeile G2.2009: PASTORIUS (c SoldierHollow) 2 wins at 2 in Germany,German Racing Herzog von RatiborRennen G3, 2nd Winterfavorit-Trial LR.2011: (f Sholokhov)

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of thedams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2011 -NIGHT MAGIC Sholokhov G2,SOMMERABEND Shamardal G2,PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G3,SILVANER Lomitas G3, TRES ROCKDANON Rock of Gibraltar G3, ADORNATiger Hill LR, SINNERMAN Tiger Hill LR.

1 Skia (FR) 4 b f Motivator (GB) - LightQuest (USA) (Quest For Fame)2 Skallet (FR) 3 b f Muhaymin (USA) -Siran (FR) (R B Chesne)3 Casaca (GB) 5 ch f Medicean (GB) -Priena (IRE) (Priolo (USA))


Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 7 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - SKIA Quest For FameG3, CLINICAL Elmaamul LR, MOTRICEAffirmed LR, TACTICIAN Shirley HeightsLR.

1st Dam: LIGHT QUEST by Quest ForFame. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France. Damof 3 winners:2006: DIODOROS (g HighChaparral) 4 wins at 4 and 5 in France.2007: SKIA (f Motivator) 3 winsat 3 and 4 in France, Prix Fille de l’AirG3, 2nd Prix Melisande-G.P. deFontainebleau LR.2008: SYRNA (f Kendor) Winnerat 3 in France.

2009: Tropaios (c Excellent Art)unraced to date.2010: (f Medicean)

2nd Dam: GLEAM OF LIGHT byDanehill. 2 wins at 3. Dam of ARABIANGLEAM (c Kyllachy: Victor ChandlerChallenge S G2, Great North EasternRailway Park S G2 (twice)), Bumptious(c Mister Baileys: 3rd Bahrain TrophyLR)

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME.Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners.In 2011 - SILVER POND Act One G2,TORIO’S QUEST Oratorio G2, FAMOUSNAME Dansili G3, LAMASERYCommands G3, SKIA Motivator G3,TRIPLE ELEGANCE Mossman G3,ALINGA Rock of Gibraltar LR,AMBIDEXTER Commands LR, RIGHTOF REFUSAL Refuse To Bend LR, SCARFLonhro LR, ZAMINAST Zamindar LR.

1 Mandaean (GB) 2 b c Manduro (GER)- Summertime Legacy (GB) (Darshaan)2 Brocottes (FR) 2 b f Lando (GER) -Macotte (FR) (Nicolotte (GB))3 Tai Chi (GER) 2 b c High Chaparral(IRE) - Taita (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA))


Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 1 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - MANDAEANDarshaan G1.

1st Dam: SUMMERTIME LEGACY byDarshaan. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix desReservoirs G3, 3rd Prix Saint-Alary G1.Dam of 4 winners:2004: Hurricane Irene (f GreenDesert) unraced. Broodmare.2005: Lavender And Lace (fBarathea) ran.2006: Mister Green (g GreenDesert) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5, 3rd BetdaqWinter Derby Trial S LR.2007: ATLANTIC TIGER (g TigerHill) 2 wins at 3.2008: WAVERING (f Refuse ToBend) 2 wins at 3 in France, MontjeuCoolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1.

2009: MANDAEAN (c Manduro)2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium deSaint-Cloud G1.2010: (c Manduro)2011: (c Halling)

2nd Dam: ZAWAAHY by El Gran Senor.1 win at 3. Dam of SUMMERTIMELEGACY (f Darshaan, see above)

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire ofthe dams of 173 Stakes winners. In2011 - GLASS HARMONIUM VerglasG1, MANDAEAN Manduro G1, POURMOI Montjeu G1, SARAFINA Refuse ToBend G1, WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1,BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, DREAMPEACE Dansili G2, FANTASIA Sadler’sWells G3, GENKI Shinko Forest G3,GIANT SANDMAN FootstepsinthesandG3, PINK SYMPHONY Montjeu G3,PRINCE SIEGFRIED Royal Applause G3,SENSE OF PURPOSE Galileo G3,BABYCAKES Marju LR, CLAREMONTSadler’s Wells LR, DISTANT MEMORIESFalbrav LR, MOHEDIAN LADYHurricane Run LR, NATURE SPIRITSBeat Hollow LR, SAJJHAA King’s Best LR,SANDAGIYR Dr Fong LR, SIR EAGLESDiamond Green LR, ST JEAN CAPFERRAT Domedriver LR, PRINCETONPLAINS Tagula LR.

