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JANUARY 2022

£4.95 • ISSUE 108

Bright start GALILEO

1998-2021

to a New Year

> Aisling Crowe casts her eye over the new European stallions for 2022 > Martin Webb, owner of new Mickley Stud sire Ubettabelieveit, chats to James Thomas about his lockdown purchase > First-season sires: Jocelyn de Moubray discusses what a stallion needs to achieve with his first crop of runners > Vive la France! Record sales at Arqana and prize-money increases: French racing and bloodstock is booming

NEW French and German bloodstock focus

SIRES

Expert Eye 2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili)

All eyes on the future GROUP/STAKES WINNERS COVERED IN FIRST THREE BOOKS OF MARES

Acclamation

Dark Angel

Mehmas

Expert Eye

Contact Shane Horan, Henry Bletsoe or Claire Curry +44 (0)1638 731115 | nominations@juddmonte.co.uk

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TIMEFORM RATING

118

113

Acclamation

Dark Angel

115

124

Mehmas

Expert Eye

The only Gr.1 winning miler by sire of sires Acclamation First runners in 2022

Already 10 Group 1 horses, the equal of fellow fourth crop sire KINGMAN!

Yearlings in 2021 sold for €1,140,000, €1,000,000, €620,000, €590,000, €560,000, €380,000, €370,000, €360,000, €360,000, €320,000, €320,000, €320,000, etc. 2022 Fee: €125,000

TEN SOVEREIGNS 1st July Cup-Gr.1 1st Middle Park Stakes-Gr.1 1st Round Tower Stakes-Gr.3 ALCOHOL FREE 1st Cheveley Park Stakes-Gr.1 1st Sussex Stakes-Gr.1 1st Coronation Stakes-Gr.1 ARIZONA 1st Coventry Stakes-Gr.2 2nd Dewhurst Stakes-Gr.1 3rd National Stakes-Gr.1 WICHITA 1st Park Stakes-Gr.2 1st Somerville Tattersall Stakes-Gr.3 2nd 2,000 Guineas-Gr.1 3rd Dewhurst Stakes-Gr.1 NAY LADY NAY 1st Mrs Revere Stakes-Gr.2 1st Matchmaker Stakes-Gr.3 3rd Flower Bowl Stakes-Gr.1 ZAIN CLAUDETTE 1st Lowther Stakes-Gr.2 1st Princess Margaret Stakes-Gr.3 LAND FORCE 1st Richmond Stakes-Gr.2 MYSTERY POWER 1st Superlative Stakes-Gr.2 SHADN 1st Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte-Gr.2 CHESTNUT HONEY 1st Premio Federico Tesio-Gr.2 ARMOR 1st Molecomb Stakes-Gr.3 2nd Flying Childers Stakes-Gr.2 3rd Middle Park Stakes-Gr.1 UNICORN LION 1st Naruo Kinen-Gr.3 2nd Takarazula Kinen-Gr.1 VITALOGY 1st Palm Beach Stakes-Gr.3 3rd Summer Stakes-Gr.1 LOVE LOCKET 1st Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial-Gr.3 NIKISOPHIA 1st Premio Carlo e Francesco Aloisi-Gr.3 MOSS GILL 1st City Walls Stakes-L.R. 3rd Nunthorpe Stakes-Gr.1

ALL FROM €17,500 TO €25,000 NOMINATIONS!

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

Gr.1 winning 2yo Classic winning miler

Stud fee: £20,000 Oct 1st SLF

First Foals in

2022

Outstanding first book of mares covered in 2021 Breeders who supported him include: The Aga Khan Studs Ballylinch Stud Chasemore Farm Coolmore Ecurie Des Monceaux Juddmonte Meon Valley Stud New England Stud Newsells Park Stud Overbury Stud Plantation Stud Watership Down Stud Whitsbury Manor Stud Contact Hannah Wall or Alice Thurtle at Tweenhills E: hannah@tweenhills.com E: alice@tweenhills.com T: +44 (0) 1452 700177

FORGED FROM GREATNESS Triple Gr.1 winner with £1,326,618 in earnings www.irishnationalstud.ie/stallion/decorated-knight

Galileo - Pearling (Storm Cat)

LEADING BRITISH AND IRISH FIRST CROP SIRES IN 2021 In order of percentage of winners/placed horses to runners

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sire ACLAIM ARDAD CARAVAGGIO DECORATED KNIGHT PROFITABLE COTAI GLORY RIBCHESTER CHURCHILL GALILEO GOLD ULYSSES

Runners 63 56 66 21 81 76 55 66 55 33

Winners 21 19 20 6 24 31 13 22 18 12

%WP/R 74.60% 73.21% 72.73% 71.43% 70.37% 67.11% 65.45% 65.15% 63.64% 63.64%

Statistics by Hyperion Promotions to 21.10.21

Notable winners include the well regarded WIND YOUR NECK IN (multipe winner, 96p), ZAIN KNIGHTS (84p), SILVER BULLET LADY (82p), DAMAAR (79+), etc. and the very promising KNIGHT OF HONOUR (89P), third on debut, 'finished strongly, is open to significant improvement'

Standing at

Fee: €7,500 Oct. 1st

Contact: Gary Swift or Conor Hyland at Irish National Stud • Tel: +353 (0)45 521251

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from Schlenderha champion fam

contents january 14

First Word

News

The apple does not fall far from the tree

The BHA needs to lose its governance role, and just when can a jockey go up the inner? Ted Voute discusses sales catalogues and finish times, Godolphin breaks the owner’s record in the US, Jorge Navvaro and vet Dr Kristian Rhein sentenced for involvement in the doping scheme

Aisling Crowe reviews the NH racing over the Christmas period

Stallion statistics

Why do some young sires become superstars?

The final Flat table for 2021, and the leading NH sires through 2021-2022

Jocelyn de Moubray looks back at leading first-season sires of seasons past to assess what a stallion needs to achieve with his first crop of runners

New European sires 2022

No doubts about this pandemic purchase

Table with details of the new names at stud for this spring

James Thomas chats with owner Martin Webb, who bought Ubettabelieveit as a two-year-old in the spring lockdown of 2020

European sires for 2022

Planning ahead

Vive la France!

Aisling Crowe casts her eye over the new recruits for 2022 The German roster has lost some established sires, but the country’s leading stud farms are proactively adding some new names to the list The French bloodstock and racing scene is booming, while Brexit had a positive influence at Arqana’s 2021’s sales, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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The master list

Hyperion’s final list for 2021 detailing stakes-winning sires in Europe and the UAE

100 The master list of dam-sires

Stakes-winning dam-sires in 2021, courtesy of Hyperion

110 Photo of the month

Treo Eile’s Thoroughbred Classic

Bright start

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first word

Take BHA governance away

The stop-start case regarding trainer Dan Skelton’s involvement in the sale of George Gently does not cast the many-headed BHA in a particularly good light

E’D LIKE to start by wishing all our readers a very happy and successful 2022. Some publications have produced the annual “what do we think is going to happen this year” articles, judging by the imponderable and unxpected bloodstock year of 2021, we don’t think any predictions are worth the paper they are written on. We started 2021 in the thick of pandemic and it meant that our industry firmly entered the online sale era – I worked at Tattersalls for the February Sale at which not one horse, or one consignor, was on the sale ground. Two buyers did turn up unawares that the sale was a virtual auction and had to leave quickly before Newmarket’s COVID police arrived. The only action in the ring was from behind the rostrum, online and via the Tattersalls bloodstock team, sat behind a bank of desks and taking phone bids, a sight reminiscent of the City bankers in the 1980s. The sale worked, horses were bought and sold, but it was not really a satisfactory way to conduct an auction. Since then, however, a number of online-only auctions have taken place with the computer taking over auctioneer duites, internet-placed bids have been registered in growing numbers at the “real” sales, and a new internet-only bloodstock sales company has emerged. And, despite everything that last year threw at the world, unexpectedly European sale companies were able to post the much-used moniker “record-breaking renewal” on so many of their post-sale press report headlines. And that was across the board, too – for both Flat and NH sales, from horses in training sales to foals, broodmares and yearling auctions, and concerning sales held in England, Ireland, France and Germany. And, even more of a shock story, a significant number of British breeders made a profit on their youngstock. Who would have thought that would have been a thing this time last year? Can we predict a repeat for 2022? Who knows... But there were plenty of dififcult stories, too, in 2021. The long-discussed Bryony Frost and Robbie Dunne case, Graham Gibbons found guilty in court for dangerous

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Trainer Dan Skelton

riding causing Freddy Tylicki to suffer his life-changing injuries, the Gordon Elliott suspension, Bob Baffert’s suspension and, as we went to press, trainer Dan Skelton was in the process of being charged by the BHA for breach of the trainers’ code of conduct concerning his handling the 2016 sale of the gelding George Gently from Yorton Farm’s David Futter to an owners’ syndicate headed by Tony Holt. The gelding was sold to the syndicate after finishing second in a race at Enghein under Skelton’s brother Harry, but shortly after was found to have heat in his leg and was off the track for a year and a half. He finally made his British debut in February 2018, but was pulled up at Southwell before finishing seventh of eight at Kempton - after which he was sold on for just £1,800. Holt has subsequently alleged that Futter then told him that, unbeknown to Holt, Skelton had owned a third of the horse when it ran in France – and he received a third of the £130,000 sale price in 2016. Skelton and Futter refute that claim, with the trainer insisting that a payment of £43,333 to him from Futter, assuming from George Gently’s sale proceeds, was in lieu of training fees of Futter’s horses at his yard, and that Skelton did not have a share in the horse. After a 15-month enquiry the BHA threw out the syndicate’s complaint in October 2019. Apparently a letter from its head of regulation, Andrew Howell, explained to Holt that the case against Skelton was not strong enough to initiate any action against the trainer. Howell wrote: “The BHA acknowledges that it is regrettable that Mr Skelton did not provide prior notice to you that he would benefit financially from the transaction of George Gently. Following this investigation, the BHA would fully expect Mr Skelton to provide information of this nature to his owners in the future and the BHA has made its expectations with regards to the code of conduct to Mr Skelton in concluding this matter.” The letter seemingly accepts that Skelton had not been clear as regards his ownership interest in the horse, yet there was not even a slap on the wrist (possible blind eye turned) and despite all of this taking place through the publishing of the BHA’s much-lauded and expensively

first word commissioned Bloodstock Industry Review, produced by Mr Justin Felice, begun in 2017 and with a view to improving transparency of bloodstock transactions. Eventually, the BHA did reopen the case and concluded last December that the arrangement between Futter and Skelton “appears to lack transparency”. Skelton is now to be charged by the BHA with two breaches of the trainers’ code of conduct, although as we went to press the trainer says he had not heard anything in this regard. The charge could range from a large fine to even suspension, a substantial change of position by the BHA.

T THE TURN OF THE YEAR A spokesperson for Holt’s syndicate said to the Racing Post: “The syndicate asserts that Mr Skelton did act as one of joint agents in the purchase of George Gently and that Mr Futter’s disclosure of Mr Skelton’s one-third ownership was a true statement. Therefore, it believes Mr Skelton should be charged with a breach of the Agent’s code of practice, including trainers acting in that capacity. This is in addition to the proposed charge for breach of the code of conduct applied to trainers. “The Agent’s code of practice was introduced by the BHA 17 years ago and in that time not one individual has been censured for breaching the code despite the endemic malpractices in racehorse sales highlighted by Mr Justin

“In order to attract investment and grow our ownership base, we need to ensure openness, transparency and fair dealing are at the heart of all we do as an industry” Nick Rust, BHA Bloodstock Review 2019

Felice’s bloodstock industry review, commissioned by the BHA and delivered in the autumn of 2019.” So we come to the Review that was commissioned by the BHA into bloodstock processes and transactions, despite its lack of authority in the bloodstock sales arena. Nick Rust, then chief executive of the BHA, wrote in its foreword: “In order to attract investment and grow our ownership base, we need to ensure openness, transparency and fair dealing are at the heart of all we do as an industry, which is why we announced the Review.” And yet there was an ongoing case involving an individual licenced by the BHA, and so under is its own governance, that seemingly lacks just that openness that was being so promoted as the key to racing’s future. It seems the BHA wanted to place all these issues at bloodstock’s door, and failed (or was unwilling) to act in the area in which it does have legitimate control. Whatever the outcome of the eventual resolution of this case, it is just a continuing chain of events that has proved that the organisation is not fit for purpose. How can it be? It purports to be the sport’s marketing arm, its financier, its governor, its regulator and it also claims to work for the wellbeing of those involved. Such a many-headed beast can not possibly function effectively and without conflicts of interest. It is time a new approach is taken, and the regulation of British hoseracing has to be taken away from the BHA and given an independent approach.

So just when can a jockey get up someone’s inner? THE TIME-TESTED JOCKEYS’ RULE is that this is a no go... unless the gap was being left open by poor riding and the jockey on the horse behind is confident that his or her mount has the capability of taking that space, and could do that quickly. Do it then, and only then. If you are ahead of that said jockey looking to get up your inside, hoping to gain a rapid advantage by going the shortest way forward, the first rule of race riding is to protect your inner, at all costs. And protecting that inner is to ensure that not even a knat’s whisker could venture between you and the rail (or where the rail would be if out in the country). The first two rules of competitive riding, and yet also of safe race riding, are keep straight, and, if you are taking the inside line, ride it as though you are on a train track. Tommy Dowson, who was struggling to hold his mount Skycutter in the Coral Finale Juvenile Hurdle and ended up making it, failed to ride the rails, and did not hold the inside line all the way along the back straight at Chepstow. The mightily experienced Sean Bowen, who was tracking him on board Forever Blessed, was happily watching the situation from a length down and decided to make his inside move after the hurdle at the top of the hill in order to save that valuable racing ground. (You can be sure that he would not have tried such a trick against an

experienced jockey with many miles of race riding under his or her belt). At this point young Dowson realised that maybe he had left the gap open, and decided (or his horse decided, it is not quite clear which of the partnership was in control) to close the door on Bowen. In some respects he was not too late as he did not let the Welsh man up his inner, but it was late enough to cause significant interference to Bowen and Forever Blessed, who bounced off the rail nearly unshipping Bowen. The horse eould even have come down himself, and it would have been a nasty fall in a tightly packed field of juvenile hurdlers. Dowson was subsequently given a lengthy 16-day ban for careless riding, the lengthy duration probably influenced by the recent Tylicki case. I do wonder if anyone has actually spoken to the young jockey about his race riding and tactics? Will they have reviewed the whole race with him, looked back a few furlongs from the incident and explained that not only was he not acting in the safest manner, but that he also was failing to give his mount the best possible ride? That he was coming off the rail and opening himself up to the opportunistic tactics of an experienced jockey. No one wants to take away the competitive nature of jockeyship, creating an “after you please” scenario in races in which the inside line is a free for all. Good, competitive, and yes, tough, race riding also actually translates to safe riding.

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ted talks

TED TALKS... The 2021 Tattersalls December Mares Sale top lot Waldlied, who fetched 2,200,000gns, was sold through Tuesday’s “golden” session. Voute believes that it is time a serious look was taken to cataloguing alphabetically, in a similar fashion to Keeneland November, to ensure that the sale’s quality is maintained

Photos courtesy of Tattersalls and by Laura Green

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The industry is in danger of becoming “merely a hobby” for many involved

Ted Voute discusses the need for change to that what has become a highly polarised racing and bloodstock industry, while he believes we should proactively act on sale finish times and cataloguing before Health and Safety, as well as employment law, insists on it

ACH DECEMBER the Tattersalls Sales shows us many things about the widening gap and value of bloodstock

in the UK. The most popular sale days to be selling are now confined to Thursday and Friday of the foal Sale – Thursday is the most popular for vendor. In the breeding stock section, the “golden” afternoon of selling is on the Tuesday afternoon. Tattersalls has the unenviable task of juggling late finish times

and bowing to the vendor pressures or demands to sell on each of the days mentioned above. I am not sure as to how it affects the logistics of stabling, but the December Sale remains the last of the “non-alphabetically” lotted sales of the year. Vendors follow the age-old tradition of selling by draft and are guided by the Tattersalls ever-helpful team of cataloguers, headed by Gavin Davies. There are many complexities surrounding changing to an automatically lotted sale

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governed by the alphabet rather than a complex combination of pedigree quality, which has been guided by years of support by individual support by a vendor and, ultimately, success they have when promoted to the lofty positions in the catalogue. Changing to an “alphabet system” would eradicate the tailing off in quality in the catalogue and a different set of purchasers arriving for Wednesday and Thursday of the mares’ sale. In theory this is a fair solution, but, in practice, purchasers like to have all the quality presented at

the same time. Wealthy owners for whom time is money aren’t available for a four-day sale, but can spare a few golden hours on a Tuesday afternoon. This very afternoon showcases the bloodstock industry as an industry in healthy state, but deep down the real barometer exists on the Wednesday and Thursday of the mares’ sale. As a comparison, and a half way meeting point, Keeneland sells alphabetically in their November Sale by day, which spreads the sale throughout the

ted talks

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The British bloodstock industry is governed by eight stallions, five Newmarket trainers, three important jockeys and six superior owners of which half have recently died

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day which certainly could be a compromise if logistically possible. As a side note, on the sharp end of the sale, working hours for many staff have been extended on these popular days. Many start work at 5am and can end up with a last horse through the ring just before 10pm and will be driving home 17 hours after starting work. Consignors with the luxury of excess staff can operate in two shifts, and during the winter nights of 4.15pm darkness, can give grooms a few hours off before returning for a late sale lot. Trainer Clive Britain used to pull out his string at 4.30am, which was part of Newmarket’s history but, as time evolved and yellow jackets were introduced as the traffic has increased, it came time for the Jockey Club to introduce a later opening time for the gallops in Newmarket. The bloodstock side of

Godolphin breaks record in the US

the industry is heading down a similar road governed by Health and Safety, and the various employment laws now bestowed upon employers by government. I am not suggesting radical change, but am merely trying to encourage a harmonised approach to selling horses which will eventually be guided by the changes in

The top lot at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale went through the ring on the favoured Friday evening session

employment anyway. A compromise should be visible down this complex road, whether it is governed by law or derived from proactive change in how we sell our horses at public auction in the future. The New Year brings in resolutions and change to many. Our industry, or hobby depending on which camp you feel you are a member of, is controlled by the very few. As mentioned earlier the industry looks at the health of the industry on the Tuesday on the Tattersalls mares’ sale, the Thursday and Friday of the foal sale and Book 1 at the October Yearling Sale. The “hobbyists” take a look at Thursday of the Mare Sale, the Saturday of the Foal Sale and Book 4. The British bloodstock industry is governed by eight stallions, five Newmarket trainers, three important jockeys and six superior owners of which half have recently died. The crux of the problem many argue is prize-money and media rights and the equal distribution amongst all the industry members. Let this year be the year we change and encourage our British Horseracing Authority’s Horseman’s Group and all stakeholders to work together quietly behind the scenes and come up with a joint solution before the entire industry becomes merely a hobby.

GODOLPHIN, the leading US owner in 2021, set a new prize-money record for earnings, while trainer Brad Cox broke the earnings record for a trainer. Godolphin’s final figure of $17,401,604 (equibase.com) was some $10 million ahead of the second-placed Klaravich Stables. Trained by Cox, Godolphin’s Essential Quality was the owner’s leading money earner. The son of Tapit, who remains in training, won the Belmont and the Travers Stakes (G1), and was one of 14 US graded stakes winners in 2021 for Godolphin. It was the first leading owner and trainer title won by Godolphin, an achievment mirrored by Cox whose own prize-money haul totalled €31,832,345, some $560,000 ahead of the second-placed US trainer Steve Asmussen. Godolphin was also the leading breeder with earnings of $18,447,150 from 804 starters and 136 wins. Calumet Farm, leading breeder of 2019 and 2020, was runner-up with earnings of $16,127,515 achieved by 470 wins from 3,516 starts. Despite finishing second, the figure was still the best-ever prize-money total for the farm. Joel Rosario was leading jockey for the first time after placings in the top five every year since 2018. The Korea Racing Authority’s Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Knicks Go, another Cox trainee who won five of his six North American races in 2021, was the leading horse by North American earnings with $5,824,140. In addition to his win in the Classic, Knicks Go (Paynter), who has been retired to Taylor Made Farms at a fee of $30,000, won the Pegasus World Cup, the Invitational Stakes (G1), the Whitney Stakes (G1), and two other graded stakes. Completing the list of top five horses by North American earnings were Medina Spirit with $3,520,000; Essential Quality with $3,420,000; Yibir with $2,615,000 and Hot Rod Charlie with $2,127,500.

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the news

Navarro and Rhein sent down US trainer Jorge Navarro and veterinarian Dr Rhein given prison sentences for their roles in the US doping scheme uncovered by the FBI in March 2020

Trainer Jorge Navarro (next to horse and jockey) in the Meydan winners’ enclosure after X Y Jet won the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen in 2019

ON DECEMBER 17 AND JANUARY 5, in two separate court appearances, the US trainer Jorge Navarro and veterinarian Dr. Kristian Rhein were sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a race doping scheme. The scheme involved racehorses trained by Navarro, and those treated by Rhein for trainer and co-defendant Jason Servis, the one-time trainer of Saudi Cup winner Maximum Security and yet to appear in court. The 46-year-old Navarro, who has trained more than 1,000 winners including the 2019 Dubai Golden Shaheen hero X Y Jet, pleaded guilty in August to intentionally giving, or directing others to give, banned performance enhancing drugs to his horses over a fouryear period. He has received a five-year prison term. Rhein, who pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated and misbranded performanceenhancing drugs to Servis and then hiding his activity from regulators, has been given a three-year sentence. Navarro was previously ordered to pay

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$70,000 in forfeitures and $25.8 million in restitution to offset his financial gain, while Rhein has to pay $1,021,800 in forfeitures. He is also facing a bill of $729,716 in restitution and was fined $10,000. “This is a serious offense and was not an isolated or one-time offense,” said the US District Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil when announcing Rhein’s sentence. “It was a long-term and ongoing offense. Once he [Rhein] became aware of the investigation, he and his co-conspirators took steps to hide their offenses from regulators and the public. “He has been depicted as someone who wants to help others, but he had that chance as a veterinarian and he abused that trust by betraying those he was supposed to help.” Navarro, Rhein and Servis were among 27 people arrested in dawn raids carried out by the FBI in March 2020 after an undercover investigation into allegations of the use of performance enhancing drugs in racing. Court documents in the case include a wiretap of conversation in which Navarro

boasted about giving such drugs to X Y Jet, including a blood builder that prosecutors say can cause cardiac issues. X Y Jet died in January 2020 from a heart attack, according to a statement by the trainer. Trainer Servis denies the allegations and pleaded not guilty. He is expected to face a trial over the next few months. Rhein became the fifth to be sentenced to a prison term, time served, or probation and is one of 10 to submit a guilty plea. Vyskocil voiced a message to others in horseracing and other sports regarding the use of drugs. “I have little doubt Dr. Rhein learned his lesson, but a message of deterrence has to be sent to others in this sport and other sports that cannot be ignored,” she said while emphasizing Rhein’s role as a leader of the conspiracy. Prior to the announcement of the sentence, Dr Rhein said to the court: “I want to apologise to the victims whose trust I violated as a professional. I am ashamed of my actions and what I did was inexcusable.”

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nh racing

The apple does not fall far from the tree...

... judging by some of the NH results over the Christmas period, writes Aisling Crowe

HE OLD ADAGE about good mares not making good broodmares didn’t hold up all that well over the Christmas racing period as Grade 1 winner Stage Star and the Leopardstown bumper victors Facile Vega and Embassy Gardens are all sons of mares who proved themselves to be a cut above their rivals on the track. The Grade 1 Challow Novices’ Hurdle winner Stage Star extended his unbeaten record with an effortless 6l success in the Newbury contest for the Owners Group, trainer Paul Nicholls and jockey Harry Cobden. The six-year-old son of Fame And Glory was bred by Andy Muddyman, and is the second foal out of his Grade 2 Warfield Mares’ Hurdle winner Sparky May. Muddyman also bred the daughter of Midnight Legend, who

Stage Star made a winning debut over hurdles at Chepstow and is now unbeaten in all three starts this season with his Grade 1 success most impressive

Stage Star lived up to his name

The King George VI Chase winner Tornado Flyer with delighted winning connections from the T F P Partnership in the winners’ enclosure at Kempton

nh racing

won four of her 12 starts and was also third in the Grade 1 Sefton Novices’ Hurdle. Her first foal Lanspark (Milan) was retained by Muddyman and won a 3m hurdle last season for Colin Tizzard. Stage Star was consigned by Baroda Stud, where Sparky May boards, at the Goffs Land Rover Sale in 2019 and made €60,000 to Tom Malone and Paul Nicholls. Stage Star won a Chepstow bumper on his debut in October 2020 and was then placed behind Knapper’s Hill in a Listed bumper at Cheltenham and in Aintree’s Grade 2 bumper at the Grand National meeting. Stage Star made a winning debut over hurdles at Chepstow and is now unbeaten in all three starts this season with his Grade 1 success most impressive. Sparky May has a four-year-old Walk In The Park filly so closely related to Stage Star. She was sold for €50,000 to Kilskryne Bloodstock at last year’s Land Rover Sale. Her two-year-old is a son of Mount Nelson and she has a yearling filly by Harzand.

PARKY MAY was 10l second to Quevega on the only occasion the pair met in the David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2011, but she has beaten the inimitable mare to the top as a broodmare. Quevega’s second runner Facile Vega looks well-named as his debut success in the bumper at Leopardstown was about as facile as it could be. Racing in the colours of his owner-breeder the Hammer And Trowel Syndicate, trained by Willie Mullins and ridden by son Patrick, there were plenty of similarities with his brilliant dam, but when it comes to looks, Facile Vega has nothing in common with his diminutive mother. The now five-year-old son of Walk In The Park is a much bigger horse than his mother and his older half-sister, the winning Beat Hollow mare Princess Vega (Order Of St George), who is due her first foal in the spring. “He was very good, relaxed brilliantly and covered huge ground. He is a quicker horse than I thought he would be, but he is his mother’s son. I was always doing a half-speed on him but I was worried that

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nh racing I was going too slow. Obviously not!” remarked Patrick Mullins afterwards. Quevega has now produced two winners with her first two foals so the pressure will be on the four-year-old full-brother to Facile Vega to maintain the record when he does take to the track. The daughter of Robin Des Champs also has a three-year-old filly by Camelot and a two-year-old filly by Australia and visited Walk In The Park in 2021. Just 24 hours later, Willie and Patrick Mullins were back in the Leopardstown winners’ enclosure after winning the bumper with another son of a mare who won a Grade 1 for the champion trainer. This time it was the turn of Embassy Gardens, the first foal of the Fairyhouse Mares’ Novices Hurdle winner Adriana Des Mottes, to make a winning debut, but his victory was a lot more dramatic. He was hit by a rival jockey’s whip on the nose inside the final furlong, but overcame that to fight his way to a nose success over Santonito for trainer Gordon Elliott and owners Andrew and Gemma Brown. “He was very green, and then getting a slap across the face in the final stages and the other horse coming across him didn’t help, but I am hoping he will improve a little bit from that. He’s just green really but has been working well at home and showing plenty so I think he is a horse that can go on,” commented the winning trainer.

Tornado Flyer has been something of a slow burn and has not won over fences since his second start over the larger obstacles Embassy Gardens is a son of Shantou and his dam was sold for €155,000 at the 2015 Tattersalls Ireland November National Hunt Sale carrying him. The daughter of Network was also third in the Grade 1 Fort Leney Novice Chase at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival in the colours of Susannah Ricci. Her first foal was bred by Rowland Crellin and sold by Loughmore Stables for €110,000 at the Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale of 2019 to Ronnie O’Leary. Embassy Gardens is owned by Sean and Bernadine Mulryan and has a four-yearold full-brother who made €70,000 to

Ballycrystal Stables at last year’s Derby Sale. Adriana Des Mottes has a two-year-old daughter by the Listed-winning jumper Castle Du Berlais, the regally bred Saint Des Saints son of Auteuil champion Royal Athenia, who stands at Haras du Lion. Only time will tell how good this trio of broodmares and their offspring will be but for now, their futures look bright.

Tornado Flyer: King George surprise

The King George VI Chase winner Tornado Flyer is not out of a noted dam – he is the first foal out of Mucho Macabi (Exceed And Excel) who ran without success in Italy – but he still has family connections to boast about. Mucho Macabi is a half-sister to none other than the dual Champion Hurdle winner, the 26-time winner Hurricane Fly (Montjeu), the winner of over £1.8 million in prize-money earnings. Tornado Flyer was bred by Sweetmans Bloodstock and sold by Grange Stud at the Goffs December Mixed Sale in 2013 to GH Bloodstock for €30,000. Pine Tree Stud reconsigned him at the Land Rover Sale 2016 where he was bought for €63,000 by Peter and Ross Doyle. Tornado Flyer has been something of a slow burn and has not won over fences since his second start over the larger obstacles

Fury Road (Stowaway) makes his third run over fences a winning one when taking the Grade 1 Neville Hotels Novice Chase by 8l from Run Wild Fred

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Ferny Hollow (Westerner) under Paul Townend wins the Racing Post Novice Chase

in the Klairon Davis Novice Chase (G3) in December 2019. But he has always performed with credit and finished third to Faugheen in his first Grade 1 chase, the Flogas Novice Chase in February 2020, fifth in that year’s Festival Marsh Novice Chase (G1) and then second in the following December’s John Durkan Chase (G1) behind Min. His following races that season were all at the highest level registering a fifth, a fourth and finally a fifth in the Ryanair Chase (G1) to Allaho. He was not seen on a racecourse again until again fifth to Allaho in the John Durkan last December, and from that run he picked up that form to register his 9l success at Kempton. Much0 Macabi has had four other runners and just one other winner. Her foal of 2021, a filly by Walk In The Park, was sold at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale for €50,000 by Castledillon Stud to Jamestown House Stud.

Parkhill family to the fore once more

The Parkhill family’s matriarch High Board, dam of the Champion Hurdle-winning siblings Morley Street and Granville

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“I thought it was a huge performance by Ferny Hollow to give that weight to a filly that no one has got near all season Again, appeared in the pedigrees of two Leopardstown Grade 1 winners in Ferny Hollow and Fury Road, the pair adding yet further lustre to a family that consistently produces top-class horses for the Parkhills. Ferny Hollow initiated the festive double on St Stephen’s Day with his victory in the Racing Post Novice Chase for Willie Mullins, Paul Townend and the Cheveley Park team.

