• Performances, pedigrees and profiles: new stallions at stud in Europe
• There is a new farm in town: step forward Haras de Beaumont, Deauville
• Moyglare Stud enjoyed a fabulous year in 2022, James Thomas catches up with bloodstock advisor Fiona Craig
• The Darley three for 2023
Sea The Stars - Aghareed (Kingmambo)
THE HIGHEST-RATED TURF HORSE IN THE WORLD FOR A DECADE
New for 2023
Fee: £80,000 October 1st SLF
BREATHTAKING 6-TIME GROUP 1 WINNER
Standing at Nunnery Stud alongside Mohaather, Tasleet & Eqtidaar
To book a nomination or arrange a viewing, contact: Will Wright +44 (0)7787 422901 | wwright@shadwellstud.co.uk or +44 (0)1842 756963 | nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk
View our stallion roster: www.shadwellstud.com
15,000
Gr.1 winning 2yo Classic winning miler
“I absolutely loved the Kameko foals and ended up buying 4! The colt out of Golden Spell was a standout at the sale, and they are all now wintering well and have great attitudes.”
Michael Fitzpatrick, Kilminfoyle House Stud
13 Group/Stakes winners in 2022 including Gamely Stakes-Gr.1 winner OCEAN ROAD and previous Gr.1 winners BROOME, MARE AUSTRALIS and ORDER OF AUSTRALIA
CAMELOT
2 Group 1-winning 3YOs in 2022 viz Irish Champion Stakes-Gr.1 winner LUXEMBOURG and German Derby-Gr.1 winner SAMMARCO
CHURCHILL
The best 3YO in Europe in 2022 VADENI and the best 2YO filly in France BLUE ROSE CEN
9 Group/Stakes winners in 2022 including Man O’War Stakes-Gr.1 winner HIGHLAND CHIEF and course record-breaking Richmond Stakes-Gr.2 winner and Dewhurst runner-up ROYAL SCOTSMAN
6 Group-winning juveniles in 2022 including Gr.1 winners BLACKBEARD, LITTLE BIG BEAR and MEDITATE, along with July Cup-Gr.1 winner ALCOHOL FREE who later sold for 5,400,000gns
SAXON WARRIOR
3 Group winners in 2022 from his first 2YO crop including Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf-Gr.1 winner VICTORIA ROAD
4 Gr.1 winners in 2022 viz STATE OF REST (Prince of Wales’s Stakes-Gr.1 and Prix Ganay-Gr.1), ARISTIA (Prix Jean Romanet-Gr.1), CALIFORNIA SPANGLE (Hong Kong Mile-Gr.1) and RHEA MOON (American Oaks-Gr.1)
WOOTTON BASSETT
Sire of Group 1 winners from each of his last five crops of racing age, most recently AL RIFFA in the National Stakes-Gr.1 (RIGHT ). And remember, the best have yet to come!
Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Jason Walsh, Mark Byrne, Neil Magee or Hermine Bastide Tel: 052 6131298. David Magnier, Tom Gaffney, Joe Hernon, Paddy Fleming, Cathal Murphy or Barry Kennedy Tel: 025 31966. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) +44-7827-795156. E-mail: sales@coolmore.ie Web site: www.coolmore.com
It is time that we had more jockey “meet and greets”, and we can’t see the need for sales companies to give credit to racehorse owners
16 Ted and Cathy
Ted asks “What did we learn in 2022?” and Cathy reports from the ITBA’s recent breeding seminar
22 Heralding in the New Year
All the best action from Kempton and Leopardstown over the Festive period
32 A diamond year
Moyglare Stud enjoyed a brilliant 2022: James Thomas chats with bloodstock advisor Fiona Craig
36 New stud, new sires
Jocelyn de Moubray talks with Mathieu Alex, manager of the newly established Normandy stallion farm, Haras de Beaumont
45 New sires
Baaeed retires as the most-expensive new sire for 2023. Aisling Crowe provides racing and pedigree analysis for the new crop of first-season sires in Britain and Europe
Siyouni and Zarak continued their upwards trajectory last year, but it was the British-based Frankel who claimed French honours
70 European stallion fees
Fees for the leading French and German Stallions for 2023
72 Three is the magic number
Darley Stud has three sires with first runners in 2023: Too Darn Hot, Blue Point and Masar
78 Weights and measures
The recently retired Steve Caddel of Hallway Feeds explains how a lifetime’s experience has shown him that more is not better
89 Stakes-winning sires
Hyperion Promotions provide a final list of 2022 – an alphabetical list of the sires of stakes winners in 2022
96 Stakes-winning dam sires
In reverse, Hyperion provide a final list of stakes-winning dam sires of 2022
106 Photo finish
A muddy day in Wales
ONE OF THE BEST THINGS OVER
CHRISTMAS happened on January 3 at Musselburgh. It was a rare sighting on a racecourse and was not a late view of Santa as he made his way back to the North Pole nor Rudolf having a spin over hurdles for a bit of a lark.
It was a reasonable day at Musselburgh, a track that runs decent races for decent pots, but as the card was held a week after its big Christmas meeting, it was without much of a buzz and had a bit of the “day after the party” feel to it.
It was a good day for the capable Leicestershire-based trainer Laura Morgan who produced Notllongtillmay to win the handicap chase, the victory taking her to 32 wins for the year and just a couple off beating her best-ever seasonal score.
She also fancied hers in the 3m handicap chase, but Radetsky March did not live up to her expectations and finished fourth to winner Massini Man ridden by Ryan Mania.
The jockey was winning his ninth completed ride in succession (he also had two horses pull up and one faller in the sequence), and apparently was on the heels of tenrace winning runs ridden by Phil Tuck in the 1980s and a Johnnie Gilbert in the 1950s.
In a TV post-race interview, quite late scheduled after his winning ride and with a beenie hat pulled down over his ears to keep out the cold wind, Mania had to give excuses as to why he had not been available to talk earlier – viewers naturally assuming that on such a cold grey day the jockey had been hugging the radiator in the weighing room, and had been reluctant to come out of hibernation.
However, he said: “There were some kids down the track, they cheered me as I went down on Massini Man and they cheered me as I came back; I thought I ought to nip out and say thank you. I don’t know who they were.”
Indeed a rare sighting of a jockey on a racecourse away from the confides of the parade ring, the unsaddling areas or the winners’ enclosure.
Mania did not have another ride on the day until the concluding bumper (a ride which sadly brought an end to the winning spree), and he used the time
constructively to pop out for a walk to meet and greet.
A simple thing, but that walkabout will have made the day for those youngsters and certainly will have given them something to boast about on their return to school.
OK, the guy was on the ride of his career, and as he was born and brought up in nearby Galashiels, was on home turf. When riding winners it is also easier to be magnanimous, and he knew he was going to get a welcome reception from his enthusiastic local fan club.
But we often say that the participants in the sport, unlike those in, for example, football, are accessible to the race fans; but are they really when they are rushing from parade ring to changing room to car?
They might stop in a hurry to sign an autograph, but unless an effort such as this is made to give a little more, they are not really there for the people, or the kids.
That little bit extra not only means that they will become hero-worshipped by the youngsters, but it can also create a race fan for life.
Jockeys often have hours to waste in the changing room, waiting for sporadic rides that could be book-
“There were some kids down the track, they cheered me as I went to post on Massini Man and they cheered me as I came back; I thought I ought to nip out and say thank you!”Ryan Mania: made the effort to meet his fans at Musselburgh
ending a card. With NH riding plans known the day before, and Flat a full 24 hours in advance, there could be plenty of time to work out which jockeys might be available for a public get together. Some of the BHA’s marketing funds could even pay for a jockey’s time, which might help make travelling for one ride a more profitable day’s work.
Something such as Mania’s initiative should not be a rarity, and while it might not be suitable on a late evening’s racing at Wolverhampton, what about on a family day in the summer? Or on one of the big Saturday cards? Or on a Sunday, if that day’s racing is actually going to given a proper “family day” marketing push.
A “Meet Your Idol” session has clear potential – and if the race cards were given a little white space for autographs, they could also become a keepsake
It might be argued that such things are no longer part
of the digital world and kids are no longer interested in collecting signatures, but at the 2022 Christmas Treo Eile show jumping event, the programme, which we helped design, had space dedicated on its team pages with an area for autographs.
It ensures that youngsters have an excuse and a reason to approach the jockeys, and time was given in a scheduled period for signing to take place; the jockeys were busy with their pens and chats.
Couldn’t the same be done on the race cards and on a race meeting? It would go some way to make more of the jockeys as personalities, a tactic we are always being told by the marketing teams is vital and so lacking in this sport, while also giving some focus through an afternoon of racing for the whole family. We are forever being told the half hour split between racing is too long for today’s attention span, well let’s make a plan to fill that time!
IT HAS BEEN A DISPIRITING BLOODSTOCK START to the year with a debt called in by Tattersalls that is equivalent to a significant percentage of the GDP of the smallest nation in the world (Tuvalu, found between Hawaii and Australia, which has an annual income of $70 million) after Saleh Al Homaizi (as reported by the Racing Post) defaulted on the payment terms required by the Newmarket sales company for October yearlings purchased on his behalf by bloodstock agent Richard Knight.
It has not been disclosed by Keeneland, Arqana or Goffs what the position is as regards the purchases signed for by Knight at their headline yearling sales; if in the same situation as Tattersalls I am unsure as to why the four have not collaborated. According to France Galop’s website of the five horses bought in France, three are already listed with trainers.
All the sales houses take on a massive amount of risk every time that a bloodstock auction is held. It is obviously up to each individual company, its own accountants and its own lenders, as to the level of credit it wishes to offer to the individuals.
That, we would assume, is generally decided by the credit checks that are made and the working relationships in place, sadly, it seems in this instance what happened in the past has not been a foreteller of the future.
The sale companies’ terms and conditions state they don’t have to pay vendors until they have been paid, but in the usual course of events vendors are paid within a month, and in this instance this has been adhered to despite when, quite frankly, the sums involved are of bankrupting proportions.
Tattersalls is a significantly strong business, and it is assumed can weather this storm, but even it has had to plug this gap and called enough is enoough deciding over the winter that it can no longer facilitate the non-payment of such a vast amount.
Bloodstock auctions exist so that thoroughbred sellers don’t need to get into the quagmire of selling horses on a private basis with the threat of dealing with individuals who are either disreputable,
time wasters or equine dreamers.
Bloodstock sales run on confidence and funds being readily available to pay vendors; if auction companies have too many outstanding debts and can’t meet those terms then the house of cards starts to collapse.
Limited – meaning to a realistic and “normal” human SME level not on an industry scale – credit facilities need to be available for those trading and in business; the few trainers (if any still do) who buy on spec, for the pinhookers selling on, maybe an agent who is hunting a punter, but should credit be available to those who are essentially end users?
In theory, there should be no need for an owner to have credit –either they have the money for racehorse ownership or they don’t.
Of course, the sales companies are loathe to turn away spend, particularly at the top end of the market, and obviously the Arqana August Sale, the Orby Sale or Book 1 come around but just once a year, but if an owner’s financial situation is not in place at the required time… vague empty and ultimately unfulfilled promises do not pay vendors nor wages.
An owner tends to knows pre-sale (particularly at the leading sales) if he or she is going to buy, and presumably an approximate budget is essentially pre-allocated. If the required money can’t be moved to an account that is easily accessible and ready to access at purchase, or if a hard and fast guarantee can not be given that the funds are in transit and legitimate, then quite frankly all bids should be off.
If credit is needed, then it should be achieved through a trainer or agent, but at the level given for that individual according to his or her pre-arranged realistic agreement.
We do live in a credit-driven world, and this might be going back in time when credit was not such a feature of life, but with horses now such an expensive commodity, and bloodstock such a global marketplace, as has been realised, a lot of money can be spent fast and hard.
Perhaps if a line was drawn in the sand along these lines with an inter-sale in-house agreement it would be favourable to all.
“Some of the BHA’s marketing funds could even pay for a jockey’s time, which might help make travelling for one ride more profitable
How quickly and easily it was in 2022 to spend a lot of money on horses, that mares were hugely expensive, that the Sceptre Sessions were a success, that there is a continuing lack of transparency regarding UK media rights, and that there are a lot of million dollar races in Australia
We learnt that it is relatively easily to buy $20,000,000 worth of yearlings from Arqana, Keeneland, Goffs and Tattersalls.
All summer there was a crescendo of gossip that placed owner Saleh Al Homaizi behind
the world-wide spending spree on yearlings.
It was neither confirmed or denied by agent Richard Knight nor the sales companies.