1 Overdose (GB) 6 b c Starborough(GB) - Our Poppet (IRE) (Warning)2 Dagda Mor (ITY) 4 b c Martino Alonso(IRE) - Bagnolese (ITY) (Cape Cross (IRE))3 Rosendhal (IRE) 4 ch c Indian Ridge -Kathy College (IRE) (College Chapel(GB))


Sire: STARBOROUGH. Sire of 5 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - OVERDOSE WarningG3.

1st Dam: Our Poppet by Warning. ranonce at 2. Dam of 6 winners:2001: NOBLE MOUNT (gMuhtarram) 2 wins at 3 and 4.2003: POPPET’S BOUNTY (f

Super ConcordeBig Shuffle

Raise Your SkirtsAREION b 95

CaerleonAerleona

AlataVANJURA ch f 2007

Shirley HeightsZinaad

Time CharterVENIA LEGENDI b 98

SalseVecchia Romagna

Princess Eboli

925 - German Racing Herzog vonRatibor Rennen, G3, Krefeld,November 6, 1600m

Sadler’s WellsIn The Wings

High HawkSOLDIER HOLLOW b 2000

Common GroundsIsland Race

Lake IslePASTORIUS b c 2009

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaPRINCESS LI b 2000

Suave DancerPrincess Dancer

Princess Nana

926 - Prix Fille de l’Air, G3, Toulouse,November 11, 2000m


FloripedesMOTIVATOR b 2002

Gone WestOut West

ChellingouaSKIA b f 2007

Rainbow QuestQuest For Fame

AryenneLIGHT QUEST b 2000

DanehillGleam of Light

Gold Runner

927 - Criterium de Saint-Cloud, G1,Saint-Cloud, November 12, 2000m

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaMANDURO b 2002

Be My GuestMandellicht

MandelaugeMANDAEAN b c 2009

Shirley HeightsDarshaan

DelsySUMMERTIME LEGACY b 99

El Gran SenorZawaahy

Exotic Treat

928 - Premio Carlo e FrancescoAloisi, G3, Rome, November 13,1200m




Bahamian Bounty) Winner at 3 inFrance. Broodmare.2004: POPPETS SWEETLOVE (fFoxhound) 3 wins at 3 and 4.Broodmare.2005: OVERDOSE (cStarborough) Sold 2,000gns yearling atTADEY. Champion 3yr old sprinter inEurope in 2008, Champion 3yr old inItaly in 2008. 16 wins at 2 to 6, 2011 inAustria, Germany, Hungary, Italy,Slovakia, bestwetten.de GoldenePeitsche G2, Premio Carlo e FrancescoAloisi G3 (twice), Lotto HamburgTrophy G3, Lanson Cup LR.2006: POPPET’S LOVEIN (fLomitas) 3 wins at 3 and 4.2007: Poppet’s Treasure (fDansili) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in France, 2ndPrix du Cercle LR, Premio Cancelli LR.2008: Poppet’s Joy (f Bertolini)2009: Poppet’s Passion (fClodovil)2010: Majestic Mount (c ExceedAnd Excel)2011: (c Royal Applause)

2nd Dam: UPEND by Main Reef. 3 winsat 3 St Simon S G3. Dam ofMUSICANNA (f Cape Cross: William HillAtalanta S LR, 2nd Vodafone PrincessElizabeth S G3, 3rd UAE EquestrianRacing Falmouth S G1, Kingdom ofBahrain Sun Chariot S G1), Shortfall (fLast Tycoon: 2nd Daniel Prenn RoyalYorkshire S LR). Grandam of Take It ToThe Max, Wake Up Call,CONTRABAND. Third dam of UP INTIME, SUMMER FETE.