The Westerner gelding was having just his second run over fences but was always doing enough to ensure victory over the talented Riviere d’Etel. Willie Mullins was effusive in his praise of the seven-year-old after his Leopardstown success. “I thought it was a huge performance by Ferny Hollow to give that weight to a filly that no one has got near all season, and coming back after an 11-month break with only a three-week gap between races,” remarked the champion trainer, who went on to reveal: “I was worried all week that I was asking him to come back too soon. We could have waited another two weeks and gone to Punchestown, but I thought we would let him take his chance here. “As we got nearer the race here I was worried if I was doing the right thing but he showed what he is here today. “Everything was against him and he still pulled it out of the bag, I thought it was an awesome performance.” It is only Ferny Hollow’s third run since defeating Appreciate It in the 2020 Champion Bumper and his solitary start over hurdles was a winning one, defeating another Parkhill-bred star, Bob Olinger, in a Gowran maiden hurdle. The Dublin Racing Festival and the major spring festivals are all on the agenda for Ferny Hollow, who has an unbeaten streak that stretches to five races and includes two Grade 1 victories. Ferny Hollow made €38,000 to JJ Bowe at the Derby Sale in 2018 and went on to sell for £300,000 to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins at the 2019 Tattersalls Cheltenham February Sale after winning his point-to-point for Colin Bowe. He is one of five winners from six runners out of Mirazur, an unraced Good Thyne half-sister to the Grade 1 handicap chaseplaced Herzov and the Grade 2 handicap hurdle third Almira. They are out of Higher Again, a Strong Gale half-sister to Morley Street and Granville Again. She is also a half-sister to Deep Line, who is the dam of the Grade 1 winner Hand Inn Hand, to Markiz, the dam of the ill-fated Grade 1 winner Lovethehigherlaw, and to Victorine, of which there will be more in a few paragraphs. Mirazur has a five-year-old Kalanisi

nh racing gelding named Nonbinding, who made €135,000 to Gordon Elliott and Aidan O’Ryan at the 2020 Land Rover Sale, the third highest-price at that sale. Her four-year-old full-brother to Ferny Hollow was sold for €160,000 to the Jonbon team of Michael Shefflin and Paul Holden at the Derby Sale last year. Mirazur has a three-year-old Court Cave filly, who is her last reported foal. The aforementioned Victorine, dam of City Island who won the Ballymore Properties Novice Hurdle (G1) at The Festival in the colours of the Mulryans of Ballymore, is the second dam of the Grade 1 Neville Hotels (Fort Leney) Novice Chase winner Fury Road for Gigginstown House Stud, Gordon Elliott and Jack Kennedy. Now an eight-year-old, he is the latest Grade 1 winner for the reigning champion NH sire, the late Stowaway. Prior to his Grade 1 breakthrough, Fury Road had won five of his 15 starts, including the Grade 2 hurdles at Limerick and Punchestown. He was a close third to Monkfish and Latest Exhibition in the Albert Bartlett at the same Cheltenham Festival as when Ferny Hollow won the bumper. Fury Road’s Leopardstown victory was his first in three starts over fences, and he had been third, less than 2l behind Beacon Edge and Gabynako, in the Grade 1 Drinmore Novice Chase at the end of November. He was an 8l winner from Run Wild Fred at Leopardstown with Grade 1 winners Vanillier and Bacardys further behind. Gordon Elliott was frank about the winner: “He disappointed me the last day, I thought he had a great chance in the Drinmore and he kind of pulled up when he got to the front so I put cheek-pieces on him today and it seemed to work well. “Jack [Kennedy] was sweet on him and I’d say the bit of drier ground probably suited him. His novice hurdle form was very good, if you go back to that Cheltenham run. “Jack was worried when he got to the front so soon but he said in fairness to him he came up the hill well.” The RSA Chase is Fury Road’s likely target at the Cheltenham Festival, and could give the Parkhill family a strong chance of breeding a Grade 1 winner at a fourth successive Festival.

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daughter named She’s Molly Mai, who was covered for the first time in 2021 by Jet Away. Her six-year-old Presenting mare Moe Joe was retained and her first foal is a yearling colt by Jet Away. She was covered by Sholokhov last year. Molly Duffy has a four-year-old son of Mount Nelson, a three-year-old son by Jukebox Jury and a two-year-old son of Flemensfirth. She also visited Jet Away last year. Her dam Victorine has a four-year-old Mount Nelson gelding, a yearling colt by Court Cave and was covered by the Boardsmill Stud sire once again in 2021.

First Grade 1 winner for Malinas

He is one of three winners out of Molly Duffy, a 16-year-old Oscar half-sister to City Island bred by the Parkhill family. Fury Road is the most recent of her progeny to be sold at auction, and he was the second-most expensive horse at the 2017 Derby Sale, making €205,000 to Aidan O’Ryan. Molly Duffy has a seven-year-old Arcadio

Master McShee and Ian Power

Malinas had an exciting end to 2021 – first, he moved the short distance from Glenview Stud to stand at Coolagown Stud in a partnership between the two north Cork farms, and then he sired his first Grade 1 winner. The short-head victory of his son Master McShee in Limerick’s Grade 1 Faugheen Novices’ Chase was the most heart-warming success of the festive period. The Malinas gelding is one of just two

nh racing horses Paddy Corkery has in training at his Dungarvan yard and not only did Master McShee give Malinas his first top level win, he was also providing Corkery and jockey Ian Power with their first Grade 1 success, too. Although he was unconsidered by many going into the highlight of Limerick’s Christmas meeting, his connections were always convinced that he belonged in top company. His form lent some credence to that as he was third to none other than Bob Olinger and Bacardys on his only other run over fences in an 18-runner beginners’ chase at Gowran in November. He was also second to Appreciate It in a Cork maiden hurdle, with the third horse then some 28l behind. “He burst a blood vessel in a Grade 1 hurdle last February [the Chanelle Pharma Novice Hurdle] but we knew he was a Grade 1 horse and, to be honest, we thought he had a right chance today. “We took out the cotton wool and started nursing him after he burst, but that didn’t work so we started training him properly this year,” explained a delighted Corkery. “Rumour has it we turned down good money but he wasn’t for sale, and you can’t buy something that is not for sale. This is my enjoyment and my wife and kids will tell you that it’s my passion, I get up in the morning and ride him out every day. I started hunting at the age of 40 and I’m enjoying it. That’s the most important thing.” That joy was evident at Limerick where the eight-year-old gelding, who cost just €11,000 at the 2014 November NH Sale, outfought Farouk D’Alene to create a Christmas fairytale. Bred by Mrs L Suenson Taylor out of the unraced Oscar mare Oscar Annie, he was sold by the British-based Clarendon Farm to Morgan Sheehan as a foal. He is the first runner out of his dam whose second runner, the Leading Light six-yearold mare Lucky Light, won a five-year-old mares’ maiden for Colin Bowe at Ballingarry last May. She made her track debut in a Sedgefield maiden hurdle on December 2 when second for Paul Collins behind Richmond Lake over 2m4f. Oscar Annie was reported as having left

Edwardstone: an owner-breeder star

Edwardstone: the impressive son of Kayf Tara is unbeaten in three completed starts over fences

stud in 2019 after producing four foals. His second dam One Hell Of A Woman by Fourstars Allstar is a winning halfsister to Daraheen Chief, who was second in the Ladbroke Hurdle, and to Daraheen Diamond. She is the unraced dam of the Grade 2 National Spirit Hurdle winner Brewin’upastorm, the Grade 2-placed hurdler Kimberlite King and the Grade 3-placed Glam Gerry. The Group 2 Oppenheim Union-Rennen winner Malinas was also placed in four Group 1 races, including second in the Deutsches Derby and the son of Lomitas had previously sired five individual Grade 2 winners and three Grade 1-placed horses. Master McShee was bred during the stallion’s four-year stint at Yorton Farm prior to his move to Glenview Stud, and his oldest Irish-bred crop has just turned five. They include Electrical Kid, who was second in the first division of the Moig South maiden for Donnchadh Doyle and made £95,000 to Harold Kirk and Willie Mullins at the Tattersalls Cheltenham December Sale.

Kayf Tara may have retired from stud duties at Overbury Stud, but he is still getting exciting prospects and Edwardstown, trained by Alan King and the winner of Kempton’s Wayward Lad Novices’ Chase (G2), is certainly that. The eight-year-old gelding beat Do Your Job by 10l on Boxing Day having previously won the Grade 1 Henry VIII Novices’ Chase at Sandown at the start of December by 16l. He is now a 5/1 chance for the Arkle at The Festival and may take in February’s Grade 2 Kingmaker Novice Chase at Warwick en route. He was bred by joint-owners Robert Abrey and Ian Thurtle out of their Luso mare Nothingtoloose. She won a maiden point-to-point and is a half-sister to the bumper, hurdle and chase winner The Parishioner, and to the dam of the consistent graded chaser Shotgun Paddy and the Weatherbys NH Flat (G1) race thirdplaced Queens Brook. Edwardstone’s third dam is Many Miracles, dam of Patricksnineteenth. By Mister Lord, he ended up as a 125-rated-winning chaser but won the Scilly Isles Novices’ Chase (G1) in 2004 and finished fourth in that year’s Royal & SunAlliance Novice Chase. Nothingtoloose was not sold twice at the sales – first at the Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale and then at the Doncaster Spring Store Sale. She found her home for life with Abrey at the following year’s DBS Spring HIT Sale when bought for £22,000. Edwardstone is her second foal, her previous filly by Dr Massini has not been named. She did not foal in 2015 or 2016, but in 2017 produced Nothingtochance, a filly by Kayf Tara and who is yet to run. Clearly a little tricky to breed from the next foal to appear out of Nothingtoloose was a 2020 colt by the developing Rathbarry Stud-based stallion Blue Bresil, and she was empty again for 2021. Fortune has now produced a better hand and she is due to the Chapel Stud-based dual-purpose sire Planteur. He is sire of last year’s star Group 1 stayer Trueshan, the breeders’ connections with his trainer Alan King paying dividends.

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Frankel Sea The Stars Dubawi Siyouni Galileo Dark Angel Adlerflug Lope de Vega Zoffany Kingman Wootton Bassett Kodiac Shamardal Le Havre Kendargent Australia Camelot No Nay Never Oasis Dream Invincible Spirit Night of Thunder Gleneagles Dabirsim Mehmas Dandy Man Iffraaj Footstepsinthesand Mastercraftsman Showcasing Muhaarar Nathaniel Mayson Dawn Approach Galiway Intello Acclamation Exceed And Excel Make Believe Territories Bated Breath Teofilo Dream Ahead Power Anodin Toronado Rajsaman Charm Spirit

Galileo-Kind (Danehill) Cape Cross-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) In the Wings-Aiyana (Last Tycoon) Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) Danehill-Rafha (Kris) Giant’s Causeway-Helsinki (Machiavellian) Noverre-Marie Rheinberg (Surako) Kendor-Pax Bella (Linamix) Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) Montjeu-Tarfah, by Kingmambo) Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) Dubawi-Forest Storm (Galileo) Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) Mozart-Lady Alexander (Night Shift) Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) Giant’s Causeway-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) Danehill-Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Invincible Spirit-Mayleaf (Pivotal) New Approach-Hymn of the Dawn (Phone Trick) Galileo-Danzigaway (Danehill) Galileo-Impressionnante (Danehill) Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) Danehill-Patrona (Lomond) Makfi-Rosie’s Posy (Suave Dancer) Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) Galileo-Speirbhean (Danehill) Diktat-Land of Dreams (Cadeaux Genereux) Oasis Dream-Frappe (Inchinor) Anabaa-Born Gold (Blushing Groom) High Chaparral-Wana Doo (Grand Slam) Linamix-Rose Quartz (Lammtarra) Invincible Spirit-L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu)

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Runs

Wnrs

Wins

236 222 235 278 233 363 91 296 309 201 166 400 129 200 172 175 226 176 205 205 132 164 239 191 244 244 226 202 244 178 155 171 133 45 156 200 184 87 127 188 145 158 93 120 145 161 144

1021 996 1015 1413 854 2112 440 1512 1699 855 860 2364 616 992 1185 803 1114 811 1249 1194 633 820 1471 1076 1787 1360 1326 1062 1334 865 736 1202 772 232 805 1253 1118 507 668 1073 680 882 613 910 888 1134 961

118 114 132 119 73 169 39 130 117 90 72 158 67 94 79 71 90 70 77 91 64 78 95 89 100 109 79 75 94 72 53 69 48 18 56 82 83 37 61 79 56 60 39 57 63 61 67

198 174 213 175 95 262 65 196 167 134 115 234 91 138 132 115 130 106 125 135 112 121 130 137 169 161 141 110 138 99 76 124 77 29 95 128 134 50 88 130 88 96 59 96 105 102 96

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 50.00 51.35 56.17 42.80 31.33 46.55 42.85 43.91 37.86 44.77 43.37 39.50 51.93 47.00 45.93 40.57 39.82 39.77 37.56 44.39 48.48 47.56 39.74 46.59 40.98 44.67 34.95 37.12 38.52 40.44 34.19 40.35 36.09 40.00 35.89 41.00 45.10 42.52 48.03 42.02 38.62 37.97 41.93 47.50 43.44 37.88 46.52

22 20 28 15 18 15 8 14 9 11 12 12 12 9 3 11 7 8 6 6 9 11 0 10 6 6 2 3 3 4 3 3 3 6 6 6 8 3 1 4 7 1 4 1 6 0 3

37 7,669,782 32 5,397,591 33 5,258,992 22 5,069,462 23 4,838,401 20 4,481,917 12 4,089,292 17 3,852,537 12 3,439,500 16 3,398,646 16 3,097,869 13 3,086,547 14 2,970,247 13 2,931,488 9 2,899,270 20 2,823,987 8 2,538,299 11 2,312,808 10 2,281,758 9 2,225,947 15 2,216,080 14 2,151,757 0 2,026,245 12 2,003,522 8 1,993,336 7 1,985,895 5 1,914,302 3 1,866,108 3 1,850,826 5 1,823,524 5 1,816,369 4 1,801,523 5 1,777,619 6 1,776,168 7 1,763,447 8 1,759,641 11 1,711,067 4 1,654,447 1 1,651,171 6 1,630,478 8 1,589,870 2 1,566,945 5 1,541,068 1 1,469,004 6 1,453,990 0 1,435,879 4 1,420,745

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stallion stats Final table of leading sires of two-year-olds in Britain and Ireland 2021 (by prize-money earned to December 31, 2021) Stallion

Breeding

Dark Angel Wootton Bassett Mehmas Kodiac Frankel Oasis Dream Cotai Glory Caravaggio Dubawi Ardad No Nay Never Showcasing Galileo Gold Starspangledbanner Havana Gold Siyouni Profitable Zarak Churchill Acclamation Dabirsim Kodi Bear El Kabeir Bated Breath Gleneagles Zoffany Fast Company Pedro the Great New Bay Aclaim Australia Twilight Son Iffraaj Lope de Vega Shalaa Recorder Adaay Muhaarar Mastercraftsman Galileo Kingman Ribchester Territories Invincible Spirit War Front Camelot Time Test

Acclamation-Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) 2008 90 334 37 51 Iffraaj-Balladonia (Primo Dominie) 2012 49 156 20 33 Acclamation-Lucina (Machiavellian) 2017 86 376 40 56 Danehill-Rafha (Kris) 2007 117 491 46 60 Galileo-Kind (Danehill) 2013 62 157 26 39 Green Desert-Hope (Dancing Brave) 2004 52 187 19 25 Exceed And Excel-Continua (Elusive Quality) 2018 87 358 35 55 Scat Daddy-Mekko Hokte (Holy Bull) 2018 73 265 24 31 Dubai Millennium-Zomaradah (Deploy) 2006 61 155 31 40 Kodiac-Good Clodora (Red Clubs) 2018 63 259 23 34 Scat Daddy-Cat’s Eye Witness (Elusive Quality) 2015 58 186 28 36 Oasis Dream-Arabesque (Zafonic) 2011 80 318 29 36 Paco Boy-Galicuix (Galileo) 2018 64 257 24 34 Choisir-Gold Anthem (Made of Gold) 2011 58 215 23 29 Teofilo-Jessica’s Dream (Desert Style) 2014 72 278 31 44 Pivotal-Sichilla (Danehill) 2011 61 163 23 28 Invincible Spirit-Dani Ridge (Indian Ridge) 2018 84 352 28 37 Dubawi-Zarkava (Zamindar) 2018 34 99 17 22 Galileo-Meow (Storm Cat) 2018 82 246 25 31 Royal Applause-Princess Athena (Ahonoora) 2004 55 190 20 30 Hat Trick-Rumored (Royal Academy) 2014 66 237 25 31 Kodiac-Hawattef (Mujtahid) 2017 42 196 16 27 Scat Daddy-Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song) 2018 48 172 14 25 Dansili-Tantina (Distant View) 2013 53 192 19 30 Galileo-You’resothrilling (Storm Cat) 2016 40 131 18 27 Dansili-Tyranny (Machiavellian) 2012 52 173 14 19 Danehill Dancer-Sheezalady (Zafonic) 2011 58 243 16 24 Henrythenavigator-Glatisant (Rainbow Quest) 2014 42 159 13 23 Dubawi-Cinnamon Bay (Zamindar) 2017 34 104 15 18 Acclamation-Aris (Danroad) 2018 68 300 26 29 Galileo-Ouija Board (Cape Cross) 2015 48 115 12 16 Kyllachy-Twilight Mistress (Bin Ajwaad) 2017 38 148 11 18 Zafonic-Pastorale (Nureyev) 2007 69 206 22 29 Shamardal-Lady Vettori (Vettori) 2011 69 171 23 26 Invincible Spirit-Ghurra (War Chant) 2017 50 175 15 18 Galileo-Memory (Danehill Dancer) 2018 53 220 8 11 Kodiac-Lady Lucia (Royal Applause) 2017 49 234 12 21 Oasis Dream-Tahrir (Linamix 2016 62 193 19 24 Danehill Dancer-Starlight Dreams (Black Tie Affair) 2010 50 151 9 11 Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) 2002 50 101 12 12 Invincible Spirit-Zenda (Zamindar) 2015 46 113 16 19 Iffraaj-Mujarah (Marju) 2018 58 203 15 21 Invincible Spirit-Taranto (Machiavellian) 2017 50 157 17 23 Green Desert-Rafha (Kris) 2003 41 138 14 17 Danzig-Starry Dreamer (Rubiano) 2007 14 55 10 15 Montjeu-Tarfah (Kingmambo) 2014 30 73 7 9 Dubawi-Passage of Time (Dansili) 2018 41 117 11 17

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To Stud

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Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 41.11 40.81 46.51 39.31 41.93 36.53 40.22 32.87 50.81 36.50 48.27 36.25 37.50 39.65 43.05 37.70 33.33 50.00 30.48 36.36 37.87 38.09 29.16 35.84 45.00 26.92 27.58 30.95 44.11 38.23 25.00 28.94 31.88 33.33 30.00 15.09 24.48 30.64 18.00 24.00 34.78 25.86 34.00 34.14 71.42 23.33 26.82

4 7 1,257,378 6 8 1,121,305 4 6 978,682 6 7 961,412 4 6 938,586 2 4 879,690 2 3 796,103 3 5 781,686 5 5 713,716 2 4 705,959 4 5 612,255 2 2 605,512 3 4 599,246 3 4 586,674 2 3 580,089 4 4 579,854 3 3 570,772 2 2 541,382 3 3 531,286 2 3 505,652 0 0 503,053 2 2 501,174 3 4 488,941 1 2 485,076 4 5 439,288 0 0 425,317 2 2 423,364 0 0 400,958 2 2 397,483 0 0 386,535 2 4 382,483 3 3 366,087 0 0 361,768 2 2 355,022 0 0 352,737 0 0 347,260 2 2 343,658 1 1 322,522 1 1 317,201 1 1 313,953 1 1 304,478 1 1 299,443 0 0 292,980 1 1 287,778 1 1 284,143 1 2 264,216 4 4 260,344

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stallion stats Leading NH sires in Britain and Ireland 2020-2021 Stallion

Breeding

Stowaway Flemensfirth Yeats Oscar Jeremy Getaway Shantou Presenting Kapgarde Fame And Glory Milan Beneficial Mahler Westerner Midnight Legend Gold Well Kayf Tara Sulamani Martaline Saint des Saints Shirocco Court Cave Doyen Beat Hollow King’s Theatre Sholokhov Authorized Malinas No Risk At All Arcadio Network Scorpion Kalanisi Dubai Destination Great Pretender Nathaniel Dylan Thomas Poliglote Black Sam Bellamy Saddler Maker Coastal Path Passing Glance Ask Doctor Dino Voix du Nord Policy Maker Born To Sea

Slip Anchor-On Credit (No Pass No Sale) Alleged-Etheldreda (Diesis) Sadler’s Wells-Lyndonville (Top Ville) Sadler’s Wells-Snow Day (Reliance II) Danehill Dancer-Glint In Her Eye (Arazi) Monsun-Guernica (Unfuwain) Alleged-Shaima (Shareef Dancer) Mtoto-D’Azy (Persian Bold) Garde Royale-Kaprika (Cadoudal) Montjeu-Gryada (Shirley Heights) Sadler’s Wells-Kithanga (Darshaan) Top Ville-Youthful (Green Dancer) Galileo-Rainbow Goddess (Rainbow Quest) Danehill-Walensee (Troy) Night Shift-Myth (Troy) Sadler’s Wells-Floripedes (Top Ville) Sadler’s Wells-Colorspin (High Top) Hernando-Soul Dream (Alleged) Linamix-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) Cadoudal-Chamisene (Pharly) Monsun-So Sedulous (The Minstrel) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Sadler’s Wells-Moon Cactus (Kris) Sadler’s Wells-Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) Sadler’s Wells-Regal Beauty (Princely Native) Sadler’s Wells-La Meilleure (Lord Gayle) Montjeu-Funsie (Saumarez) Lomitas-Majoritat (Konigsstuhl) My Risk-Newness (Simply Great) Monsun-Assia (Royal Academy) Monsun-Note (Reliance II) Montjeu-Ardmelody (Law Society) Doyoun-Kalamba (Green Dancer) Kingmambo-Mysterial (Alleged) King’s Theatre-Settler (Darshaan) Galileo-Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) Danehill-Lagrion (Diesis) Sadler’s Wells-Alexandrie (Val de L’Orne) Sadler’s Wells-Urban Sea (Miswaki) Sadler’s Wells-Animatrice (Alleged) Halling-Coraline (Sadler’s Wells) Polar Falcon-Spurned (Robellino) Sadler’s Wells-Request (Rainbow Quest) Muhtathir-Logica (Priolo) Valanour-Dame Edith (Top Ville) Sadler’s Wells-Palmeraie (Lear Fan) Invincible Spirit-Urban Sea (Miswaki)

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Rnrs

Runs

Wnrs

Wins

2001 1998 2010 1998 2008 2011 1999 1997 2004 2013 2004 1997 2009 2006 1998 2006 2001 2005 2005 2003 2007 2004 2006 2003 1997 2004 2008 2006 2013 2008 2002 2008 2002 2004 2006 2013 2008 1998 2004 2005 2010 2005 2011 2010 2006 2008 2013

243 254 286 210 160 348 164 254 87 285 292 131 241 194 147 179 201 83 117 61 233 176 136 70 77 98 67 96 42 169 60 185 140 64 51 66 119 26 110 46 35 61 104 15 20 8 53

993 922 1159 811 726 1301 658 959 364 937 1039 628 938 778 651 758 611 356 460 236 775 761 507 248 315 360 290 337 160 635 255 744 491 263 198 240 417 120 365 187 117 244 352 54 90 34 204

73 85 82 55 62 99 59 68 30 64 70 43 73 65 53 58 43 25 53 23 58 51 34 23 25 35 29 32 15 39 26 41 35 19 21 25 26 12 26 20 14 22 23 8 6 2 17

115 132 130 81 101 136 87 93 48 91 91 65 94 89 79 95 61 45 75 35 84 73 53 34 34 54 41 46 20 55 34 53 44 29 35 39 36 17 36 31 24 33 38 11 10 5 22

Wnrs/Rnrs% SWnrs SWs 30.04 33.46 28.67 26.19 38.75 28.45 35.98 26.77 34.48 22.46 23.97 32.82 30.29 33.51 36.05 32.40 21.39 30.12 45.30 37.70 24.89 28.98 25.00 32.86 32.47 35.71 43.28 33.33 35.71 23.08 43.33 22.16 25.00 29.69 41.18 37.88 21.85 46.15 23.64 43.48 40.00 36.07 22.12 53.33 30.00 25.00 32.08

11 12 9 8 11 1 8 7 4 6 4 6 5 2 2 5 6 2 5 4 3 2 5 5 5 3 4 3 4 2 3 2 1 3 3 3 3 4 3 2 4 2 0 2 2 1 3

16 16 13 9 17 1 11 8 5 8 7 8 6 4 2 6 7 5 5 6 3 2 6 7 5 7 6 3 6 2 3 2 2 5 5 5 3 4 3 2 4 2 0 3 4 4 3

£ 2,008,786 1,836,569 1,777,075 1,681,776 1,301,910 1,262,496 1,233,879 1,160,571 1,098,659 1,070,851 1,063,196 1,023,302 1,011,027 1,010,250 999,310 926,226 869,151 846,191 818,965 811,117 696,487 693,838 680,900 663,340 616,420 613,198 568,812 562,655 556,310 511,296 507,693 505,256 500,160 492,635 455,907 452,166 435,721 409,698 408,038 404,951 366,488 357,106 346,906 345,813 328,520 325,123 313,087

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leading first-season sires past

Jocelyn de Moubray looks back at leading first-season sires of seasons past to assess if there is a system to predict...

Which young sires become super sires?

DON’T KNOW when people started counting to see who was the champion first-season sire in Britain and Ireland, but I suspect it was some time in the 1980s. Initially, anyway, I am sure it was probably more of a way to fill some empty columns in the trade press rather than a marketing ploy or something of real interest. An early first-season sire sensation was Coolmore’s Sadler’s Wells in 1988.