Finally, the Racing Post dared to put their head above the parapet in October and again in January to confirm the man behind the spending powerhouse; an outlay that in the end was unfounded.
Whether it was much of an expose remains to be seen, but to suggest that Tattersalls has benefited from his involvement by making numerous other lots underbid on by Richard Knight fetch exponentially more is utter rubbish.
However, the buyers who outbid Richard Knight must now
be feeling they have over paid.
This episode isn’t over yet and could easily be resolved by the principal paying the sales companies
Vendors have been paid from the guineas commission earned from the sales, which shows the strength and honour of our sales companies.
It takes a lot of thosevatches of commission to pay down the 10,00,000gns owned to Tattersalls, even if there was a record turnover at October that surpassed 190,000,000gns.
Separately, however, racing has been a target for scams similar to the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme achieved a decade or so ago.
We must be careful and thoroughly vet owners as the gambling industry does with its clients. Affordability checks conducted by the BHA would stop the likes Phoenix Thoroughbreds entering in the first place, and would help prevent people exiting our business leaving nothing but a train of unpaid or part-paid bills.
Our industry needs to centrally approve new racehorse owners and means test, together with producing a more prominent forfeit list to be created for universal access
As many have said “they exit at the same speed as they enter” our tiny thoroughbred world.
We learnt that mares and horses in training are worth almost as much at the top end as stallions.
As usual the breeding stock season began at Fasig Tipton, which assembles more milliondollar mares in one place to sell in a two-hour session than any other sales company.
The juggernaut continued to Keeneland, Goffs and to Tattersalls where Alcohol Free made as much as Dewhurst winners did a few years ago.
So did the new Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions work?
The increased entry fee certainly was worth the PR that the horses received, and the session acted as a shoppers’ short list, which had its positives and negatives.
With 11 vendor buy-backs in the Tuesday session, it clearly shows that there is a standard and there were no hiding places – if a mare had a late service date or weak black-type she was outshone by the stronger catalogued mares.
There were 11 millionaires sold, seven of whom were horses in training, all were sold within 50 lots.
In 2021, the four million guineas horses all sold within 43 lots –in reality Tattersalls already had the Sceptre Session in place, yet without any branding.
Was it a success? Hell yeah! Moving on to France, Arqana always benefits from the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) market and, as a result, the last black-type fillies and mares offered make disproportionately more come Christmas time than at any other sale.
We learnt that Australia has a million dollar race... once a week.
Australia is on fire again, courtesy of low agistment costs and affordable training fees, and the vast syndication businesses are riding a wave – there are 72 million dollar plus races due to be run in 2023, including the Melbourne Cup.
The Everest, with a prize-money fund of A$15,000,000, is the richest.
It wasn’t long ago that VOBIS (Victorian Owners and Breeders Incentive Scheme) was the buzz word Down Under, and within a very short time prize-money has exploded.
Maybe the Great British Bonus can be the catalyst for the UK to grow in the same way, but syndication has to be part of it going forward.
We learnt that the racecourses will not divulge their income from media rights.
Years ago, when media rights were not a valuable commodity and negotiations were wholly focused on betting levy as the main stream income for racing, somehow the media eights ended up in the lap of the racecourses from the bookmakers via the BHB.
As sometimes happens assumptions were made that a wid group of recipients would benefit from this growing income stream.
Looking around us – darts, football and rugby have systems
that reward more that just the stadium.
Whatever the past agreements and assumptions that are in place it is plainly not right that our racecourses don’t share media rights with a wider stakeholder base in the sport.
We must change and become all-encompassing for the future of racing. Media rights must be cracked wide open and debated on an industry-wide forum. We must stop the lack of transparency over income and lay the figures bare for everyone to see and move forward with total industry participation. We learnt that trading nominations online doesn’t work!
My efforts to move nomination trading online, using a seamless platform, hit the pause button for the 2023 season, but why didn’t it work?
Many studs like to sell their own stallion nominations.
The age demographic for thoroughbred breeding is not from the digital era – breeders prefer to ring Oliver St Lawrence for a chat and be guided to buy what’s on offer and advised of the good value.
We are either before our time or it doesn’t have a place in this industry. However, the introduction by the major UK farms of electronic contracts has made nomination purchasing a slicker and more efficient way to complete.
I am sure Buyanom didn’t instigate this part of the deal, but it may have helped inspire the farms to use Adobe and Docusign to close their sale.
Here’s to a happy healthy 2023 for all of us.
Our industry needs to centrally approve new racehorse owners and means test, together with producing a more prominent forfeit list be created for universal access
NOW THAT CHRISTMAS and New Year festivities are out of the way, stud farms across Europe are in full preparation for the breeding season with foal watch in situ.
This time last year was very busy over the Christmas period at Newtown Stud as myself and my husband Jamie Lowry got married. This year we managed to get a few days away to mark our first anniversary before getting ready for the busy season ahead. The only problem with getting married at Christmas is the honeymoon period is very short lived – foal watch starts very shortly after!
Across all studs now the cameras and night watch staff have been turned to focus on heavily pregnant mares as breeders eagerly await the birth of this year’s crop of super stars.
But all the sleepless nights and the associated hard work is always worth it when the results are the safe delivery of a new foal.
The reality for breeders is that a new born foal is the result of a years of planning and hard work.
From the selection of the broodmare at a sale, careful preparation of her physically to be ready for cover, picking out a suitable stallion, and then minding and caring for the pregnant mare right up to the safe delivery of the foal – the entire process is a real labour of love.
The importance of this process was highlighted at the recent Breeding Season Preparation Seminar held at ITBA headquarters. Four expert speakers – Andrea Ryan, Olive O’Connor, Lorraine Fradl and Micheál Orlandi – gave some really useful information for breeders.
Topics covered included postnatal care, assisting during foaling, the nutrition requirements for pregnant mares and for foals, and mating plans and stallion selection.
There was a strong attendance with a full-house present in person and many more breeders tuning in online. It shows that as an industry there is a real interest in acquiring knowledge and improving the production of quality stock. One of the things that makes breeding and working with horses so inspiring is that you are always learning, both from horses and the people who work with them.
This month saw the return of Irish Thoroughbred Marketing’s successful Irish Stallion Trail, which took place on the January 13-14.
It showcased over 30 stud farms and over 140 stallions, including some leading stallions on the worldwide stage.
These two epic days allowed everybody to get “behind the scenes” access to stallions and to see the beautiful farms.
ITM is to be highly commended for the great work that it has put into developing this wonderful event. It was well-supported with industry professionals and breeders getting to visit and inspect prospective mates for their mares, while racing fans were able to
reconnect with retired heroes.
I am now really looking forward to my first ITBA Awards Night as chairman, the event due to be held at the end of the month.
It is a fantastic night that takes place in the Heritage Hotel in County Laois on January 28. I love to see so many deserving breeders, Flat and NH, get well deserved recognition for their successes.
The event planning committee of Joe Foley, Maurice Moloney, Wendy O’Leary, Sally Ann Grassick, Brendan McArdle, Joey Cullen and Simon Kerrins put in so much work to make sure this night is a big success, and they are given huge support from the team at ITBA headquarters. The evening’s compère is the wonderful Leo Powell.
It is a top social occasion and a rare night to take a break and get dressed up.
There have already been sales taking place this year in Australia and America, and it has been very heartening for the international bloodstock market to see such strong figures recorded at both sales.
In no time at all we will be back at the sales in Europe and the February Sale catalogues for Goffs, Tattersalls and Arqana have all hit the press. This will see a busy time for me again, as we will be selling some lovely stock for Newtown Stud clients, and I will be scouring over the quality lots to, hopefully, find some purchases for the clients of Brian Grassick Bloodstock.
Cathy Grassick, chairman of the Irish Breeders’ Association, catches up with events after Christmas ITBA’s panel at the recent Breeding Season Preparation Seminar From left to right: Andrea Ryan of Kilcash Equine Clinic, Michael Orlandi of Starfield Stud and Compas Equine, Lorraine Fradl from Red Mills, and consignor and breeder Olive O’ConnorThis, would you believe, is the finish of the most competitive sprint race of 2022. Not in shot: Highfield Princess, Kinross, Alcohol Free, Campanelle, Minzaal...
The son of Dubawi who won an all-star G1 Platinum Jubilee.
The biggest names in the business
€15,000 Oct 1, SLF Kildangan Stud, Ireland
The only horse in the history of the thoroughbred breed to win three consecutive Group 1’s on three different continents. Never Headed Once Taking The Lead.
defeating Bay Bridge who boosted the form when subsequently taking the Gr.1 British Champion Stakes defeating 6-time Gr.1 Winner Baaeed
Won Gr.1 Prix Ganay
defeating three Individual Gr.1 Winners incl. the Champion Stakes Victor Sealiway
Won Gr.1 Ladbrokes Cox Plate
conceding 16lbs to runner up Anamoe who landed the 2022 running of the Cox Plate
“STATE OF REST was without question a remarkably talented, durable and consistent performer. We asked a huge amount of him throughout his career and he delivered every time. He had the most incredible constitution and will to win.”
Joseph O'Brien, September 2022
Proven Multiple Group 1 Sire incl. QEII Cup, Hong Kong Derby and Hong Kong Cup Winner Romantic Warrior
European Third Leading Sire of Sires by Progeny Earnings in 2022*
Sire of Black Type Performers from his first crop of 2-Y-O’s in 2022
Record Breaking Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O, Gr.3 Winning and Gr.1 Placed 3-Y-O
Sire of 6 Stakes Winners including GO BEARS GO Gr.2 Winning Juvenile Quality Books of Black Type Mares covered in 2021/22 incl. dams of: Classic Performers & Multiple Group Winners & half sisters to Gr.1/Gr.2 Winners
AFTER THE PRE-CHRISTMAS interruptions to racing, the sub-zero temperatures cleared to give a trouble-free run over the Festive period, and race fans enjoyed plenty of action over the holidays.
Much of the sport was dominated by the results achieved by the Willie Mullins team and the County Carlow trainer bagged 19 winners from 90 runners through the Boxing Day to New Year’s Day stint, including his St
Steven’s day six-timer at Leopardstown. He also produced five Grade 1 winners over the week, four of whom carry the FR suffix.
Over that Christmas period the Irish and French-bred horses were matched in stakes race success on 12 apiece, leaving Britishbred horses trailing with the two winners achieved on Boxing Day.
They were, however, significant –Constitution Hill, the son of Blue Bresil bred by Sally Noott and now short-priced
1/5 favourite for the Champion, and the fan favourite Thyme Hill. The Kayf Tara gelding, a former Grade 1 hurdler ,reversed his “iffy” chasing earlier in the season to win the Kauto Star Novices Chase (G1) and he is now an 8/1 chance for the 3m Brown Advisory Novices Chase at The Festival.
All who invested heavily in the foals by the Rathbarry and Glenview Stud-based Blue Bresil at last autumn’s Tattersalls Ireland November NH Sale (Consitution Hill himself a graduate of the sale when bought by Warren Ewing and Barry Geraghty for just €16,500) and the Goffs December NH Sale, will be relieved that the Henderson’s charge is maintaining such individual talent.
The six-year-old gelding now goes straight to The Festival; his trainer is not tempted to travel him to the Dublin Festival, and does not have any suitable options in Britain.
At Kempton, Henderson bemoaned the removal of the Contenders’ Hurdle at Sandown, a race he particularly liked to use as a final prep run ahead of Cheltenham.
It seems that the BHA’s race planners have much work to do not only to ensure that the British NH fields are bigger and more competitive at all levels and over the course of a season, but that they also need to ensure there is a decent pathway to The Festival.
Cheltenham is such a draw for owners,
● Won the Gr.1 Dewhurst at 2 and the Gr.1 Lockinge at 4
● Sire of three first-crop Group winners including a Gr.2 winner
● 2022 successes included Gr.2 winners Bellabel and Gold Phoen
● His 2018 and 2019 crops have produced a better strike rate of Camelot, Siyouni, Kodiac, Acclamation, Churchill, Dark Angel, Night O No Nay Never and Showcasing. In fact, the only British stallions doing Kingman.
Timeform rated 126 - “To win Group 1 races at two and four is testament to the durability of Belardo”
Fee: £6,500 Oct 1st SLF
and instead of a shrugging of shoulders resigned to the fact that many horses won’t be seen that frequently on a racecourse through the season as the March meeting is so targeted, a sensible programme leading to the meeting could help generate appearances, especially for the novices and those going up through the ranks.
The Blue Bresil pinhookers will also have been delighted to have witnessed Blue Lord’s Grade 1 chase win at Leopardstown. It was his first success in open company at the top level, the eight-year-old proving that his sire is not a one-hit wonder and has produced another with the pace for 2m, his speed slightly surprising trainer Mullins.