Broodmare Sire: WARNING. Sire ofthe dams of 46 Stakes winners. In 2011- MISS KELLER Montjeu G1, PROHIBITOasis Dream G1, FORETELLER DansiliG3, OVERDOSE Starborough G3,GLORIOUS SIGHT Singspiel LR, MORESWELLS Sadler’s Wells LR, NICE DANONSakhee LR, TOI ET MOI Galileo LR.

1 King’s Hall (GB) 3 ch c Halling (USA) -Konigin Turf (GER) (Turfkonig (GER))2 Neatico (GER) 4 b c Medicean (GB) -Nicola Bella (IRE) (Sadler’s Wells (USA))

3 Poet (GB) 6 b c Pivotal (GB) - Hyabella(GB) (Shirley Heights)


Sire: HALLING. Sire of 50 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - OPINION POLLShirley Heights G2, KING’S HALLTurfkonig G3, HAKKAR Sadler’s WellsLR.

1st Dam: KONIGIN TURF by Turfkonig.Winner at 3 in Germany. Dam of 4winners:2000: Konigin Bijou (f BigShuffle). Broodmare.2001: KONIG TEMPO (gTemporal) 3 wins at 5 and 6 inDenmark, Sweden.2002: Konig Speed (c BigShuffle) 7 wins at 3 to 5 in Germany,2nd Wettenliep BayerischerFliegerpreis LR.2003: Konigin Arte (f Artan) 2wins at 2 and 3 in Czech Republic,Germany, 2nd Gran Corsa Siepi di PisaHurdle LR, Altes Badener SteeplechaseLR, Bad Durrheimer Trophy Hurdle LR.Broodmare.2004: Konigin Speed (f BigShuffle)2006: King Turf (c Kalatos)unraced.2008: KING’S HALL (c Halling)Sold 3,151gns foal at BBAGO,45,307gns yearling at BBAGS. 1 win at 3in Germany, Hessen-Pokal TraloppoG3.2009: Konigsblau (f Shamardal)unraced to date.

2nd Dam: KAISERIN by Ile de Bourbon.2 wins at 3 in West Germany. Dam ofKONIG TURF (c Big Shuffle: ChristlackeEuropa-Meile G2), KONIG SHUFFLE (cBig Shuffle: Grosser BuchmacherSpringer Sprint Preis G3), KONIGCONCORDE (c Big Shuffle: PremioChiusura G3 (twice), 2nd Mehl-MulhensRennen (2000 Guineas) G2, DarleyOettingen-Rennen G2, Grosser Preiseder Sparkasse Hannover G2)

Broodmare Sire: TURFKONIG. Sire ofthe dams of 5 Stakes winners. In 2011 -KING’S HALL Halling G3, BIRTHDAYLION Areion LR.

USA

1 Sanagas (GER) 5 b/br g Lomitas (GB)- Scota (GER) (Marju (IRE))2 Tahoe Lake (BRZ) 5 b g Know Heights(IRE) - Tutto Charm (BRZ) (Roi Normand(USA))3 Center Divider (USA) 4 ch c Giant’sCauseway (USA) - Meridiana (GER)(Lomitas (GB))

1 Daisy Devine (USA) 3 b f Kafwain(USA) - Devil’s Dispute (USA) (Devil’sBag (USA))2 Bizzy Caroline (USA) 3 b/br f AfleetAlex (USA) - Sacre Coeur (USA) (SaintBallado (CAN))3 In Step (USA) 3 b/br f Unbridled’sSong (USA) - Strawberry Reason (USA)(Strawberry Road (AUS))