Since the 1980s two-year-old racing and stallion management has, of course, changed beyond recognition Courtesy of an unlikely quirk, the son of Northern Dancer not only produced his two best two-year-olds in his first crop but, remarkably, his sons Scenic and Prince Of Dance ran a dead heat for the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. In The Wings, another son, was unbeaten in two starts in Deauville. Those success meant that Coolmore’s first star stallion was well and truly launched with his first crop of two-year-olds. This was something the best sons of Northern Dancer did – Danzig had started even faster in 1984 when three from his first crop of 30 foals won Grade 1s at two – Chief’s Crown, Contredance and Stephan’s Odyssey. To put this achievement in perspective, at the time the US foal crop numbered less than 50,000 foals, and from only 30 of these Danzig produced a champion colt and two

The first “real” champion first-season sire, Sadler’s Wells

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other top two-year-olds. In the US plenty of first-season sires have produced two Grade 1 winners, including the 2021 champion Gun Runner, sire of Echo Zulu and Gunite, as well as the Grade 1-placed Pappacap. Others to have had two Grade 1-winning juveniles from their first crop in recent years include Nyquist, Liam’s Map, Union Rags and Uncle Mo, but three Grade 1 winners from a first crop of two-year-olds remains a rare achievement, as is the two produced by Sadler’s Wells in Europe. Since the 1980s two-year-old racing and stallion management has, of course, changed beyond recognition. In Britain and Ireland there are now significantly more Group races for two-yearolds and many more races overall, while the advent of All-Weather racing has extended the two-year-old racing season to more than nine months from mid-March to the end of December. At the same time popular first-season stallions tend to have at least double the number of foals that their 1980s counterparts had. Sadler’s Wells stood at £IR125,000 and had around 50 foals in 1986, whereas his son Galileo stood at the relatively modest fee of £IR50,000 and produced some 130 foals in 2003. The first-season sire championship has evolved, too, and has become a significant test for every stallion, and an objective stallion owners plan for from the moment a horse retires to stud. It seems to be widely accepted that the first-season sire championship is decided by the number of winners rather than any other criteria and at some point it has been taken to include the major European racing countries.

leading first-season sires past The table below lists the champion first-season sires by number of winners in Britain and Ireland from the beginning of this century – Britain and Ireland only are listed as the European figures are not easily available from earlier years. There have been 24 champions with ties in 2003, 2007 and 2014. All but four of these champions stood in Ireland. The list of champions includes eventual great sires, top sires, ordinary sires and perhaps even some poor ones, as well as those who died too young for anybody to be sure in which category they would have ended up. There are a few obvious conclusions to be drawn from this simple list alone. Most of these champions were relatively inexpensive stallions when they first retired to stud. Of the 24, 19 started their careers standing at €12,500 or less. Four went on to command six-figure fees and a total of 11, so

nearly half, went on to stand at €40,000 or higher, which does, of course, explain why stallion owners make winning the championship an objective. The British-based Whitsbury Manor Stud has had two champions, but this is a contest which has been dominated by Irish studs, and in recent years by the O’Callaghan family’s Tally-Ho Stud, which has stood five of the last nine champions. Stallions and their actual genetic potential will always remain something of a mystery, but the recent winners of this championship does suggest that those hoping to emulate them could do a lot worse than buying or using a son of a leading first-season sire who was a Group winner before the end of July. Mastercraftsman, Showcasing, Mehmas, Cotai Glory are among those who fulfilled these criteria exactly. Table 2 overleaf gives some more detail on

The list of champions includes eventual great sires, top sires, ordinary sires and perhaps even some poor ones, as well as those who died too young

Leading first-season sires 2001-2021 by individual winners in Britain and Ireland Year

Stallion

Winners

Sire

2001 Danehill Dancer 19 Danehill 2002 Titus Livius 18 Machiavellian 2003 Cape Cross 19 Green Desert Fasliyev 19 Nureyev 2004 King’s Best 19 Kingmambo 2005 Bertolini 21 Danzig 2006 Invincible Spirit 28 Green Desert 2007 Acclamation 24 Royal Applause Captain Rio 24 Pivotal 2008 Kheleyf 27 Green Desert 2009 Dubawi 26 Dubai Milennium 2010 Iffraaj 30 Zafonic 2011 Red Clubs 29 Red Ransom 2012 Sakhee’s Secret 22 Sakhee 2013 Mastercraftsman 21 Danehill 2014 Showcasing 26 Oasis Dream Zebedee 26 Invincible Spirit 2015 Zoffany 27 Dansili 2016 Sir Prancealot 28 Tamayuz 2017 Society Rock 25 Rock of Gibraltar 2018 No Nay Never 22 Scatt Daddy 2019 Gutaifan 25 Dark Angel 2020 Mehmas 46 Acclamation 2021 Cotai Glory 26 Exceed And Excel

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Stud

Country

Coolmore Rathaskar Stud Kildangan Stud Coolmore Kildangan Stud Overbury Stud Irish National Stud Rathbarry Stud Ballyhane Stud Kildangan Stud Dalham Hall Kildangan Stud Tally-Ho Stud Whitsbury Manor Stud Coolmore Whitsbury Manor Stud Tally-Ho Stud Coolmore Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho Stud Coolmore Yeomanstown Stud Tally-Ho Stud Tally-Ho Stud

Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Britain Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Britain Ireland Ireland Britain Ireland Britain Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland Ireland

First fee €3,500 €3,500 €6,500 €20,000 €20,000 £4,000 €10,000 €10,000 €5,000 €7,000 £25,000 €12,000 €12,500 £6,500 €20,000 £5,000 €5,000 €7,500 €6,000 €8,000 €20,000 €6,500 €12,500 €6,500

Highest fee €115,000 €6,500 €50,000 €75,000 €35,000 €15,000 €120,000 €40,000 €6,000 €12,000 £250,000 £40,000 €12,500 £6,500 €40,000 £55,000 €10,000 €45,000 $15,000 €8,000 €175,000 €6,500 €50,000 €8,000

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leading first-season sires past the first crop of some of the leading European sires of this century. The number of foals, of runners, winners, high-rated runners and Group winners are obvious ways to try to evaluate which

first-crop sires are likely to have a future. Looking at the way these figures have changed over the years it is obvious that these days it is the specialist sires, and those whose careers are planned with this in mind, who

are most likely to end up as champion first-season sires. Not that long ago sires such as Dubawi and Iffraaj became champion first-season sires when only about half of their first crop

Leading European first-season sires 1994-2021 by percentage of runners rated 95+ Sires

Year

Foals

Linamix 1994 32 Kendargent 2011 19 Oasis Dream 2007 123 Siyouni 2014 76 Starspangledbanner 2014 29 Anabaa 2000 46 Frankel 2016 113 Vettori 1999 31 Acclamation 2007 88 No Nay Never 2018 73 Zarak 2021 64 Dalakhani 2007 84 Invincibile Spirit 2006 100 Goken 2020 57 Shamardal 2009 114 Lope de Vega 2014 91 New Bay 2020 65 Exceed And Excel 2008 97 Night Of Thunder 2019 88 Le Havre 2013 95 Mehmas 2020 121 Zoffany 2015 123 El Kabeir 2021 85 Galileo 2005 134 Teofilo 2011 122 Kingman 2018 105 Iffraaj 2010 121 Galileo Gold 2021 90 Society Rock 2017 98 Belardo 2020 78 Showcasing 2014 72 Time Test 2021 65 Sea The Stars 2013 110 Dubawi 2009 125 Ardad 2021 77 Dutch Art 2011 107 Medicean 2005 66 Cotai Glory 2021 107 Dansili 2004 130

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Rnrs

Winners

16 7 57 41 20 15 43 16 56 59 36 18 61 37 57 54 39 61 49 35 101 82 51 41 56 60 65 66 79 53 55 42 44 60 64 59 35 87 53

50 37 46 54 69 33 38 52 64 81 56 21 61 65 50 59 60 63 56 34 83 67 60 31 46 57 54 73 81 68 76 65 40 48 83 55 53 81 41

10 4 19 18 11 8 18 6 24 32 18 8 28 15 19 25 12 22 28 11 58 32 14 8 16 24 31 24 29 13 29 11 9 28 23 27 9 35 15

W/R% 62 57 33 44 55 53 42 37 43 54 50 44 46 41 33 46 31 36 57 31 57 39 27 20 29 40 48 36 37 25 53 26 20 47 36 46 26 40 28

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Rated 95+ 7 2 12 8 4 3 8 3 10 10 6 3 9 5 8 7 5 8 6 4 10 8 5 4 5 5 5 5 6 4 4 3 3 4 4 3 2 5 0

% of Rnrs 44 29 21 20 20 20 19 19 18 17 17 17 15 14 14 13 13 13 12 11 9 9 9 9 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 0

Gp Wnrs 1 2 4 3 2 1 6 2 1 2 1 0 2 2 2 4 2 1 3 0 2 3 1 0 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 1

leading first-season sires past foals ran as two-year-olds. More recent outstanding first-crop sires such as No Nay Never, Society Rock, Mehmas, Ardad and Cotai Glory have been represented by more than 80 per cent of their foals at two from their first crop. The best middle-distance sires, represented here by Galileo, Sea The Stars, Le Havre, Dalakhani have had only 40 per cent or fewer of their foals on the track at two. Ratings are never going to be accepted by everybody and those for two-year-olds are particularly difficult – races can be impossible to rate accurately the day after the event, and they can appear to be either far better or worse a few months later. Although the ratings and precentages are only a guide or a guess, the stallions with an excellent ratio do often turn out to be very good ones, even if the middle-distance sires, with the exception of Frankel, don’t tend to do well by comparison with those who produce more precocious stock.

Mixed results

The number of individual Group winners looks to be a particularly significant marker. This century the only sires to have had more than two Group winners amongst their first crop of two-year-olds are Frankel, Oasis Dream, Zoffany, Night Of Thunder, Lope De Vega, Siyouni and Belardo. Perhaps the owners of the 183 mares covered by Belardo in 2021 have made a good decision? Linamix and Vettori are included in the table because it is easy to get this information from the France Galop site and in their different ways their stud careers illustrate some of the recurring features of trying to evaluate young stallions. Jean-Luc Lagardère’s homebred Linamix stood at the breeder’s farm and Lagardère himself was the only person, with one or two exceptions, to use the stallion at the beginning of his career. For Lagardère, Linamix was an immediate success producing horses such as Miss Satamixa, Housamix, Walk On Mix and Diamond Mix from a small first crop, but Lagardère was a hugely successful breeder and all of his horses at the time were trained by François Boutin or André Fabre. It helps to show that the stallion owners who are prepared to give their new sires

Linamix benefited from Jean-Luc Lagardère’s support, the good mares he received from the breeder, as well as from the training talents of André Fabre and François Boutin

the benefit of the best mares and the best professionals to look after their progeny give them a big advantage. Vettori was a Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains-winning son of Machiavellian who retired to Fresnay Le Buffard. His small first crop included the top 1m4f performer

This century the only sires to have had more than two Group winners amongst their first crop of two-year-olds are Frankel, Oasis Dream, Zoffany, Night Of Thunder, Lope De Vega, Siyouni and Belardo

Hightori and the leading two-year-old Lady Vettori, who went on to become the dam of Lope De Vega and Lady Frankel. Vettori went to stand for many years in England, France and Brazil, covered many mares and produced larger crops, but he never produced another as good as Hightori (rated 127) or as important as Lady Vettori. The samples on which new stallions are judged are, certainly at the beginning anyway, too small to avoid sampling errors. A sire who gets two very good horses from 30 foals may be a top future sire, or it may just be a sampling error which will become apparent once a larger number has been assessed. Most variables revert back towards the mean – in many cases a sire whose first crop is way above average will have subsequent crops below average, or those such as Dansili, whose first crop was only ordinary, may reveal their true level from a larger sample. To put it another way, the top horses in the tiny first crops of sires such as Wootton Bassett and Kendargent didn’t necessarily mean they were going to develop into important sires, but once they had repeated the feat with their second and third crops it was time for breeders everywhere to take notice. Forecasting which stallions are going to be successful is difficult and if it becomes just a little easier when their first two-year-olds have raced, there are still no certainties.

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New European sires for 2022 THIS SPRING sees 22 new Flat or dual-purpose sires retire to stud at a fee above £/€3,000, it is the lowest number of new commercial sires retiring to stud in Europe for some years. Only seven of these are standing in the UK with just the son of Kingman, Palace Pier, who has been retired to Dalham Hall Stud, given a starting price over £10,000. His first nomination fee is £55,000 and he is the second-most expensive new European sire for 2022. Coolmore’s St Mark’s Basilica, the son of Siyouni who was unbeaten as a three-year-old and has the highest Timeform-rating of these new stallions on 131, is Europe’s most expensive new stallion standing at €65,000. TF*: Master Timeform figure or best-ever Timeform figure achieved New European sires for 2022 in fee order Stallion

Stud

Sire-Dam

Dam-sire

TF* Fee

St Mark's Basilica

Coolmore Stud

Siyouni-Cabaret

Galileo

131

€65,000

Palace Pier

Dalham Hall Stud

Kingman-Beach Frolic

Nayef

129

£55,000

Space Blues

Kildangan Stud

Dubawi-Miss Lucifer

Noverre

124

€17,500

Starman

Tally-Ho Stud

Dutch Art-Northern Star

Montjeu

125

€17,500

Lucky Vega

Irish National Stud

Lope De Vega-Queen Of Carthage

Cape Cross

121

€15,000

Victor Ludorum

Haras du Logis

Shamardal-Antiquities

Kaldounevees

120

€15,000

Supremacy

Yeomanstown Stud

Mehmas-Triggers Broom

Arcano

117+

€12,500

Japan

Gestüt Etzean

Galileo-Shastye

Danehill

118

€11,000

Lope Y Fernandez

The National Stud

Lope De Vega-Black Dahlia

Dansili

120

£8,500

A'Ali

Newsells Park Stud

Society Rock-Motion Lass

Motivator

118

£7,500

Alson

Gestüt Färhrof

Areion-Assisi

Galileo

115

€6,000

Nando Parrado

Irish National Stud

Kodiac-Chibola

Roy

101

€6,000

Roseman

March Hare Stud

Kingman-Go Lovely Rose

Pivotal

125

£5,500

Alkumait

Castlefield Stud

Showcasing-Suelita

Dutch Art

113

€5,000

Armor

Haras de Bouquetot

No Nay Never-Hestia

High Chapparal

111

€5,000

Soft Light

Haras de Colleville

Authorized-Light Saber

Kendor

108

€5,000

Ubettabelieveit

Mickley Stud

Kodiac-Ladylishandra

Mujadil

105

£5,000

Mkfancy

Haras de Saint Arnoult

Makfi-Fancy Green

Muhtathir

100

€4,000

Windstoss

Gestüt Röttgen

Shirocco-Wellenspiel

Sternkoenig

109

€4,000

Bangkok

Chapel Stud

Australia-Tanaghum

Darshaan

117

£3,000

Century Dream

Norman Court Stud

Cape Cross-Salacia

Echo Of Light

117

£3,000

Laccario

Haras d'Annebault

Scalo-Laccata

Lomitas

119

€3,000

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martin webb

No regrets for this pandemic purchase Martin Webb’s lockdown purchase of Ubettabelieveit as a two-year-old has taken the owner into a long term bloodstock venture, writes James Thomas

LENTY OF US will have left lockdown regretting a few rash purchases. Perhaps it was an exercise bike that suddenly doesn’t look so appealing now that the pub is open again, or a 1,000-piece jigsaw that has remained with 998 pieces out of place. For racehorse owner Martin Webb, however, a purchase he made while confined to his home has had far more profound consequences. It was during the first lockdown in early

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2020 that Webb bought Ubettabelieveit, a decision that has led to some notable successes and some memorable journeys, both literal and metaphorical. Not only did the colt land the prestigious Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes, but he also took Webb and the Malton-based trainer Nigel Tinkler on a maiden voyage to the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland. Now, with the 2022 breeding season nearly upon us the journey continues, with Ubettabelieveit set to embark upon his

second career at Mickley Stud. The son of Kodiac was bred by Derek and Gay Veitch at Ringfort Stud in County Offaly from the Mujadil mare Ladylishandra, making him a sibling to the Group 3 winners Harlem Shake and Tropical Paradise, as well as the Listed scorer Shenanigans. Having been pinhooked by Roger Marley and John Cullinan, the team behind the Church Farm and Horse Park Stud operation, the colt’s target had been the Goffs UK Breeze-Up Sale in Doncaster.

martin webb Ubettabelieveit: the son of Kodiac wins the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes under Rowan Scott

However, when the unfolding pandemic brought major uncertainty upon the twoyear-old sales calendar, Ubettabelieveit was among a significant number of prospects offloaded privately as vendors sought to reduce their financial exposure. Marley’s Church Farm Stables is less than a 30-minute drive from Tinkler’s Woodlands Stables, so while the sales were unable to be staged, Marley brought the breeze-ups to his potential clients. Explaining the somewhat unusual

circumstances around the purchase of Ubettabelieveit, Webb explains: “Roger Marley brought three horses to Nigel’s gallop and he called me up and said ‘I’ve got two horses here I want you to look at, one by Dandy Man and another by Kodiac.’ “Nigel asked who I wanted to ride them and I said there was no point putting two different people up, and that he should ride them both. “He got off the first one and said that he was a bit ponyish, but when he got off Ubettabelieveit he had a massive grin on his face and said ‘What a horse!’. We did a deal with Roger and never looked back.” Ubettabelieveit retired from racing with three victories to his name having recorded a dominant success in a Doncaster novice event, a comfortable dismissal of his rivals in the Listed National Stakes at Sandown before his finest hour in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes back on Town Moor. Sent off at a dismissive 40-1, jockey Rowan Scott settled Ubettabelieveit towards the rear of the ten-strong field and waited until the final furlong before making his move. The pair edged to the right late on to engage Sacred, who franked the form at three by winning the Group 2 Nell Gwyn Stakes and the Group 3 Hungerford Stakes, and fought on bravely to win by a short head. “There was no way he was a 40-1 shot,” recalls Webb. “I was thinking what’s going on, what do the bookies know? So when he won it was fantastic. Before we’d even got to the winners’ circle we’d had the Breeders’ Cup on saying ‘bring him to America’ because it was a win-and-you’re-in race.” The Breeders’ Cup invitation was taken up and Ubettabelieveit duly contested the Juvenile Turf Sprint. It speaks to the handson approach that connections take – Tinkler took on groom’s duties himself, while the owner and trainer shunned the usual salubrious visitors’ hotel for a more humble abode so they could be nearer the stable yard and their pride and joy. Things did not go entirely to plan in the five and a half furlong contest as Ubettabelieveit missed the break by several lengths and found himself trapped behind toiling rivals as Golden Pal blazed a trail to

the winning post. However, Scott maintained his composure and guided Ubettabelieveit up the rail and into a highly creditable third place, eventually beaten just a length and three quarters. “I know he only came third but you’d think we’d won the Grand National afterwards!” Webb says. “When he missed the break I thought we’d come all this way for nothing, but he got up there and did us proud.”

EBB, group operations director at WJ Group, a road markings business based in Stoke-on-Trent, first had his colours grace the racecourse in 2016 when the five-time winner Allux Boy was a two-year-old. His association with Tinkler came about in rather serendipitous circumstances, having successfully bid on a morning on the trainer’s gallops at a charity day for the Injured Jockeys Fund. While Webb says he has followed the sport for as long as he can remember, he concedes he never thought he would see runners sporting his own silks. However, he has enjoyed some noteworthy results in the intervening years, with another early flagbearer Bashiba winning four races and the smart Kaeso landing eight. The 2021 Turf season also saw the emergence of Isla Kai, a son of Awtaad who was bought by Tinkler and Jamie Piggott for 50,000gns and has now won four races and boasts an official rating of 99. Although Webb may not radiate sentimentality, there is an unmistakable connection to his horses that is brought into sharp relief when he talks about the retirement plans he put in place for Bashiba and Kaeso. “We had Bashiba, who did us proud and took us to some great places, and Kaeso was talented until he injured himself when favourite at Royal Ascot,’’ he says. “They’re both retired now and live just half an hour away from us now at friends’ farms. They’re still part of the family and it’s not just a case of buying the horses and getting rid of them

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Martin Webb’s Kodiac colt gave his owner, trainer Nigel Tinkler and jockey Scott a first trip stateside for the Breeders’ Cup meeting in 2020

when they’re no good.” His involvement with Ubettabelieveit, along with a tidy windfall in his business life, has meant that his thoroughbred interests now reach beyond the racecourse and into the breeding world. “That’s really all because of Ubettabelieveit,” Webb says when asked about branching out into the bloodstock business, an area he’d had little exposure to prior to visiting some major Kentucky studs while in town for the Breeders’ Cup. “And because I’ve had a bit of good fortune and sold a chunk of my business in the last year, that’s enabled me to do something I didn’t really realise I’d enjoy quite as much as I do.” With sons of Kodiac in high demand thanks to the accomplishments of stallions such as Ardad, Kodi Bear and Prince Of Lir, Mickley Stud was not the only outfit keen on standing Ubettabelieveit. But, just as he has done with his retired runners Bashiba and Kaeso, Webb was keen to ensure Ubettabelieveit stayed close to home.

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We’ve kept a quarter share in the horse and I think we’ve proved the point that we believe in him by buying the fillies and mares we have to support him

“The stallion men all came around and looked at him and we had an offer for him to go to Ireland, but my wife, Lisa, was saying she wanted him to stay nearby because he’s been a great horse for us,” he explains. “I’ve got some friends who know Richard Kent well and it was decided he’d go to Mickley. “Richard said he’s been three to four times more popular than he thought he was going to be so he’s been very pleased with the response. Obviously some stallions can be a little bit ‘lairy’, but we went to visit him recently and he still eats apples out of our hands and likes the attention. “I’m sure that’ll change as time goes on but he’s still quite the gentleman. We’ve kept a quarter share in the horse and I think we’ve proved the point that we believe in him by buying the fillies and mares we have to support him.” Ubettabelieveit, who has been introduced at a fee of £5,000, can count on Webb’s support at stud, both in the immediate future and slightly further down the line too. He purchased two fillies at the yearling

martin webb sales with the long-term aim of visiting Ubettabelieveit once they have proved their credentials on the racecourse, namely a well-related daughter of Wootton Bassett, who fetched a cool €350,000 at the Arqana October Sale, and a 65,000gns Awtaad filly who has been named Bella Capella. He also acquired a brace of broodmares from the breeding stock sales – Angel Of Delight, a winning daughter of Dark Angel in-foal to Mohaather at 78,000gns, and the 70,000gns Queen Sarra, a daughter of Shamardal from the family of Sir Percy carrying to Showcasing.

As a three-year-old colt, Ubettabelieveit heading out for the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes Photo by Debbie Burt

EBB SAYS he is looking forward to attending the sales this year too, particularly having had to settle for following his Deauville

acquisition online. “I got in from work and was watching the live stream, while my wife and some other friends had it on the television, which was slightly delayed,” he says. “I was on the phone telling Jamie and Nigel to keep bidding, keep bidding, and my wife thought I hadn’t got her, so she was a bit surprised when I told her we had! “When I was speaking with Nigel, Richard and Jamie, I said if I get these [yearling] fillies broken in and run them as two-yearolds, three-year-olds and four-year-olds and then they go to Ubettabelieveit, that’s four years away. “So I said we should buy some mares too, to help get him moving at stud straight away so we bought Angel Of Delight and Queen Sarra. We’ll get them foaled down and covered by Ubettabelieveit and that way we’re up and running that much quicker.” Webb has come a long way from the man who once thought he would never own his own racehorses, let alone be breeding them, but then it is amazing where those lockdown purchases can lead. “I didn’t realise just quite where the journey would take us when we started but it’s going to be great seeing one of our foals walking around the ring,” he says. “I’m still learning and taking all the advice I can as this isn’t my game really, but it’s a very exciting time.”

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2022

STARMAN The NEW

“Only 3 horses have surpassed STARMAN in 6f sprints in the last 10 years...” Racing Post 4th Sep. 2021

Winner of: Group 1 July Cup Group 2 Duke of York Stakes Listed Garrowby Stakes 2nd Group 1 Sprint Cup 3rd Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest He also broke the 6 furlong track record at Doncaster Timeform rated: 125

“He looks like what a sprinter

should look like – he’d be a USAIN BOLT of the equine world.” Trainer, Ed Walker

for 2022 Fee:

€17,500

COTAI GLORY

Champion European First Crop Sire in 2021

Fee:

€8,500

Group/Stakes sire in 2021 with 8 BT Horses and 32 individual winners Yearlings in 2021 have made €170,000, 130,000gns, etc.

GALILEO GOLD

A dual First Crop Group 1 Sire in 2021

Fee:

€7,000

Sire of 23 winners, 6 BT Horses and 10.5% BT horses to runners, including: EBRO RIVER – winner Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes & placed Gr.1 National Stakes and OSCULA – placed Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac

INNS OF COURT

A son of Sire of Sires INVINCIBLE SPIRIT

Fee:

€5,000

A multiple Group winner, including Gr.2 Prix du Gros-Chene over 5f Also 2nd in 2 Gr.1’s, the Prix Jacques le Marois and the Prix de la Foret

KESSAAR

A son of Sire of Sires KODIAC

Fee:

€5,000

Dual Group winning 2yo Sprinter, including the Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes 1st crop yearlings in 2021 have made €100,000, 90,000gns, £90,000, etc.

KODIAC

The PERENNIAL Champion European Sire

Fee:

€65,000

6 Black Type winning 2yos in 2021, including a Group 1 winner A successful Sire of Sires, including Ardad, Coulsty, Kodi Bear, Prince Of Lir, all Group producing sires in 2021

MEHMAS

The Leading 2nd Crop Sire in Europe 2021

Fee:

€50,000

Already sire of 9 Group winners and 2 Group 1 winners Yearlings in 2021 have made 250,000gns, 250,000gns, €225,000, 10,000gns, 190,000gns, 150,000gns, etc.

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#FarAboveTheSpeedLimit

GROUP WINNER UNDEFEATED OVER 5F/6F

TIMEFORM: 122

Won 5f Gr.3 Palace House in blistering speed

Recording a faster time than Mabs Cross, Marsha, Profitable, Equiano and Dandy Man.

Timeform Rating higher than leading stallions Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Dark Angel, No Nay Never and Showcasing.

First book of 140+ mares 80% sisters/daughters of Stakes horses.

Far Above

Kuroshio

Smooth Daddy

Galileo Chrome

Standing at Starfield Stud, Ballynagall, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland N91 K8Y9

KUROSHIO #SpeedDating

17% Black-Type horses to named foals in Europe

Including Group horses Kurious, Dunkerron, Siculli, etc. Plus Gr.1 winner Savatoxl. 54% winners to runners.

2021 yearlings realised up to €120,000

Purchased by SackvilleDonald, Dave Loughnane, BBA Ireland, etc.

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GR.1 SIRE AND GR.2 SPRINTER BY

EXCEED AND EXCEL

Best books still to run 375+ mares in last 3 years.

SMOOTH DADDY #SmoothDating

First yearlings realised up to £120,000

Purchased by Johnston Racing, Con Marnane, Robson Aguiar, Stuart Williams, etc. “He’s a cracking individual, a real standout with a great walk on him. A real active, strong type and he looks a runner.” Charlie Johnston, Johnston Racing re: £120,000 yearling ex Silesie TOP CLASS GROUP WINNER BY

SCAT DADDY

By an outstanding sire of sires

Including No Nay Never and Caravaggio.

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new sires St Mark’s Basilica

Siyouni - Cabaret (Galileo) Coolmore €65,000 A Group 1 winner at two, Aidan O’Brien’s first winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1), part of an unbeaten three-year-old campaign, and named the 2021 Cartier Horse of the Year – all factors combining to make St Mark’s Basilica the most expensive new stallion in Europe for 2022. Add in that his older half-brother Magna Grecia won the 2,000 Guineas, that St Mark’s Basilica himself was a handsome and expensive yearling who made 1.3m guineas at Tattersalls October Book 1 Yearling Sale, and that he is a grandson of the breed-shaping phenomenon Galileo. St Mark’s Basilica ran five times at two,

finishing second in a 6f Curragh maiden on debut before he was pitched right in at the deep end on his second start when he ran fifth in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes. He was then sent back to win his maiden and then returned to the highest level when third to Thunder Moon and Lucky Vega in the National Stakes (G1). For his final run of his juvenile career he was sent to Newmarket for the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) and he defeated the largest field assembled for the race in over a decade. It was a performance that earned him European champion two-year-old honours. That victory was the start of an unbeaten five-race, Group 1-winning streak which saw him win the Poule d’Essai des Poulains and the Prix du Jockey-Club, the second winner of the French Derby in two years for his sire

St Mark’s Basilica wins the Coral-Eclipse under Ryan Moore, probably the best career performance by the son of Siyouni

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Siyouni after Sottsass, who is like St Mark’s Basilica, is out of a Galileo mare. After conquering the Classic generation in France, St Mark’s Basilica took on older horses for the first time in the Eclipse at Sandown. He produced the best performance of his career to defeat older Group 1 winners Addeybb and Mishriff, his predecessor as a Prix du Jockey Club victor, quickening clear with ease inside the final furlong. His swan-song came in the Irish Champion Stakes with a controversial victory over triple Group 1 heroine Tarnawa and the 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Poetic Flare. He is one of four stakes winners by the Group 1 Prix Jean-Lu Lagardère winner Siyouni out of mares by Galileo, a group that includes St Mark’s Basilica’s fellow Coolmore

new sires

New sires 2022

Analysis by Aisling Crowe and listed in fee order

stallion Sottsass and the 2021 Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Mise En Scene. The cross boasts a 13 per cent stakes winners to runners ratio and creates 5x5 linebreeding to the brilliant broodmare Special through her son Nureyev and daughter Fairy Bridge, dam of Sadler’s Wells. The cross also produces 5x5 inbreeding to Mr. Prospector. Siyouni is the sire of six individual Group 1 winners out of 28 individual Group winners so far and a total of 57 stakes winners. Three of his Group 1 winners feature the blue hen Allegretta in their female line; with triple Group 1 winner Ervedya out of a mare by Allegretta’s 2,000 Guineas-winning son King’s Best. Inbreeding to Allegretta has produced the likes of 2021 Arc hero Torquator Tasso and the Derby winner Masar so daughters of Sea The Stars, who combines Allegretta and the Cape Cross line, which produced Siyouni’s multiple Group 1-winning daughter Laurens, could be an option for St Mark’s Basilica. The Green Desert line is an interesting option to pursue for St Mark’s Basilica given that his 2,000 Guineas and Vertem Futurity Trophy-winning half-brother is by Invincible Spirit so daughters of Green Desert, Cape Cross, Invincible Spirit, Oasis Dream, Kingman and Showcasing could all be suitable mates for the European champion. Bringing in an additional line of Special through mares from the Montjeu line may also be an option for breeders looking to use St Mark’s Basilica. Siyouni has the Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes winner Etoile out of a mare by Authorized, and he is also the sire of Group winners Sacred Life and Wally out of mares by Montjeu and his son Motivator. The 2005 Derby winner is out of a Gone West mare and Siyouni has Group 1 winners

The Green Desert line is an interesting option to pursue for St Mark’s Basilica given that his 2,000 Guineas and Vertem Futurity Trophy-winning half-brother is by Invincible Spirit with broodmare sires from the Mr. Prospector and Storm Cat lines and does very well with the Giant’s Causeway line – the Grade 1-placed Siyoushake is out of a mare by the Iron Horse himself, while the Group 1-placed fillies Marietta and Walk In Marrakech have Shamardal as their dam-sire. Lope De Vega is the broodmare sire of Siyouni’s Group 2-placed colt Devil.

Palace Pier

Kingman - Beach Frolic (Nayef) Darley Stud £55,000 Palace Pier emulated his sire Kingman with victories in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1), two of

five Group 1 successes in an 11-race career. His only defeats came in successive renewals of the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) in which he finished third to The Revenant in 2020 and second to Baaeed a year later. Palace Pier was the highest-rated horse in the world after his victories in the Lockinge Stakes (G1) and Queen Anne Stakes (G1), and was Europe’s champion three-year-old of 2020. Trained by John Gosden, who purchased him for 600,000gns at the Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale, Palace Pier made his debut at two in late August when he won a 7f Sandown maiden. His only other juvenile start was in a novice over the course and distance three weeks later, in which he also proved successful. His rise through the ranks began in a three-year-old handicap at Newcastle when racing resumed after the COVID-induced shutdown. From there he was thrown straight into the deep end, contesting the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes a fortnight later. That defeat of champion two-year-old Pinatubo, the highest-rated juvenile in a quarter of a century, earmarked Palace Pier as a substantial talent. That impression was confirmed next in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) when he beat the Group 1 winners Alpine Star, Circus Maximus, Persian King and Romanised. He relinquished his unbeaten record in his next race, his final start at three, in which he could only manage third behind The Revenant and Roseman on British Champions’ Day. At four, he returned to Sandown for the first time since his two-year-old days and won the Group 2 mile there with ease. That was a dress rehearsal for a command

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new sires performance in the Lockinge followed by victory in Royal Ascot’s Queen Anne Stakes. A return trip to Deauville for the Prix Jacques le Marois saw him get the better of the tough and talented Poetic Flare, but the rising star Baaeed did for him in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on what proved to be the Kingman colt’s final start before being retired to Darley’s English base at Dalham Hall. Bred by the late Duke of Roxburghe and Highclere Stud, he is the second winner produced by Beach Frolic, an unraced Nayef half-sister to the Dante winner Bonfire (Manduro) and Joviality (Cape Cross) winner of the Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes, the Musidora Stakes (G3) and third in the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes. They are out of the Night Shift mare Night Folic, a half-sister to the Grade 3 winner Miss Caerleona (Caerleon), dam of the Nell Gwyn (G3) winner and Coronation Stakes (G1) third Karen’s Caper (War Chant), who is the dam of UAE 2,000 Guineas winner Kinglet (Kingmambo). Palace Pier wasn’t the first member of his family to triumph in the Prix Jacques le Marois – that honour goes to Miss Satamixa, a Linamix half-sister to his third dam Miss D’Ouily. Under his fourth dam you will also discover Godolphin’s 1,000 Guineas and Irish Oaks winner Blue Bunting (Dynaformer). Palace Pier is one of four individual Group/Grade 1 winners in the first four crops sired by Kingman. In total, Kingman’s first crops include 23 Group winners and 43 total stakes winners for a stakes winners-torunners rate that is just shy of 12 per cent, placing Juddmonte’s young stallion firmly in the elite of European sires. Three of Kingman’s Group 2 winners are by broodmare sires descending from Allegretta, including the Grade 1-placed Technical Analysis, who is out of a mare by Sea The Stars giving two strains of Green Desert. Kingman has also done well with mares by sons of Sadler’s Wells with five of his Group winners, including the Japanese Group 1 winner Schnell Meister. He is by Soldier Hollow and so a grandson of the great Coolmore patriarch. Given that Palace Pier’s own pedigree is free from that

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Space Blues: was a favourite of Godolphin’s jockey William Buick – the pair won six races together

particular line, mares by Galileo, Montjeu and their stallion sons should work with Palace Pier. Inbreeding to Danzig, through his great son Danehill, has proven to be very successful for Kingman. His triple Group 1 winner Persian King is out of a Dylan Thomas mare, while mares by Danehill Dancer, Exceed And Excel, Dansili and Champs Elysees have all produced Group winners by Kingman.