The Simon Munir and Isaac Souedeowned gelding, bought at the Arqana Summer Sale in 2017 for just €35,000 by George Mullins, is now more likely to be targeted at the 2m Champion Chase rather than the Ryanair over 2m4f.
He is a second foal out of his Cachet Noir mare Lorette, who is out of a half-sister to the Grand National runner-up Mely Moss. Rathbarry stallions past and present had a fine Christmas period – Shirocco had eight
winners headed by his Mandarin Handicap Chase winner Grumpy Charley, who galloped through the mud at Newbury to give his third-season trainer Chris Honour, who has a string of just 10 horses in training, a decent Christmas present. The Dartmoor-based trainer’s owner Geoff Thompson bought the horse himself in 2018 at the Goffs UK Spring Store Sale for £52,000 from Distillery Stud with a Grand National dream in mind.
Out of the Old Vic mare Whisky Rose, last season the eight-year-old claimed a novice chase third behind the subsequent King George winner Bravemansgame, as well as a novice chase victory at Newbury when beating Fern Hill, who has gone on to win a handicap this season off 133 and is now rated 140.
“He was bought to run in the National and he’s not far away,” said Honour of Charley. “We need a bit of luck and, over that trip, I don’t think the ground would be that
The victory has helped propel Shirocco, whose fee is now listed as private, to a best-ever current third placing on the season’s NH sires’ titleGrumpy Charley: was bought in 2018 by owner Geoff Thompson with Grand National aspirations – this Mandarin Chase win keeps that dream alive
important. He needs to get into a rhythm so if you’ve four miles in front of you it’s no big deal if you sit and hold your ground. He’s a brilliant jumper, absolutely class.
“He’s very good on his day and had his ears pricked on the run-in.”
The victory has helped propel Shirocco, whose fee is now listed as private, to a bestever current third-placing on the season’s NH sires’ title.
However, it was Rathbarry’s deceased former Champion NH sire Presenting who achieved the best result of all stallions over Christmas.
HE IS SIRE OF BOOTHILL, winner of the Grade 2 Wayward Lad Novices Chase and bought in 2019 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale for £125,000 by Kevin Ross Bloodstock. The Harry Fry-trained eightyear-old had form in the book going to the Kempton race – he had finished second to Jonbon at Sandown in the Grade 1 Henry VII Chase, albeit 8l behind the Hendersontrained son of Walk In The Park, and had won his two chases outings in October and November. His chase mark of 148 is already 12 points ahead of his best over hurdles.
Presenting’s daughter Credrojava, also trained by Fry, won a Listed hurdle at Taunton at the end of 2022 and was also
bought by Ross at Cheltenham (February 2022 for £80,000) as the winner of a pointto-point for Monbeg Stables. She is now a 20-1 chance for the mares’ novice hurdle at The Festival.
Presenting, so well regarded as a broodmare sire, did that reputation no harm at all this Christmas, his daughters producing a hat-trick of Grade 1 winners –Paisley Park, by Oscar and out of Presenting
Left: Paisley Park’s Christmas Hurdle win was a Kempton crowd pleaser, and, below, jockey Jack Kennedy celebrates with Conflated after their Savills Chase victory at Leopardstown
Fee: £12,500 (1st Oct SLF)
His First Crop yearlings sold in 2022 made €185,000, 140,000gns, $140,000, etc and trainers in 2023 include Andrew Balding, Pascal Bary, Ralph Beckett, Chad Brown, Mrs Jane Chapple-Hyam, Charlie Johnston, Sir Mark Prescott, Mrs John Harrington, David Simcock, Paddy Twomey, etc.
Winner of 3 races at 2 & 3, including the ‘Stallion Making’ Group 1 French Derby, and £1,033,142
The legendary DEEP IMPACT (Champion sire 10 times in Japan) sire of AUGUSTE RODIN – impressive winner of the Gr.1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes in 2022
ALSO STANDING: BOBBY’S KITTEN • SEA THE MOON • SIR PERCY
Shares, won the re-scheduled Long Walk Hurdle, while Conflated (Yeats), out of Saucy Present, took the Savills Chase and put himself on target for the Gold Cup.
The hat-trick was brought up by Home
By The Lee. Bredand retained by Sean
by Fame And Glory and out of the mare Going For Home, the Joseph O’Brientrained gelding took Leopardstown’s 3m Christmas Hurdle and is now favourite for the Stayers’ Hurdle.
O’Driscoll,The gelding’s year-older full-sister Beautiful Citi did achieve a Listed hurdle third-place behind non-other than Honeysuckle, and the pair boast the only black-type form in the family. The mare has not had the best of luck as a producer – from 11 pregnancies she has had seven live foals, and just the two winners by the late Fame And Glory.
She is due to Success Days in the spring and had a colt by Kamsin last year – he was sold at Fairyhouse bought by Stone Farm for €22,000.
Getaway, whose gilt has not been shining recently quite as bright as his stud
companion Walk In The Park, has a smart sort in Weveallbeencaught.
He was a £210,000 top lot at last February’s Tattersalls Cheltenham Sale when bought by trainer Nigel TwistonDavies and owner Jimmy Wenman, a rare big-priced purchase for the trainer.
The six-year-old won the Ballymore Maiden Hurdle at the Cheltenham New Year’s meeting, the victory realising Wenman’s dream of seeing a horse owned by him gallop up the Prestbury Park racecourse hill in front of his field. He is hoping the feat can be repeated in March.
Before purchase the gelding had won a Dromahane point-to-point for breeder Conor Murphy and trainer Michael Kennedy in December 2021, and after joining his new
was also run at Cheltenham.
After his New Year success, the excited trainer said: “He’s a big, powerful animal and surely hurdles aren’t what he’s made for. He’s very exciting. He’ll be better over 3m and he’ll come back for the Ballymore or Albert Bartlett in March, most likely the Albert Bartlett as we don’t want to take on Hermes Allen – we’re not stupid! He’s one of the priciest horses we’ve bought but he’s worth way more than they paid for him.”
The most rapid conversion over the Christmas fortnight from sale horse to winner was achieved by Fiercely Proud. He is by Iffraaj, an unlikely getter of NH horses, but bought at the 2022 November Cheltenham Sale by Kilbride Equine for Ben Pauling and owner Tim Radford for £125,000 from trainer-trader Don Cantillon.
The four-year-old enjoyed a New Year’s Day birthday win in the concluding Listed EBF Junior bumper on the Cheltenham
He had originally been purchased by Cantillon as an unraced prospect with Highflyer Bloodstock at the Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Salein 2021 from the Shadwell draft for 21,000gns. He is out of the Nayef mare Estiqaama who, in 2021, had bred a NH Flat race winner by Shamardal.
She is out of the Boadicea Stakes (L) winner Ethaara (Green Desert) and traces to the Shadwell foundation family of Bahhare and Bahri.
He’s one of the priciest horses we’ve bought but he’s worth way more than they paid for him
Moyglare Stud enjoyed a fantastic year in 2022 with four Group 1 wins by Kyprios, a Classic success for Homeless Songs and big sale ring purchases at the Arqana December Sale – bloodstock advisor Fiona Craig chats with James Thomas
“WHEN MOYGLARE FIRST STARTED MR HAEFNER used to get sent a letter from Ireland to Switzerland telling him his mare had foaled, that’s how long ago it was!” says Fiona Craig, who has spent 33 years as Moyglare Stud’s trusted bloodstock advisor. “This was pre fax, text and email, so if something really important happened he used to get a telegram.”
Although the means of communications may have changed over the last 60 years, there were still plenty of important events for Moyglare Stud to relay during 2022.
The milestone year marked the diamond anniversary of its founding by Swiss businessman and philanthropist Walter Haefner, and a flurry of significant victories highlighted just how well the operation has stood the test of time.
The image of Homeless Songs bounding clear in the Irish 1,000 Guineas will live long in the memory, while Kyprios ended the campaign with a champion stayers’ crown to go with a remarkable quartet of Group 1 victories.
Those top-level triumphs were supplemented at Gulfstream Park when Beautiful Lover landed the La Prevoyante Stakes (G3), while Thoughts Of June annexed the Cheshire Oaks (L) and Trevaunance won the Prix de la Nonette (G2) and Prix de Psyche (G2). All in all, it was a season to savour.
“Those good horses are so hard to acquire because there’s so much luck that goes into
it,” says Craig. “There’s so much hard work by so many people, so to stand there on the dais and get presented with the trophy is the end of a very long process.”
For Moyglare, that process began with the purchase of a dairy farm in County Kildare that came recommended by Major Eric Miville, breeder of the high-class two-yearold Turn-To.
A potted history of subsequent years shows that Haefner bred and sold top-class talents such as Assert, Bikala and Carwhite before a change in policy in 1981 meant his own colours were aboard when the likes of Brief Truce, Dance Design, Refuse To Bend and Trusted Partner won major Group 1 races in Europe.
There was also significant international
success with the likes of Belmont Stakes scorer Go And Go and as the breeder of Melbourne Cup hero Media Puzzle, both of whom were trained by Moyglare’s close ally Dermot Weld.
Walter’s passing in June 2012 at the age of 101 saw the reins handed to his daughter, Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner, who has overseen Moyglare’s famous colours being carried to many more notable successes.
Although they have been at the helm for different chapters in the stud’s story, the efforts of the father and daughter have become intertwined through the lineage of Moyglare’s homebreds, with many of the luminaries bred by Bucher-Haefner tracing back to mares purchased by Haefner several generations ago.
The pedigree of Homeless Songs, for example, goes back to her fifth dam Aptostar, who joined the fold at a cost of $750,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s ‘Night of The Stars’ Sale in Kentucky in November 1989. The breeding of Kyprios also brings the continuity at Moyglare into sharp relief, as the top-class stayer descends from Talking Picture, a champion two-year-old in the US who was purchased back in 1978.
While Craig notes that Moyglare is “basically the same stud” to the one that Haefner owned, Bucher Haefner has shown she is prepared to break with tradition should the right opportunity present itself.
The most noteworthy example being the horses Moyglare races in conjunction with various members of the Coolmore partners.
There’s so much hard work by so many people, so to stand there on the dais and get presented with the trophy is the end of a very long process
Moyglare’s Eva-Maria Bucher Haefner with the farm’s homebred filly Homeless Songs (Frankel) after winning the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas (G1)
These include the Group 3-placed Kiss You Later, Thoughts Of June and the mighty Kyprios, all of whom are by Galileo and trained by Aidan O’Brien.
Craig explains that the move was “purely financial, really,” adding: “Galileo’s fee was getting pricier and pricier, but at the end of the day it was probably deserved. It was Coolmore’s suggestion, and I can understand why they said let’s see if we can breed some horses together.
“Initially Eva had reservations because Moyglare has never done that before, but when you looked at the actual arithmetic it made some sense.”
The association was not an instant success, with Yankee Stadium, a Galileo colt out of Switch, failing to win and ultimately changing hands for modest money.
And, in truth, Kyprios has been something of a slow-burner too, as he was still to achieve black type when his three-yearold career came to a premature end after injuring himself in the stalls ahead of the Queen’s Vase.
However, as has been the case so many
in the colt and he has since gone unbeaten through six starts.
A remarkable campaign began with wins in the Vintage Crop and Saval Beg Stakes before a Group 1 romp through the Gold Cup, Goodwood Cup, Irish St Leger and Prix du Cadran.
“I’d lay money that Aidan had a suspicion, but I don’t think anybody thought he would be the Kyprios that he is now,” says Craig. But even O’Brien’s genius can only work with the right raw materials, and in Kyprios he had a colt with the kind of pedigree that always had the potential to produce something out of the
He is the tenth foal out of Moyglare’s blue-hen producer Polished Gem, a daughter of Danehill, who has a 100 per cent strike-rate with ten winners, eight of whom have struck in stakes company. They are headed by three Group 1 winners with Kyprios joined by his full-sister Search For A Song and the Prince of Wales’s Stakes hero Free Eagle, while Custom Cut and Sapphire also struck in Group 2 company. Although Polished Gem developed into one of the most
accomplished producers of recent times, it was in fact her older sister Dress To Thrill whom Moyglare initially earmarked for great things. While Dress To Thrill won the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes and the Sun Chariot Stakes, Polished Gem retired with just a heavy ground Leopardstown maiden win to her name.
“Polished Gem didn’t have a great constitution as a racehorse, which is amazing when you look at what she’s produced,” says Craig. “She wasn’t anything special and you wouldn’t have walked up to her in the field and gone ‘wow!’. Whereas Dress To Thrill you would, she had an aura about her that Polished never had. She was just a nice, straightforward, medium-sized bay mare.”