1 Great Hot (BRZ) 3 b/br f Orientate(USA) - That’s Hot (USA) (Seeking TheGold (USA))2 Groupie Doll (USA) 3 ch f Bowman’sBand (USA) - Deputy Doll (USA) (SilverDeputy (CAN))3 Mizdirection (USA) 3 gr/ro f MizzenMast (USA) - Deceptive (USA) (CleverTrick (USA))

1 Wise Dan (USA) 4 ch g Wiseman’sFerry (USA) - Lisa Danielle (USA) (WolfPower (SAF))2 Ioya Bigtime (USA) 4 b c Dynaformer(USA) - Ioya Two (USA) (Lord At War(ARG))3 Workin For Hops (USA) 4 ch g City Zip(USA) - Citi Pearl (USA) (Citidancer(USA))

1 On Fire Baby (USA) 2 gr/ro f SmokeGlacken (USA) - Ornate (USA) (GildedTime (USA))2 And Why Not (USA) 2 b f Street Cry(IRE) - Alchemist (USA) (A P Indy (USA))3 Glinda The Good (USA) 2 b f HardSpun (USA) - Magical Flash (USA)(Miswaki (USA))

1 Motor City (USA) 2 b c Street Sense(USA) - Shawgatny (USA) (DanzigConnection (USA))2 Seven Lively Sins (USA) 2 b c StormyAtlantic (USA) - Carson’s Star (USA)(Carson City (USA))3 Mr Bowling (USA) 2 b/br c Istan (USA)- Goldilock’s Bear (USA) (Irish Tower(USA))

1 Humble And Hungry (USA) 3 b cLimehouse (USA) - Cukee (USA)(Langfuhr (CAN))2 Wilkinson (USA) 3 b/br c Lemon DropKid (USA) - Tasha’s Delight (USA)(Afternoon Deelites (USA))3 Silver Medallion (USA) 3 b c Badge ofSilver (USA) - Another Vegetarian (USA)(Stalwart (USA))

1 Musical Romance (USA) 4 b/br fConcorde’s Tune (USA) -Candlelightdinner (USA) (Slew Gin Fizz(USA))2 Switch (USA) 4 b f Quiet American(USA) - Antoniette (USA) (Nicholas(USA))3 Her Smile (USA) 3 b/br f Include (USA)- Hepburn (USA) (Capote (USA))

1 My Miss Aurelia (USA) 2 b f SmartStrike (CAN) - My Miss Storm Cat (USA)(Sea of Secrets (USA))2 Grace Hall (USA) 2 b f Empire Maker(USA) - Season’s Greetings (IRE) (Ezzoud(IRE))3 Weemissfrankie (USA) 2 ch f Sunriver(USA) - Starinthemeadow (USA)(Meadowlake (USA))

1 Perfect Shirl (USA) 4 b f Perfect Soul(IRE) - Lady Shirl (USA) (That’s A Nice(USA))2 Nahrain (GB) 3 ch f Selkirk (USA) -Bahr (GB) (Generous (IRE))3 Misty For Me (IRE) 3 b f Galileo (IRE) -Butterfly Cove (USA) (Storm Cat (USA))

NureyevSoviet Star

VeruschkaSTARBOROUGH ch 94

Desert WineFlamenco Wave

Armada WayOVERDOSE b c 2005

Known FactWarning

Slightly Dangerous

OUR POPPET b 97Main Reef

UpendGay Charlotte

929 - Hessen-Pokal Traloppo, G3,Frankfurt, November 13, 2000m

Sharpen UpDiesis

Doubly SureHALLING ch 91

Green DancerDance Machine

Never A LadyKING’S HALL ch c 2008

AnfieldTurfkonig

TheklaKONIGIN TURF b 95

Ile de BourbonKaiserin

Konigsblute

930 - SYCAMORE STAKES, G3,Keeneland, October 20, 13f

931 - PIN OAK VALLEY VIEW STAKES,G3, Keeneland, October 21, 8f110yds

932 - LEXUS RAVEN RUN STAKES, G2,Keeneland, October 22, 7f

933 - FAYETTE STAKES, G2,Keeneland, October 29, 9f

934 - POCAHONTAS STAKES, G2,Churchill Downs, October 30, 8f

935 - IROQUOIS STAKES, G3,Churchill Downs, October 30, 8f

936 - COMMONWEALTH TURFSTAKES, G3, Churchill Downs,November 3, 8f 110yds

937 - SENTIENT JET BREEDERS’ CUPF&M SPRINT, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 7f