Space Blues

Dubawi - Miss Lucifer (Noverre) Kildangan Stud €17,500 Tough, talented, tenacious and from a blossoming sire line, Space Blues is an exciting addition to the Irish stallion ranks as part of Darley’s roster at Kildangan Stud. Space Blues ran 19 times over four seasons and only twice finished outside the top four, on each occasion over the 6f trip in Group races at Meydan. A Godolphin homebred he made a winning debut in a two-year-old extended mile maiden at Nottingham in November 2018 defeating the subsequent Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak winner Technician. That was Space Blues’ sole start at two, and his first two runs as a three-year-old resulted in

As Space Blues is free of Sadler’s Wells blood he looks an ideal candidate for mares by Galileo and his sons placed efforts over a mile and 1m2f. But it was when Space Blues ran over 7f that he found his true calling winning a handicap and the Listed Surrey Stakes over the trip before finishing runner-up to Space Traveller in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes. He filled the same position behind Too Darn Hot in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat, his first run at the highest level, and then was third to Advertise and Brando, beaten just a length in the half-furlong shorter Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1). He began his four-year-old season at Meydan before returning to Europe for success in Haydock’s Listed Spring Trophy before travelling to Longchamp where he

new sires claimed the Group 3 Prix de la Porte Maillot. Next on the list was victory at Goodwood in the Group 2 Lennox Stakes, and his fourth win of that summer was his first in Group 1 company when he defeated Group 1 winners Hello Youmzain, Earthlight, Golden Horde and Wooded in the Prix Maurice de Gheest. His five-year-old season began with success in Saudi Arabia and a down-the-field run in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint. A return to Europe and his favoured distance brought about an improvement and he won the Group 2 City Of York Stakes, the Group 1 Prix de la Forêt and then he put the glorious seal on a productive season with his Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) triumph. Space Blues has an excellent pedigree. He is a half-brother to the multiple Group winner Shuruq (Elusive Quality) and she is the dam of Grade 3 winner Antoinette (Hard Spun), who was placed in the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) and the Belmont Invitational Oaks (G1) in 2020. Space Blues is one of four winners from five runners out of Miss Lucifer, a Group 2-winning daughter of Noverre. Her dam Devil’s Imp is a winning Cadeaux Genereux half-sister to King Edward VII Stakes (G2) winner Amfortas (Caerleon) and the Group 3 winner Legend Maker (Sadler’s Wells), who is the dam of 1,000 Guineas winner Virginia Waters (Kingmambo) and the Classic-placed Alexander Of Hales (Danehill). Legend Maker is also the second dam of Group 1 Matron Stakes winner Chachamaidee (Footstepsinthesand). His third dam High Spirited is a winning Shirley Heights full-sister to Group 1 Premio Roma winner High Hawk, who is the dam of In The Wings. High Spirited is also a half-sister to High Tern (High Line), the second dam of Group 1 Oaks d’Italia winner Zomaradah (Deploy), who is the dam of Dubawi (Dubai Millennium). Therefore Space Blues is inbred to his sire’s family as the great Sunbittern features 5S x 4D in his pedigree and he also has two lines of Shirley Heights. Dubawi is the greatest stallion to ever stand in Britain as the sire of 219 individual stakes winners headed by 48 individual Group 1 winners out of 142 Group winners so far. The second wave of Dubawi stallions

After winning the Group 1 July Stakes on Starman, jockey Tom Marquand reported that the son of Dutch Art was “as close to a racecar as you can get”

at stud have served to enhance their sire’s reputation with Night Of Thunder, New Bay, Time Test and Zarak leading the way, and Ghaiyyath and Too Darn Hot, their superiors on the track, still to come. Crossing Europe’s two greatest stallions of the 21st century has proven to be as close as possible to a surefire hit with over 14 per cent stakes winners-to-runners, a galaxy of stars headed by the aforementioned Ghaiyyath and Night Of Thunder. Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Modern Games is out of a New Approach mare. As Space Blues is free of Sadler’s Wells blood he looks an ideal candidate for mares by Galileo and his sons. Dubawi also works exceptionally well with Monsun – the cross has 24 per cent stakes winners-to-runners – including the Group 1 winners Wild Illusion and her full-brother Yibir.

The Danehill line has contributed Creative Force, Kitesurf, Quorto, Nezwah and Akeed Mofeed to Dubawi’s tally of Group 1 winners, and with a pedigree free of Danzig in the first five generations, Space Blues has to count as an excellent option for mares from the various strands of the Danehill and Green Desert sire lines.

Starman

Dutch Art - Northern Star (Montjeu) Tally-Ho Stud €17,500 A star who shone brightly and burned fiercely, Starman is the sole new recruit for Tally-Ho Stud whose young sires have dominated the first and second-season stallion leagues over the last few years. With the ranks of the Tally-Ho broodmares, those of its clients, as well as mares belonging to his owner-breeder David Ward who invested this winter,

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‘WE ARE WHAT WE REPEATEDLY DO’ • 7% lifetime BTW to runners • 8 Group 1 winning 2YOs

‘GREATNESS THEN, IS NOT AN ACT, BUT A HABIT’ • 2021 2YOs include Gr.2 Rockfel Stakes winner Hello You • 2021 Tatts Book 1 yearlings averaged 218,000 Gns and made up 480,000 Gns

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new sires the son of Dutch Art will have all the opportunities possible to make a success of his second career. Unraced at two, Starman made a rapid ascent to the highest echelons of the sprinting division at three and four. Trained by Ed Walker for Ward, the son of Dutch Art moved quickly through the ranks at three winning a 6f maiden on debut in July before seamlessly progressing to a novice success and then a Listed win in the Garrowby Stakes at York. His only poor performance that year came in his fourth start, the Group 1 British Champions’ Sprint at Ascot, when he beat just two horses home on unsuitably soft ground. At four he was successful in the Group 2 Duke of York Stakes before tackling Group 1 company for the second time in the July Cup. On Newmarket’s lightning quick July course, Starman showed his speed – his impressive turn of foot gave him a comfortable win over Group 1 winners, including Oxted, Glen Shiel, Brando and Supremacy. Asked to stretch his stamina to an extra half furlong in the Prix Maurice de Gheest (G1) he only conceded defeat in the final 150yds when he was passed by Marianafoot and Tropbeau. In a thrilling climax to Haydock’s Sprint Cup (G1), Starman ran out of road and his effort to overhaul the winner Emaraaty Ana fell short by millimetres. Injury ruled him out of the British Champions Sprint and he was retired to Tally-Ho as the winner of five of his eight races, and placed in two more of them which were both Group 1 contests. Starman has an older half-sister by Kodiac named Sunday Star. She was BHA rated 101 and placed at Group 3 and Listed level over 6f and 7f. They are the only two runners out of Northern Star, who sadly died prematurely. The daughter of Montjeu was a winner over 1m2f at three and is a half-sister to the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby winner and the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby second King Guillermo (Uncle Mo). She is also a half-sister to Dorothy B, a daughter of Fastnet Rock, who was second in the Dick Poole Stakes (L). His second dam Slow Sand is by Dixieland Band and is a half-sister to the La Coupe (G3) winner Slow Pace and the

supplied Dutch Art with Listed winners, while the Green Desert line has been another source of success for the son of Medicean, with Cape Cross, Invincible Spirit and Oasis Dream mares also potentially suiting Starman.

Lucky Vega

Lucky Vega after taking the Phoenix Stakes (G1)

Grade 3 Pat Day Mile Stakes winner Funny Duck (Distorted Humor). They are out of the Listed winner Slow Down, a Seattle Slew three-parts sister to Grade 3 Native Diver Handicap winner and Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup second Olmodovar. Starman’s fourth dam Corrazzona, by El Gran Senor, won the Grade 1 Beverly Hills Handicap. Starman is the fourth Group 1 winner sired by the Group 1 Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes winner Dutch Art – the others are Prix de l’Abbaye winner Mabs Cross, Garswood, who won the Prix Maurice de Gheest, and the Diamond Jubilee and July Cup winner Slade Power. Garswood is out of a Kyllachy mare and Mabs Cross is out of a mare by Kyllachy’s brilliant sire Pivotal, while Dutch Art has the Group 3 winner Zonderland and Listed winners Perfection, Exhort, Eternally, Zarwaan and Miss Work Of Art out of Pivotal daughters so those sires are obvious avenues for breeders to explore with Starman. Danehill and Danehill Dancer mares have

Lope De Vega - Queen Of Carthage (Cape Cross) Irish National Stud €15,000 Lucky Vega has returned to the land of his birth as a shuttle sire after a successful first southern-hemisphere covering season at Yulong’s stallion farm in Victoria. An exciting juvenile and a top-class miler at three, Lucky Vega strengthens an Irish National Stud roster that already boasts a Group 1-winning son of Lope De Vega in Phoenix Of Spain whose first foals were well received in 2020. Bred by the famed Kilcarn Stud belonging to Pat O’Kelly, Lucky Vega was sold for €24,000 at the Goffs November Foal Sale to Tipper Stud. Offered then through Baroda Stud at the following year’s Goffs Orby Sale he made €175,000 bought by Yulong Investments and sent into training with Jessica Harrington. He won a 6f Naas maiden on debut and then finished second to the subsequent Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner Laws Of Indices in the Group 2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh, his first run in stakes company. On his third outing, Lucky Vega took on the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and defeated a field that included the Norfolk Stakes winner The Lir Jet and St Mark’s Basilica to gain his first Group race success. Luck deserted him on his next run in the Group 1 National Stakes and, in a messy race in which he was impeded at critical junctures, he ended up in fifth spot. His final start of the campaign was a half-length defeat by Supremacy in the Middle Park Stakes (G1). His three-year-old season began in the 2,000 Guineas and, racing beyond a mile for the first time, he demonstrated that he got the extra couple of furlongs when failing by a short head and a neck to win the first Classic of the year. He then finished fourth to Mac Swiney,

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new sires Poetic Flare and Van Gogh in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and, in what was to be his final race, was second in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) chasing home Poetic Flare once more. One of 13 individual Group 1 winners by Lope De Vega, he is bred on a cross with Cape Cross which has so far produced 43 per cent stakes winners-to-runners. Queen Of Carthage’s son is the best of three and his exploits have so impressed Zhang Yuesheng of Yulong that they purchased his Footstepsinthesand halfbrother for €630,000 at the Goffs Orby Sale, a record yearling price for the stallion. Yuesheng also went back for Queen Of Carthage’s filly foal from the first crop of Phoenix Of Spain at the Goffs November Foal Sale –at €195,000 she was the most expensive foal from her sire’s first crop. Lucky Vega’s dam Queen Of Carthage is an unraced Cape Cross close relation to the German Listed winner Important Time (Oasis Dream) and they are daughters of the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera and Prix Jean Romanet winner Satwa Queen. She is a Muhtathir half-sister to Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud winner and sire Spadoun. They are out of Tolga, an Irish River half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 1 fourth Flash Of Realm, and their dam Light Of Realm won the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs. Five of Lope De Vega’s 13 individual Group 1 winners are out of mares by Danehill and his sons. His European champion twoyear-old Belardo is out of a mare by Danehill, while the multiple Australian Group 1 winner Santa Ana Lane and the Group 1 Lightning Stakes winner Gytrash both have Fastnet Rock as their broodmare sire. Holy Roman Emperor is the dam-sire of Lope De Vega’s first Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Newspaperofrecord, while the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes winner Capla Temptress has Dansili as her broodmare sire. Belardo has clicked well with mares from the Danehill Dancer line, creating inbreeding to Danehill. His Group 3 Prix Miesque and Listed Redcar Two Year Old Trophy winner Lullaby Moon is out of a daughter of Indesatchel, and the Listed Criterium de Languedoc winner Belloccio has Mastercraftsman as his broodmare sire. Last season Lope De Vega added four

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Mares by Cape Cross’s sire Green Desert should also suit Victor Ludorum and complement his juvenile speed new Group winners by Sadler’s Wells line broodmare sires, including the Group/Grade 1-placed pair La Dragontea and Dreamloper. The Sadler’s Wells’s grandson Hurricane Run is the dam-sire of Lope De Vega’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf winner Aunt Pearl. Mares from the Galileo and Montjeu sire lines are therefore obvious choices to complement Lucky Vega.

Victor Ludorum

Shamardal - Antiquities (Kaldounevees) Haras du Logis €15,000 One of a trio of Group 1-winning juvenile colts by Shamardal in 2019, a parting gift from their brilliant and much-missed sire, Victor Ludorum boasts an extra ingredient – inbreeding to Helen Street. A Darley homebred, Victor Ludorum was unbeaten in three starts at two. He began his career in a Longchamp mile maiden in early September and added a Chantilly success over the same distance before he was handed the stiff task of the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère on just his third run. André Fabre knew that the colt was more than capable of handling the leap in class, and he proved his trainer correct winning by an easy threeparts of a length. His work done for the season, Victor Ludorum was next seen in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau the following May, his third place a stepping stone to a tilt at the Classics. He emulated his wonderful sire with success in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) but, unlike Shamardal and

Lope De Vega, he subsequently failed to add the Prix du Jockey Club (G1) to his CV when third to Mishriff and The Summit. Victor Ludorum took bronze behind those two rivals in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano and finished off the season down the field in the Prix du Moulin (G1). With Pinatubo and Earthlight retiring to stud for 2021 and Blue Point’s first foals expected that year, Darley had an embarrassment of Shamardal riches in their stallion ranks for the season so Victor Ludorum remained in training at four. He won the Group 3 Prix Messidor over a mile and was third to Baaeed in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin. He also finished third in the Group 2 Prix du Muguet to stable companion Duhail. The five-year-old is a half-brother to the ill-fated Irish Oaks third Mary Tudor (Dawn Approach) and they are two of four winners from five runners out of the Group 3 Prix Cleopatre second Antiquities, who is by Kaldounevees (Kaldoun). His second dam Historian is a Pennekamp half-sister to the Group 1 winner and champion sire Street Cry (Machiavellian) and his full-sister Helsinki, the dam of Shamardal, meaning that Victor Ludorum is line bred 3S x3D to the Irish Oaks winner Helen Street. He is also inbred 5S x 5D x 5D to Pettingo through his champion son Troy, the sire of Helen Street, and the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère-winning son Satingo, the damsire of Kaldounevees. Shamardal has done well with Sadler’s Wells daughters, granddaughters and indeed great-granddaughters – Earthlight, who is another member of that aforementioned trio, has New Approach as his dam-sire. Shamardal has also clicked very well with daughters of Cape Cross – Tarnawa, winner of three Group 1 contests including the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, and the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup winner Emaraaty Ana, are two of the nine winners from 14 runners bred on this cross. Mares by Cape Cross’s sire Green Desert should suit Victor Ludorum and complement his juvenile speed. Shamardal is out of a Machiavellian mare and close inbreeding to Machiavellian produced Lope De Vega.

new sires The 2019 Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Castle Lady is out of a mare by Elusive Quality, from the Gone West branch of Mr. Prospector, while Lope De Vega’s Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner Zabeel Prince has Unbridled’s Song as his dam-sire. Belardo’s Group 2 Rockfel Stakes winner Isabella Giles is out of a mare by Dubawi and the Group 3 Park Stakes winner Elysium’s broodmare sire comes from the Woodman branch of Mr. Prosector’s line; suggesting that inbreeding to differing strains of Mr. Prospector is an option for Victor Ludorum. As mentioned previously with Lucky Vega, both Shamardal and Lope De Vega have done well with both branches of the Danzig sire line and, as Victor Ludorum’s pedigree is free of Danzig, those lines should suit him too. The Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner Territories, sire of the 2021 Prix de l’Opera winner Rougir in his first crop, is a son of Invincible Spirit and from this family – his third dam Grecian Slipper is a Sadler’s Wells half-sister to Street Cry and Helsinki suggesting that Invincible Spirit mares could work with Victor Ludorum.

Supremacy

Mehmas - Triggers Broom (Arcano) Yeomanstown Stud €12,500 Supremacy is the first son of Mehmas, who has made a sensational start to his stallion career, to retire to stud and was the first Group 1 winner for his young stallion when he won the Middle Park Stakes. Trained by Clive Cox, Supremacy won three of his four starts at two and was the highest-rated colt of his generation in England. He began his career somewhat unpromisingly in a 6f maiden at Windsor in which he finished mid-division giving not the merest hint of what was to follow. He won his maiden on his second start, again over 6f at Windsor, and was upped in class for the Group 2 Richmond Stakes at Goodwood, a race whose previous winners included Mehmas. Supremacy was an impressive winner over Yazaman, who had been second to Tactical in both the July Stakes (G2) and the Windsor Castle Stakes (L).

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Supremacy made all the running and fought off the challenge of Lucky Vega in the Middle Park Stakes (G1) which earned him an official rating of 118 Supremacy’s best performance was the final one of his juvenile career – he made all and fought off the challenge of Lucky Vega in the Middle Park Stakes (G1), an effort which earned him an official rating of 118. Unfortunately his racing career never recaptured the sparkle of that first season. He raced three times at three but disappointed on each occasion. Bred by Kangyu Racing International, who also raced Cotai Glory, Supremacy is the third foal and winner out of Trigger’s Broom (Arcano). Her first was the winning Dandy Man gelding Triggered, who finished fourth in the Listed Prix Saraca at two. Triggers Broom is a half-sister to Xtension (Xaar), who twice won the Group 1 Champions’ Mile in Hong Kong, and to the Listed-placed A Huge Dream (Refuse To Bend). She is the dam of the Listed Lansdown and Polonia Stakes winner Mrs Gallagher (Oasis Dream). Another half-sister is Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux), the dam of European champion three-year-old sprinter Harry Angel by Dark Angel. The July Cup and Haydock Spring Cup winner’s first crop of runners will make their debut in 2022. His second dam Great Joy was second in the Listed Dusseldorfer Preis and is a Grand Lodge half-sister to the Listed October Stakes winner A La Carte and to Bally Souza (Alzao), the dam of Listed-winning twoyear-old and Group 1 National Stakes second Wathab (Cadeaux Genereux). The family under his fourth dam is a

successful North American one. Supremacy’s third dam Cheese Soup is a Spectacular Bid half-sister to the Grade 2 Seminole Handicap winner Minneapple (Riverman) and the Grade Las Flores Handicap winner Baroness Direct (Blushing Groom), who is the second dam of Grade 1 Donn Handicap winner and sire Steven Got Even and third dam of the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes and Ballerina Stakes winner Artemis Agrotera (Roman Ruler). Although Mehmas was retired at the end of his two-year-old season and Supremacy had his own difficult “second album”, Mehmas’s other top-level winner came in 2021 via his first crop daughter Going Global. Mehmas’s record from his first two crops is excellent and helped him to comprehensive victories in the race to be crowned champion first and second season sire. He has had 16 stakes winners from 204 runners, which gives him a good strike rate of 7.84 per cent. His first crop produced his two top-level winners so far and he is also the sire of four Group 2 winners, including successive Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winners – Minzaal, who was also third in the Middle Park (G1) and the British Champions’ Sprint (G1) and is out of a mare by Clodovil, and the dual Group 2 winner Lusail, who is out of a mare by Diamond Green. That first crop also produced Italian Premio Parioli (G2) winner Fayathaan (broodmare sire Elusive Quality), while his second crop includes the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf runner-up Malavath, who won the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte. She is out of a mare by New Approach. As can be seen, Mehmas’s top performers come from a variety of broodmare sires noted for their speed influences with the Danehill and Green Desert lines figuring quite prominently. Supremacy, himself, is out of a mare by Green Desert’s grandson Arcano, Invincible Spirit is the dam-sire of the Listed winner Mehmento, and his son Vale Of York is the broodmare sire of Listed winner and Group 1-placed Acklam Express. The Listed winner Magnanimous has Danehill Dancer as his broodmare sire as does the Listed and Grade 2-placed Tetragonal, while Mystery Smiles, third

new sires in three Group 3 races, is out of a mare by Danetime. Of the less speedily bred influences on Mehmas’s runners so far New Approach and Lope De Vega are the broodmare sires of Malavath and Gubbass respectively, which brings in breeding to Mr. Prospector. His Group 3 winners Beauty Inspire and Fayathaan are also inbred to Mr. Prospector through Gone West.

Japan

Galileo - Shastye (Danehill) Gestüt Etzean €11,000 The first of Shastye’s millionaire yearlings to retire to stud (he was quickly followed by his younger brother Mogul), the Group 1 winner Japan will begin his stallion career in the land of his ancestress Allegretta. Successful over 1m2f and 1m4f at the highest level and bred on the outstanding Galileo-Danehill cross that produced the 2021 champion sire Frankel, as well as Teofilo, who is the sire of more than 20 individual Group 1 winners, Japan has all of the credentials to become a successful stallion and help secure a strong future for the German bloodstock industry. Bred by Newsells Park Stud, Japan cost MV Magnier 1.3m guineas at the 2017 Tattersalls October Book 1 Sale. Japan got off the mark on his second start at two in a 7f Listowel maiden before he was sent into Group 2 company for the Beresford Stakes, a race that usually points to a bright future for its winner and Japan proved no exception. He followed the more traditional Derby route at three, starting his season in the Dante Stakes (G2) in which he was fourth to Telecaster and Too Darn Hot. Then came Epsom itself and he was part of a thrilling denouement to the 2019 blue riband event when a length covered the first five home. Anthony Van Dyck prevailed over Madhmoon with Japan in third, Broome fourth and Sir Dragonet was fifth. Next up for Japan was the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot and it was here that Japan first announced the extent of his talent with a powerful closing couple of furlongs, forging clear of the field

by four and a half lengths. That race set him up nicely for the Grand Prix de Paris which provided Japan with his first Group 1 success. He was dropped back in trip for the Juddmonte International (G1), which produced a thrilling race with Crystal Ocean tenaciously refusing to give way, despite conceding 7lb to his younger rival. Japan was headed but fought back in the shadow of the post to claim victory by a head, a success which would be Japan’s last for almost two years. His final start at three was in the Arc in which he finished fourth to Waldgeist, Enable and Sottsass but ahead of Magical, French King and Ghaiyyath. The 2020 season saw him earn podium placings in the Eclipse Stakes (G1) and the Group 1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth

Stakes, with a fourth place in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1) from five starts. Japan was kept in training at five and returned to winning ways with a defeat of Trueshan in the Group 3 Ormonde Stakes, which he followed up with third to Pyledriver in the Coronation Cup (G1). His final victory came in the Group 3 Meld Stakes over 1m1f at Leopardstown. On his travels he lost out by just a neck in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes at Saratoga. He ran three more times with fourth behind Yibir in the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) his best result and he finished his career behind Contrail in the Japan Cup (G1). His year-younger full-brother Mogul ensured successive Grand Prix de Paris victories for the family, and went on to win the Hong Kong Vase (G1).

Japan: ran 22 times, won seven races, was placed nine times and won over £2,000,000 in earnings

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new sires His older full-sister Secret Gesture won the Group 2 Middleton Stakes and was placed five times at the highest level including in the Oaks. He is also a full-brother to the Group 3 winner Sir Isaac Newtown and a half-brother to the Australian Listed winner and Group 3-placed Maurus (Medicean). His unraced Sadler’s Wells three-parts sister Shabyt is the dam of 2021 Listed winner Shandoz (Golden Horn) and the Listed placed Shaherezada (Dutch Art). Dam Shastye has produced sales of over 14m guineas for Newsells Park Stud with three of her yearlings selling for in excess of 3m guineas. On the track she finished second in the Listed Pontefract Castle Stakes and boasts an excellent pedigree. Her Linamix half-brother Sagamix won the Arc, while her Highest Honor halfbrother Sagacity was a Group 1 winner at two. She is also a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Sage Et Jolie (Linamix), dam of the Group 1 Prix d’Ispahan winner and sire Sageburg (Johannesburg). Her winning full-sister Saga D’Ouilly produced two Listed winners, and is the third dam of the Group 1 Middle Park and Prix Morny winner Perfect Power. Standing at Etzean, Japan could exploit the opportunities provided by access to German bloodlines and make the most of inbreeding opportunities to the differing strains of Allegretta from that of Urban Sea. Mares by the brilliant Adlerflug and daughters of Tertullian will allow for mixing of those genes, which have produced so many of the best horses of the last 25 years or so. Crossing Japan with daughters of Soldier Hollow would create 3x4 inbreeding to Sadler’s Wells, which is a little further back than crossing a son of Galileo with a daughter of Montjeu. That particular cross has produced Group 1 winners for both Frankel and Teofilo. Another avenue open to Japan will be the abundance of Monsun blood in Germany which sadly is confined mainly to NH breeding in Ireland and England. On the Flat the best example of the cross is the Group 1 winner Waldgeist, who is one of 13 winners from 19 runners bred that way.

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Lope Y Fernandez is one of 51 individual Group winners by Lope De Vega who does particularly well with Danehill line broodmare sires Lope Y Fernandez

Lope De Vega - Black Dahlia (Dansili) National Stud £8,500 A handsome horse as evidenced by his €900,000 price tag at the yearling sales, and a classy performer from two to four, Lope Y Fernandez represents the developing Shamardal sire line and is an affordable option for British-based breeders looking to access this bloodline. Successful in the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes at two, Lope Y Fernandez was precocious winning a 7f Curragh maiden on debut before tackling the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot in which he was second to that season’s champion two-yearold Pinatubo. There was no disgrace in finishing even further behind that horse in the Group 2 Vintage Stakes on his next start and then, when trying 6f for the first time, he won the Group 3 Round Tower before ending his season in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes. His seasonal reappearance at three was in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1) in which he was third to Siskin and Vatican City. Upped to 7f for the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat , he got much closer than he had previously to Pinatubo when second by just three-parts of a length. He ran well again on his return to Deauville for the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest when less than a length third to Space Blues and Hello Youmzain, but ahead of Group 1 winners Earthlight, Golden Horde and Wooded.

Tried twice more at 6f in the Sprint Cup and British Champions’ Sprint, both run on soft ground, he didn’t sparkle but was back to his best in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) when part of an Aidan O’Brien-trained 1-2-3 behind Order Of Australia and Circus Maximus. Kept in training at four he began his campaign with a Listed success over a mile at Leopardstown and his best performance came as runner-up to Palace Pier in the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot. Bred by SF Bloodstock, he is a younger full-brother to the Listed-placed filly Al Hayyah and a half-brother to the dual Group 2 winner Dark Vision (Dream Ahead). They are out of Black Dahlia (Dansili), a five-time winner and second in the Listed Ladybird Stakes. Her dam South Rock (Rock City) won the Listed Prix de Saint-Cyr and is a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes winner Majestic Dubawi. She is the dam of the 2020 Group 2 Rockfel Stakes and Group 3 Prestige Stakes winner Isabella Giles, a daughter of Belardo bred on a similar cross to Lope Y Fernandez. Lope Y Fernandez is one of 51 individual Group winners by Lope De Vega who does particularly well with Danehill line broodmare sires. Belardo, the dual Group 1 winner by Lope De Vega, is out of a mare by Danehill and this may be a good guide for Lope Y Fernandez. Two of Lope De Vega’s five stakes winners are out of mares by sons of Danehill Dancer so inbred to Danehill – they are the Group 3 Prix Miesque winner Lullaby Moon and the Listed winner Belloccio. Isabella Giles, the best performer from Belardo’s first crop, is out of a Dubawi mare which brings in an extra line of Mr. Prospector to add to the two strains of Machiavellian in Lope De Vega. His Group 3 Park Stakes winner Elysium has Hawk Wing as her damsire, again adding more Mr. Prospector.

A’Ali

Society Rock - Motion Lass (Motivator) Newsells Park Stud £7,500 The handsome son of the ill-fated Society Rock was slated to begin his stallion career

new sires at Meadow Farm Stud but, before he even covered a mare, Newsells Park Stud swooped in for him and he has joined Nathaniel and Without Parole on the Hertfordshire Stud’s roster. It has to be taken as a sign of the interest shown in A’Ali prior to commencing his stud career that one of the larger, independent stallion farms now stands the Group 2-winning sprinter. A breeze-up graduate, he broke his maiden in the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes, just his second start for trainer Simon Crisford. He followed that with success in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin and then finished fifth to Earthlight in the Group 1 Prix Morny. A’Ali returned to winning ways in the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and made his final start of his juvenile season in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Despite having the Derby winner Motivator as his broodmare sire, A’Ali was blessed with speed to burn and all of his

successes came over 5f to 5.5f, . At three he won the Group 3 Sprint Stakes at Sandown then took the Group 2 Sapphire Stakes at The Curragh on good to yielding ground. His best result at three was fourth to Battaash in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1), in which finished just over 3l behind the flying superstar. His final start came in the Group 2 Meydan Sprint in which he finished third to Equilateral and Acklam Express. Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, he is from the third and final full crop of Society Rock, a son of Rock Of Gibraltar who developed into a top-class sprinter winning the Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1) at four, the Haydock Sprint Cup (G1) at five, and was also placed in the Diamond/Golden Jubilee and the July Cup twice. A’Ali was sold to Star Bloodstock by Tally-Ho for £35,000 at the Goffs Premier Yearling Sale and made £135,000 to Stroud Coleman at the Goffs UK breeze-up sale.