THE FACT THAT the full-siblings were so different in appearance and racing aptitude is typical of the line, as their ancestress Talking Picture visited Affirmed on six occasions and produced six quite different types. If there was one common denominator, however, it was the frequency with which her foals possessed well above average ability, as five of them gained black-type, the best of which was Kyprios’s granddam, Moyglare’s first Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, Trusted Partner.
“Talking Picture was still around when I joined,” says Craig. “She had 14 foals and six fillies by Affirmed that were all different colours, all different shapes and all different temperaments and all different aptitudes. She was just a medium-sized mare but she was very feisty, God she was as tough as nails.
“It came down through Trusted Partner, who won the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and then Dress To Thrill, who we thought would be the broodmare of a lifetime, although she never had anything that could run. But when it came to her little sister, Polished Gem, they could all run.”
Unlike Talking Picture, Polished Gem has never been wedded to one stallion, although it does reflect her early standing in the Moyglare pecking order that while Dress To Thrill visited the likes of Sadler’s Wells and Pivotal in their pomp, albeit with limited success, her younger sister had early covers
Polished Gem didn’t have a great constitution as a racehorse, which is amazing when you look at what she’s produced
to the somewhat less in-vogue Medicean and Notnowcato.
Despite the more humble covering fees involved, those matings yielded the Group 2 winners Sapphire and Custom Cut respectively. In 2010, she visited High Chaparral for the €15,000 covering that resulted in her first Group 1 winner, Free Eagle.
Her four foals by Galileo are all stakes winners, with Amma Grace and Falcon Eight both scoring at Listed level, while Kyprios and Search For A Song have six Group 1 successes between them.
“Search For A Song is more like Affirmed as she’s taller and leggier, whereas Kyprios would be stronger,” says Craig. “They have a full-sister to Amma Grace and she looks like a circus pony!
“She’s dark brown with four white legs that come up to her knees – you could see her from miles away. There’s something that comes through from Talking Picture that gives them a bit of fire, but you’re not going to get a carbon copy.”
While the late Polished Gem no longer features among the mating plans, her legacy is being kept alive by her daughters Amma Grace, who visited Dubawi for her debut covering in 2022, and the recently retired Search For A Song who, after some serious consideration, will be among the first book of mares bound for Shadwell’s champion Baaeed.
Although Moyglare don’t have to concern themselves with the “beauty competition” of commercial breeding, Craig says she sometimes finds herself holding her breath in anticipation of a well-credentialed maiden delivering her first foal.
As the rationale behind sending Search For A Song to Baaeed shows, the emphasis is always on the mare, rather than the stallion.
“She stays two miles, she’s as mad as a hatter and looks like an Affirmed, but she’s by Galileo out of a Danehill mare, so I didn’t feel happy with a lot of the obvious options,” says Craig on planning a mating for the dual Irish St Leger winner.
“The moment I saw Baaeed at Ascot I
thought that’s what she needs. It’s very much a physical mating and an aptitude mating, and his temperament for her is absolutely A1. Although I want to breed something with a bit of fire, I don’t want it to be as mad as a box of cats like her!
“Whatever Search For A Song does in her life now, Eva describes her as the ‘queen of her heart’, and I think she’s everyone at Moyglare’s heart.”
When full-siblings like Dress To Thrill and Polished Gem can have such wildly different attributes and aptitudes, breeding racehorses can be as confounding as it is captivating. It is a pursuit that is both art and a science, although Craig notes that Moyglare’s approach revolves around keeping things as uncomplicated as possible.
“I always say it’s about a bit of simplification,” she says. “We’ve got water, we’ve got grass. I think things can become very complicated but at the end of the day they’re four-legged furry things, they’re all basically the same but some can go faster than others.
“All you can do is raise them, and sometimes you just have to leave them in the field and let them grow.”
As well as a proven process and fertile land, Moyglare’s success is underpinned by a dedicated and highly skilled team, headed by stud manager Malachy Ryan.
Craig says Bucher-Haefner is acutely aware of the importance of those who work hands on with her horses, be that on the stud or once they enter training.
Her gratitude has manifested itself in a variety of ways, from deliveries of breakfasts and doughnuts to the stud and training yards, to sponsoring the stable staff canteen at The Curragh and funding the redevelopment of the gallops beside the famous racecourse.
“Eva really values stud and stable staff,” she says. “She does a lot of things for them as she appreciates that without the staff at all levels, we won’t have racing. I spoke to Aidan about this not so long ago. Everyone always laughs when he tries to list off every lad that’s ever touched the horse in his post-race
interviews, but do you know who hears that? The lads he mentions. It’s for them.
“It’s not always about handing out money, but it’s letting the lads know that when they’re working on a soaking wet day and the wind and rain is blowing across The Curragh, or when they’re dragging the mares in from the field and they’re knee-deep in
water, that actually they are appreciated. So much of it comes down to the people that are handling them, that are training them and the lads that are riding them.”
An anniversary year may have been an appropriate time for reflection, but there is plenty to look forward to in 2023 and beyond.
Besides a host of blue-chip matings in the pipeline, the likes of Homeless Songs, Kyprios, Thoughts Of June and Trevaunance remain in training, and will be joined by exciting recruits Malavath and Amazing Grace, who were bought at Arqana for €3.2 million and €850,000 respectively last December.
“You always have to strive to be better, and to sit back on our laurels and say ‘oh last year was a great year’ would be the worst thing we could do,” says Craig. “Now we have to keep striving and start looking to next year.”
A crystal ball may be required to determine what the next 60 years look like for Moyglare, but if the previous 60 are any guide, there will be no shortage of excitement.
You always have to strive to be better, and to sit back on our laurels and say ‘oh last year was a great year’ would be the worst thing we could doPhoto: Suzanna Lupa Malavath: purchased for €3,200,000 at the Arqana December Sale by Moyglare – the daughter of Mehmas is due to race on in 2023 in the US
STALLIONS ARE A PERPETUAL SURPRISE. Year after year, more often than not, the best young sires of each successive generation are not those who were the most expensive or popular when they retired to stud.
Or, to be more precise, sometimes the most popular and expensive do turn out to be good, but every year there are others who significantly outperform the general perception of their chances of success.
For every Frankel there will always be plenty whose stallion career trajectory is more like that of Kodiac, Lope De Vega, Showcasing, Le Havre, Siyouni, Wootton Bassett or Galiway – stallions who started out relatively cheap and were undervalued or ignored by most of those who could have used them through their first years at stud.
New stallions are generally judged on their racing
career and, above all, on their most recent performances, their own sire and their physical looks.
Important as these factors undoubtedly are there are other characteristics to take into account, not least how a horse’s attributes are likely to meld with those of the mare population available to him, as well as the people who are in control of that stallion’s career.
Making a stallion is in some ways a process similar to a painter mixing colour to produce the tint, shade and tone required.
At every stage what needs to be added depends upon what is there already, and each addition changes the balance and what will be needed in the future.
It is a procedure learned from experience and is not from an exact equation; it will not succeed every time, however experienced and skilled those making the decisions are.
Sealiway, the dual Group 1-winning son of Galiway
who has retired to the newly established Haras de Beaumont to begin his stallion career in 2023 has, on this line of reasoning, a lot going for him.
By Galiway out of a mare by Kendargent, Sealiway will be able to cover many of the mares currently in France and the only breeder who may struggle to find suitable mates for him is Sealiway’s own breeder Guy Pariente, who stands and frequently uses both Galiway and Kendargent.
Sealiway raced for a partnership between the Chehboub family’s Haras de la Gousserie and Pariente, who retained 30 per cent when the colt was sold at the Arqana August Sale in 2019. Both have kept a significant interest in the horse for his second career.
Pariente has been France’s champion breeder in two of the last four seasons and finished in the top three in the other years. The Chehboub family, and in particular Kamel Chehboub and his daughter Pauline, has become
a major player in French racing over recent seasons.
They family has finished amongst the top ten leading owners in France in each of the last two years and currently has 55 horses in training. The family is planning to send 25 to 3o mares to Sealiway this year.
The Haras de Beaumont has been established on 220 acres in the commune of Vauville close to Deauville on part of what was previously the Head family’s Haras du Quesnay. It will be managed by Mathieu Alex, who together with Sylvain Vidal, played a major role in establishing Le Havre as a leading European sire at what was at the time the Haras de la Cauvinière.
Alex left his position at Sumbe, the stud which has been developed on the previous Cauvinière after owner Nurlan Bizakov purchased the farm and where Mishriff and Golden Horde stand today, at the end of June 2022 and took up this new position two months later.
“I have known Kamel [Chehboub] for ten years,”
Above, the highly capable Mathieu Alex, massively experienced at developing successful stallion careers, is managing Beaumont for the Chehboub family
explains Alex, “and the project of setting up a base to stand Sealiway and other stallions now and in the future is a very attractive one.
“The Chehboub family wishes to do things correctly and I am excited to be part of the endeavor. When we first spoke about moving their breeding operation to Normandy, I never thought we would end up on part of Quesnay and it is a great privilege to maintain this land on which Alec Head and his family achieved so much.”
In addition to Sealiway, Haras de Beaumont is now also home to the Prix du Jockey-Club winner Intello, who has moved across the road from the old Quesnay stallion complex, as well as Stunning Spirit. He is a son of Invincible Spirit, who has moved for his third season.
There is also the Chehboub family’s existing broodmare band of around 25, as well as the new mares who were purchased at Goffs and Arqana in order to go visit Sealiway this year.
At the autumn’s breeding stock sales, Haras de Beaumont purchased 12 mares and fillies, including the good racemares such as Split Trois, Forces Of Darkness and Flemish Duchess, as well as Key Success, the dam of the fast stakes horses Axdavali and Axdaliva.
“We wanted to buy some good racemares,” adds Alex. “When Sylvain [Vidal] and I bought the first fillies and mares for Le Havre we decided to buy different physical types in order to find out which suited the horse best, and the idea is the same again.”
“A top racehorse such as Sealiway has every chance of becoming a leading sire, too,” Alex expands. “His future depends upon attracting quality mares and then trying to ensure his early foals end up with the right trainers.
“Sealiway’s owners will be supporting him with the aim of putting his progeny into training themselves, to give him every chance of proving himself as a stallion.
“Sealiway was an exceptional racehorse. There are few capable of winning over 6f at two and then going on to run in two Arc de Triomphes and win a Group 1 at Ascot over 1m2f.
“Of course, we can’t be sure he will be a top sire, a great deal depends upon the temperament he passes on to his progeny, that will to win. I always feel that with horses what you can’t see is often more important than what you can.”
Sealiway starts his career at a fee of €12,000, which is in many ways surprisingly low for a horse who won two Group 1s and had an official rating of 123.
“We wanted people to feel good about him,” Alex says, “and to believe that he is standing at a fair price. If he is as good a sire as we believe he will become he will have no trouble commanding a higher fee in the future.”
Alex himself comes from Roanne, a town in the Loire
department in central France not too far from Lyon.
“I always adored horses and riding,” he recalls, “but my first contact with racehorses came from doing a season of sales preparation at the Haras de Capucines the year I finished my baccalaureate.”
The experience was strong enough to set him on the path to a future in the bloodstock world and, after completing the Irish National Stud course where he met and became friends with Vidal, he moved for a stint to Coolmore.
He later joined Vidal at La Cauvinière in time to play a central role in launching Le Havre.
Then it was impossible to visit any stud farm in France, however small or far away from the main breeding areas, without hearing about a visit from Alex and Vidal who had come to talk about Le Havre.
“I love breeding,” Alex laughs at the memory, “and meeting and talking to breeders. It has always been a pleasure to breed myself and support the stallions I have worked with.”
When asked why so many of Le Havre’s best horses were bred by either Gerard Augustin Normand, Vidal or Alex, the stud man laughs: “It is because between us we sent him many more mares than anybody else!”
Stunning Spirit after his victory in Doha in the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup. The son of Invincible Spirit, whose winning Dynaformer dam is a sister to Rainbow View, winner of the Fillies’ Mile (G1) and the Matron Stakes (G1), ended his racing career on a high with success in the Group 3 Prix Quincey
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THIS SPRING sees 21 new Flat or dual-purpose sires retire to stud at a fee above £/€3,000, just one down on the 22 retirees of 2022.
The 21 does include Baaeed, who alongside the US star Flightline, was rated the best horse in the world last year. Accordingly, he has been given the top fee of this batch of European sires at £80,000.
Only two sires are doubly represented by new sons at stud in 2023 – Mehmas, courtesy of Caturra and Minzaal, the second and third to head to stud by the Tally-Ho Stud-based sire, who now stands at €60,000, and Sea The Stars via Baaeed and Stradivarius, the latter at a £10,000 covering fee.