938 - GREY GOOSE BREEDERS’ CUPJUV. FILLIES, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 8f 110yds

939 - EMIRATES AIRLINES BREEDERS’CUP F&M TURF, G1, Churchill Downs,November 4, 11f

wins at 3 in Germany. Dam of 2winners:2005: VANCOVIA (f Dream Well)2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany, Preis derBHF Bank LR. Broodmare.2007: VANJURA (f Areion) Sold19,607gns yearling at BBAGO.Champion 3yr old filly in Germany andItaly in 2010. 11 wins at 2 to 4 inGermany, Italy, Turkey, Premio RibotG2, Diana Trial G2, Walther J JacobsStutenmeile G3, Bremer Oster SprintCup LR, Istanbul Euro Capital of CultureTrophy LR (twice), 2nd Premio Vittoriodi Capua - C. Int G1, Premio CarloVittadini G2, Wenatex EuropaGrupperennen G3, 3rd Premio Vittoriodi Capua G1.2008: Ventiane (f Konigstiger) intraining.2009: Velayati (c Sholokhov)unraced to date.2011: Veligandu (f HurricaneRun)

2nd Dam: VECCHIA ROMAGNA bySalse. 2 wins at 2 in West Germany.Dam of Voodoo Lounge (f Turfkonig:3rd Scherping-Rennen LR, Clemens-Kleine-Dusseldorfer Stutenpreis LR).Grandam of Party Girl.

Broodmare Sire: ZINAAD. Sire of thedams of 7 Stakes winners. In 2011 -VANJURA Areion G2, ROSELLO LecroixLR, RAG TIGER Pentire LR.

The Areion/Zinaad cross has produced:VANJURA G1, ASHANTEE G3.

1 Pastorius (GER) 2 b c Soldier Hollow(GB) - Princess Li (GER) (Monsun (GER))2 Black Arrow (IRE) 2 b c Teofilo (IRE) -Fann (USA) (Diesis)3 Laeyos (GER) 2 b c Soldier Hollow(GB) - Laeya Star (GER) (Royal Dragon(USA))


Sire: SOLDIER HOLLOW. Sire of 1Stakes winners. In 2011 - PASTORIUS

Monsun G3.

1st Dam: PRINCESS LI by Monsun. 3wins at 3 and 4 in Germany, Italy. Damof 3 winners:2006: PRINCESS LALA (f RoyalDragon) Winner at 4 in Germany.2008: Point Blank (c RoyalDragon) 2 wins at 2 and 3 in Germany,2nd Premio del Piazzale G3, 3rdBayerische Hausbau-Werte EuropaMeile G2.2009: PASTORIUS (c SoldierHollow) 2 wins at 2 in Germany,German Racing Herzog von RatiborRennen G3, 2nd Winterfavorit-Trial LR.2011: (f Sholokhov)

Broodmare Sire: MONSUN. Sire of thedams of 13 Stakes winners. In 2011 -NIGHT MAGIC Sholokhov G2,SOMMERABEND Shamardal G2,PASTORIUS Soldier Hollow G3,SILVANER Lomitas G3, TRES ROCKDANON Rock of Gibraltar G3, ADORNATiger Hill LR, SINNERMAN Tiger Hill LR.

1 Skia (FR) 4 b f Motivator (GB) - LightQuest (USA) (Quest For Fame)2 Skallet (FR) 3 b f Muhaymin (USA) -Siran (FR) (R B Chesne)3 Casaca (GB) 5 ch f Medicean (GB) -Priena (IRE) (Priolo (USA))


Sire: MOTIVATOR. Sire of 7 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - SKIA Quest For FameG3, CLINICAL Elmaamul LR, MOTRICEAffirmed LR, TACTICIAN Shirley HeightsLR.