A’Ali is one of two winners from three runners out of his dam Motion Lass, who is a half-sister to the Group 3 Darley Stakes winner Enforcer. The son of Efisio was also second in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and Group 1 Grosser Preis von Europa. Their Cape Cross half-brother Canaveral was second in the Listed Gleaming Stakes at Saratoga, which is run over a little more than 1m1f. His second dam Tarneem is a winning daughter of Zilzal and out of the dual Grade 3 winner and Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes third Willowy Mood by Will Win, a son of Raise A Native. The family is one that has produced black-type performers in North and South America. Society Rock died at the age of nine and was posthumously named Europe’s champion first-season sire. From just 199 runners he is the sire of six individual stakes winners headed by the Group 1 Prix Morny winner Unfortunately, who has his first

A’Ali: he is a son of the late Society Rock who was by Rock Of Gibraltar. One of his best was the former Newsells Park Stud sire Mount Nelson Photo courtesy of Newsells Park Stud

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new sires runners in 2022. Unfortunately is out of a mare by Komaite and Society Rock’s Listed St Hughes Stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed filly Shumookhi has Chineur as her broodmare sire so perhaps mares by stallions from the Nureyev line, such as Pivotal and his son Kyllachy, might prove suitable for A’Ali.

Alson

Areion - Assisi (Galileo) Gestüt Fährhof €6,000 A quick and precocious stallion for Germany and one who combines two of the country’s greatest bloodlines, Alson is an exciting prospect for breeders Gestüt Schlenderhan and for Gestüt Fahrhof, which stands the Group 1 winner. Successful over 6f on debut Alson then made his next two starts in France, finishing behind Earthlight and then winning on his first try over 7f. Returning to Germany for the Group 3 Preis Zukunftsrennen he was a commanding winner of the 7f contest. He was next seen at Longchamp for the Group 1 Prix JeanLuc Lagardère in which he was second, just three-quarters of a length behind Victor Ludorum. His margin of superiority over Armory, half a length behind him in third, increased significantly to 20l when they next met in the Group 1 Criterium International over 7f on heavy ground at Longchamp. At three he finished just under 2l behind Victor Ludorum in the Group 1 Poule Essai des Poulains, but ran far too keenly in the early stages of the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat on his next start. Dropped in class for the Listed Prix Matchem over 7f at Saint-Cloud, he returned to the winners’ enclosure and was then second in the Group 3 Prix Perth over a mile. Alson ran twice early in 2021, but injury forced his retirement to stud and a partnership between two of the most famous and successful farms in German racing and breeding. His Invincible Spirit half-brother Ancient Spirit won the Group 2 Mehl-MulhensRennen (the German 2,000 Guineas) and the Group 2 Oettingen-Rennen, as well as

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the Listed Celebration Stakes and Heritage Stakes in a career that lasted five seasons. The pair are out of Assisi, a winning Galileo half-sister to the Group 3 winner Amazona (Dubawi) and the Group 2-placed Ametrin (Tiger Hill). She is also closely related to Amazone by Adlerflug, who is the dam of Listed winner Apadanah (Holy Roman Emperor) and Listed-placed Ancona (Amaron). Alson’s second dam Amarette won the Preis der Diana (G1) and is a Monsun full-sister to the Prix du Jockey-Club third Arras. Amarette is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Anatola (Tiger Hill), dam of Melbourne Cup winner Almandin and the Group 2 Gerling-Preis winner Atempo, both of whom share their sire with Amarette. The third dam Avocette is by King’s Lake and is a Listed-winning half-sister to the Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen winner Aviso and the Listed winner Attilia (Tiger Hill). Attilia is the dam of Listed winner Ambria and the Group 3-placed Anjella, again both by Monsun. Alson’s sire Areion was a top sprinter Alson: Gestüt Fährhof’s son of Areion Photo courtesy of Gestüt Fährhof

in Germany and won the Group 2 Goldene Peitsche and two runnings of the Holsten Trophy (G3). He is the sire of 27 individual Group winners and 21 Listed winners, headed by Alson who is his only Group 1 winner to date. He is a son of Big Shuffle, who was a very good sprinter for Moyglare Stud, finishing runner-up to Soviet Star in the July Cup (G1), and went on to becoming a successful source of speed during his stud career. Big Shuffle is from the Bold Ruler sire line as a son of Super Concorde. Given his family’s affinity with Monsun, Alson is sure to attract his fair share of mares by the brilliant champion. Having a decent half-brother by Invincible Spirit makes him attractive for mares by Invincible Spirit and other Green Desert line stallions such as Cape Cross, Oasis Dream and their sons. As Galileo is his broodmare sire, the opportunity to create inbreeding to Allegretta through mares by Alderflug and Tertullian is one that should be exploited.

Nando Parrado

Kodiac - Chibola (Roy) Irish National Stud €6,000 The shock winner of the 2020 Coventry Stakes (G2), Nando Parrado is the latest son of Kodiac to retire to stud and his paternal half-brothers have most certainly played their part to enhance their sire’s reputation. Adaay, Ardad, Coulsty, Kodi Bear and Prince Of Lir have all sired stakes winners from their early crops, while Adaay and Ardad were leading British-based first-season sires in successive years. Kessaar will be the latest son of Kodiac to have runners this year, while Kodiac’s Group 1-winning sons Best Solution and Hello Youmzain welcome their first yearlings and foals in 2022 so the buzz around Kodiac’s legacy continues to be loud. Nando Parrado is the first son of Kodiac at the Irish National Stud, and he will stand alongside his sire’s half-brother, the Group 1 winner Invincible Spirit, who is the sire of 20 Group 1 winners. Bred by Anita Wigan, Nando Parrado was a good-looking foal and cost the McCartans of Ballyphilip Stud 165,000gns at the

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new sires Tattersalls December Foal Sale. He was bought back for 200,000gns as a yearling and sent into training with Clive Cox. His debut at Newmarket in early June was solid if unspectacular so he was sent off at 150-1 for the Coventry Stakes on his second start. He ran as if he were much shorter in the betting and was a comfortable winner of the influential Group 2 race. His next start proved there was nothing flukey about his Royal Ascot win when second to Campanelle in the Group 1 Prix Morny. He confirmed that he was a colt of substantial ability with his second Group 1 runner-up performance, this time in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère behind Sealiway, who went on to win the 2021 Champions Stakes at Ascot. He ran six times at three finishing fourth to Chindit in the Greenham Stakes (G2) and to Mostahdaf in the Listed Heron Stakes,a and was also fifth in the Hungerford Stakes (G2). The four-year-old has an interesting outcross pedigree of sorts on his female side as he is from a high-class South American family. His dam Chibola is by Roy, a son of Fappiano out of the Never Bend mare Adlibber, who proved to be one of the best stallions that has stood in Chile. Roy was a nine-time champion sire in Chile, as well as champion sire in Argentina and has been Chilean champion broodmare sire on eight occasions. Chibola was a Group 3 winner and Group 1-placed in her native Argentina and as a broodmare in Europe she has produced the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy third Dubai Horizon (Poet’s Voice) and the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes second Muntadab (Invincible Spirit). She is also the second dam of Papa Don’t Preach, also by Kodiac, who was placed in the Listed Prix Yacowlef. Her full-brother Chollo was a Group 1 winner at two and is a sire in Argentina. She is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Choisir (Thunder Gulch) and Channel Star. Chibola’s dam Choice is a half-sister to the Argentine Derby winner Cheyenne, to the dam of Group 1 winner El Charleta and to the dam of the Group 1-placed Checklist and Cheering so the family is one that produced black-type performers under each dam. Given the outcross nature of his pedigree,

Roseman is out of Go Lovely Rose, a Pivotal full-sister to the Group 1 winner Immortal Verse, who is the dam of 2021’s Cheveley Park Stakes winner Tenebrism Nando Parrado should have quite a variety of mares to suit him. Considering that Kodiac’s best performers have a fair dash of Machiavellian blood in their female families and Nando Parrado’s broodmare sire is a grandson of Mr. Prospector then mares by Shamardal, Lope De Vega, Raven’s Pass could all work with Nando Parrado. Pivotal mares may also be a good option for him and, given that his female line is free of Sadler’s Wells, then the chance to utilise the affinity of Danehill with Galileo and Sadler’s Wells should not be missed.

Roseman

Kingman - Go Lovely Rose (Pivotal) March Hare Stud £5,500 A beautifully-bred individual from a brilliant family and a first-crop son of Kingman and standing at a reasonable fee, Roseman is a member of the burgeoning stallion roster at March Hare Stud in Dorset. He was bred by Brendan and Annemarie Hayes’ Knocktoran Stud and hails from a pedigree the Hayes family has been strongly associated with for four decades. Roseman is out of Go Lovely Rose, a Pivotal full-sister to the Group 1 winner Immortal Verse, who is the dam of 2021’s Cheveley Park Stakes winner Tenebrism (Caravaggio). Sold by his breeders as a foal for

180,000gns, Roseman made €650,000 at the 2017 Goffs Orby Sale sold by Baroda Stud to trainer Roger Varian buying on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid. Roseman didn’t make the track as a juvenile, but was out at the start of the season as a three-year-old, finishing third on debut over a mile at Newbury. He was a maiden no more by the end of April and went on to finish second to King Of Comedy in the Listed Heron Stakes. Stepped up to 1m2f for the Hampton Court Stakes (G3) at Royal Ascot, he was fifth to Sangarius, who he had beaten at Sandown. He earned his first black-type win in the Listed Ben Marshall Stakes at Newmarket, defeating Century Dream and Group 1 winner Accidental Agent in the mile contest. At four he made his season debut in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) when fourth to Circus Maximus and Terrebellum and then was seventh to Persian King in the Prix d’Ispahan (G1). His final start came in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and was his best – he was just a head behind winner The Revenant and 3l ahead of Palace Pier. Roseman’s best performances came on soft or heavy ground, and he won his maiden on good to soft going, too. His pedigree is outstanding – Go Lovely Rose has produced the Group 1 Vertem Futurity third Baradar (Muhaarar) and Game Zone (Hurricane Run) who was second in the Group 3 Prix Minerve. Go Lovely Rose and the aforementioned Immortal Verse are out of Listed winner Side Of Paradise, a Sadler’s Wells full-sister to the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes winner Flowerdrum. Side Of Paradise is a half-sister to the leading sire and Group 1-winning sprinter Last Tycoon, the Group 2 winner and sire Astronef and the Group 3 winner The Perfect Life. Her Listed-placed half-sister Save Me The Waltz is the dam of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (G1) winner Valentine Waltz (Be My Guest) and the Grade 1 Matron Stakes winner Sense Of Style (Thunder Gulch). Another half-sister Tender Is Thenight produced another winner of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches in Tie Black (Machiavellian), while her half-sister Zelda (Caerleon) is the dam of the Group 2 winner

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new sires Alkumait: is the third son of Showcasing at stud, and breeders with mares by Pivotal and Inchinor should certainly consider him as an option

and Group 1-placed Zipping (Zafonic) and second dam of Group 1 winners by Galileo – Hydrangea, Hermosa and The United States. Kingman’s Group 1 winner Persian King and Group 3 winners Chachnak, Megallan, Parent’s Prayer and Cormorant are out of granddaughters of Danehill, which suggests that daughters and granddaughters of Danehill would work with Roseman. Galileo, Montjeu and Doyen are all broodmare sires of Group 2 winners by Kingman and bringing them in adds a third strain of Special to the two lines already in Roseman’s female line.

Alkumait

Showcasing - Suelita (Dutch Art) Castlefield Stud €5,000 The line-up of Capital Bloodstock stallions at Castlefield Stud now numbers three with the acquisition of top-class dual-purpose prospect Mirage Dancer,who will feature in our NH stallion edition, and the precocious juvenile Alkumait. Bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, who has built his sire Showcasing into a formidable force in British breeding, Alkumait is a good-

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looking horse as reflected in the prices he fetched at auction. He was the second-most expensive Showcasing foal sold at Tattersalls in December 2018 when making 150,000gns to West Moor Farm. Returned for resale at October Book 1, he was purchased for 220,000gns on behalf of Shadwell. This time, he was the most expensive offspring of his sire at the leading yearling sale. He returned to Whitsbury and the yard of Marcus Tregoning for his racing career making his debut in a 6f Newbury maiden in which he was fourth. Just 11 days later he won his maiden during the Goodwood Festival. His third start came in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes and the three-quarters of a length winning margin doesn’t illustrate the strength of his superiority over the field. Newmarket’s soft ground for the Dewhurst Stakes (G1) was completely against him and, never settling or travelling, he trailed home last of the 14 behind St Mark’s Basilica. His only start at three was in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes at Newbury in which he was seventh of 11 to Chindit. Alkumait is a half-brother to the Listed Committed Stakes winner and Listed Prix

Yacowlef third The Broghie Man (Cityscape) and the Listed Prix Herod third Gloves Lynch, who is a son of Mukhadram. He has a three-year-old full-sister named Get Ahead who won on debut at two for Clive Cox and was sixth in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes. The siblings are out of Suelita, the winner of four races over three seasons in Italy, and she is a Dutch Art half-sister to the Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes second Outer Space (Acclamation) and to the dam of Group 2 Lowther Stakes winner Living In The Past by Bungle Inthejungle. His second dam Venoge is an unraced Green Desert half-sister to the Pinnacle Stakes (G3) winner and Grade 1 E P Taylor Stakes third Moment In Time (Tiger Hill). Her Sadler’s Wells half-sister Fontley was second in the Fortune Stakes, the Pipalong Stakes and Sandown’s Distaff Stakes, all at Listed level. Alkumait’s third dam Horatia won the Grade 3 Matchmaker Stakes at Monmouth and is a Machiavellian half-sister to the Goodwood Cup (G2) and Lonsdale Cup (G2) winner Opinion Poll (Halling), who was also placed in the Ascot Gold Cup (G1) and the Prix Royal-Oak (G1). Showcasing is the sire of three individual

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Armor

No Nay Never - Hestia (High Chaparral) Haras de Bouquetot €5,000 The Group 3 Molecomb Stakes winner and Group 1 Middle Park Stakes third Armor begins his stallion career after just a single season on the track. That proved no barrier to success for Al Shaqab’s Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Mehmas, who has made a stunning start to his stallion career, so the Qatari operation will be hoping that Armor can capitalise on his juvenile success in a similar manner. Precocity and speed are the market

buzzwords and Armor has both of those qualities in abundance. Trained by Richard Hannon, he won a Doncaster 5f maiden on debut in April and then was fifth to Chipotle in a photo finish for the placings in the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes. He was an impressive winner of the Molecomb Stakes (G3) with Fearby in second and Chipotle back in sixth. Armor was just over 2l behind Perfect Power when fourth in the Group 1 Prix Morny and was only beaten a neck into second by Caturra in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2). He was much closer to Perfect Power in the Middle Park Stakes (G1) when less than a length behind in third and was ahead of Go Bears Go, Caturra and Twilight Jet. On what was to be his final start Armor was a little more than 2l behind Twilight Gleaming when eighth in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. Bred by C E Stedman, Armor cost €55,000 from Le Motteraye’s Consignment at the Arqana October Yearling Sale. He is the fourth foal out of the winning High Chaparral mare Hestia, who was also fourth in the Listed Prix Isola Bella. Her other winning offspring to date is the Pivotal filly Celestial Point, who was successful over

Soft Light: the son of Authorized is a half-brother to the Group 3 winner City Light

mile and 1m2f last season at three. Hestia is inbred to 3x3 to Darshaan, who is the broodmare sire of High Chaparral and the sire of Hestia’s own dam-sire Mark Of Esteem. Her dam Perruche Grise is a Mark Of Esteem half-sister to the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano and the Group 3 Prix Daphnis winner Pinson (Halling), who was also second in the Group 3 Joel Stakes. Armor’s third dam Tadorne was placed at Listed class and is an Inchinor half-sister to the Listed winner and Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère third Ximb (Septieme Ciel), and to three further Listed winners. She is also a half-sister to the dam of Solario and Craven Stakes (G3) winner and 2,000 Guineas (G1) third Native Khan (Azamour). Armor is one of 36 individual stakes winners by No Nay Never and the Group 1 Prix Morny winner has done well to date in his career with the Danzig line. His Group 1-winning daughter Alcohol Free is out of a daughter of Hard Spun, while his July Cup-winning son Ten Sovereigns has Exceed And Excel as his broodmare sire. No Nay Never also has black-type performers out of mares by Rock Of Gibraltar, Oratorio and Danehill Dancer. Armor’s pedigree is free of Danzig influences so mares from both the Danehill and Green Desert lines should be of interest.

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Soft Light

Authorized - Light Saber (Kendor) Haras de Colleville €5,000 One of two new sires standing in Europe this year by the Derby winner Authorized, and the Colleville team will be hoping that Soft Light can fill the void left by his sire’s transfer to Turkey. Soft Light is also a grandson of Kendor whose son Kendargent has propelled Guy Pariente’s farm and breeding establishment into the upper echelons of the industry. He is the second son of his winning dam Light Saber to earn a place at stud after her Group 3-winning son City Light (Siyouni) retired in 2020 to Haras d’Etreham. He was also second in the Prix de la Forêt and the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. With Authorized’s undoubted stamina influence, combined with the speedier angle

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new sires of his female line, Soft Light presents an interesting dual purpose option for many breeders. Bred by Jedburgh Stud and Madame I Corbani, Soft Light was a €40,000 yearling purchase by Paul Nataf at the 2017 Arqana October Yearling Sale. He was trained by Jean-Claude Rouget for Claudio Marzocco for the majority of his career and won his sole start at two over 1900m. As a three-year-old he ran seven times without success, but performed notably well in black-type company earning two second placings in Group 2 contests over 2400m and 2500m. Soft Light was just a neck second in the Prix d’Hocquart (G2) and half a length second to Ziyad in the Grand Prix de Deauville (G2). He was also second in the Listed Prix de l’Arve and ended the season by finishing sixth to Waldgeist in the Arc. His best run at four came once more in the Grand Prix de Deauville when second to the Dante winner Telecaster, beating Ziyad, Red Verdon and Subway Dancer. Soft Light returned to winning ways as a five-year-old in Bordeaux before winning the Listed Prix Dirickx at Craon in September. As well as City Light, he is a half-brother to the Scandinavian champion miler Busybeingfabulous (Soldier Of Fortune). Their dam is a half-sister to the dual Listed winner and Group 3-placed Athanor (Ashkalani) and to Largesse, who is the second dam of the Grade 2 Prix Jean Stern winner Santa Bamba and third dam of the triple Grade 1-winning jumper De Bon Coeur. Athanor and Light Saber are out of the Grade 1 Budweiser International Handicap and Group 2 Prix d’Astarte winner Leariva. She is an Irish River half-sister to the Group 1 Prix Royal-Oak third Alesso and the Group 2 Prix de Royailleu winner Lexa. Third dam Leandra (Luthier) won the Group 2 Prix de Malleret, the Group 3 Prix de la Nonette and was second in the Prix Vermeille. Soft Light is inbred 5D x 5D to Klairon and his sire Authorized has had six individual Group 1 winners. His best Flat runners have out of a mares by Anabaa, Quest For Fame, Dr Devious, Gone West, Cape Cross and Darshaan.

Mkfancy is one of 14 stakes winners in Europe by Makfi, who is now at stud in Japan Ubettabelieveit

Kodiac - Ladylishandra (Mujadil) Mickley Stud £5,000 Ubettabelieveit was bred to be quick as a son of Kodiac and a grandson of Mujadil, and the Group 2-winning juvenile he did not disappoint. Fourth in a 5f Doncaster maiden on debut at two, he was in the winners’ enclosure next time out over course and distance for trainer Nigel Tinkler. His third start came in the Listed National Stakes at Sandown and he was comfortably on top at the end of the 5f. His enthusiasm got the better of him on his next run in the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) when he ran with the choke out all the way and ended up tailed off. He settled beautifully in the Flying Childers Stakes (G2) and, even though he was conceding 3lb, emerged on top from Sacred and Measure Of Magic. He finished best of the Europeans in the Grade 2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, third behind the flying machine Golden Pal. In four starts at three he failed to show his old verve and finished down the field on all four occasions. A true 5f specialist at two, Ubettabelieveit offers precocity and speed to breeders and a Ringfort Stud female family that is a proven source of class. He is a half-brother to Tropical Paradise (Verglas), who won a pair of Group 3 contests at Goodwood and is a successful broodmare. His Moss Vale half-brother Harlem Shake won the Group 3 Premio Omenoni and three further Listed races in Italy, and Shenanigans, their Arcano half-sister, won the Listed Rothesay Stakes and finished third

in the Group 3 Princess Elizabeth Stakes and the Hoppings Stakes (G3). His dam Ladylishandra was a winner at two and is a Mujadil daughter of Melvana, who is a Red Sunset full-sister to the Group 3 Royal Whip Stakes winner Dancing Sunset. She is the dam of the Listed Round Tower Stakes winner Lady Of Kildare (Mujadil). Their half-sister Truly (Will Take Charge) was a stakes winner in North America and is the dam of multiple Listed winner Rebridled (Unbridled). His third dam Dance Partner by Graustark was third in the Grade 1 Sorority Stakes at Monmouth and is a full-sister to stakes winners Don’t Sulk and Jim French. Ubettabelieveit is inbred 4S x4D to the full-brothers His Majesty and Graustark. He is one of 36 individual Group winners by Kodiac from a total of 77 stakes winners and counting. Kodiac has a great record with Pivotal, Shamardal, Night Shift, Marju and and Cape Cross

Mkfancy

Makfi - Fancy Green (Muhtathir) Haras de Saint Arnoult €4,000 The Group 1 winner is a new recruit for the burgeoning Dubawi sire-line as a grandson of Darley’s kingpin and he will be a versatile sire for Larissa Kneip’s farm, as he is also grandson of the influential Muhtathir. Bred by Marbat LLC, he was trained by Pia Brandt as a two-year-old and made his debut over 1600m at Longchamp early in September. Mkfancy showed the benefit of that experience when winning a Saint-Cloud maiden over the same trip on his second start. On just his third start, he was entered for the Group 1 Criterium Saint-Cloud. He belied his inexperience to run out a decisive 3l winner over Arthur’s Kingdom with a further half-length back to Mythical in third. He was second in the 1800m Listed Prix Maurice Caillaut on his seasonal debut at three, a length behind Packing Waltham. That would be the best result from his four starts in France at three before he was transferred to Dubai for the start of his four-

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WELL BRED, TOUGH & CONSISTENT STAKES WINNER

GR.1 SIRE OF CHAMPION STAYER TRUESHAN

HIGH-CLASS STAYER BY MONTJEU

WON/PLACED IN 8 STAKES RACES

STAKES PRODUCER ON THE FLAT AND OVER HURDLES New dual Gr.1 winner Trueshan and new Gr.2 winner Road To Arc in 2021.

WON/PLACED IN 5 STAKES RACES

OUTSTANDING PEDIGREE Half-brother to 5 Stakes horses descending from the legendary Fall Aspen. “Bangkok has the ability, looks and temperament to be a top-class performer at stud. He has courage and a constitution second to none.” Andrew Balding, trainer

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HIGHEST EARNING SON OF DANEHILL DANCER Gr.1 winner and won/placed in 12 Stakes races.

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new sires year-old career where he ran three times without success. After that he returned to France and the third yard of his career for whom he had one start at Chantilly. Mkfancy is one of five Group 1 winners in Europe by Makfi, who is now at stud in Japan. His Poule d’Essai des Poulains and Prix de la Forêt-winning son Make Believe is the sire of five Group winners from his first three crops, headed by the multiple Group 1 winner Mishriff, who is out of Contradict (Raven’s Pass). Mkfancy is out of the winning Muhtathir mare Fancy Green and is a half-brother to the black-type hurdler Fancytastic (Mastercraftsman). His third dam Mountain Spirit is Royal Academy half-sister to two Group 1 heroines – the Prix Royal-Oak winner Mersey (Crystal Palace by Caro) and Muncie (Sadler’s Wells), who won the Prix Saint Alary. It is also the family of Hong Kong Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Gold Fun (Le Vie Dei Colori). Broodmare sire Mutathir was a top class miler and is the sire of the Group 1 winner Satwa Queen, the second dam of Lucky Vega. Makfi has a good record with mares by Sadler’s Wells and his sons.

Windstoss

Shirocco - Wellenspiel (Sternkoenig) Gestϋt Röttgen €4,000 The Deutsches Derby (G1) winner has a top class pedigree and was the first of successive German Derby winners out of the mare Wellenspiel. A four-time winner at two and three, Windstoss was a tough and battle-hardened campaigner with the longevity to race 29 times over six seasons, qualities that should be at the top of any breeder’s list when assessing a potential stallion. Trained by Markus Klug for his ownerbreeder Gestüt Röttgen, he won over a mile at Cologne as a two-year-old and then took the Listed Derby Trial in Dusseldorf on his first start at three. He was brought down in the Hannover’s Derby Trial but bounced back to finish second in the Group 3 Oppenheim Union-Rennen on his next run. Then came the Derby, where he was settled close to the rear by jockey Maxim

of the German 1,000 Guineas winner Well Proved (Prince Ippi). Windstoss is linebred 3x3 to Kongistuhl and is also inbred 5S x 5D x 5D to Tamerlane and 5S x 5D to Authi. He is one of the best by Shirocco who has a good record with mares by Unfuwain, In The Wings, and Montjeu.

Bangkok

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Bangkok: boasts a real stallion’s pedigree

Pecheur, who unleashed his mount with perfect timing to nab success in the shadow of the post. The son of Shirocco was then fourth behind Guignol, Iquitos and Colomano in the Grosser Preis von Baden (G1), his first time coming up against older horses. He dominated the field in the Group 1 Preis von Europa on his next start, coming home 4l to the good, and even at that he was eased down inside the final furlong. At four he travelled to Epsom for the Group 1 Coronation Stakes where he was third to Cracksman and he filled the same position behind Khan when he defended his Group 1 Preis von Europa crown. Windstoss ran just twice at five finishing third in both the Group 2 Gerling Preis and the Grosser Preis der Badener Wirtschaft. He ran seven times as a six-year-old and was placed in three Group 2 races. His year-younger half-brother Weltstar (Soldier Hollow) emulated Windstoss’s Derby success and they are the best two runners so far out of Wellenspiel, a Sternkoenig half-sister to another Europa Preis winner in Well Made (Mondrian). She is also a half-sister to the Listed winner Weichsel (Soldier Hollow), the Group 2-placed Whisperer (Spectrum) and the Group 3-placed Wellola (Lomitas), who is the dam of Group 3 winner Wasir (Rail Link). His second dam Well Known (Konigstuhl) won the Listed Schloss-Roland Stutenpreis and was second in the Preis der Diana (G2). She is a half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Psyche winner Welluna (Lagunas) and out

Australia - Tanaghum (Darshaan) Chapel Stud £3,000 The first son of Australia to retire to stud in Britain, Bangkok descends from the blue hen Fall Aspen and has an outstanding pedigree as well as all the necessary attributes required by a successful sire. Bred by David and Diane Nagle at Barronstown Stud, Bangkok was the joint second-most expensive yearling from the first crop of the dual Derby winner Australia when making 500,000gns to Alistair Donald buying on behalf of King Power Racing. Sent into training with Andrew Balding, Bangkok ran three times in just over a month at two finishing second in a 7f Newmarket maiden on debut. He won his maiden at Doncaster over 1m2f on his first start at three, defeating subsequent Dante Stakes (G2) winner Telecaster. On his next start, his first at stakes level, he won the Group 3 Classic Trial at Sandown beating another subsequent Group 1 winner, this time Technician who was also bred by the Nagles and went on to win the Prix Royal-Oak (G1). Considered a live chance in the Derby, Bangkok couldn’t handle the Epsom undulations and beat just Telecaster home. However, he showed his true colours to finish second behind Japan in the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes. Suiting trips around 1m2f, he was also a close second to Zaaki in the Group 3 Strensall Stakes at York, and that horse would go on to become a multiple Group 1 winner in Australia. Bangkok’s final start of his three-year-old season was a second placing the Qatar Derby. He started his four-year-old season winning the Listed Winter Derby Trial and was third in the Group 3 Winter Derby itself. Back on Turf for the Group 1 Prince of

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new sires Wales’s Stakes he finished fifth behind Lord North and seventh in the Eclipse Stakes (G1). He headed to the Middle East for the Bahrain International Trophy, returned to England for the Listed Quebec Stakes (second) and then tackled the Saudi Cup in before a repeat in the Winter Derby Trial. He was twice fourth in the Group 2 Huxley Stakes and in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes before gaining a deserved success in the Group 2 York Stakes. Bangkok has an outstanding stallion’s pedigree. He is a half-brother to the Dubai Group 1 winner Matterhorn (Raven’s Pass), the Group 3 winner Tactic (Sadler’s Wells) and the Listed winner Yaazy (Teofilo). He is also a half-brother to the Listed-placed Zahoo (Nayef), dam of the Group 3 winner Convergence (Cape Cross), and to Mujarah (Marju), the dam of European champion miler Ribchester (Iffraaj) . His Listed-placed dam Tanaghum is a Darshaan half-sister to the Group 2 winner Najah (Nashwan). They are out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Mehthaaf (Nureyev), who is a half-sister to the Group 1 July Cup winner, champion sprinter and sire Elnadim (Danzig) and to Only Seule (Lyphard), who is the dam of Group 1 winner Occupandiste (Kaldoun), herself the dam of Group 1 winner Mondialiste (Galileo) and second dam of Group 1 winner and sire Intello (Galileo). Bangkok’s third dam Elle Seule won the Group 2 Prix d’Astarte and is a daughter of Exclusive Native and Fall Aspen, second dam of Dubai Millennium (Seeking The Gold). Other stallions under the Grade 1-winning daughter of Pretense are Timber Country (Woodman), Fort Wood (Sadler’s Wells), Harbour Watch (Acclamation) and Charnwood Forest (Warning). Bangkok’s sire Australia had his best year to date in 2021 doubling his tally of Group 1 winners to four thanks to Broome, who is out of the Acclamation mare Sweepstake, and Mare Australis, who is out of the Rainbow Quest mare Miramare. This year, his son Point Lonsdale, a full-brother to Broome, could well add Group 1 success to his juvenile Group race wins. Australia’s highest-rated runner Order Of Australia is out of a Danehill mare, Sir Ron Priestley is out of a Danehill Dancer mare and Galileo Chrome is from a mare by Dansili.