Mishriff, who has a delayed start to his covering season, is jointly the most expensive new sire on the Europe continent alongside Torquator Tasso, both starting their stud careers off at €20,000.
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The Cartier Horse of the Year, a six-time Group 1 winner from a mile to 1m2f descended from Shadwell’s blue hen Height Of Fashion and a son of the brilliant Sea The Stars; Baaeed is the most expensive new stallion in Europe and an exciting prospect for Shadwell Stud as it embarks on a new era under Sheikha Hissa’s direction.
A full-brother to last season’s Group 1 Coronation Cup winner Hukum, Baaeed was an outstanding racehorse and, with an official rating of 135, is the best sired so far by Sea The Stars.
Unraced at two, trainer William Haggas unveiled the bay in a Leicester maiden in early June 2021, it was an outing that launched a ten-race winning streak that took Baaeed to the highest peaks of the sport.
His second start, over the same trip, at Newmarket, created quite the impression, and he started a shade of odds-on in his next race, the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes against a field that included the previous season’s Group 3 Autumn Stakes winner and Group 1 Vertem Futurity runner-up One Ruler. As it transpired, the victory set a template that Baaeed would adhere to almost until the end of his racing career.
The Group 3 Glorious Stakes at Goodwood was next on the agenda and it was a similar result and the clamour for Baaeed to step into Group 1 company grew to a cacophony. That first outing at the highest level came in the Prix du Moulin in a field that included Group 1 winners Victor Ludorum, Order Of Australia and Snow Lantern.
For the first time in his short career, Baaeed had to show a bit of tenacity to cope with the race tactics and the softened ground but he returned to the Longchamp winners’ enclosure as a Group 1 winner setting up a thrilling clash with the yearolder Palace Pier in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. The younger horse won the clash of the generations and was crowned champion three-year-old miler for 2021.
Kept in training at four, Baaeed picked up the Group 1-winning thread in the Lockinge Stakes and carried it into the Queen Anne Stakes where he was a winner once more
over Real World and Order Of Australia.
At Goodwood for the Sussex Stakes, he triumphed over Darley’s dual Breeders’ Cup winner Modern Games and the previous year’s winner Alcohol Free, the mare heading into the race after her glorious day at Newmarket.
The desire to see what Baaeed, usually such a strong finisher over a mile, could do when stepped up to 1m2f was strong and the colt went on to York and produced his finest performance when putting daylight between himself and Mishriff.
The Irish Champion Stakes, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes were all mooted as possible final races for Baaeed, but in the end connections plumped for the 1m2f Champion Stakes.
On rain-softened ground, he never showed anything like his usual form and crossed the line in fourth behind Bay Bridge, Adayar and My Prospero.
It was a shame his glittering career ended in defeat, but Baaeed is an excellent and exciting stallion prospect.
He is out of the Listed Prix de Liancourt winner Aghareed (Kingmambo) and her dam Lahudood (Singspiel) won the Grade 1 Flower Bowl Invitational and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. She is a half-sister to the Listed winner Kareemah and fourth dam, the Listed Cheshire Oaks second Beshayer, is a half-sister to the Nayef, Nashwan and Unfuwain.
Baaeed is bred on the outstanding Sea The Stars-Kingmambo cross, which has produced 20 winners from 20 runners
with eight of them successful in black-type contests. It gives a stakes winners-to-runners rate of 40 per cent and a Group 1 winners to runners strike-rate of 20 per cent.
Sea The Stars, who now has five sons at stud, is the sire of 102 stakes winners with 19 of them coming at Group 1 level and he added four more to that tally in 2022.
As well as Hukum and Baaeed, he has sired the British Champions Filly and Mares winner Emily Upjohn who was runner-up to Tuesday in the Oaks, and Sea La Rosa, victorious in the Prix la Royallieu.
No Nay Never-Muirin (Born To Sea)
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€25,000
No Nay Never’s price hike for the 2019 breeding season, on the back of the success earned by his first runners, proved a justified one when that crop came to make their own racecourse debuts in 2022.
Bred at an advertised fee of €100,000 No Nay Never’s juveniles of 2022 increased his northern-hemisphere Group 1 tally to five and in total that crop yielded six individual juvenile Group winners.
One of those two-year-old Group 1 winners was Blackbeard, victorious in the Prix Morny and Middle Park Stakes, and the sole new stallion at Coolmore’s Irish home for 2023.
Bred by Newstead Breeding, he is the first foal out of Muirin, a daughter of Born To Sea who was fourth in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at two for trainer Eddie Lynam and owner Robert Moran. She was sold at the end of her three-year-old season for €210,000 to Broadhurst Agency from Baroda and Colbinstown Studs.
Muirin is out of the Group 3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes and Listed Sweet Mimosa Stakes winner Girouette, a daughter of Pivotal, which suggests plenty of speed influences on both sides of Blackbeard’s family.
The colt was bought as a foal for 270,000gns by Jamie McCalmont from Norelands Stud and he made a winning debut over 5f at Dundalk in April last year. His next start returned a narrow win over Crispy Cat in the Listed First Flier Stakes at The Curragh –the vanquished horse went on to finish third in the Norfolk and Flying Childers Stakes.
Baaeed was an outstanding racehorse and, with an official rating of 135, is the best sired so far by Sea The Stars
Stepped up to 6f for the Group 3 Marble Hill Stakes, Blackbeard made all to win but then was only fourth behind Bradsell, Persian Force and Royal Scotsman in the Coventry Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot. Next up he took second to Shartash in the Group 2 Railway Stakes at The Curragh before he resumed winning ways in the Group 2 Prix Robert Papin at Chantilly.
He returned to France for his first start in Group 1 company and the Prix Morny – he proved more than up to the task and reversed Ascot form with Persian Force.
His defeat of that rival and The Antarctic
and
Bred at an advertised fee of €100,000 No Nay Never’s juveniles of 2022 increased his northern-hemisphere Group 1 tally to five
in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes was even more impressive and an easier job than his French victory over that pair, who finished in a different order from their French result.
Speculation over what trip would suit
Blackbeard at three, if he would get the Guineas trip or be more of a sprinter, came to naught when it was announced that he had suffered an injury in training precipitating his early retirement to stud, where he stands
alongside his sire. No Nay Never’s fee for the 2023 season is now €175,000 matching his highest price from the 2020 season.
No Nay Never is now the sire of seven individual Group 1 winners with last season also yielding the Phoenix Stakes winner Little Big Bear and Meditate, who ended 2022 by adding the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) to her three Group victories and her second place finishes in the Cheveley Park Stakes (G1) and Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).
His total of stakes winners so far is 45 from five crops of racing age with his most expensively bred foals now two-year-olds of 2023.
Blackbeard’s broodmare sire Born To Sea is the final foal out of the blue hen Urban Sea and won the Listed Blenheim Stakes at two and was runner-up to Camelot in the Irish Derby.
Having stood in France since 2019, Born To Sea is now the broodmare sire of eight winners from 20 runners on the Flat, Blackbeard the sole Group winner out of one of his daughters so far.
€25,000
Stud
The winner of four Group 1s in four different countries and in three different continents, State Of Rest’s stallion career is already planned as one to encompass both hemispheres – he is part-owned by the Australian-based Newgate Stud and will shuttle there after his first season at Rathbarry is completed.
One of six Group 1 winners sired by Starspangledbanner, whose fertility issues appear to be behind him, State Of Rest demonstrated toughness and talent in a 13race career that began with success over 6f on debut at two for Joseph O’Brien. He was then third in the Group 2 Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, coping with the hindrance of a lost shoe.
A sparse three-year-old campaign paid off spectacularly for State Of Rest, who began the season in Ireland by finishing third in the Listed Celebration Stakes at The Curragh on Irish Derby weekend and then went to Saratoga for the Grade 1 Derby, where he
earned the first of his top-level victories over a field that included Bolshoi Ballet.
An audacious Australian adventure was next on the cards and that yielded a narrow victory over Anamoe in the famous Cox Plate (G1).
His first start at four came in another country, although in Europe – he went to Longchamp for the Prix Ganay (G1), a race in which he defeated Group 1 winners including Sealiway, Mare Australis and Skaletti.
The colt’s bid for a fourth Group 1 win in a fourth different country came unstuck in the Tattersalls Gold Cup when third to Alenquer, but the feat was only postponed – on his very next start in Royal Ascot’s 1m2f Prince Of Wales’s Stakes he defeated Bay Bridge, Grand Glory, Shahryar and Lord North to earn that fourth Group 1.
Dropped to a mile for the Group 1 Prix Jacques le Marois, State Of Rest failed to fire on what proved to be the final start of his racing career.
The five-year-old was bred by Tinnakill Bloodstock out of the Quiet American mare Repose and sold for 45,000gns as a foal to Diamond Bloodstock. Joseph O’Brien and Aidan O’Ryan purchased him for 60,000gns from the draft of Whatton Manor Stud at Book 2.
He is one of two winners from three runners produced by his unraced dam, who was sold privately to Juddmonte last year. His three-year-old half-sister Tranquil Lady (Australia) won the Group 3 Blue Wind Stakes last season and was bought by Godolphin for 2.7m guineas in a Sceptre Session of the December Mare Sale.
Repose is a half-sister to the Listed winners Echo River and Alzain out of the Listed Virginia Stakes winner Monaassabaat. She is a daughter of Zilzal and the US champion It’s In The Air whose five Grade 1 victories included the Alabama Stakes and the Delaware Oaks.
Monaassabaat is also a half-sister to Try To
Catch Me, dam of Group/Grade 1 Champion Stakes, Clement L Hirsch Memorial Turf Championship and Charles Whittingham Handicap winner Storming Home.
Try To Catch Me is also the second dam of Australian Group 1 winner Glencadam Gold. Another of Monaassabaat’s half-sisters is the dam of Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Musical Chimes (In Excess) and triple Grade 1 winner Music Note (A.P. Indy), who in turn is the dam Dubai World Cup winner Mystic Guide (Ghostzapper).
Starspangledbanner is now the sire of 25 stakes winners and in 2022 and in three continents. He added three new Group 1 winners to his resume – Aristia won the Prix Jean Romanet, Rhea Moon claimed the Santa Anita Oaks and California Spangle emerged as a new star in Hong Kong.
State Of Rest’s broodmare sire Quiet American is most notably the damsire of the outstanding Bernardini and Saint Liam, whose only crop of foals included the champion Havre De Grace.
Make Believe-Contradict (Raven’s Pass) Sumbe
€20,000
A globe-trotting Group 1 winner who also won the Saudi Cup on Dirt, Mishriff is from the same family as Invincible Spirit and Kodiac.
A homebred for Prince Faisal and from the first crop of his own Classic-winning stallion Make Believe (Makfi), Mishriff was a consistent performer at the highest level around the globe over three seasons, frequently mixing it with the very best.
Sent into training with John Gosden by owner Prince Faisal, Mishriff didn’t appear until the end of his two-year-old season and he won a Nottingham maiden on his third start.
He was seen next in Saudi Arabia where he contested the Saudi Derby on Dirt and finished second, showing an important liking for the surface that would prove lucrative a year later.
Back in Britain for his next run, he won the Listed Newmarket Stakes before his Classic triumph in the Prix du Jockey-Club (G1) from a field that included Victor Ludorum who finished third with The Summit separating
the pair in second.
That form was confirmed on Mishriff’s next start in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano when the first three from Chantilly filled the exact same three places in Deauville although Mishriff increased his winning margin.
His final start of the season was in the Champion Stakes (G1) at Ascot in which he finished down the field.
His four-year-old career began in Riyadh, just as he had done in the previous season, and despite facing a field that included the Grade 1 winner Charlatan and the multiple Grade 1 winner Knicks Go, already a Breeders’ Cup winner who would go on to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic, Mishriff saw off allcomers to win the valuable contest.
From Saudi Arabia he travelled to Dubai but returned to Turf for the Group 1 Sheema Classic where he took on Japanese stars Chrono Genesis and Loves Only You, who would go on to become a Breeders’ Cup winner. This first attempt at 1m4f was a successful one as he won by a neck from Chrono Genesis with Loves Only You another neck behind in third.
Back in Europe, he took third to St Mark’s Basilica in the Eclipse Stakes (G1) at Sandown and then ran second to Derby winner Adayar in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
He added a third Group 1 triumph in the Juddmonte International at York with an impressively easy 6l victory over Alenquer with Love back in third. His final start of the season was once more in the Champion Stakes and this time he was fourth behind Sealiway.