1st Dam: LIGHT QUEST by Quest ForFame. 3 wins at 3 and 4 in France. Damof 3 winners:2006: DIODOROS (g HighChaparral) 4 wins at 4 and 5 in France.2007: SKIA (f Motivator) 3 winsat 3 and 4 in France, Prix Fille de l’AirG3, 2nd Prix Melisande-G.P. deFontainebleau LR.2008: SYRNA (f Kendor) Winnerat 3 in France.

2009: Tropaios (c Excellent Art)unraced to date.2010: (f Medicean)

2nd Dam: GLEAM OF LIGHT byDanehill. 2 wins at 3. Dam of ARABIANGLEAM (c Kyllachy: Victor ChandlerChallenge S G2, Great North EasternRailway Park S G2 (twice)), Bumptious(c Mister Baileys: 3rd Bahrain TrophyLR)

Broodmare Sire: QUEST FOR FAME.Sire of the dams of 35 Stakes winners.In 2011 - SILVER POND Act One G2,TORIO’S QUEST Oratorio G2, FAMOUSNAME Dansili G3, LAMASERYCommands G3, SKIA Motivator G3,TRIPLE ELEGANCE Mossman G3,ALINGA Rock of Gibraltar LR,AMBIDEXTER Commands LR, RIGHTOF REFUSAL Refuse To Bend LR, SCARFLonhro LR, ZAMINAST Zamindar LR.

1 Mandaean (GB) 2 b c Manduro (GER)- Summertime Legacy (GB) (Darshaan)2 Brocottes (FR) 2 b f Lando (GER) -Macotte (FR) (Nicolotte (GB))3 Tai Chi (GER) 2 b c High Chaparral(IRE) - Taita (GER) (Big Shuffle (USA))


Sire: MANDURO. Sire of 1 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - MANDAEANDarshaan G1.

1st Dam: SUMMERTIME LEGACY byDarshaan. 2 wins at 2 in France, Prix desReservoirs G3, 3rd Prix Saint-Alary G1.Dam of 4 winners:2004: Hurricane Irene (f GreenDesert) unraced. Broodmare.2005: Lavender And Lace (fBarathea) ran.2006: Mister Green (g GreenDesert) 4 wins at 2, 4 and 5, 3rd BetdaqWinter Derby Trial S LR.2007: ATLANTIC TIGER (g TigerHill) 2 wins at 3.2008: WAVERING (f Refuse ToBend) 2 wins at 3 in France, MontjeuCoolmore Prix Saint-Alary G1.

2009: MANDAEAN (c Manduro)2 wins at 2 in France, Criterium deSaint-Cloud G1.2010: (c Manduro)2011: (c Halling)

2nd Dam: ZAWAAHY by El Gran Senor.1 win at 3. Dam of SUMMERTIMELEGACY (f Darshaan, see above)

Broodmare Sire: DARSHAAN. Sire ofthe dams of 173 Stakes winners. In2011 - GLASS HARMONIUM VerglasG1, MANDAEAN Manduro G1, POURMOI Montjeu G1, SARAFINA Refuse ToBend G1, WAVERING Refuse To Bend G1,BLUE BAJAN Montjeu G2, DREAMPEACE Dansili G2, FANTASIA Sadler’sWells G3, GENKI Shinko Forest G3,GIANT SANDMAN FootstepsinthesandG3, PINK SYMPHONY Montjeu G3,PRINCE SIEGFRIED Royal Applause G3,SENSE OF PURPOSE Galileo G3,BABYCAKES Marju LR, CLAREMONTSadler’s Wells LR, DISTANT MEMORIESFalbrav LR, MOHEDIAN LADYHurricane Run LR, NATURE SPIRITSBeat Hollow LR, SAJJHAA King’s Best LR,SANDAGIYR Dr Fong LR, SIR EAGLESDiamond Green LR, ST JEAN CAPFERRAT Domedriver LR, PRINCETONPLAINS Tagula LR.