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Laccario’s pedigree is free of Sadler’s Wells so he is an ideal cross for mares by the great stallion, his son Galileo, top-class son Montjeu, sons and grandsons Century Dream

Cape Cross - Salacia (Echo Of Light) Norton Grove Stud £3,000 The final son of Cape Cross to retire to stud, Century Dream is a half-brother to the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) winner and 2,000 Guineas runner-up King Of Change (Farhh). Century Dream ran 35 times over six seasons and only in one of those seasons did he fail to win. He ran three times at two winning his maiden over an extended mile. As a three-year-old, he ran seven times and won four races climbing up the ratings from 86 in April to 101 by the end of October. He started his four-year-old season in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt at Longchamp then won his first black-type in the Listed Paradise Stakes at Ascot, beating Accidental Agent. He took the step up to Group 3 class in the Diomed Stakes and then was a good fourth to Accidental Agent, Lord Glitters and Lightning Spear in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1). The Group 2 Summer Mile yielded the same result as did the Grade 1 Arlington Million and he finished the season with a close third to Roaring Lion and I Can Fly in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. He ran six times at five with second places in the Group 2 Zabeel Mile and Listed Ben Marshall Stakes. He was fourth in the Jebel Hatta (G1) and seventh behind his younger half-brother in the Queen Elizabeth II (G1). At six he won the Group 2 Celebration Mile, the Group 3 Diomed Stakes, and at seven the Listed Midsummer Stakes.

His dam Salacia (Echo Of Light) has produced four winners and is out of the Group 3 Prix Fille de l’Air winner Neptune’s Bride (Bering). Salacia is one of eight winners from nine runners from Neptune’s Bride and they include the Japanese Listedplaced Sea Chariot and the Meydan Listedplaced Submariner (Singspiel). Neptune’s Bride is a half-sister to the Group 2 winner Sea Dart (Diesis) and to the dam of Australian Listed winner Dubai Escapade (Dubai Destination). They are out of the Group 3 winner Wedding Of The Sea. Cape Cross is the sire of 14 Group 1 winners headed by Sea The Stars, the sire of 15 Group 1 winners including Baaeed.

Laccario

Scalo - Laccata (Lomitas) Haras d’Annebault €3,000 Laccario is a Classic winner who combines some of Germany’s best bloodlines – he is linebred 3x3 to Laurea, the dam of Lando, who is the sire of Scalo and granddam of Laccario himself. He is also linebred to the great Surumu 4x4 through Acatenango, the grandsire of Scalo and Lomitas, the broodmare sire of Laccario. Successful in the 2019 Deutsches Derby, he was unbeaten in the first four races at three culminating in the Classic triumph. He also won the Group 2 Union-Rennen and Dusseldorf’s Listed Derby Trial. In his first tests against his elders, he finished third in the Grosser Preis von Baden (G1) and second to Itobo in the Preis der Deutschen Einheit (G3). He ran three times in the US with a second in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1). Laccario’s sire Scalo won the Preis von Europa (G1) and his second third and fourth sires – Lando, Acatenango and Surumu – all won the Deutsches Derby. His dam Laccata is a daughter of the Lomitas and the Group 1 Preis der Diana third La Donna. She is a Shirley Heights half-sister to Lando and they are out of the Laurea, who is also the dam of Laroche who also won the Deutsches Derby. Laccario pedigree is free of Sadler’s Wells so he is an ideal cross for mares by the great stallion, his son Galileo, top-class son Montjeu, sons and grandsons.

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Planning ahead

The German stallion roster lost two of its best last year, but it continues to outperform opportunity, and the nation’s studs are committed to the future, writes Jocelyn de Moubray

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T WAS A YEAR of great achievement for German breeding – another winner of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe courtesy of Torquator Tasso, while a string of horses sold for high-prices in Britain and France. Yet the year also underlined the fragility of the whole enterprise. In 2021, Germany lost two of its best proven sires Adlerflug and Lord Of England, the former as only a 17-year-old and just as he was establishing himself as one of Torquator Tasso, a son of the late Adlerflug and bred in Germany by Paul Vandeberg, winning last autumn’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Europe’s very best sires. Soldier Hollow, now 22, is reaching the end of his stud career. It means Germany’s stallion capital will have to be rebuilt. This will have to be done with fewer mares available in the country and an annual foal crop which has now dipped below 800. At the beginning of the 21st century, at the time when Monsun was establishing his place among Europe’s top stallions, Germany was still producing 1,400 foals per annum. Today Germany produces around just five per cent of Europe’s annual production, and yet the country has bred three of the 19 winners of the Arc in the 21st century, Hurricane Run, Danedream and Torquator Tasso, while Waldgeist, winner in 2019, was bred in Britain by a partnership between Gestüt Ammerland and Newsells Park Stud from a daughter of Monsun with a German pedigree. In the last two seasons Adlerflug alone produced five of the top middle-distance three-year-olds in Europe – In Swoop, Torquator Tasso, Di Caprio, Mendocino and Alenquer, while Grocer Jack, Kaspar and Sisfahan also figured highly in the official ratings. German families and racehorses were also amongst the leaders in the sales ring in 2021. The Jacobs family’s sale of Newsells Park led to three daughters of Waldgeist’s dam Waldlerche being offered at auction. Her Dubawi yearling filly made 1,250,000gns at Tattersalls, while Waldlied, her Group 2-winning daughter fetched 2,200,000gns, and Waldgeist’s full-sister Wildfeder made €2,050,000. Wildfeder was one of the stars of a hugely successful Arqana December sale, but the other top lots also included three German-bred and owned fillies in Tickle Me Green, Tangut and Deia, who made €800,000, €640,000 and €600,000. It is hard to imagine there will be many German fillies offered at the Tattersalls December Sale next year after such strong results in Deauville. Grocer Jack, a German-bred and raced son of Oasis Dream, was one of the top lots at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale making 700,000gns.

Rebuild underway

The numbers may be small but there is clearly still plenty of quality among the German-bred horses. Over the last ten years three studs have dominated the German breeders’ table – Gestüt Etzean, the champion in 2021 having produced the Preis der Diana winner Palmas as well as the champion two-year-old Sea Bay, while Gestüt Röttgen and Gestüt Fährhof have won seven titles between them. These three studs are all standing a new Group 1-winning sire from a top family for 2022, showing commitment to the future of breeding in Germany. Alson is at Fährhof, Windstoss at Röttgen and Japan at Etzean. Bred and raced by Gestüt Schlenderhan, Alson is the best son of leading sire Areion and is out of the Galileo mare Assisi and so is a half-brother to international Group winner Ancient Spirit from one of his breeder’s best families. Alson’s second dam is the Preis der Diana winner Amarette and the family has also produced Aviso, a German 2,000 Guineas winner, as well as the Melbourne Cup winner Almandin. Areion, based at Gestüt Etzean, is the oldest active sire in Europe at 27 years old. The son of Big Shuffle started out as a cheap and little-used sire and his 18 crops of racing age include only a total of 500 foals. However, 81 of these are Group or stakes performers with 48 Group or stakes winners. It gives him 16 per cent black-type performers to foals and 9.6 per cent black-type winners to foals, third place amongst active European sires behind only Dubawi and Frankel. Alson was one of the best two-year-

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Windstoss: the dual Group 1 winner and multiple Group 1-placed son of Shirocco starts out at Gestüt Röttgen at a fee of €4,000

olds in Europe in 2019 when trained at Schlenderhan by Jean Pierre Carvalho with four wins and a second place from five starts. A winner on his debut over 6f in June he went on to win a conditions race at Clairefontaine, a Group 3 at Baden-Baden, and the Group 1 Criterium International at ParisLongchamp. He also finished second to Victor Ludorum in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère. At three, Alson was trained by André Fabre and finished third, again behind Victor Ludorum, in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, run during the COVID year at Deauville in June. He made five more starts for Fabre at three and four, but never returned to his best despite winning a Listed race and being Group placed. The best son of his excellent sire, Alson’s pedigree is a balance of speed and stamina.

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The best son of his excellent sire, Alson’s pedigree is a balance of speed and stamina Areion’s progeny’s average winning distance is 7.95f, despite being out of a Galileo mare who is herself out of a Monsun mare.

Röttgen gains new sire Windstoss The 2017 Deutsches Derby winner

Windstoss retires to Röttgen with a racing record of four wins and 11 places from 29 starts at two, three, four, five, six and seven. A promising winner over a mile at two, Windstoss was at his peak as a three-yearold when he won the Deutsches Derby and the Group 1 Europa Preis against older horses. He was rated 118 by the Racing Post, a mark which puts him among the best ten middle-distance three-year-olds in Europe. At four, he finished an excellent third to Cracksman in the Group 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom on very sticky ground. It was a severe test and Windstoss, like some of the others in the field, never quite came back to his very best afterwards. However, Windstoss’s enthusiasm and soundness was never in doubt and the son of Shirocco put up a remarkable sequence of 19 consecutive runs in Group races finishing in the first four 18 times over four seasons at

german sires three, four, five and six. Windstoss, Germany’s champion threeyear-old colt, is a half brother to the Derby winner and the champion three-year-old colt Weltstar, a son of Soldier Hollow, who stands at the Haras de Longechaux in France. His second dam Well Known was a champion two-year-old filly in Germany and also produced the Group 1 winner Well Made, while his third dam Well Proved won the German 1,000 Guineas and was also champion three-year-old filly. Northern Dancer appears only once in Windstoss’s pedigree and he has no Sadler’s Wells at all and so will be obvious cross for all of the mares by one of the successful sons of In The Wings to have stood in Germany. Röttgen bred two of Shirocco’s best Flat performers in Windstoss and the multiple Group winner Wild Coco, both are out of Sternkoenig mares, which gives inbreeding 3x3 to the German Triple Crown winner and Monsun’s sire Konigsstuhl.

Etzean has a long record of standing successful stallions and the stud made its name as a stallion farm with Dashing Blade Edward VII Stakes at three. He also finished third in the Derby and fourth in the Arc behind Waldgeist, Enable and Sottsass. Kept in training at four and five, Japan was never quite as good again but he did win two more Group races and was Group 1 placed in England and the US.

Japan heads to Etzean

Japan is a son of Galileo and the Danehill mare Shastye, and he retires to Etzean for a partnership between the stud, Fährhof and Coolmore in whose colours he initially raced after being bought as a yearling from Newsells Park for 1.7 million guineas. Japan is the best of four top-class siblings by Galileo that Shastye has produced to date, and she also has an unraced three-year-old filly Skylark in training with Aidan O’Brien. She was bought for 3.4 million guineas as a yearling. The other siblings are the Group 1 winner Mogul, Secret Gesture, who won the Grade 1 Beverly D Stakes but was stood down by the stewards, and the two-time Group 1-placed Sir Issac Newton. Shastye herself was a Listed winner and is a half-sister to the Arc winner Sagamix out of Sageneca, a Group 2 winner in France. Japan was the joint top-rated three-yearold in Europe in 2019 and had an almost faultless record at two and three winning five of his nine starts, including the Group 2 Beresford Stakes at two, and the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris and Juddmonte International (G1) and the Group 2 King

Etzean has a long record of standing successful stallions and the stud made its name as a stallion farm with Dashing Blade, who came from England to stand there in the 1990s. Since then Etzean has stood Dashing Blade’s best son Lord Of England, as well as Sholokhov and, for the last few years, Areion. The stud’s roster of sires for 2022 is completed by Amaron, a son of Shamardal whose oldest progeny were four-year-olds in 2021. Amaron has been well supported and, while he has not had a break-out horse as yet, his three-year-olds in 2021 included four winners of valuable sales races in Atze, New Wizard, Quality Time and Night Ocean. His 2021 two-year-old crop is headed by Eliano and Zack Halo, who both looked useful when breaking their maiden at Deauville and Chantilly respectively.

Soldier Hollow: progeny suit racing in France

Soldier Hollow is clearly the best stallion in Germany and one of the best in Europe – Gestüt Auenquelle’s son of In The Wings had Group winners in England, France and Germany in 2021 and currently lies fifth among active European sires by percentage black-type horses to foals, behind only Dubawi, Frankel, Areion and Sea The Stars. Photo courtesy of Tattersalls, by Laura Green

The German-bred Grocer Jack topped the Tattersalls Autumn HIT Sale when bought by Najd Stud for 700,000gns

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german sires His progeny has proven to be well suited to racing in France in recent years and with an average winning distance of 1m1f they tend to be at their best from 7f to 10f rather than 1m4f horses. He is, however, now 22 and now in the twilight of his stallion career. Other German-based sires to produce Group winners in 2021 include Isfahan at Gestüt Ohlerweiherof, Guiliani at Gestüt Erftmuhle and Rottgen’s pair, Reliable Man and Protectionist. Isfahan was the best son of Lord Of England and was a champion two-year-old colt in Germany and won the Derby beating the high-class Savoir Vivre and Dschingis Secret. His first crop were three-year-olds of 2021 and included seven winners from 28 runners headed by the Derby winner Sisfahan, who also gave Torquator Tasso a real race in the Grosser Preis von Baden. Isfahan may have a few quieter seasons with some smaller crops to come, but will be well supported in 2022 by all of the leading German studs. Guiliani is a Schlenderhan-bred by Terullian out of the Group 1 winner

Guadeloupe, who was a leading miler in Germany and a Group 1 winner over 1m2f as a four-year-old. His small first crop were three-year-olds in 2021 and included some useful winners, while his larger second crop is headed by the current ante-post favourite for the 2022 Deutsches Derby – Tunnes is a Groupwinning half-brother to Torquator Tasso. Protectionist, like Isfahan, had his first three-year-olds in 2021 and the son of Monsun produced nine winners from 23 runners, including the Group winners Lambo and Amazing Grace, who took two of the early Classic trials in impressive fashion. Neither quite went on to realise the promise they showed then, but this was clearly a promising start nevertheless. Protectionist’s second crop includes the Lyon winner No More Bolero, who is another prominent in the Derby betting for 2022. Reliable Man is an older sire and has had five crops of three-year-olds to race in Europe, as well as being a successful sire in New Zealand and Hong Kong. The son of Dalakhani’s biggest crop to date are three-year-olds of 2022 and his

68 foals of 2019 include the Group horses Ardakan and Ariolo, both prominent in the Derby betting, as well as some useful winners in France headed by the Chantilly winner Lerma. The German-based sires who have yet to have runners include Best Solution, the Group 1-winning son of Kodiac whose full-brother El Bodegon won the Group 1 Criterium de Saint Cloud in 2021. Both are out of Kingmambo mares, which is starting to look like a real positive for stallions following the success of others out of Kingmambo mares such as Camelot, Zelzal, Ulysses, Ruler Of The World and National Defense. Best Solution moves to Gestüt Lunzen after two years at Auenquelle. Gestüt Erftmuhle’s Waldpfad will stand his second year in 2022. The son of Shamardal comes from the same ‘W’ family as Waldgeist and was the winner of seven races. He was at his best as a sprinter at five when he won Group races at Hamburg and Newbury and finished third in the Group 1 Sprint Cup at Haydock.

Isfahan’s son Sisfahan, who is from the sire’s first crop of three-year-olds, after winning the Group 1 Deutsches Derby. The colt backed up that form with a second placing behind Torquator Tasso in the Grosser Preis von Baden

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Vive la France! Jocelyn de Moubray runs his eye over the leading French-based stallions, discusses the French prize-money increases for 2022, as well as the strong Arqana sales through 2021, clearly benefiting from the impact of Brexit

HE MODERN BLOODSTOCK BUSINESS revolves around stallions. The ability to cover up to 300 mares a year in each hemisphere produces an international market for their services that has given the best sires, or at least the most popular, a value which dwarfs the remainder of the business. Take the example of the Aga Khan Stud’s sire Zarak. He started 2021 covering at €12,000 and, despite his pedigree and Group 1 success, would have been only vaguely familiar to most bloodstock professionals outside France. A year later, after 18 of his first crop of two-year-olds had won a race, Zarak was suddenly valued by international investors at somewhere around €19 million! Two 1/50th shares in the son of Dubawi and Zarkava were sold by Arqana in November and December 2021 for €350,000 and €380,000. A spectacular appreciation and creation of wealth for shareholders in the horse.

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German and Irish vendors enjoyed huge success at Deauville in December, as well as at the earlier yearling sales, and their number is set to increase over the coming years

And, of course, the market values Siyouni and Wootton Bassett, two earlier French sire sensations, higher still.

Impact of Brexit and COVID to French racing and Arqana’s gain France’s racing and bloodstock business has been transformed by sires such as these, but at the same time there have been other positive developments outside the direct control of the bloodstock world. Few industry players fully appreciated the benefits of the European Single Market until Britain decided to withdraw from it. A year later all breeders with an international outlook have had to learn of the extra costs this decision has brought to those trading with Britain. Inevitably many in Ireland and Germany have switched some of their business from Britain to France and Ireland. German and Irish vendors enjoyed huge success in Deauville in December, as well as at the earlier yearling sales, and their number is set

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Rougir: sold by Sumbe to Oceanic Bloodstock at Arqana’s Vente D’Elevage Sale in December for a sale record of €3,000,000

Deauville’s Vente D’Élevage format over a weekend, and its timing after the Japan Cup, makes it attractive for many international clients to increase over the coming years. The same is true for mares travelling to be covered and for horses to race; it is cheaper and easier to travel within the Single Market than to make the effort to move outside it. At the same time, COVID has proven to be a catalyst for change at France Galop and the PUM. France Galop and the new president and CEO of the PMU announced at the end of 2021 that prize-money in France for 2022 would return to 2017 levels, which means 12 per cent or €30 million more than in 2021. At the same time a further €6 million will be paid in prize-money in January 2022, money which had been held over from 2021. The COVID years gave France Galop

and the PUM the opportunity to develop digital betting, invest in software and make economies in their own operations. The result is an extra €36 million to be distributed to racing professionals in 2022, a total of €278 million, plus the €6 million held over from 2021. The Tattersalls December Sale in Newmarket is still by a comfortable margin the most important breeding stock and foal sale in Europe, but Arqana and Deauville’s share continues to grow. Turnover at the Tattersalls, Goffs and Arqana breeding stock and foal sales was around €200 million in 2021, more or less the same as it had been in 2018. The Tattersalls share of this market has in recent

years remained constant at between 56-58 per cent, while over the last four years Arqana’s share has increased from 17 per cent in 2018 to 21 per cent in 2021. A rise in market share of four per cent of the total may appear to be insignificant, but as we have all learned some variables which increase slowly at first can accelerate and expand exponentially. Four per cent represents €8 million of business and it is easy to see this expanding over the coming years. Deauville’s Vente D’Elevage format over a weekend, and its timing after the Japan Cup, makes it attractive for many international clients.

Siyouni at the top in France

With Wootton Bassett now standing at Coolmore, the Aga Khan Stud’s Siyouni now stands alone at the peak of French stallions. The son of Pivotal finished fourth on 2021 European earnings behind only Frankel, Dubawi and Sea The Stars and yet his three-year-olds were produced from only a

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french bloodstock diagnosed with cancer in 2021 and although he will continue to cover in 2022 his days of covering large books of mares are probably over.

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Kendargent joins the Group 1 club

Goken: was given a fee rise to €15,000 for 2021 and covered 126 mares, his biggest book to date

€45,000 stud fee and so significantly less than those ranked above him. Some of the other elite sires have a better percentage of top horses to runners and foals – in 2021 Siyouni had 36 stakes horses (11 per cent of his runners) and 17 stakes winners (five per cent), and yet Siyouni keeps coming up with top horses and Classic winners. St Mark’s Basilica became his fourth French Classic winner and second Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) winner. As his progeny produced off higher fees have run their average winning distance has increased, but Siyouni is still a source of speed and precocity – the 23 two-year-old winners produced in 2021 puts him behind only Dabirsim (25) among French-based sires. Sumbe’s Le Havre is the next French sire by European earnings and his 19 stakes horses (nine per cent) and 11 stakes winners (five per cent) puts him close to Siyouni for strike rate. He is, of course, a different type of sire – his progeny’s average winning distance is 1m2f and he gets relatively few twoyear-old winners. The son of Noverre was

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Kendargent surely owes a lot of his own success to his outcross pedigree, and his daughters appear to be carrying this on to further generations as in percentage terms he is clearly among the best young broodmare sires in Europe

The next French sire on this listing is another veteran – the Haras de Colleville’s 19-yearold Kendargent, who got his first Group 1 winner in 2021 courtesy of the remarkable Skalleti, as well as a second Group 1 winner as a broodmare sire, the Deutsches Derby winner Sisfahan joining the multiple Group 1 winner Sealiway. Kendargent surely owes a lot of his own success to his outcross pedigree, and his daughters appear to be carrying this on to further generations as in percentage terms he is clearly among the best young broodmare sires in Europe. After Siyouni, Le Havre and Kendargent the remainder of the top ten French sires by European earnings in 2021 are Dabirsim, Galiway, Intello, Anodin, Toronado, Charm Spirit and Olympic Glory. Of these Colleville’s Galiway, a son of Galileo whose second crop were three-yearolds of 2021, is among the best in Europe for strike rate with eight stakes horses (18 per cent) and six stakes winners (13 per cent), including the Group 1 winner Sealiway. Galiway stood at only €3,000 for his first four seasons and will obviously continue to be well supported at €30,000 in 2022. Of the others, although Dabirsim has not fulfilled the early promise, he is an excellent sire on the All-Weather and produces plenty of two-year-old winners. Anodin has moved to Haras de Haie Neuve for 2022 and has a big crop of 80 two-yearolds to run for him in 2022 after some quiet years with few runners. Haras de Bouquetot’s Toronado and Olympic Glory both produce a lot of good quality performers and are probably underrated due to the expectations held for them at the outset.

Goken and Dariyan: secure at stud

Of the younger French sires, the two who retired in 2017 and look to have established permanent place at stud are Colleville’s Goken and the Aga Khan Stud’s Dariyan.

french bloodstock Goken may have a few quiet seasons ahead, he has only 23 two-year-olds in 2022, but the success of the son of Kendargent’s first crop has allowed him to attract plenty of support since and he covered 126 mares in 2021 at €15,000 after four seasons at €3,000. Goken’s first crop of 58 foals included 31 winners (53 per cent) behind only Mehmas, Dubawi and Lawman on the statistic, five stakes horses (10 per cent of his runners) and four stakes winners (eight per cent of runners). These four stakes winners – Axdavali, Miss Louna, O Trasno and Go Athletico – ran 60 times between them for 13 wins and 39 places. Dariyan’s first crop was in comparison ordinary, only 23 winners and three stakes performers from 62 foals, however, the son of Shamardal’s second crop looks to an altogether different proposition. He finished 2021 with nine two-year-old winners from only 15 starters and 29 named foals. The winners included the stakes winner Mister Saint Paul and several other very promising looking horses such as Elizar and Asgoodasobergets. Dariyan will struggle to recover from such a slow start but should still be given another chance in 2022.

Zarak’s four stakes horses included the Group 1 performers Times Square and Purpleplay, as well as the German stakes winners Parnac and Lizaid. His maiden winners are headed by Sabio Cen and La Parisienne, two of most impressive of the autumn. Almanzor’s progeny are not as precocious and Etreham’s champion son of Wootton Bassett ended 2021 with nine winners from 37 runners, but these included good winners in England, Ireland and the US as well as in France. Overall they showed enough to expect that they will be different propositions as three-year-olds in 2022. Bouquetot’s trio of Al Wukair, Zelzal and Ectot recorded 15, 11 and five winners respectively with Zelzal, a son of Sea The Stars out of a Kingmambo mare, making the biggest impression. Zelzal’s best-looking winners included three trained by JeanClaude Rouget – the Listed winner Zelda and the unbeaten pair of Caracal and Zestful. Rouget clearly has faith in both Almanzor and Zelzal as he signed for several yearlings by both of these sires he had trained himself. The Grey Gatsby had six two-year-old winners from 25 runners, including two decent horses in Germany – the Listed

winner Mylady and Atomic Blonde, as well as several French maiden winners.

New for 2022

The list of French sires who will have their first runners in 2022 is headed by Haras du Logis’ Cloth Of Stars, a son of Sea The Stars who has attracted sustained support from breeders and whose first yearlings sold for up to €280,000. Like Zelzal, Camelot, Ruler Of The World and Ulysses, Cloth Of Stars is out of a Kingmambo mare. The others from this generation include the Haras du Quesnay’s Group 1 winner Receletos, as well as the two by Scat Daddy, Seahenge and Seabhac. Etreham’s City Light, a son of Siyouni, has his first yearlings in 2022, while the same stud’s Hello Youmzain and Persian King will have their first foals together with Sumbe’s Golden Horde and Boquetot’s Wooded. New sires for 2022 are headed by another Logis sire in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner and champion two-year-old Victor Ludorum, who comes from the family of Street Cry, Shamardal and Territories, as well as Dansili’s best son Flintshire, now at Reboursiere after five years in Kentucky.

Cloth Of Stars: the Haras du Logis son of Sea The Stars has been well-supported by breeders

The group of 2018:- a talented bunch

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While the group of sires retiring to stud in France in 2017 included two long term prospects, those who followed in 2018 look to be a superior group. They are headed for the time being by the Aga Khan Stud’s Zarak, but also include Al Wukair, Zelzal and Ectot from Haras de Bouquetot, Amanzor from Haras d’Etreham and The Grey Gatsby from Petit Tellier. Zarak’s pedigree, he is by Dubawi out of the undefeated champion Zarkava, always brought him a degree of support, particularly from German breeders who appreciate such things more than many others, but it was not until October in 2021 that his potential became widely appreciated. Eighteen first-crop winners from only 36 runners is an impressive start for a Frenchbased sire; Siyouni was the last to make such a mark with 18 winners from his first crop of two-year-olds from 40 runners in 2014.