February 2022 saw Mishriff in Saudi Arabia for the third year in a row, but he was much below his best in the Saudi Cup and then didn’t race again until the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in early July.
He only just failed to overhaul Prix du Jockey-Club winner Vadeni in the dying
strides, going down by a neck to the Aga Khan’s homebred son of Churchill.
Mishriff took third behind Pyledriver and Torquator Tasso back in the King George before chasing home Baaeed in the Juddmonte International.
Leopardstown saw him finish fourth to Luxembourg in the Irish Champion Stakes before tackling the Arc. On his final start, he was fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland.
From the first crop of Make Believe, Mishriff is out of the winning Raven’s Pass mare Contradict. Prior to foaling Mishriff, she had produced the Listed Prix de Saint Patrick winner Orbaan (Invincible Spirit) and the Group 3 Craven and Supreme Stakes second Momkin (Bated Breath).
Contradict is out of the Group 3 Princess Royal Stakes and Listed Prix des Tourelles winner Acts Of Grace, a Bahri half-sister to Invincible Spirit and Kodiac. Acts Of Grace is also a half-sister to Group 3 John Porter Stakes winner Sadian, the Group 3-placed Aquarius and the Listed third Al Widyan.
Massarra, her half-sister by Danehill, won the Listed Empress Stakes and was second in both the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and the Nell Gwyn Stakes (G3).
She is the dam of the Group 1 winner Nayarra (Cape Cross), the Group 2 Superlative Stakes winner and multiple Group 1-placed Gustav Klimt (Galileo), the Group 3 winner Wonderfully (Galileo) and the Listed winners Friendly, Blissful and Cuff as well as the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) third Mars, who are all by Galileo.
Middle Persia, her daughter by Dalakhani, is the dam of Listed Lingfield Derby Trial winner Kilimanjaro (High Chaparral).
Mishriff’s third dam, therefore, is the mighty Rafha, winner of the Prix de Diane.
The Kris mare is also a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Chiang Mai (Sadler’s Wells), who is the dam of Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Chinese White (Dalakhani).
A globe-trotting Group 1 winner who also won the Saudi Cup on Dirt, Mishriff is from the same family as Invincible Spirit and Kodiac
Another of her half-sisters, the Listedplaced Al Anood is the dam of dual Group 1 winner and sire Pride Of Dubai (Street Cry), while another half-sister is the third dam of champion two-year-old Pinatubo (Shamardal).
At stud, Make Believe is the sire of five Group and two Listed winners from a total of 12 stakes performers, which gives 4.4 per cent stakes winners-to-runners.
The family’s leading sires Invincible Spirit and Kodiac could give breeders clues as to the mares that might suit Mishriff.
Adlerflug-Tijuana (Toylsome)
Gestüt Auenquelle
€20,000
The surprise Arc winner of 2021 whose form was there to be seen if anyone cared to look, Torquator Tasso retires to stud with the hopes of a nation resting on his withers.
The winner of six of his 16 starts which include three Group 1 victories, he is a triumph for his breeder Paul Vandeburg whose only mare is Torquator Tasso’s dam Tijuana. The remarkable daughter of Toylsome is now the dam of two individual Group 1 winners from three runners as Tunnes, her now four-year-old son of Guiliani, won the Grosser Preis von Bayern last season.
Torquator Tasso was a bargain buy for Gestüt Auenquelle at the 2018 BBAG October Yearling Sale where he was picked up for just €20,000.
Unraced at two, he began his career as a three-year-old for trainer Marcus Weiss and gave early indications of his talent with a maiden success over 1m3f before running second to In Swoop in the Deutsches Derby (G1). He was then third to Barney Roy in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden before collecting his first Group 1 in the Grosser Preis von Berlin. He ended his first racing season by finishing second in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern.
At four, he resumed winning ways in the Group 2 Grosser Hansa Preis before bumping into Alpinista in the Grosser Preis von Berlin, a race that produced successive Arc winners in the pair.
He beat that season’s Deutsches Derby
winner Sisfahan in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden, which was the warm-up event for his Parisian triumph. His Arc victory saw him run down Group 1 winners Tarnawa and Hurricane Lane in the final furlong with Adayar, Sealiway, Snowfall and Chrono Genesis filling the next four positions. His five-year-old season got off to a disappointing start in the Group 2 Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft, but he redeemed himself with success in the Group 2 Grosser Hansa Preis.
A bid to emulate Danedream and Novellist in the King George was thwarted by Pyledriver, but his second place earned Torquator Tasso plaudits.
He was paired up with Frankie Dettori for the first time in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden and the duo split Mendocino and the dual Group 1 winner Sammarco before a return to Paris and Longchamp’s seasonal feature.
He stayed on well from the back of the pack to finish third, less than a length behind Alpinista and Vadeni, proving that he was entitled to be considered a proper Group 1 horse.
And indeed Torquator Tasso has the genes to be a successful stallion as he hails from one of Germany’s most outstanding families and inbred to the great Allegretta and her full-sister Alya.
Torquator Tasso’s dam Tijuana was bred by Gestüt Schlenderhann, who has cultivated this family over many generations. She is a half-sister to the Group 2 Diana Trial winner Tusked Wings and the Group 3 Premio St Leger Italiano second Tangut, both by Torquator Tasso’s sire Adlerflug. Her other half-siblings include the Listed-placed pair of
Tahini (Medicean)and Titurel (Dr Fong).
They are out of Tucana, a winning Acatenango half-sister to the five-time Group 3 winner and leading sire Tertullian, closely related to Urban Sea being by Miswaki and out of her half-sister Turbaine.
Tucana is also a half-sister to the Group 3 winner Terek and Tusculum (Sadler’s Wells), who won the Listed Ballycullen Stakes.
Torquator Tasso’s third dam is Turbaine, who was second in the Listed Prix Occitanie and is a Trempolino half-sister to the incredible Urban Sea.
Adlerflug’s second dam Alya is a Lombard full-sister to Allegretta making Torquator Tasso inbred 4 x 5 to her dam Anatevka.
Adlerflug was only starting to gain wider recognition when he died at the start of the 2021 breeding season, and his loss has left a space in the industry which Auenquelle hope to fill with his best son.
The chestnut is one of seven individual Group 1 winners sired by the Deutsches Derby and Deutschland Preis winner, who is a son of In The Wings. The sire-line has flourished in Germany through both Adlerflug and Soldier Hollow.
Ardad-Sagely (Frozen Power)
Dalham Hall Stud
£15,000
A new sire for Darley, but one that was made in Tally-Ho Stud as a son of Ardad and grandson of Kodiac.
Perfect Power was a breeze-up star and a brilliant two-year-old who trained on to be a Group 1 sprinter at three.
He was bred by Tally-Ho from the first crop of another of its recent star graduates, the Flying Childers and Windsor Castle Stakes winner Ardad.
Perfect Power was bought for £110,000 by Richard Brown of Blandford Bloodstock and was third on debut for Richard Fahey.
He put that experience to good use when winning on his second start, and without having previously contested a black-type race, he went straight to Royal Ascot for the Norfolk Stakes (G2) in which he nailed Go Bears Go in the dying strides.
A bad trip in the Richmond Stakes (G2) on his next outing saw him finish fifth but he was
Torquator Tasso has the genes to be a successful stallion as he hails from one of Germany’s most outstanding families
10% BLACKTYPE / RUNNERS WITH HIS FIRST CROP OF 3-YEAR-OLDS
A HIGHER RATIO OF GROUP WINNERS THAN NEW BAY, SEA THE STARS, CAMELOT, DARK ANGEL, SIYOUNI OU LOPE DE VEGA
THE STALLION THAT HAS COVERED THE MOST MARES IN FRANCE IN 2022
G1 winning son of Wootton Bassett 1st yearlings in 2023
AL WUKAIR
4 Blacktype with his 1st 3-year-olds this year, and 11 individual 2-year-old winners inc. Blacktype RIBERA
From his first crop, Sire of 2-year-old G1 winner EBRO RIVER & G1 performer OSCULA
ARMOR
2yo Group winner & G1-placed by sire sensation No Nay Never 1st foals in 2023
Dual G1 & Classic winner 1st yearlings in 2023
45% winners / runners
From small crops, 2 Blacktype inc. 2-year-old BEIRUT
G1-winning 2-year-old & multiple G1 performer over 7f New in 2023
Sire of 7 Group winners inc.
G1 winners GRAND GLORY & WATCH ME & G1 performer JANNAH FLOWER
quickly back to winning ways in his very first Group 1 outing in the Prix Morny. The colt showed that 6f was well within his scope and repeated that in the Middle Park Stakes for a second Group 1 success.
He managed to eke out enough from his reserves to win the Group 3 Craven Stakes on his seasonal reappearance but the mile of the Guineas was beyond him.
He was then dropped back to sprint trips, and earned a third Group 1 victory in Royal Ascot’s Commonwealth Cup but that was to be his final race win.
His pedigree is an interesting one – his dam Sagely is a daughter of Frozen Power, an Oasis Dream half-brother to Finsceal Beo and the winner of the German 2,000 Guineas.
Sagely won over a mile and 1m2f and is a half-sister to the Listed Upavon Stakes second Sagaciously, dam of Listed Prix Pelleas winner Epic Poet.
Third dam Saga D’Ouilly is a full-sister to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) winner and sire Sagamix and to Sage Et Jolie, the dam of Group 1 winner Sageburg. She is also a half-sister to the Group 1 winner Sagacity and to Shastye, the dam of Group 1 winning fullbrothers Japan and Mogul, as well as Secret Gesture and Sir Isaac Newton.
Perfect Power is from the first crop of Ardad and was the first Group 1 winner for him. Group 3 Sirenia Stakes winner Eve Lodge is also from Ardad’s first crop and they are now four-year-olds.
New Bay-Alava (Anabaa)
Ballylinch Stud
€15,000
Bayside Boy joins his sire New Bay on a Ballylinch Stud roster that is one of the most potent in Europe.
The four-year-old, who had been wellregarded by connections throughout saved his best for last when taking a first top-level success in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot last October.
Bayside Boy was a homebred for Ballylinch Stud, but the farm were so taken with him that they agreed to retain a share when selling him to Richard Ryan on behalf of Teme Valley at Tattersalls October Book 2 for 200,000gns.
Trained by Roger Varian, Bayside Boy was
a classy juvenile who made a winning start to his life as a racehorse in a Newbury 7f maiden. He then was runner-up to subsequent Derby fourth Masekela in the Listed Denford Stakes, before showing enormous promise with his victory in Doncaster’s Group 2 Champagne Stakes.
He was then tried at Group 1 level in the Dewhurst, and proved himself amongst the best of his generation when third to Native Trail. He then filled the same position in the Vertem Futurity when denied a clear passage behind Luxembourg.
The first three starts of his three-year-old career were disappointing – he finished down the field in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) and St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) and was then fourth in the Group 3 Thoroughbred Stakes.
A preference for soft ground helped spark him alive once more in the autumn with victory in the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown setting him up for his party-pooping triumph at Ascot.
He is a half-brother to Forest Ranger (Lawman), twice a winner of the Group 2 Huxley Stakes and also successful in the Earl Of Sefton and Darley Stakes, both Group 3s.
Another of his half-siblings, the Rip Van Winkle mare Home Cummins, was third in the Listed Fleur de Lys Stakes and is the dam of a winner.
Their dam Alava won the Listed Prix Occitanie and is an Anabaa half-sister to the Listed third Almaguer out of Cerita, who was second in a trio of Listed contests in France and is a daughter of Wolfhound.
Bayside Boy is one of three Group 1 winners from the first two crops of New Bay, who has made an exciting start at stud.
The Prix du Jockey-Club winner by Dubawi has sired seven individual Group winners to date, three at Group 1 level, earning a fee increase to €75,000 for this season.
Mehmas-Pardoven (Clodovil)
Derrinstown Stud
€15,000
A Gimcrack winner who broke Haydock’s track record when winning the Group 1 Sprint Cup as a four-year-old, the first-crop son of Mehmas was bred by one of the best Irish nurseries and is an exciting recruit for the Irish division of Shadwell’s operation.
Bred by Ringfort Stud out of the Clodovil mare Pardoven, Minzaal was only twice out of the first three in an 11-race career which began with fourth place in a maiden but improved exponentially from there.
A Salisbury novice was the setting for his first win and he was then pitched straight into
Group company proving more than up to the task with an easy success in the Gimcrack.
His fourth and final run of the season was in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes and he provided his sire with a first season 1-3 –he was the third-placed horse with Supremacy the winner, and Lucky Vega filling in the Mehmas sandwich.