1 Overdose (GB) 6 b c Starborough(GB) - Our Poppet (IRE) (Warning)2 Dagda Mor (ITY) 4 b c Martino Alonso(IRE) - Bagnolese (ITY) (Cape Cross (IRE))3 Rosendhal (IRE) 4 ch c Indian Ridge -Kathy College (IRE) (College Chapel(GB))


Sire: STARBOROUGH. Sire of 5 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - OVERDOSE WarningG3.

1st Dam: Our Poppet by Warning. ranonce at 2. Dam of 6 winners:2001: NOBLE MOUNT (gMuhtarram) 2 wins at 3 and 4.2003: POPPET’S BOUNTY (f

Super ConcordeBig Shuffle

Raise Your SkirtsAREION b 95

CaerleonAerleona

AlataVANJURA ch f 2007

Shirley HeightsZinaad

Time CharterVENIA LEGENDI b 98

SalseVecchia Romagna

Princess Eboli

925 - German Racing Herzog vonRatibor Rennen, G3, Krefeld,November 6, 1600m

Sadler’s WellsIn The Wings

High HawkSOLDIER HOLLOW b 2000

Common GroundsIsland Race

Lake IslePASTORIUS b c 2009

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaPRINCESS LI b 2000

Suave DancerPrincess Dancer

Princess Nana

926 - Prix Fille de l’Air, G3, Toulouse,November 11, 2000m


FloripedesMOTIVATOR b 2002

Gone WestOut West

ChellingouaSKIA b f 2007

Rainbow QuestQuest For Fame

AryenneLIGHT QUEST b 2000

DanehillGleam of Light

Gold Runner

927 - Criterium de Saint-Cloud, G1,Saint-Cloud, November 12, 2000m

KonigsstuhlMonsun

MosellaMANDURO b 2002

Be My GuestMandellicht

MandelaugeMANDAEAN b c 2009

Shirley HeightsDarshaan

DelsySUMMERTIME LEGACY b 99

El Gran SenorZawaahy

Exotic Treat

928 - Premio Carlo e FrancescoAloisi, G3, Rome, November 13,1200m


We would like to wish all of our readers a Happy Christmas and a successful New Year. The next issue of International Thoroughbred will be out at the end of January.

bloodstock backgrounds

Simon Thompson: Thoroughbred Internet & Barnes ThompsonWhat is your racing background?The only horseman in my family history was a great uncle who looked after the horse who pulled the fire engine in Enfield! I did work for Chipperfield Circus for a while, looking after the lions and tigers.

What is your working background?I was very much a “hands on” horseman, at first, here in the UK and in Ireland, and then stints in the US and New Zealand.

Following that, I was lucky enough to work alongside the likes of Paul Webber at the Curragh Bloodstock Agency, both in the UK and Ireland, before joining the Sporting Life.

After that, I founded Barnes Thompson Ltd. I hope that I am a product of the experience, knowledge and, more importantly, the values I gained from working with and alongside some of the industry’s leading professionals. It’s always a work in progress, though. If this business teaches us anything, it’s that we never stop learning.

How long have you run your company? Barnes Thompson is a full-service advertising agency. We offer bespoke design solutions for global thoroughbred professionals. Our client base, both past and present, includes market leaders from the international horseracing and breeding industry.

How has advertising changed in the last 20 years?Speed is the main change. When I started Barnes Thompson it was before advertisements could be delivered digitally. We, and almost nobody else, had email and, at that time, only News International had gone digital.

In addition to supplying adverts mechanically, they had to be sent upto a week in advance. Most of what we now produce is understandably success-based, so it’s all next day – an advert sent at 7pm now appears in next day’s paper, here or in Australia.

What is the key to effective advertising?Remain focused on the message and keep it simple – gimics don’t promote good horses, they de-value them.