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THE FINAL LIST: SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2021 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 December 31, 2022 Data from Hyperion Promotions

Acclamation Accakaba (Medicean) Bjorn (Oasis Dream) Canonized (Dutch Art) Garrus (Medicean) Louliana (Showcasing) Oh This Is Us (Hawk Wing)

2L L L 3 L 3L

Arcano Cirano (Footstepsinthesand) Eulaila (Pounced) Archipenko Aleas (Invincible Spirit) Merveillo (Montjeu)

Adaay Have A Good Day (Black Minnaloushe) 3 Honey Sweet (Harbour Watch) L

Ardad Eve Lodge (Footstepsinthesand) Perfect Power (Frozen Power)

Adlerflug Alenquer (Areion) In Swoop (Tiger Hill) Loft (Dubawi) Mythico (Monsun) Quebueno (Areion) Ricla (Highest Honor) Torquator Tasso (Toylsome) Walkaway (Monsun)

23 23 L 2 L L 112 3

Areion Rubaiyat (Lomitas) Zavaro (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Ajaya Fourhometwo (King’s Best)

American Pharoah Willow (Danehill)

Anodin Narcos (Iffraaj)

Appel Au Maitre Suspicious Mind (Hernando)

L 2

L L

3 112

2L 3

Australia Arrival (Oasis Dream) L Bangkok (Darshaan) 2L Broome (Acclamation) 123L Epona Plays (Oratorio) 23 Fernando Vichi (Sir Percy) L Goolwa (Pivotal) L Mare Australis (Rainbow Quest) 1 Order Of Australia (Danehill) 2 Point Lonsdale (Acclamation) 23L Sir Ron Priestley (Danehill Dancer) 2 2 L Sugar Beat (Distorted Humor) L Authorized Euchen Glen (Kingmambo) Mighty Blue (Peintre Celebre) Soft Light (Kendor)

Awtaad Bellosa (Canford Cliffs) Calithea (Redoute’s Choice) Create Belief (Makfi) Prichi (Medaglia D’oro) Primo Bacio (Arcano) Bated Breath Agiato (Dubai Destination) Makaloun (Dalakhani) Sacred Bridge (Beat Hollow) Space Traveller (Galileo) Battle Of Marengo Bridge Battlango (Dubawi) Belardo Elysium (Hawk Wing) Blame Saiydabad (Oasis Dream) Blu Air Force Thunderman (Unbridled’s Song) Bobby’s Kitten Sandrine (Pivotal) Born To Sea Il Decamerone (Lucky Story)

3L L L

Brazen Beau Logo Hunter (Mujadil)

L L 3 L L

3L 3 3L L

Vadream (Shamardal) Windstormblack (Sakhee’s Secret) Bungle Inthejungle Winter Power (Titus Livius)

3 3

1LL

Buratino Snapraeterea (Alamshar)

Cable Bay Atalis Bay (Holy Roman Emperor) Collinsbay (Kyllachy) King’s Lynn (Kyllachy) Liberty Beach (Avonbridge)

L 3 LL 2

Camacho Mo Celita (Motivator) With Thanks (Kheleyf) Camelot Luxembourg (Danehill Dancer) Moll (Duke Of Marmalade) Nerium (Alkalde) Penja (Sunday Break) Sir Lucan (Oasis Dream) Yesyes (Dansili) Youth Spirit (Fastnet Rock)

L L

12 L 2 3 L L 3

Campanologist Victory Chime (Teofilo)

Canford Cliffs Jin Jin (Okawango)

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Hurricane Lane, one of five European Group 1 winners in 2021 for Frankel, collecting his Irish Derby win and in the process beating Lone Eagle

Cape Cross Century Dream (Echo Of Light) Passion And Glory (Street Cry) Walton Street (Encosta De Lago)

L 3 2L

Caravaggio Agartha (Dylan Thomas) Dizzy Bizu (Kodiac) Tenebrism (Pivotal)

23 LL 1

Center Divider Wishformore (Hernando) Champs Elysees Elisa Again (Shirocco) La Lune (Pivotal) Madame Tantzy (Xaar) Charm Spirit Fantastic Spirit (Fantastic Light) Kick On (Marju) Lord Charming (Authorized)

Vadeni (Monsun) Clodovil Duca Di Como (Elusive Quality) Majestic Colt (Dubawi) Cotai Glory Atomic Force (Dansili) Purciaretta (Dubawi)

LL 33

23 L

L 3L L

Dandy Man Dandalla (Elnadim) L Happy Romance (Marju) 3L Hastalavistababy (Exceed And Excel) L Lollipop Girl (Xaar) L Mooneista (Intikhab) 2L The Highway Rat (Whipper) 3

L LL L

Dansili Acanella (Oasis Dream) Diadora (Tertullian) Dubai Warrior (Galileo)

Choisir Qaysar (Titus Livius)

Dariyan Mister Saint Paul (Elusive City)

Churchill Ladies Church (Rio De La Plata) Snaffles (Singspiel)

L L

Dark Angel Althiqa (Shamardal) Angel Bleu (Galileo)

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3 L L

2 112

Art Power (Keltos) Ateem (Montjeu) Berkshire Shadow (Oasis Dream) Came From The Dark (Fasliyev) Exalted Angel (Camacho) Final Song (Rahy) Indie Angel (Sir Percy) Khaadem (Footstepsinthesand) Mangoustine (Zamindar) Musetta (Elusive Quality) Real World (Dubawi) Sky Angel (Whipper) Sonaiyla (More Than Ready) Top Rank (Authorized) Wings Of War (Kodiac)

3 L 2 3 L 3 2 L 3L L 23L L 3 L 2

Dawn Approach Georgeville (Dansili) Lunar Space (Danehill) Poetic Flare (Rock Of Gibraltar)

L L 11L

Declaration Of War Caprice Des Dieux (Dansili) Match Maker (Zafonic) Nazanin (Act One) Deep Impact Harajuku (Galileo) Katara (New Approach)

L 3L 3

3 L

Snowfall (Galileo)

1113

Distorted Humor Ebaiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Dream Ahead Dream Of Dreams (Dansili)

Dubawi Al Suhail (Shirocco) Albahr (Street Cry) Ambition (New Approach) Benbatl (Selkirk) Concert Hall (Galileo) Coroebus (Teofilo) Creative Flair (Shamardal) Creative Force (Choisir) D’bai (Green Desert) Declaring Love (Dalakhani) Dilawar (Azamour) Dubai Future (Street Cry) Glorious Journey (Dansili) Goldspur (Arch) Highland Avenue (Shamardal) Kemari (Pivotal) Lazuli (Fasliyev) Lord North (Giant’s Causeway) Maamora (Azamour) Maria Amalia (Kheleyf)

2 L 3 2 3 3 L 13L 2 L 3 L 23 3 L 2 3 1 L L

the master list Sa Filonzana (Tamayuz) Elusive City King David (Montjeu) National Service (Allied Forces)

L L

Elzaam Limiti Di Greccio (Galileo) Wren’s Breath (Shamardal)

L L

Dunkerque Coachello (Rock Of Gibraltar) Dutch Art Starman (Montjeu) Stormbringer (Royal Applause) E Dubai Saltarin Dubai (Fitzcarraldo) El Kabeir Don Chicco (Oasis Dream) Masekela (Doyen)

12 L

2L L

L L

Fed Biz Zenden (Sharp Humor)

First Defence Tilsit (Dansili)

3 L

Flatter Mouheeb (Eltish) Panadol (Dixieland Band)

Equal Stripes For The Top (Bernstein)

Flintshire Cheshire Academy (Sunday Break)

L 2L 23

Footstepsinthesand Marianafoot (Anabaa) Mums Tipple (Xaar)

133L L

Exosphere Ocean (Compton Place)

Frankel Adayar (Dubawi) Alpinista (Hernando) Big Five (Sinndar) Dreamflight (Dansili) Hurricane Lane (Shirocco) Inspiral (Selkirk) Integrant (Monsun) John Leeper (Intikhab) Juan Elcano (Daylami) Light Refrain (Elusive Quality) Majestic Glory (Dansili) Master Of Reality (Darshaan) Mehnah (Shamardal) Mohaafeth (Sea The Stars) Mostahdaf (Dubawi) Outbox (Street Cry) Petricor (Dansili) Rumi (Cape Cross) Sibila Spain (Darshaan) Snow Lantern (Red Clubs) Triple Time (Mark Of Esteem) Vesela (Zafonic)

Falco Dima (Sinndar)

Free Eagle Dancing King (Big Shuffle)

Fast Company Light Infantry (Kyllachy) Safe Voyage (Mujadil) Symphony Perfect (Rip Van Winkle)

3 L L

French Navy Layfayette (Holy Roman Emperor) Opasan (Groom Dancer)

L L

Frozen Power Frozen Juke (Tiger Hill)

Estidhkaar Belcarra (Lomitas)

3 L 2 3 3 L L 3 2 LL 12 3 L L 23

Fenelon (Galileo) Joie De Soir (Galileo)

Empire Maker Mnasek (Yankee Gentleman)

Equiano Apollo One (Tobougg) Equilateral (Oasis Dream) Gustavus Weston (Cape Cross)

Master Of The Seas (Danehill) Maydanny (Efisio) Military Law (Desert Prince) Modern Games (New Approach) My Oberon (Sea The Stars) Nash Nasha (Lawman) Naval Crown (Dansili) Philomene (Dansili) Rebel’s Romance (Street Cry) Soft Whisper (Sea The Stars) Space Blues (Noverre) Thunder Drum (Galileo) Valloria (Peintre Celebre) Ya Hayati (Street Sense) Yibir (Monsun)

Exceed And Excel Attimo Fuggente (Mastercraftsman) 2 3 L Chil Chil (Diktat) 3 Choux (Pivotal) L Double Or Bubble (Dalakhani) L Great Ambassador (Montjeu) L Libre (Teofilo) L Sacred (Blame) 23 Secret Ambition (Singspiel) 23 Vincere Insieme (Teofilo) L Excelebration Lord Bay (Selkirk) Ottoman Emperor (Tertullian) Queenship (Galileo) The Conqueror (Noverre)

Fastnet Rock Atzeco (Monsun)

L 3 L LLL

11 1112L L 3 1112 12L L L L 3L 3 L L 3L 3LL L L 23 L 1 L L

Gale Force Ten Galtee Mist (Spectrum)

Galileo Amhran Na Bhfiann (Green Desert) 2 Armory (Danehill Dancer) 2 Bolshoi Ballet (Anabaa) 33 Emperor Of The Sun (Redoute’s Choice) L Empress Josephine (Danehill Dancer) 1 Forbearance (Fastnet Rock) 3L Free Wind (Duke Of Marmalade) 23 Friendly (Danehill) L Interpretation (Dansili) L Japan (Danehill) 33 Joan Of Arc (Storm Cat) 13 Lancaster House (Oasis Dream) 3 Lone Eagle (Duke Of Marmalade) L Love (Pivotal) 1 Magical Lagoon (Lagunas) 3 Nayef Road (Danehill Dancer) L Roberto Escobarr (Dansili) L Search For A Song (Danehill) 3 Galileo Gold Ebro River (Balmont) Oscula (Big Bad Bob) System (Royal Applause)

1L 3 L

Galiway Esope (Poliglote) Galik (Kendargent) Gregolimo (Kendargent) Kenway (Kendargent) Sealiway (Kendargent) Vauban (Hurricane Run)

3 L L L 1 L

Ghostzapper Mystic Guide (A P Indy)

Gleneagles Baby Rider (Oasis Dream) Insinuendo (Danehill Dancer) Jumbly (Selkirk) Lajoscha (Torrential) Loving Dream (Danehill Dancer) Novemba (Dubai Destination) Seisai (Danehill Dancer) Some Respect (Oratorio) Tabera (Oratorio) Too Soon To Panic (Oratorio) Velocidad (Dansili) Goken Miss Louna (Redback)

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the master list O Trasno (Green Tune)

Golden Horn Ad Infinitum (Hawk Wing) Golden Pass (Raven’s Pass) Quenelle D’or (Nayef) Shandoz (Sadler’s Wells) Sun Of Gold (King’s Best)

L L L L L

Goldencents Nocentsinkentucky (Mr Greeley) Gris De Gris Padron (Anabaa) Guiliani Tunnes (Toylsome)

LL L L

Iffraaj Fast Raaj (Raven’s Pass) Forest Of Dean (Royal Applause) Judicial (Marju) Kitty Marion (Kyllachy) Land Of Legends (Singspiel) Only The Brave (Hernando) Reshabar (Tamayuz) Intello Adhamo (Invincible Spirit) Anasia (Shamardal) Bubble Smart (Grand Lodge) Dawn Intello (Giant’s Causeway) Djo Francais (Polish Precedent)

Into Mischief Man Of Promise (Speightstown)

Kiss The Kid Extravagant Kid (With Distinction)

Kizuna Deep Bond (King Halo)

Invincible Spirit Babylone (Galileo) Blown By Wind (Street Cry) Egot (Street Cry) Hello You (Pivotal) Ideal Beauty (Elusive Quality) Loch Lein (Maria’s Mon) Pearls Galore (Pivotal)

2 3 3LL 2 3 L 33

Havana Gold Chipotle (Makfi) Fearby (One Cool Cat) Havana Red (Bering)

Hot Streak A Case Of You (Key Of Luck) Royal Ashirah (King’s Best)

Wirko (Mount Nelson)

Isfahan Sisfahan (Kendargent)

3 L 1L LL

Highland Reel Atamisque (Pounced)

Kodi Bear Diablotine (Septieme Ciel) Go Bears Go (Giant’s Causeway) Measure Of Magic (Titus Livius) Mystery Angel (Dark Angel)

L 2 LL L

Kodiac American Bridge (Dutch Art) Bear Story (Galileo) Campanelle (Namid) Cloudy Dawn (Pivotal) El Bodegon (Kingmambo) Fast Attack (Lope De Vega) Geocentric (Indian Ridge) Glounthaune (Nayef) Island Of Love (Shamardal) Loveisthehigherlaw (Shantou) Medahim (Noverre) Straight Answer (Mizzen Mast) Wild Majesty (Forest Wildcat)

3 3 1 3 13 3 L 3 L L L L L

Harbour Watch Baron Samedi (Haafhd) Brunch (Makfi) Pyledriver (Le Havre) Tis Marvellous (Oasis Dream)

Helmet Cantocorale (Street Cry)

Waldbiene (Observatory)

3LL

13 LL

Ivawood Hurricane Ivor (Royal Applause)

Jukebox Jury Daring Light (Areion) Memphis (Lomitas) Noa Lea (Makfi) Samoa (Lord Of England)

L L L L

Juniper Tree Ascot Brass (Definite Article) Kallisto Aff Un Zo (Platini) Marlar (Fath) Kendargent Skalleti (Muhaymin) Skazino (Muhaymin) Tokyo Gold (Dalakhani) Kheleyf Keyflower (Lope De Vega)

3 3 L 3 2 3L L

3 LL 3 3 L

33L L

11223 223 2

L L 23 L L L 3L 3L 22

Kingman Kinross (Selkirk) 23 Masen (Smart Strike) L Megallan (Champs Elysees) 3L Moqtarreb (Dalakhani) L Noble Truth (Frankel) L Oriental Mystique (Archipenko) L Palace Pier (Nayef) 1112 Parent’s Prayer (Exceed And Excel) 3 Reina Madre (Falbrav) 3 Save A Forest (Galileo) L Summer Romance (Statue Of Liberty) 2 Waldkonig (Monsun) 3

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Le Havre Brokeback Mountain (Trempolino) Darzan (Arch) Glycon (Singspiel) Jupyra (Galileo) Karlarina (Speedmaster) Solsticia (Galileo) Ville De Grace (Arch) Waliyak (Sea The Stars) Wonderful Tonight (Montjeu) Lemon Drop Kid Red Verdon (Choisir) Sherbet Lemon (Danehill Dancer) Lope De Vega Berneuil (Dansili) Cadillac (Dansili) Dreamloper (Teofilo) Duhail (Singspiel) Duke De Sessa (Cape Cross) Ecrivain (Danehill Dancer) El Drama (Peintre Celebre) General De Vega (Grand Slam) Lope Y Fernandez (Dansili)

L L

3 3 3 2 3 3 L LL L

New Science (Galileo) Parchemin (Teofilo) Rodaballo (Singspiel) Summerghand (Xaar) Sweet Lady (Dansili)

L L 2 3L 3L

Lord Of England Palmas (Surumu) Queen Rouge (Dubawi) Stex (Law Society)

1L L L

Make Believe Believe In Love (Kahyasi) Mishriff (Raven’s Pass) Noticeable Grace (Olden Times)

3 11 3L

Makfi Chilly Filly (Rock Of Gibraltar) Jo Pickett (Duke Of Marmalade)

L L

Manduro Iresine (Oasis Dream) Square De Luynes (Dashing Blade)

3L 33

Markaz Corazon (Kodiac)

Mastercraftsman Discoveries (Rahy) Lilac Road (Shamardal) Tribal Craft (Galileo)

1 L 3

Maxios Cirona (Titus Livius) Liberty London (Medicean)

3 33L

Mayson Laugh A Minute (Dansili) Oxted (Choisir) Rohaan (Acclamation)

L 1 23

Medaglia D’Oro Magny Cours (A P Indy) New Trails (Mr Prospector) Pennybaker (Tapit)

3L L L

Mehmas Beauty Inspire (Zamindar) Caturra (Sleeping Indian) Fayathaan (Elusive Quality) Keeper Of Time (Mustanfar) Line Of Departure (Pivotal) Lusail (Diamond Green) Magnanimous (Danehill Dancer)

3 2L 3 3 L 22 L

the master list Malavath (New Approach) Mehmento (Invincible Spirit) Power Under Me (Arakan) Mingun Stormy Ocean (Inchrory) Motivator Hamish (Sakhee) Lady Day (Fuisse) Monty (Anabaa) Mount Nelson Dato (Grand Slam) Mshawish Bellharbour Music (Blame) Muhaarar Albaflora (Galileo) Ataared (Dansili) Auria (Diktat) Eshaada (Nayef) Mujahid Tiaspettofuori (Dashing Blade) Myboycharlie My Fancy (Muhtathir) Nathaniel Bubble Gift (Grand Lodge) Lady Bowthorpe (Verglas) Nationalista (Amadeus Wolf) National Defense Twilight Gleaming (Dansili) New Approach Bel Aristo (Tiger Hill) Mac Swiney (Teofilo) Silent Escape (Pivotal) New Bay Bay Bridge (Multiplex) Bayside Boy (Anabaa) Saffron Beach (Raven’s Pass) Sea Bay (Lord Of England) Night Of Thunder Garden Paradise (Halling) Highfield Princess (Danehill) Keep Busy (Danetime) Night Tornado (Sea The Stars)

2 L L

Rumbles Of Thunder (Halling) Sopran Basilea (King’s Best) Suesa (Orpen) Thunder Kiss (Teofilo) Thundering Nights (Cape Cross)

LL 23L 233 3L 1

3 L LL

L L L 1L

22 12 L

L 1 L

L 2 13 3

L L L L

No Nay Never Alcohol Free (Hard Spun) 113 Armor (High Chaparral) 3 Horoscope (Timber Country) L Nymphadora (Pivotal) L Royal Commando (Acclamation) L Singforthemoment (Cadeaux Genereux) L Visualisation (Sadler’s Wells) L Zain Claudette (Speightstown) 23 Noble Mission Spanish Mission (Street Cry) Novellist Praetorius (Sicyos)

3L L 3L L 33 112 L

Olympic Glory Grand Glory (Daylami) Jannah Flower (Motivator)

13 L

Paco Boy Paco (Leroidesanimaux)

Planteur Plantstepsdream (Footstepsinthesand) L Road To Arc (Exit To Nowhere) 2 Trueshan (General Holme) 112 Poet’s Voice Lyrical (Mizzen Mast)

Power Helvic Dream (Danehill Dancer) 1 Laws Of Indices (Exceed And Excel) 1 Sonnyboyliston (Dylan Thomas) 1L Wakanaka (Kodiac) 3 Pride Of Dubai Dubai Honour (Montjeu) Just Beautiful (Makfi)

22 3L

Profitable Head Mistress (Street Cry) Mr Professor (Alhaarth) Quick Suzy (Marju)

L L 2

Protectionist Amazing Grace (Danehill Dancer) Lambo (Rock Of Gibraltar)

2 3

Raven’s Pass Romantic Proposal (Diktat)

Red Jazz Jazz Explosion (Candy Ride)

Red Rocks Light Of Darkness (Danehill)

Pedro The Great Angelinka (Giant’s Causeway)

Penny’s Picnic Best Sixteen (Take Risks) Pradaro (Zilzal)

L 2

Pioneerof The Nile Irish Freedom (Smart Strike)

Pivotal Earlswood (Galileo) Kaspar (Sternkoenig)

3 L L

Oasis Dream Al Tariq (Harlan’s Holiday) Azano (Hurricane Run) Erasmo (Efisio) Fambrus (Montjeu) Grocer Jack (Doyen) Native Trail (Observatory) Vertiginous (Indian Ridge)

Oxbow Tuz (Pulpit)

Last Empire (Komaite) Solene Lilyette (Dalakhani) Varkesha (Sea The Stars)

33 2

Reliable Man Adrian (Desert Style) Ardakan (Sternkoenig) Naida (Banyumanik) Ribchester Flaming Rib (Excelebration) Rio De La Plata Fort Payne (Meshaheer) Moderator (Danehill Dancer) Tahlie (Lahint) Rip Van Winkle

3L 3 L

L L 2L

Rip Van Lips (Areion)

Rock Of Gibraltar Haparanda (Daylami) Rocky Sky (Elusive City) Sharoka (Areion)

L L L

Roderic O’Connor Ornais (Henrythenavigator)

Ruler Of The World La Petite Coco (Konigstiger) Northern Ruler (Monsun)

23 3

Sakhee’s Secret Rose Secret (Celtic Swing)

Samysilver Queen Rouge (Dutch Art)

Sans Frontieres Jason The Militant (Desert King)

Saonois La Parence (Kaldounevees)

Sea The Moon Mercedes (Adlerflug) Moon A Lisa (Sadler’s Wells) Noble Music (Sholokhov) Padovana (Blame) Pretty Tiger (Zamindar) Sagamiyra (Rock Of Gibraltar)

L L L L 2L 3L

Sea The Stars Adhafera (Lemon Drop Kid) L Al Aasy (Shamardal) 33 Alpen Rose (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 Baaeed (Kingmambo) 113L Baptism (Holy Roman Emperor) 3 Bharani Star (Dubawi) L Burgarita (Alzao) L Hukum (Kingmambo) 333L Lavender’s Blue (Danehill Dancer) 2 L Light Stars (Monsun) L Manobo (Nayef) 2L Raabihah (Kingmambo) 2 Reach For The Moon (Sadler’s Wells) 3 Sea La Rosa (Hernando) L Sea Of Sands (Peintre Celebre) 3 Sheraz (Dalakhani) L Star Safari (Muhtathir) 3 Stradivarius (Bering) 223 Teona (Authorized) 1L

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L 2

Sepoy Salute The Soldier (Street Cry)

Shalaa King Shalaa (Turtle Bowl) No Speak Alexander (Dandy Man) Shamardal Algiers (Platini) Canvassed (Dansili) Emaraaty Ana (Cape Cross) Fleur D’iris (Redattore) Global Giant (Dalakhani) Good Effort (Distorted Humor) Queen Power (Unbridled’s Song) Romantic Song (Street Cry) Solid Stone (Arch) Sublimis (Samum) Tarnawa (Cape Cross) Victor Ludorum (Kaldounevees) Zakouski (Octagonal) Showcasing Asymmetric (Hellvelyn) Panama Red (Lawman) Urgent Appeal (King’s Best) Sidestep Real Appeal (Green Desert) Silver Frost Palus Argenteus (American Post) Sir Percy Kawida (Archipenko) Sir Prancealot Haven Park (Tiz Wonderful) Siyouni Acer Alley (Lemon Drop Kid) Lights On (Inchinor) Meu Amor (Oasis Dream) Mise En Scene (Galileo) Orendina (Kendor) Policy Of Truth (Selkirk) Reve De Vol (Dubawi) Seachange (Sadler’s Wells) She Do (Lawman) Shine For You (Sir Percy) St Mark’s Basilica (Galileo)

Tertius (Shamardal) Txope (Acclamation) Wally (Motivator) Who Knows (Poliglote) Slade Power Master Matt (Exceed And Excel)

L 13

L 3 1 3 L L 2 L 33L L 3 3 2L

2 L L

3 L L 3 L 3 L 2L L L 1111

Soldier Hollow Alaskasonne (Sternkoenig) Auenfurst (Waky Nao) Axana (Sleeping Indian) Deia (Platini) Dibujaba (Areion) Es La Vida (Manduro) Flamingo Girl (Silver Hawk) Marshmallow (Pivotal) Reine D’amour (Big Shuffle) Rosacea (Zamindar) Russian Souffle (Laroche) Sahib’s Joy (Monsun) Sconset (Monsun) Speightstown Midnight Sands (Shamardal) My Generation (Maria’s Mon) Switzerland (Indian Charlie) Starspangledbanner Aristia (Kalanisi) Castle Star (Iffraaj) Flotus (Invincible Spirit) Hermana Estrella (Lord Shanakill) Stormy Atlantic Stormy Antarctic (Doyen)

L L 233L 3

L L 3L L LL L 3 3L 3L 3 L L 3L

3 L 3

L 3L L 3

Stormy River Stormy Pouss (Green Desert)

Street Cry Volcanic Sky (Diktat) Zainhom (Storm Cat)

3 L

Tai Chi Mansour (Tillerman) Tamayuz Zeyaadah (Act One) Teofilo Afterglow (King’s Best) Brasilian Man (Oasis Dream) Dubai Fountain (Dubawi)

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Scope (Efisio) Subjectivist (Danehill Dancer) Twilight Payment (Oasis Dream) Without A Fight (Dubawi)

1L 12 3 L

Territories Rougir (Elusive City)

The Grey Gatsby Mylady (Dabirsim)

The Gurkha Best Of Lips (Silver Frost) Invite (Peintre Celebre)

23 L

The Wow Signal Coeursamba (Anabaa)

Thewayyouare The Way Of Bonnie (Efisio)

Time Test Rocchigiani (El Corredor) Romantic Time (Sir Percy) Tardis (Equiano) The King’s Horses (Kheleyf) Toronado Amazonie (Medicean) Bois D’argent (Daylami) Illykato (Acclamation) Mouillage (Cape Cross) Tactical (Makfi) Toro Strike (Smart Strike) Twilight Son Aria Importante (Orpen) Baghed (Exchange Rate) Little O’kelly (Pastoral Pursuits) Twilight Jet (Exceed And Excel) Twilight Spinner (Diktat) Victory Gallop Call To Victory (Mountain Cat)

3 3 L L

L L L L L 3

3LLL L L 3 L

L L L

War Command Artistic Rifles (Elusive Quality) Flag’s Up (High Chaparral) War Front Ancient Rome (Sadler’s Wells) Whipper Lord Glitters (Homme De Loi)

Win River Win Zafer Atesi (Pharly)

Wings Of Eagles Blue Wings (Invincible Spirit)

Wootton Bassett Amilcar (King’s Best) L Atomic Jones (Turtle Bowl) 2 Attagirl (Pastoral Pursuits) L Chindit (Oasis Dream) 3 Ilaraab (Soviet Star) 3 Incarville (Azamour) 1 Royal Patronage (Dalakhani) 23 Speak Of The Devil (Indian Rocket) L L L Texas (Dream Ahead) L Topgear (Giant’s Causeway) 3 Victoria Placa (Daylami) L Zellie (Nathaniel) 1L Youmzain Control Tower (Monsun)

Zanzibari Coeur De Pierre (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Zarak Lizaid (Wiener Walzer) Parnac (Sageburg)

3 L

Zebedee Lord Riddiford (Barathea) Pogo (Diktat)

L L

Zelzal Zelda (Orpen)

Zoffany Astadash (Galileo) Brigante Sabino (Galileo) Camorra (Muhtathir) Foxes Tales (Galileo) Lismore (Whipper) Maker Of Kings (Galileo) Mother Earth (Green Desert) Pensiero D’amore (King’s Best) Perseverants (Distorted Humor)

3 LL 3 3 3 33 11 L L1

3 LL 3

IN OUR NEXT ISSUE Our unique bloodstock analysis of the Longines World Racehorse Rankings

affordability

Mayson

Twilight Son

11 sprinters rated 100+ by Timeform, including Gr.1 King’s Stand Stakes winner OXTED and Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes winner ROHAAN.

5 Stakes winners amongst 8 Stakes horses, viz: TWILIGHT JET (Gr.3; also Gr.2 placed x 2); ARIA IMPORTANTE (Gr.3 x 2; LR x 3), BAGHED, TWILIGHT SPINNER and LITTLE O’KELLY.

THE UK’S LEADING SIRE OF SPRINTERS IN 2021

A LEADING EUROPEAN 2ND CROP STAKES SIRE IN 2021

Leading Sires of Sprinters in Europe 2021 (3yo and up, 5f-6.5f, by earnings) Sire

Rnrs

1 Dandy Man

Leading 2nd Crop Sires in Europe 2021 (by races won in Europe)

BT Wnrs BT w/r

Earnings

Sire

Wins

BT Wnrs

BT horses

142

3.52%

£1,191,588

1 Mehmas

145

2 MAYSON

3.41%

£1,132,172

2 TWILIGHT SON

3 Dark Angel

116

4.31%

£1,056,341

3 Territories

4 Dream Ahead 5 Kodiac

1.67%

£962,851

4 New Bay

168

1.19%

£937,685

5 The Gurkha

Statistics courtesy of Arion Pedigrees and www.stallionguide.com

OXTED, a dual Gr.1 winner, including the 2021 King’s Stand Stakes.

TWILIGHT JET, a Gr.3 winning 2yo who was also Gr.2 placed twice.

2021 yearlings made

135,000gns, 120,000gns, etc.

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

Fee: £7,000 (1st Oct. SLF)

Cheveley Park Stud

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the master list: dam-sires A P Indy Magny Cours (Medaglia D’oro) Mystic Guide (Ghostzapper)

3L 1

Acclamation Broome (Australia) 123L Illykato (Toronado) L Point Lonsdale (Australia) 23L Rohaan (Mayson) 23 Royal Commando (No Nay Never) L Txope (Siyouni) L Act One Nazanin (Declaration Of War) Zeyaadah (Tamayuz) Adlerflug Mercedes (Sea The Moon) Alamshar Snapraeterea (Buratino) Alhaarth Mr Professor (Profitable) Alkalde Nerium (Camelot)

3 3

Arch Darzan (Le Havre) Goldspur (Dubawi) Solid Stone (Shamardal) Ville De Grace (Le Havre) Archipenko Kawida (Sir Percy) Oriental Mystique (Kingman) Areion Alenquer (Adlerflug) Daring Light (Jukebox Jury) Dibujaba (Soldier Hollow) Quebueno (Adlerflug) Rip Van Lips (Rip Van Winkle) Sharoka (Rock Of Gibraltar)

Authorized Lord Charming (Charm Spirit) Teona (Sea The Stars) Top Rank (Dark Angel)

3 1 L

Alzao Burgarita (Sea The Stars)

Balmont Ebro River (Galileo Gold)

Banyumanik Naida (Reliable Man)

Barathea Lord Riddiford (Zebedee)

Anabaa Bayside Boy (New Bay) 2 Bolshoi Ballet (Galileo) 33 Coeursamba (The Wow Signal) 1 Marianafoot (Footstepsinthesand) 1 3 3 L Monty (Motivator) LL Padron (Gris De Gris) L

Beat Hollow Sacred Bridge (Bated Breath) Bering Havana Red (Havana Gold) Stradivarius (Sea The Stars) Bernstein For The Top (Equal Stripes)

Arcano Primo Bacio (Awtaad)

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L 1L L

Arakan Power Under Me (Mehmas)

23 L LL L 2 L

Avonbridge Liberty Beach (Cable Bay)

Allied Forces National Service (Elusive City)

American Post Palus Argenteus (Silver Frost)

L L

Azamour Dilawar (Dubawi) Incarville (Wootton Bassett) Maamora (Dubawi)

Amadeus Wolf Nationalista (Nathaniel)

L 3 33L 3L

Big Bad Bob Oscula (Galileo Gold) Big Shuffle

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Dancing King (Free Eagle) Reine D’amour (Soldier Hollow)

3 3L

Black Minnaloushe Have A Good Day (Adaay)

Blame Bellharbour Music (Mshawish) Padovana (Sea The Moon) Sacred (Exceed And Excel)

3 L 23

Cadeaux Genereux Singforthemoment (No Nay Never)

Camacho Exalted Angel (Dark Angel)

Candy Ride Jazz Explosion (Red Jazz)

Canford Cliffs Bellosa (Awtaad)

Cape Cross Duke De Sessa (Lope De Vega) 3 Emaraaty Ana (Shamardal) 1 Gustavus Weston (Equiano) 23 Mouillage (Toronado) L Rumi (Frankel) 23 Tarnawa (Shamardal) 3 Thundering Nights (Night Of Thunder) 1 Celtic Swing Rose Secret (Sakhee’s Secret)

Champs Elysees Megallan (Kingman)

Choisir Creative Force (Dubawi) Oxted (Mayson) Red Verdon (Lemon Drop Kid)

13L 1 L

Compton Place Ocean (Exosphere)

Dabirsim Mylady (The Grey Gatsby)

Dalakhani Declaring Love (Dubawi) Double Or Bubble (Exceed And Excel) Global Giant (Shamardal) Makaloun (Bated Breath)

L L L 3

Moqtarreb (Kingman) L Royal Patronage (Wootton Bassett) 2 3 Sheraz (Sea The Stars) L Solene Lilyette (Pivotal) L Tokyo Gold (Kendargent) 2 Dandy Man No Speak Alexander (Shalaa)

Danehill Friendly (Galileo) L Highfield Princess (Night Of Thunder) L Japan (Galileo) 33 Light Of Darkness (Red Rocks) 3 Lunar Space (Dawn Approach) L Master Of The Seas (Dubawi) 3 Order Of Australia (Australia) 2 Search For A Song (Galileo) 3 Willow (American Pharoah) L Danehill Dancer Amazing Grace (Protectionist) 2 Armory (Galileo) 2 Ecrivain (Lope De Vega) 3 Empress Josephine (Galileo) 1 Helvic Dream (Power) 1 Insinuendo (Gleneagles) 23 Lavender’s Blue (Sea The Stars) 2L Loving Dream (Gleneagles) 12 Luxembourg (Camelot) 12 Magnanimous (Mehmas) L Moderator (Rio De La Plata) L Nayef Road (Galileo) L Seisai (Gleneagles) L Sherbet Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid) L Sir Ron Priestley (Australia) 22L Subjectivist (Teofilo) 12 Danetime Keep Busy (Night Of Thunder)