Although at one time regarded as a possible for the Commonwealth Cup, Minzaal did not return to the track until the autumn of his three-year-old season and made a pleasing comeback in the Listed Rous Stakes, where he was second on his first start over 5f and on soft ground. That run teed him up for the British Champions Sprint and, back up to 6f, he demonstrated that he had lost none of his class when third to Creative Force and Glen Shiel.
Kept in training at four, with eyes on some glittering prizes, he began his third season with a third to Highfield Princess in the Group 2 Duke Of York Stakes. The only disappointing run of his career was in the Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes, which was won by Naval Crown.
Returned to Group 3 company for the
Hackwood Stakes, he recorded the first win of his career since the Gimcrack before he was once more was thwarted by Highfield Princess in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
A triumphant end to his career came in the Sprint Cup, a scintillating success which set a speed record for Haydock, and earned Minzaal his stallion berth at Derrinstown.
He is one of two winners out of Pardoven, an unraced Clodovil half-sister to the Group 3 Gordon Stakes second Firebet, and to Seeking The Prize, a son of Zafonic who was also Group 3-placed. Her half-brothers Special War (Warning) and Dilshaan’s Prize (Dilshaan) were both third in Italian Listed races.
Minzaal’s second dam Dancing Prize finished third in the Listed Lingfield Oaks Trial and is a Sadler’s Wells sister to Dance To The Top, who was second in the Fillies’ Mile and is the dam of Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed Bankable.
She is also half-sister to the Listed City of York Stakes winner and the Group 1 Underwood Stakes second Polar Bear.
His sire Mehmas hit the ground running at Tally-Ho and has kept going in remarkable
style with 20 stakes winners from his first three crops, three of them Group 1 winners. None were bred at a fee higher than €12,500, a fraction of the €60,000 he now commands.
Kildangan Stud
€15,000
The latest wave of Dubawi’s stallion sons have ensured their brilliant sire will have a lasting impact as the head of a line of stallions.
And Naval Crown, as a Group 1-winning sprinter son of Dubawi, is a rare commodity.
Third on debut and in the 7f Listed Pat Eddery Stakes in his first two runs, he then won the Convivial Stakes (7f) at York.
He was sent to France for his next start in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette, where he finished third to Go Athletico and Sealiway, who went on to win the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère. Naval Crown returned to France for his fifth and final juvenile start which resulted in another third place finish, this time in the Group 3 Prix Thomas Bryon.
Winter in Dubai beckoned and first time out he earned another Group 3 third, this time in the UAE 2,000 Guineas before earning his first stakes win in the Listed Meydan Classic.
On his return to Britain he finished second in the Listed European Free Handicap and then fourth in the 2,000 Guineas and second in the Jersey Stakes (G3).
Another winter in Meydan yielded a Group 2 win in the Al Fahidi Fort and fourth in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint.
He proved that he belongs at the top level when he carried his Dubai form into Royal Ascot and made the breakthrough in the Platinum Jubilee Stakes.
He then found only Alcohol Free too strong in the July Cup, and in total he won or was placed in 12 of his 20 starts.
He is the first runner and winner out of the Listed Prix Almandine winner Come Alive, a Dansili daughter of the Listed Severals Stakes winner Portrayal, who was second in the Group 3 Prix d’Aumale and third in the Prix Robert Papin. The Saint Ballado mare is also the dam of the Listed-placed Belle Boyd.
Under the fourth dam are the good horses as Cerulean Sky, Moonstone and L’Ancresse.
Scintillating Royal Ascot specialist and the per fect example of the best Royal Ascot juvenile sire line. Last-to-first victories in the G1 Commonwealth Cup, G1 Middle Park, G1 Prix Morny and G2 Norfolk. His powers of acceleration: exactly the sor t of thing that makes our spor t so thrilling.
£15,000 Oct 1, SLF Dalham Hall Stud, UK
Galiway-Kensea (Kendargent)
Haras de Beaumont
€12,000
A Group 1 winner at two and three, Sealiway’s stallion career marks a major milestone for the Chehboub family’s involvement in bloodstock as they have established Haras de Beaumont where the grandson of Galileo will stand.
Sealiway is a product of Guy Pariente’s breeding programme and was bought by Paul Nataf for €62,000 as yearling from Haras de Colleville.
He was out early at two, making a winning debut over 6f in May and then won over the same trip at Chantilly before finishing third to King’s Harlequin and Go Athletico in the Listed Prix Roland de Chambure.
He earned his Listed stripes at Vichy on his next start before splitting Go Athletico and Naval Crown in the Group 3 Prix la Rochette.
On his first try at the top level he stepped up to win the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère, defeating Nando Parrado and Laws On Indices on heavy ground at Longchamp and showed that was no fluke with his fifth place in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf
He started his three-year-old season with a second in the Group 3 Prix de Fontainebleau and then was only 3l behind St Mark’s Basilica when eighth in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains.
Less than 2l separated the pair when first and second in the Prix du Jockey-Club, with the 1m2f trip playing to Sealiway’s strengths.
In the Arc, on his next run and first at that trip, he was a close fifth to Torquator Tasso, Tarnawa, Hurricane Lane and Adayar and then added his second Group 1 with success in Ascot’s British Champions Stakes just 13 days later.
Switched to Francis-Henri Graffard for his four-year-old season, his best performances came when third behind State Of Rest in the Prix Ganay (G1) and second to Skaletti in the Group 2 Prix Harcourt.
Sealiway is the third foal out of the Listed Prix Herod winner Kensea, a daughter of Pariente’s remarkable sire Kendargent. All three of her offspring to race so far are winners and she was the best horse in her family for three generations until Sealiway emerged.
On the track, Galiway was a Listed winner at three and Group 3-placed but he has already outshone his own performances in his second career, producing three Group winners with two of them out of Kendargent mares.
From his first four crops he has produced nine stakes winners, including the Listed winner Vauban, who went onto win Grade 1 juvenile hurdles at three of the spring’s big festivals, including the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Mehmas-Vida Amorosa (Lope De Vega)
Tally-Ho Stud
€10,000
A tough and a talented juvenile who made a winning racecourse debut before his actual second birthday, Persian Force retires to stand alongside his sire Mehmas at Tally-Ho.
There are plenty of similarities between Persian Force and his sire, not least their race records and training establishments, but the son was on track earlier than his sire. He won the Brocklesby at Doncaster in late March whereas Mehmas made his winning debut at Chester in May.
Whereas Mehmas took in the Listed National Stakes at Sandown after his first two runs and wins, Persian Force went straight to
the Coventry Stakes (G2) on the back of his first two successful runs.
The result for both father and son was the same – Persian Force second to Bradsell, the slot Mehmas had filled in that race behind Caravaggio.
Both horses gained their Group 2 victories in the July Stakes, their next start after Royal Ascot, and it is there where their paths diverged slightly.
Mehmas went to Goodwood where he beat Blue Point in the Richmond Stakes and on to The Curragh for the National Stakes (G1) in which he was second to Churchill, whereas Persian Force went to The Curragh for the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes, where he found only Little Big Bear too good.
A different son of No Nay Never stood in his way at Deauville in the Prix Morny (G1), and he was third to Blackbeard again in the Middle Park Stakes (G1), a race in which Mehmas was also third.
The Middle Park was the final race of his career for Mehmas, but Persian Force had one more run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint. In a dramatic late finish, he was forced out of second in the dying yards.
Bred by trainer Tom Lacy, Persian Force is a year younger full-brother to Gubbass who was third in the July Stakes and in the Listed King Charles II Stakes.
They are the first out of Vida Amorosa, an
unraced daughter of Lope De Vega and a half-sister to the dam of Group 3 Prix de Meautry and Prix de Ris Orangis winner Garrus, by Acclamation, who was also third in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.
Persian Force’s third dam Nuit Chaud is a half-sister to Mira Adonde, the dam of Group 1 winning two-year-old and excellent sire and broodmare sire Danehill Dancer.
Sea The Stars-Private Life (Bering)
National Stud
£10,000
Possibly the most famous recent horse in training and the most popular, Stradivarius begins his stallion career at the ripe old age of nine with owner-breeder Bjorn Nielsen determined that the seven-time Group 1 winner will be a successful Flat stallion.
Stradivarius ran 35 times over seven seasons, beginning his racing career at two with three starts. In the second of those he was fourth behind Cracksman in a Newmarket maiden and, in a move now familiar to Gosden-watchers, was sent to
Newcastle for an All-Weather maiden to earn the first of 20 career victories.
He opened his three-year-old season with victory at Beverley and was then second in a Chester handicap before taking his Group race bow in the Queen’s Vase (G3). It was a successful first try in Pattern company with Stradivarius then taking on the older horses, including the Ascot Gold Cup winner Big Orange, in the Group 1 Goodwood Cup.
That success heralded the arrival of the new staying power as the chestnut came with what would be his trademark run to win on the Sussex Downs under jockey Andrea Atzeni.
Dropped back in trip for the St Leger, he was third to Capri and Crystal Ocean and signed off for the season with second place in the British Champions Long Distance Cup.
His four-year-old season established a familiar pattern – the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup followed by the Ascot Gold Cup, then Goodwood and back to York for the Lonsdale Cup – with victories collected each time and a Weatherbys bonus collected along the way. He returned to Ascot for the Group 2 on Champions’ Day and won this time.
Next year it went like clockwork again –the same four races, the same results but with the addition of the Group 2 Doncaster Cup.
The winning streak eventually came to an end in the Long Distance Cup when bettered by Kew Gardens.
The pattern was changed up the following year. With a view to tackling stable companion Enable in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Stradivarius started the year in a Coronation Cup that was rerouted to Newmarket because of Covid where he finished third to Ghaiyyath and Anthony Van Dyck.
Further Group 1 glory awaited with a hattrick in the Gold Cup and a fourth successive Goodwood Cup earning him a place in the pantheon of staying legends. Again with the Arc in mind, he was sent to Longchamp for the Prix Foy where he was second to Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck. In the Arc itself, he was just half a length behind Enable but she was sixth and he seventh to Sottsass and his season tailed off in disappointment behind Trueshan at Ascot.
Ascot’s Group 3 Sagaro Stakes was the successful starting point for his 2021 season, but his attempt to gain sporting immortality alongside Yeats came unstuck when he could only manage fourth in his attempt to emulate the champion NH sire at Royal Ascot. He added further renewals of the Lonsdale and Doncaster Cups to his trophy cabinet and was second to Trueshan in the Group 1 Prix du Cadran and third behind that rival and Tashkhan in the Long Distance Cup.
With many convinced he was down and out, Stradivarius came out fighting in 2022 and went down like a champion. He won the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup to start the season successfully and then was hampered when a length third to Kyprios and Mojo Star in Ascot’s Gold Cup. On what was to be his final run, he went out on his shield going down by a head to Kyprios in the Goodwood Cup.
Bred by Nielsen, Stradivarius comes from one of the Wildensteins’ best pedigrees. He is a half-brother to the Group 3 Furstenberg Rennen and Bavarian Classic winner Persian Storm (Monsun), the Group 3 Abu Dhabi Championship third Rembrandt Von Rijn and the South African Listed-placed filly Magical Eve (Oratorio).
Their dam Private Life was third in the
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Prix de Thiberville and Prix de Liancourt and is a Bering half-sister to the Listed winner Parisienne, who is the grand-dam of the Melbourne Cup and Grosser Preis von Berlin winner and sire Protectionist.
Her dam Poughkeepsie is a daughter of Sadler’s Wells of Pawneese, a champion three-year-old filly of 1976 courtesy of her wins in the King George, Oaks and Prix de Diane.
His sire is one of the most important stallions currently at stud in Europe and who nicks especially well with Kingmambo, Sadler’s Wells, Barathea, Mark Of Esteem and Pivotal.
Stradivarius himself shares his broodmare sire Bering with another of this year’s new intake of stallions, the Group 1-winning juvenile Blackbeard.
Breeders also need to take note of the generous bonus scheme that Nielsen is offering for first-crop foals – the breeder of a Group 1 winner in Britain, Ireland or France will receive £250,000, while the breeders of the winner of a Group 2 and Group 3 can pick up £100,000.
The breeders of the first ten two-year-old winners by Stradivarius in the same countries plus Germany in 2026 will each take home £25,000.
Deep Impact-Admire Kirameki (End Sweep)
Lemongrove Stud
€7,000
A dual Group 1 winner by Deep Impact who is an outcross for Galileo mares, Tosen Stardom is a fascinating recruit to the Irish stallion ranks for Zenith Stallion Station at Lemongrove Stud.
The 12-year-old is the sire of two crops of racing age in Australia where he has produced three winners from a handful of runners and is shuttling to Europe for the first time.