Have you embraced the digital world? People who know me well may say I am a bit of a “techno-pimp”. I own all the gadgets and consider, and have always been, a keen follower of new technology. Used in the correct way technology brings freedom, without it, I would spend my days and weekends sat in front of my computer.

Explain what thoroughbredinternet.com does? It’s a ten-year anniversary isn’t it? The simplest explanation is that it’s a global stakes results and news service – that was what it was when we started.

On day one January 1, 2003 we uploaded nine results and posted a few news stories. Now, almost 10 years later, those stakes results number 41,106

and thoroughbredinternet.com has become the most powerful free research tool for breeders.

Every day, and in the vast majority of cases and only minutes following the result, we post Group 1, Group 2, Group 3 and Listed results from both hemispheres into a fully searchable thoroughbredinternet.com stakes database.

It’s free to access. Why don’t you charge? The most successful internet-based business Google is free. I don’t believe even asking people to login is a good idea.

On the information highway it’s the equivalent of putting in a toll-gate – you have to be pretty confident that you have unique content if you are going to charge. But, more importantly, our revenues come from advertisers and our responsibility to them is to reach as many eyeballs as possible, not turn people away before they see their adverts.

What is the future for online publishing?It’s all about “revenue versus investment” in content. A lot of published content these days is only created to carry the adverts that feature on the pages carrying it, and that’s to the detriment of both the product and the user experience. It’s also quite insulting.

Our mantra for all things web-based has always been “content is king” and I still believe that if you get this balance right, you are more likely to come out ahead in the long run. In that regard, online publishing is no different to any other form of publishing. There is always room for a quality product.

Does print advertising still have a niche? Yes, but it’s obviously a harder “sell” and the trick these days is trying to work out what everyone is reading. And not only which paper/pdf/magazine, but which part of it.

All of us use multiple information sources and that means the battle for the advertising pound is more competitive. The problem potential advertisers face is plotting their way through this forest of new and old choices.

Some of the more established advertising opportunities, for instance, are now simply a waste of money because the new digital platforms more accurately deliver content to the right marketplace.

That is not to say all the new services are much better, but experience has taught us the difference and, like with most things, a good guide is more than half the battle.

How has the internet changed advertising? How do you measure online campaigns?Advertising on the internet is no different than advertising in print. It’s about getting your message to the right marketplace. There are some technological issues, but the benefits are obvious.

Measuring the success of a campaign, for

instance, is simple and accurate, any website large or small should be able to tell you how many times any particular page or site was visited, how pages were viewed per visit.

Visits and pages viewed are the only things to be interested in. Ignore hits – hits are server requests for information on a webpage. A webpage with five pictures on it creates six hits when you load it, so “hit rates” are irrelevant.

What are your thoughts on social media? Facebook has lost some of its shine for me although, like a lot of people I now have more than one account – a ‘friends’ Facebook page and a ‘work’ Facebook page.

As Facebook has become more of a commercial outlet it has lost some of that early vibrancy. I still enjoy it but, while I want to know what friends are up to, I’m not that interested to know that they were the purchasers of a “very useful looking maiden winner at Redcar”....!

But I love Twitter. I browse my timelines frequently. I only follow a few people, but that keeps me as up-to-date and as amused as I need to be. My biggest Twitter hate is people re-tweeting advertorial about their own stallions. It’s pointless and will eventually just lead to people “unfollowing” the worst culprits – they know who they are!

Is 24/7 communication a good thing? If you live and breathe in an industry such as ours anything that gives you the edge is a good thing and, let’s face it, the horse business has been 24/7 since way before the digital revolution.

What is next for thoroughbredinternet.com? We won’t be deviating too far away from our core Stakes results delivery service. But we have some interesting plans for the coming year and we’re aiming to add even more value to the user experience while also streamlining the product still further. I think we’re only scratching the surface of what we can achieve. It’s quite an achievement for an independent Internet site to still be a going concern after the past ten years, but we feel thoroughbredinternet.com has a solid foundation and the next ten years promise to be even more exciting.

Simon Thompson: is something of a “techno pimp”


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