Dansili Ataared (Muhaarar) L Atomic Force (Cotai Glory) 23 Berneuil (Lope De Vega) 3 Cadillac (Lope De Vega) 3 Canvassed (Shamardal) 3 Caprice Des Dieux (Declaration Of War) L Dream Of Dreams (Dream Ahead) 1 L Dreamflight (Frankel) 3 Georgeville (Dawn Approach) L Glorious Journey (Dubawi) 23 Interpretation (Galileo) L Laugh A Minute (Mayson) L

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The damsire list

THE FINAL LIST: DAMSIRES OF STAKES WINNERS IN EUROPE AND UAE IN 2021 Horses are listed under their damsire with the respective mare sire in brackets. Includes Group (1,2,3) and Listed (L) wins in Europe and UAE up to and including Decebmer 31, 2021 Data from Hyperion Promotions

Lope Y Fernandez (Lope De Vega) L Majestic Glory (Frankel) 3 Naval Crown (Dubawi) L Petricor (Frankel) L Philomene (Dubawi) 3 Roberto Escobarr (Galileo) L Sweet Lady (Lope De Vega) 3L Tilsit (First Defence) 2 Twilight Gleaming (National Defense) L Valia (Sea The Stars) 2 Velocidad (Gleneagles) 2 Yesyes (Camelot) L Dark Angel Mystery Angel (Kodi Bear) Darshaan Bangkok (Australia) Master Of Reality (Frankel) Sibila Spain (Frankel) Dashing Blade Square De Luynes (Manduro) Tiaspettofuori (Mujahid) Daylami Bois D’argent (Toronado) Grand Glory (Olympic Glory) Haparanda (Rock Of Gibraltar) Juan Elcano (Frankel) Victoria Placa (Wootton Bassett) Definite Article Ascot Brass (Juniper Tree) Desert King Jason The Militant (Sans Frontieres)

2L L L

33 L

L 13 L L L

Desert Prince Military Law (Dubawi)

Desert Style Adrian (Reliable Man)

Diamond Green Lusail (Mehmas)

Diktat Auria (Muhaarar) Chil Chil (Exceed And Excel) Pogo (Zebedee) Romantic Proposal (Raven’s Pass) Twilight Spinner (Twilight Son) Volcanic Sky (Street Cry)

L 3 L 1L L 3

Distorted Humor Good Effort (Shamardal) Perseverants (Zoffany) Sugar Beat (Australia)

Dixieland Band Panadol (Flatter) Doyen Grocer Jack (Oasis Dream) Masekela (El Kabeir) Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic) Dream Ahead Texas (Wootton Bassett)

L L L

Duke Of Marmalade Free Wind (Galileo) Jo Pickett (Makfi) Lone Eagle (Galileo) Moll (Camelot) Dutch Art American Bridge (Kodiac) Canonized (Acclamation) Queen Rouge (Samysilver)

23 L L L

3 L L

El Corredor Rocchigiani (Time Test)

Elnadim Dandalla (Dandy Man)

Eltish Mouheeb (Flatter)

Elusive City Mister Saint Paul (Dariyan) Rocky Sky (Rock Of Gibraltar) Rougir (Territories)

L L 1

Elusive Quality Artistic Rifles (War Command) Duca Di Como (Clodovil) Fayathaan (Mehmas) Ideal Beauty (Invincible Spirit) Light Refrain (Frankel) Musetta (Dark Angel)

3 LL 3 3 3L L

Encosta De Lago Walton Street (Cape Cross)

33 L L

L Dubai Destination Agiato (Bated Breath) Novemba (Gleneagles)

Dubawi Adayar (Frankel) 11 Bharani Star (Sea The Stars) L Bridge Battlango (Battle Of Marengo) L Dubai Fountain (Teofilo) L Loft (Adlerflug) L Majestic Colt (Clodovil) 33 Mostahdaf (Frankel) 3LL Purciaretta (Cotai Glory) L Queen Rouge (Lord Of England) L Real World (Dark Angel) 23L Reve De Vol (Siyouni) L Without A Fight (Teofilo) L

3L 2

Dylan Thomas Agartha (Caravaggio) Sonnyboyliston (Power) Echo Of Light Century Dream (Cape Cross)

23 1L

Efisio Erasmo (Oasis Dream) 3L Maydanny (Dubawi) L Scope (Teofilo) 1L The Way Of Bonnie (Thewayyouare) L

Equiano Tardis (Time Test)

Exceed And Excel Hastalavistababy (Dandy Man) Laws Of Indices (Power) Master Matt (Slade Power) Parent’s Prayer (Kingman) Twilight Jet (Twilight Son)

L 1 L 3 3

Excelebration Flaming Rib (Ribchester)

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3 3

3L 3

Fitzcarraldo Saltarin Dubai (E Dubai)

Footstepsinthesand Cirano (Arcano) Eve Lodge (Ardad) Khaadem (Dark Angel) Plantstepsdream (Planteur)

L 3 L L

Forest Wildcat Wild Majesty (Kodiac)

Frankel Noble Truth (Kingman) Frozen Power Perfect Power (Ardad) Fuisse Lady Day (Motivator) Galileo Albaflora (Muhaarar) Angel Bleu (Dark Angel) Astadash (Zoffany) Babylone (Invincible Spirit) Bear Story (Kodiac) Brigante Sabino (Zoffany) Concert Hall (Dubawi) Dubai Warrior (Dansili) Earlswood (Pivotal)

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Fenelon (Fastnet Rock) Foxes Tales (Zoffany) Harajuku (Deep Impact) Joie De Soir (Fastnet Rock) Jupyra (Le Havre) Limiti Di Greccio (Elzaam) Maker Of Kings (Zoffany) Mise En Scene (Siyouni) New Science (Lope De Vega) Queenship (Excelebration) Save A Forest (Kingman) Snowfall (Deep Impact) Solsticia (Le Havre) Space Traveller (Bated Breath) St Mark’s Basilica (Siyouni) Thunder Drum (Dubawi) Tribal Craft (Mastercraftsman)

L 3 3 L L L 33 3 L L L 1113 L L 1111 3 3

General Holme Trueshan (Planteur) Giant’s Causeway Angelinka (Pedro The Great) Dawn Intello (Intello) Go Bears Go (Kodi Bear) Lord North (Dubawi) Topgear (Wootton Bassett)

112

L 3 2 1 3

Lights On (Siyouni)

Harbour Watch Honey Sweet (Adaay)

Inchrory Stormy Ocean (Mingun)

Indian Charlie Switzerland (Speightstown)

Indian Ridge Geocentric (Kodiac) Vertiginous (Oasis Dream)

L L

Hard Spun Alcohol Free (No Nay Never)

113

Harlan’s Holiday Al Tariq (Oasis Dream)

Hawk Wing Ad Infinitum (Golden Horn) Elysium (Belardo) Oh This Is Us (Acclamation)

L L 3L

Hellvelyn Asymmetric (Showcasing)

Henrythenavigator Ornais (Roderic O’connor)

Hernando Alpinista (Frankel) 1112L Only The Brave (Iffraaj) 3L Sea La Rosa (Sea The Stars) L Suspicious Mind (Appel Au Maitre) 3 L Wishformore (Center Divider) 3

Grand Lodge Bubble Gift (Nathaniel) Bubble Smart (Intello)

22 3

High Chaparral Armor (No Nay Never) Flag’s Up (War Command)

Grand Slam Dato (Mount Nelson) General De Vega (Lope De Vega)

LL LL

Highest Honor Ricla (Adlerflug)

Green Desert Amhran Na Bhfiann (Galileo) D’bai (Dubawi) Mother Earth (Zoffany) Real Appeal (Sidestep) Stormy Pouss (Stormy River)

2 2 11 23 L

Holy Roman Emperor Alpen Rose (Sea The Stars) Atalis Bay (Cable Bay) Baptism (Sea The Stars) Layfayette (French Navy)

3 L 3 L

Homme De Loi Lord Glitters (Whipper)

L Green Tune O Trasno (Goken) L 112 3 2 3 LL 3 L 33

Rumbles Of Thunder (Night Of Thunder) L L

Groom Dancer Opasan (French Navy)

Hurricane Run Azano (Oasis Dream) Vauban (Galiway)

Haafhd Baron Samedi (Harbour Watch)

Iffraaj Castle Star (Starspangledbanner) Narcos (Anodin)

Halling Garden Paradise (Night Of Thunder)

Inchinor

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L L

Indian Rocket Speak Of The Devil (Wootton Bassett) L L L Intikhab John Leeper (Frankel) Mooneista (Dandy Man)

L 2L

Invincible Spirit Adhamo (Intello) Aleas (Archipenko) Blue Wings (Wings Of Eagles) Flotus (Starspangledbanner) Mehmento (Mehmas)

3 L L L L

Kahyasi Believe In Love (Make Believe)

Kalanisi Aristia (Starspangledbanner)

Kaldounevees La Parence (Saonois) Victor Ludorum (Shamardal)

L 3

Keltos Art Power (Dark Angel)

Kendargent Galik (Galiway) Gregolimo (Galiway) Kenway (Galiway) Sealiway (Galiway) Sisfahan (Isfahan)

L L L 1 1

Kendor Orendina (Siyouni) Soft Light (Authorized)

L L

3L L Key Of Luck A Case Of You (Hot Streak)

UBETTABELIEVEIT KODIAC – LADY LISHANDRA (MUJADIL) Fee: £5,000 1st Oct S.L.F

NEW FOR 2022

By KODIAC - World Record Holder for 2-y-o winners, Champion European Sire of 2-y-os 2020, Champion European Sire (winners) 2020 – Sire of Group 1 winners Campanelle, Hello Youmzain, Best Solution, etc. plus emerging young sires Ardad, Prince of Lir, Coulsty and Kodi Bear, all Gr.1 producers UBETTABELIEVEIT – winner of three races and £116,503 all over 5f including: EBF Novice Stakes Doncaster, LR National S. Sandown, Gr.2 Flying Childers S. Doncaster. Also 3rd Gr.2 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint all at 2.

ALMANAARA

MASSAAT

SHAMARDAL - MIDNIGHT ANGEL (MACHIAVELLIAN) Fee: £3,500 1st Oct S.L.F

TEOFILO - MADANY (ACCLAMATION) Fee: £4,000 1st Oct S.L.F

By world class stallion and sire of sires SHAMARDAL

By Teofilo, sire of 6 Gr.1 winners in 2020

Half brother to DARK ANGEL

Brother to Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup winner EQTIDAAR

Won 4 races from 3 to 7 years, 5-7.5f, £137,904, and was placed four times

Gr.1 placed at 2, 3 and 4 • Gr.2 winner over 7f

FIRST CROP FOALS 2022

Top Blood at excellent value

First-crop yearlings sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, £40,000, etc.

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Cadillac (front): is one of five European or UAE stakes winnersin 2021 by Lope De Vega or his sire Shamardal and out of mares by the late Dansili

Kheleyf Maria Amalia (Dubawi) The King’s Horses (Time Test) With Thanks (Camacho) King Halo Deep Bond (Kizuna) Kingmambo Baaeed (Sea The Stars) El Bodegon (Kodiac) Euchen Glen (Authorized) Hukum (Sea The Stars) Raabihah (Sea The Stars)

L L L

113L 13 3L 333L 2

King’s Best Afterglow (Teofilo) L Amilcar (Wootton Bassett) L Fourhometwo (Ajaya) L Pensiero D’amore (Zoffany) L Royal Ashirah (Hot Streak) LL Sopran Basilea (Night Of Thunder) 2 3 L Sun Of Gold (Golden Horn) L Urgent Appeal (Showcasing) L

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Kodiac Corazon (Markaz) Dizzy Bizu (Caravaggio) Wakanaka (Power) Wings Of War (Dark Angel) Komaite Last Empire (Pivotal)

3 LL 3 2

Konigstiger La Petite Coco (Ruler Of The World) 2 3 Kyllachy Collinsbay (Cable Bay) King’s Lynn (Cable Bay) Kitty Marion (Iffraaj) Light Infantry (Fast Company)

Lagunas Magical Lagoon (Galileo) Lahint Tahlie (Rio De La Plata)

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Laroche Russian Souffle (Soldier Hollow) Law Society Stex (Lord Of England)

3 L

Lord Of England Samoa (Jukebox Jury) Sea Bay (New Bay)

L 3

Lawman Nash Nasha (Dubawi) Panama Red (Showcasing) She Do (Siyouni)

L L L

Le Havre Pyledriver (Harbour Watch)

Lemon Drop Kid Acer Alley (Siyouni) Adhafera (Sea The Stars)

3 L

Leroidesanimaux Paco (Paco Boy)

Lomitas Belcarra (Estidhkaar) Memphis (Jukebox Jury) Rubaiyat (Areion)

Lope De Vega Fast Attack (Kodiac) Keyflower (Kheleyf)

3 L 2L

Lord Shanakill Hermana Estrella (Starspangledbanner) 3 Lucky Story Il Decamerone (Born To Sea) Makfi Brunch (Harbour Watch) Chipotle (Havana Gold) Create Belief (Awtaad) Just Beautiful (Pride Of Dubai) Noa Lea (Jukebox Jury) Tactical (Toronado) Manduro Es La Vida (Soldier Hollow)

L LL 3 3L L L

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L L

Starman (Dutch Art) Wonderful Tonight (Le Havre)

12 22

More Than Ready Sonaiyla (Dark Angel) 3L L LL 2

L L

Motivator Jannah Flower (Olympic Glory) Mo Celita (Camacho) Wally (Siyouni)

L L 233L

Mount Nelson Wirko (Kingman)

Mastercraftsman Attimo Fuggente (Exceed And Excel) 2 3 L

Mountain Cat Call To Victory (Victory Gallop)

Medaglia D’Oro Prichi (Awtaad)

Mr Greeley Nocentsinkentucky (Goldencents)

Medicean Accakaba (Acclamation) Amazonie (Toronado) Garrus (Acclamation) Liberty London (Maxios) Meshaheer Fort Payne (Rio De La Plata) Mizzen Mast Lyrical (Poet’s Voice) Straight Answer (Kodiac)

2L L 3 33L

L L

Monsun Atzeco (Fastnet Rock) 3L Control Tower (Youmzain) 3 Integrant (Frankel) L Light Stars (Sea The Stars) L Mythico (Adlerflug) 2 Northern Ruler (Ruler Of The World) 3 Sahib’s Joy (Soldier Hollow) L Sconset (Soldier Hollow) 3L Vadeni (Churchill) L Waldkonig (Kingman) 3 Walkaway (Adlerflug) 3 Yibir (Dubawi) 23 Montjeu Ateem (Dark Angel) L Dubai Honour (Pride Of Dubai) 22 Fambrus (Oasis Dream) L Great Ambassador (Exceed And Excel) L King David (Elusive City) L Merveillo (Archipenko) L

Mr Prospector New Trails (Medaglia D’oro) Muhaymin Skalleti (Kendargent) Skazino (Kendargent) Muhtathir Camorra (Zoffany) My Fancy (Myboycharlie) Star Safari (Sea The Stars) Mujadil Logo Hunter (Brazen Beau) Safe Voyage (Fast Company)

11223 223

3 L 3

Mustanfar Keeper Of Time (Mehmas)

Namid Campanelle (Kodiac)

Nayef Eshaada (Muhaarar) Glounthaune (Kodiac) Manobo (Sea The Stars) Palace Pier (Kingman) Quenelle D’or (Golden Horn)

Noverre Medahim (Kodiac) Space Blues (Dubawi) The Conqueror (Excelebration) Oasis Dream Acanella (Dansili) Arrival (Australia) Baby Rider (Gleneagles) Berkshire Shadow (Dark Angel) Bjorn (Acclamation) Brasilian Man (Teofilo) Chindit (Wootton Bassett) Don Chicco (El Kabeir) Equilateral (Equiano) Iresine (Manduro) Lancaster House (Galileo) Meu Amor (Siyouni) Saiydabad (Blame) Sir Lucan (Camelot) Tis Marvellous (Harbour Watch)

3 L 2 3

L 12 LLL

3 L 2 2 L L 3 2L 2L 3L 3 L 3L L LL

Twilight Payment (Teofilo)

Observatory Native Trail (Oasis Dream) Waldbiene (Intello)

112 2

Octagonal Zakouski (Shamardal)

Okawango Jin Jin (Canford Cliffs)

Olden Times Noticeable Grace (Make Believe)

One Cool Cat Fearby (Havana Gold)

Oratorio Epona Plays (Australia) Some Respect (Gleneagles) Tabera (Gleneagles) Too Soon To Panic (Gleneagles)

23 LL 3 L

Orpen Aria Importante (Twilight Son) Suesa (Night Of Thunder)

3LLL 233

Eshaada: one of two Group 1 winners in 2021 out of mares by Nayef

LL L

Multiplex Bay Bridge (New Bay)

Nathaniel Zellie (Wootton Bassett)

New Approach Ambition (Dubawi) Katara (Deep Impact) Malavath (Mehmas) Modern Games (Dubawi)

1L 3 2L 1112 L

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Pastoral Pursuits Attagirl (Wootton Bassett) Little O’kelly (Twilight Son)

L L

Peintre Celebre El Drama (Lope De Vega) Invite (The Gurkha) Mighty Blue (Authorized) Sea Of Sands (Sea The Stars) Valloria (Dubawi)

L L L 3 L

Pharly Zafer Atesi (Win River Win) Pivotal Choux (Exceed And Excel) Cloudy Dawn (Kodiac) Goolwa (Australia) Hello You (Invincible Spirit) Kemari (Dubawi) La Lune (Champs Elysees) Line Of Departure (Mehmas) Love (Galileo) Marshmallow (Soldier Hollow) Nymphadora (No Nay Never) Pearls Galore (Invincible Spirit) Sandrine (Bobby’s Kitten) Silent Escape (New Approach) Tenebrism (Caravaggio)

L 3 L 2 2 3L L 1 3L L 33 23 L 1

33L L L

Poliglote Esope (Galiway) Who Knows (Siyouni)

3 3

Polish Precedent Djo Francais (Intello)

Pulpit Tuz (Oxbow) Rahy Discoveries (Mastercraftsman) Final Song (Dark Angel)

Raven’s Pass Fast Raaj (Iffraaj) Golden Pass (Golden Horn) Mishriff (Make Believe) Saffron Beach (New Bay) Red Clubs Snow Lantern (Frankel)

3 L 11 13

Redattore Fleur D’iris (Shamardal)

Redback Miss Louna (Goken)

Redoute’s Choice Calithea (Awtaad) Emperor Of The Sun (Galileo)

L L

Rio De La Plata Ladies Church (Churchill)

Platini Aff Un Zo (Kallisto) Algiers (Shamardal) Deia (Soldier Hollow)

Pounced Atamisque (Highland Reel) Eulaila (Arcano)

Rainbow Quest Mare Australis (Australia)

2 2

1 3

Rip Van Winkle Symphony Perfect (Fast Company) Rock Of Gibraltar Chilly Filly (Makfi) Coachello (Dunkerque) Coeur De Pierre (Zanzibari) Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor) Lambo (Protectionist) Poetic Flare (Dawn Approach) Sagamiyra (Sea The Moon) Zavaro (Areion) Royal Applause Forest Of Dean (Iffraaj) Hurricane Ivor (Ivawood) Stormbringer (Dutch Art) System (Galileo Gold)

L L L 23 3 11L 3L 3

3 3 L L

Sadler’s Wells Ancient Rome (War Front) 3 Moon A Lisa (Sea The Moon) L Reach For The Moon (Sea The Stars) 3 Seachange (Siyouni) 2L Shandoz (Golden Horn) L Visualisation (No Nay Never) L Sageburg Parnac (Zarak)

Sakhee Hamish (Motivator)

Sholokhov Noble Music (Sea The Moon)

Sakhee’s Secret Windstormblack (Brazen Beau)

Showcasing Louliana (Acclamation)

Samum Sublimis (Shamardal)

Sicyos Praetorius (Novellist)

Sea The Stars Mohaafeth (Frankel) My Oberon (Dubawi) Night Tornado (Night Of Thunder) Soft Whisper (Dubawi) Varkesha (Pivotal) Waliyak (Le Havre) Selkirk Benbatl (Dubawi) Inspiral (Frankel) Jumbly (Gleneagles) Kinross (Kingman) Lord Bay (Excelebration) Policy Of Truth (Siyouni) Septieme Ciel Diablotine (Kodi Bear) Shamardal Al Aasy (Sea The Stars) Althiqa (Dark Angel) Anasia (Intello) Creative Flair (Dubawi) Highland Avenue (Dubawi) Island Of Love (Kodiac) Lilac Road (Mastercraftsman) Mehnah (Frankel) Midnight Sands (Speightstown) Tertius (Siyouni) Vadream (Brazen Beau) Wren’s Breath (Elzaam) Shantou Loveisthehigherlaw (Kodiac) Sharp Humor Zenden (Fed Biz)

Shirocco Al Suhail (Dubawi) Elisa Again (Champs Elysees) Hurricane Lane (Frankel)

Silver Frost Best Of Lips (The Gurkha) 3L 3 L LL L 3L

2 12L L 23 L 3

33 2 LL L L L L L 3 L 3 L

Silver Hawk Flamingo Girl (Soldier Hollow)

Singspiel Duhail (Lope De Vega) 2 Glycon (Le Havre) 23 Land Of Legends (Iffraaj) 2 Rodaballo (Lope De Vega) 2 Secret Ambition (Exceed And Excel) 2 3 Snaffles (Churchill) L Sinndar Big Five (Frankel) Dima (Falco)

L L

Sir Percy Fernando Vichi (Australia) Indie Angel (Dark Angel) Romantic Time (Time Test) Shine For You (Siyouni)

L 2 3 L

Sleeping Indian Axana (Soldier Hollow) Caturra (Mehmas)

3L 2L

Smart Strike Irish Freedom (Pioneerof The Nile) Masen (Kingman) Toro Strike (Toronado)

3 L 3

Soviet Star Ilaraab (Wootton Bassett)

Spectrum Galtee Mist (Gale Force Ten)

Speedmaster Karlarina (Le Havre)

2 L 1112

Speightstown Man Of Promise (Into Mischief) Zain Claudette (No Nay Never)

L 23

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Sternkoenig Alaskasonne (Soldier Hollow) Ardakan (Reliable Man) Kaspar (Pivotal)

L 3 2

Storm Cat Joan Of Arc (Galileo) Zainhom (Street Cry) Street Cry Albahr (Dubawi) Blown By Wind (Invincible Spirit) Cantocorale (Helmet) Dubai Future (Dubawi) Egot (Invincible Spirit) Head Mistress (Profitable) Outbox (Frankel) Passion And Glory (Cape Cross) Rebel’s Romance (Dubawi) Romantic Song (Shamardal) Salute The Soldier (Sepoy) Spanish Mission (Noble Mission) Street Sense Ya Hayati (Dubawi) Sunday Break Cheshire Academy (Flintshire) Penja (Camelot) Surumu Palmas (Lord Of England) Take Risks Best Sixteen (Penny’s Picnic) Tamayuz Reshabar (Iffraaj) Sa Filonzana (El Kabeir) Tapit Pennybaker (Medaglia D’oro)

13 L

L 3 3LL L 3LL L L 3 2 L 12 2

L 3 3

L L

Tiger Hill Bel Aristo (New Approach) Frozen Juke (Frozen Power) In Swoop (Adlerflug) Tillerman Mansour (Tai Chi) Timber Country Horoscope (No Nay Never)

L 3

L L 23

With Distinction Extravagant Kid (Kiss The Kid)

Yankee Gentleman Mnasek (Empire Maker)

Tiz Wonderful Haven Park (Sir Prancealot)

Tobougg Apollo One (Equiano)

L 112 3

Trempolino Brokeback Mountain (Le Havre)

Turtle Bowl Atomic Jones (Wootton Bassett) King Shalaa (Shalaa)

2 L

Unbridled’s Song Queen Power (Shamardal) Thunderman (Blu Air Force)

2 2

Verglas Lady Bowthorpe (Nathaniel)

Waky Nao Auenfurst (Soldier Hollow)

Whipper Lismore (Zoffany) Sky Angel (Dark Angel) The Highway Rat (Dandy Man)

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Titus Livius Cirona (Maxios) 3 Measure Of Magic (Kodi Bear) LL Qaysar (Choisir) L Winter Power (Bungle Inthejungle) 1 L L

Torrential Lajoscha (Gleneagles) Toylsome Torquator Tasso (Adlerflug) Tunnes (Guiliani)

Wiener Walzer Lizaid (Zarak)

Xaar Lollipop Girl (Dandy Man) Madame Tantzy (Champs Elysees) Mums Tipple (Footstepsinthesand) Summerghand (Lope De Vega)

Teofilo Coroebus (Dubawi) 3 Dreamloper (Lope De Vega) 3 Libre (Exceed And Excel) L Mac Swiney (New Approach) 1 Parchemin (Lope De Vega) L Thunder Kiss (Night Of Thunder) 3L Victory Chime (Campanologist) L Vincere Insieme (Exceed And Excel) L

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Tertullian Diadora (Dansili) Ottoman Emperor (Excelebration)

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Zafonic Match Maker (Declaration Of War) Vesela (Frankel)

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Zamindar Beauty Inspire (Mehmas) Mangoustine (Dark Angel) Pretty Tiger (Sea The Moon) Rosacea (Soldier Hollow)

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Zilzal Pradaro (Penny’s Picnic)

Joan Of Arc became Storm Cat’s 45th Group or Grade 1 winner as a broodmare sire when she won the Prix de Diane. The stallion was also represented at the highest level in 2021 by the Breeders’ Cup and Hong Kong winner Loves Only You

FEE 2022:

£3,000 (Oct 1st)

NEW TO HEDGEHOLME FOR 2022

Buratino Ch. 2013 Exceed And Excel - Bergamask (Kingmambo)

An outstanding source of 2-y-o speed Winner of 4 races at two and £170,241 including WON Gr.2 Coventry Stakes, 6f Royal Ascot WON LR Woodcote Stakes, 6f Epsom WON Novice Stakes, 6f Newmarket WON Maiden Stakes, 5f Chelmsford (on debut)

A proven sire at stud of over 40 winners including SNAPRAETEREA WON LR Owenstown Stud Stakes WON LR Platinum Stakes (total earnings of over £94,000)

RUN FOR ME 2nd LR GP der Mehl-Muhlens Stiftung (7f) 3rd LR Criterium Femminile (7f)

Also 2YO Winners THE BLUE PANTHER, SNAPIUS, ROUND SIX, DEVASTE, AUTUMN TWILIGHT, BAY BREEZE, RHINOPLASTY, etc.

CONTACT Andrew Spalding • T: 01325 730209 or M: 07990 518751 • E: hedgeholme@gmail.com Hedgeholme Stud, Winston, Darlington, Co. Durham DL2 3RS - www.hedgeholmestud.com

photo of the month: treo eile thoroughbred showjumping classic Photos by the Irish Eventing Times

Left, event rider James O’Haire aboard Shamad, and above, NH jockey Davy Russell on Barberton

N DECEMBER 16, Treo Eile, Ireland’s new thoroughbred retraining project and featured last June in the welfare issue of International Thoroughbred, staged its inaugural team Thoroughbred Classic Showjumping event at Jag Equestrian centre, Naas in County Kildare. Ten teams of four took part, each team featuring a jockey (Flat or NH, past or present), an event rider, a young rider and a child on a pony. The adult team members all rode ex-racehorses so showcasing the abilities and versatility of the thoroughbred. The ex-racehorses ranged from some who had not achieved too much in their first careers on the racecourse – for instance, Barberton (Johannesburg), Russell’s mount in the photo above, ran six times without placing – to such stars as Woodland Opera, who won twice at Grade 2 level over fences, finished second in the JNwine.com Champion Chase (G1) and achieved a career-best BHA rating of 154. The evening also included two other jumping competitions, as well as a parade of past racehorse champions, including such stars as Douvan, Faugheen, Black Apalachi and Supasundae. The evening was deemed a huge success – the winning team was The Seabiscuits, captained by Katie Walsh, who rode Elusive Specimen (Elusive Pimpernel) with team members the event rider Sarah Wardell on Whydah (Black Sam Bellamy), young rider

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Cliodhna Brennan on Road To Emmaus (Sir Prancealot) and Lucy McCarthy, who rode pony Little Field Clover. Caoimhe Doherty, who alongside Sarah Sands founded the developing organisation, said: “Treo Eile began life last year simply as a website, a one-stop shop for people who needed to know more about rehoming a racehorse. The need for this information, and much more besides, led us to quickly develop and expand on our three main aims – to connect, support and promote. “So far, €15,000 has been spent in sponsorship across 20 different events, including cash prizes for the top-performing thoroughbred at the Dressage Ireland and Eventing Ireland National Championships, showing classes, polo tournaments and Derby jumping prizes. “No less than 150 ex-racehorses are now registered with Treo Eile and living satisfying lives. Some are companions and leisure horses, others are climbing the competitive ranks of Irish eventing and dressage.” Of the idea behind the Thoroughbred Classic, Sands added: “After watching some incredible results through the season for ex-racers on the eventing circuit, we were looking for an appropriate end to the year for Treo Eile and selected this Pro-Celebrity format which really caught the imagination. “We had a super turnout from jockeys and eventers, including two Olympian riders, to put us on a really firm footing. We aim to build it into an annual showcase of the versatility of the ex-racehorse.”

GOLDEN HORDE CHAMPION 3YO

SPRINTER IN EUROPE Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup Timeform rating 122

HIGH CLASS 2YO Gr.2 Richmond Stakes 2nd Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes (race time record)

€ 8,000 LF

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We have systems in place including a VAT bond to facilitate the smooth movement of UK mares visiting Coolmore stallions in Ireland. Get on board! Call your sales rep or any of the team at Coolmore +353 52 6131298 to discuss.

Proven G1 sires from Royal Ascot winning 2YOs from Champion 2YOs from G1 winning milers from

€5,000 €6,000 €12,500 €12,500

Remember no less than 14 Coolmore stallions sired Group 1 winners in 2021. And we also stand many of the finest young prospects in the business including ST MARK’S BASILICA, European Champion 2YO of 2020 and Timeform’s top-rated horse in the world in 2021. New for 2022 : €65,000 (£55,000).

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

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