He began his career in Japan as a twoyear-old, and won both of his starts that year, including the Listed Nisai Stakes. At three he won two of his six starts, both Group 3 contests and was a Listed winner at four in Japan before his move to Australia which yielded a second place in the Group 1 Rawson Stakes behind Contributer.
In three starts at five he failed to win but
developed into a Group 1 performer as a six-year-old winning the Group 1 MacKinnon Stakes and the Group 1 Toorak Handicap.
He was also second in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes and third in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes that season. Tosen Stardom’s best performance at seven was a repeat of his second place in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes.
Tosen Stardom is a full-brother to the Group 3 Saneki Sho All Comers Stakes winner Centelleo and a half-brother to the Hanshin Listed third Neo Stardom, by Neo Universe.
Their dam Admire Kirameki won four races and is the dam of six winners from as many runners and is a half-sister to the Group 1 Tenno Sho winner and Japan Cup runner-up Tosen Jordan and to the Group 2 Kyoto Shimbun Hai winner and Group 1 Tokyo Yushen third Tosen Homareboshi (Deep Impact).
Her Listed-placed half-sister Careless Whisper is the dam of Group 1 Underwood Stakes second and Group 1 Hong Kong Vase third Tosen Basil.
Under the third dam, the American Listed winner Crafty Wife, is Group 1 Tenno Sho and Mile Championship winner Company.
Tosen Stardom’s broodmare sire End Sweep is a son of Forty Niner and his dam Admire Kirameki is inbred to Mr Prospector.
Mehmas-Shoshona Wind (Sleeping Indian)
Overbury Stud
£6,500
The son of Mehmas, winner of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes, retires to Overbury Stud as a tough and talented representative of his flying and hugely promising sire.
Another graduate of the Tally-Ho nursery, he was sold by the Westmeath farm to Blandford Bloodstock for 110,000gns at Book 2 and was trained by Clive Cox.
As to be expected, he was a precocious juvenile and made his debut at the Craven meeting and then went on to win a Bath novice over 5f on his second start. He wasn’t beaten all that far in the Coventry Stakes (G2) and earned his first stakes success in the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes.
He finished down the field in the Group 2 Richmond Stakes, he was second in the Listed Roses Stakes at York before his flying success over Amor in Doncaster’s Group 2.
His final start of the season was his fifth place behind Perfect Power in the Middle Park Stakes.
Caturra ran seven times as a three-year-old and made a promising seasonal reappearance when second in the Group 3 Prix Sigy. He was also third in the Group 2 King George Stakes at Goodwood over 5f and in Sandown’s Listed Scurry Stakes.
From the family of Classic Cliche and out of the Sleeping Indian mare Shoshini Wind, he is a half-brother to the Listed Qatar Derby third Sir Arthur Dayne (Sir Prancealot).
Dam Shoshini Wind finished second in the Listed Empress Stakes as a juvenile and is a half-sister to the Chipchase Stakes third Burnwynd Boy.
Their dam Cadeau Speciale is a half-sister to Silver Flash Stakes winner Triskel and third dam Pat Or Else is an Alzao half-sister to Classic Cliche and to My Emma, who won the Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille.
Also under the fourth dam are the Group 1 winners Satono Crown and Lightening Pearl.
Bated Breath-Sky Crystal (Galileo)
Ballyhane Stud
€6,500
A high-class son of Bated Breath who was a talented performer over five seasons, Space Traveller is the first son of Bated Breath to retire to stud in Ireland.
Successful in his first two starts as a juvenile, including over 5f, Space Traveller finished second in the Group 3 Prix Eclipse for Richard Fahey. He filled the same position in the European Free Handicap on his
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seasonal reappearance the following spring and then was third in the Carnarvon Stakes.
He defeated subsequent Group 1 winner Space Blues to win Royal Ascot’s Group 3 Jersey Stakes and gave owner Steve Parkin of Clipper Logistics plenty to smile about when winning the Boomerang Stakes, sponsored by the firm, at Leopardstown on Irish Champions’ Weekend.
At five, he won the Listed Ganton Stakes at York over a mile and was second in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile.
He moved across the Atlantic Ocean and to the barn of Brendan Walsh and as a six-year-old was placed in two further Grade 1 contests: the Pegasus Turf and the Frank E Kilroe Mile.
Bred by the El Catorce Partnership, he was bought by Joe Foley for 85,000gns at Book 3 and is out of the Galileo mare Sky Crystal. She is the dam of four winners, headed by Space Traveller and also the Group 3 Dick Poole Stakes third Pelluciid (Excelebration).
Sky Crystal is a winning daughter of Snow Crystal, a half-sister to the Fillies’ Mile winner Crystal Music and the Group 3 winners State Crystal, Solar Crystal and Dubai Crystal.
It is also the family of Group 1 Prix Jean Prat winner and sire Zelzal.
State Traveller’s sire Bated Breath has produced 24 individual stakes winners so far, headed by the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes winner Viadera.
Dubawi-Lovely Pass (Raven’s Pass)
Starfield Stud
€6,500
A son of the breed-shaper Dubawi, who now stands at a fee of £350,000, Dubawi Legend was bred by Rabbah Bloodstock out of the Meydan Listed UAE 1,000 Guineas-winning and Group 3 UAE Oaks runner-up mare Lovely Pass (Raven’s Pass).
Lovely Pass is out of the Group 2 Falmouth
Stakes winner Macadamia (Classic Cliche), and is also dam of Dubawi Legend’s 2018 half-sister Golden Pass (Golden Horn), who was a Listed winner over 1m4f.
Trainer Hugo Palmer kicked off her son’s career in a July maiden over 7f at Doncaster, a race he won, before stepping him up to the Group 3 Acomb Stakes in which he took third place. He then gained top-class Group 1 form with a 2l second placing to Native Trail in the Dewhurst Stakes.
As a three-year-old he failed to trouble the judge again until finishing third in the 7f Hackwood Stakes (G3). After a fifth placing in the 6f Phoenix Stakes Sprint (G3) at The Curragh, he travelled to Germany where he won the 6f Goldene Peitsche (G3).
He ran down the field in the Group 1 Haydock Cup Sprint and was retired.
Dubawi has such a great record with so many broodmare sires, but in particular mares from Galileo’s clan, Singspiel, Darshaan, Green Desert and Danehill lines.
Zoffany-Small Sacrifice (Sadler’s Wells)
Haras de Bouquetot
€6,000
The roll call of honour for the Group 1 National Stakes reads like a Who’s Who of equine celebrities over the past 30 years and includes a number of notable stallions such as Danehill Dancer, Dubawi, Teofilo and New Approach.
Haras de Boquetot will hope that the 2020 winner Thunder Moon (Zoffany) will one day end up in a stallion of the same quality.
Bred by Aidan and AnneMarie O’Brien’s Whisperview Trading, Thunder Moon hails from a branch of an outstanding Moyglare family tree through his third dam, the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Trusted Partner.
Trained by Joseph O’Brien, he was one of the best two-year-olds of his generation.
He made a winning start in a 7f maiden at
The Curragh and immediately was thrown in at the deep end, making his second start in the Group 1 National Stakes.
Thunder Moon swam elegantly, winning from a field that included St Mark’s Basilica, Lucky Vega, MacSwiney and Laws Of Indices. His third start of that campaign came in the Dewhurst Stakes – St Mark’s Basilica and Wembley turning the tables on Thunder Moon who finished third.
He made six starts as a three-year-old and his best showing was in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat when a head second to Laws Of Indices. At four, he ran four times and was second in a conditions race at Dundalk and third in the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at The Curragh.
Thunder Moon is a half-brother to the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes winner Table Rock (Fastnet Rock), who was also second in the Listed Queen Mother Memorial Cup in Hong Kong.
They are two of the three winners from four runners out of Small Sacrifice. She is an unraced Sadler’s Wells half-sister to the dam of Group 1 Criterium International winner Vert De Grece and to the dam of Group 3 Sirenia Stakes winner Love Lockdown (Verglas).
His second dam Trust In Luck is a Nashwan half-sister to the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes winner Dress To Thrill and to Polished Gem (Danehill), dam of Group 1 winners Free Eagle, Kyprios and Search For A Song as well as the Group winners Custom Cut, Sapphire and Valac and the Listed winners Amma Grace and Falcon Eight.
Thunder Moon is one of four individual Group 1 winners sired by the late Zoffany, who has had a lot of success with mares from the Green Desert line.
Australia-Miramare (Rainbow Quest)
Haras de la Hetraie
€4,500
A Prix Ganay winner from a typically strong German family, Mare Australis is one of five individual Group 1 winners sired so far by Australia (Galileo), and is out of the recently deceased champion Ouija Board.
Bred by Gestüt Schelnderhann, he won his only start at two, that came over a mile. He was transferred to France and André Fabre,
where he would remain for the rest of his racing career.
At three, he won the Listed Prix de l’Avre and was second to Baron Samedi in the Group 2 Prix du Conseil de Paris. On his seasonal reappearance at four, he chased home Skaletti in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and then defeated Gold Trip and Mogul to win the Group 1 Prix Ganay. They were his only two runs of the season.
Kept in training as a five-year-old, he won the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly and was third in the Group 2 Prix d’Harcourt and fourth in the Ganay.
He is one of three winners foaled so far by the Listed Dragonfly Stakes, Pinnacle Stakes and Warwickshire Oaks-placed Miramare. She is a Rainbow Quest half-sister to the Group 3 Prix de Pomone and Prix Allez
France winner Macleya (Winged Love), who was also placed in the Group 1 Prix Royal Oak. She is the dam of Listed Glencairn Stakes winner Saltonstall.
Their Montjeu half-brother Montclair won the Group 3 Prix de Barbeville, while her unraced half-sister Mahendra is the dam of Grade 1 United Nations and Manhattan Stakes winner Tribhuvan (Toronado)
Areion-Representera (Lomitas)
Gestüt Ohlerweiherhof
€4,500
A son of leading German speed influence Areion from the Big Shuffle sire-line, Rubaiyat was 2019’s leading German juvenile. He won that country’s most prestigious twoyear-old race for colts, the Group 3 Preis der Winterfavoriten, San Siro’s Group 2 Gran Criterium, as well as the Listed Junioren Preis.
The winner of eight of his 25 starts over four seasons, he was one of the best German milers and won the Group 3 Dr Busch Memorial at three and finished second in the German 2,000 Guineas.
As a four-year-old he was successful in the Premio Vittorio di Capua (G2) and the Listed Waldpfad Cup over the shorter trip of 1300m.
At five he won the Group 3 Premio Ribot and was second when attempting to win back-to-back runnings of the Group 2 Premio Vittorio di Capua.
In total, he was placed in ten Group races
to add to his eight wins.
Bred by Gestüt Karlshof he was bought by HFTB Racing for €26,000 at the BBAG September Yearling Sale.
He is a half-brother to the Listed Prix Amandine winner Rose Flower out of Representera, a Lomitas sister to the Listed winning juvenile Becomes You and a halfsister to the Poule d’Essai des Poulains winner Tin Horse (Sakhee).
Rubaiyat shares his sire with the Group 1 Criterium International winner and Poule d’Essai des Poulains third Alson and Areion is the sire of 29 individual Group winners.
Galileo Gold-Soft Power (Balmont)
Haras de la Haie Neuve
€4,000
Ebro River is the first, and to date, only Group 1 winner from the first two crops of 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Galileo Gold.
Owned, like his sire, by Al Shaqab Racing he is standing in partnership with the farm at Haras de la Haie Neuve.
Ebro River was bred by Tally-Ho and sold to Charlie Gordon Watson, who purchased on behalf of Al Shaqab for 75,000gns at Book 3.
Trained by Hugo Palmer, who also trained Galileo Gold, he was a precocious twoyear-old and began his career in the same Newmarket race as Caturra before winning a 5f novice at Doncaster.
He then won the Listed National Stakes at Sandown and improved from fourth place efforts in the July and Richmond Stakes to win the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes. He confirmed he was a Group 1 horse with his third to Native Trail over 7f in the National Stakes and ended the season down the field in the Group 1 Prix Jean Luc Lagardère.
Last season he raced six times with a single victory in the Listed Queensferry Stakes at Chester and retires the winner of four of his 15 races, having been placed on six further occasions.
He is one of two Group winners sired by Galileo Gold, who has produced six stakes winners from his first two crops.
Ebro River is a half-brother to Listedplaced Strong Power out of Soft Power, a Balmont half-sister to Girl Power, dam of Group 1 winning sprinter Slade Power.
He showed a pretty exceptional turn of foot. From the two I was always going to get there and he really enjoyed chasing them down. He sailed home!
GROUP 1 WINNER AT 3
Won the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes defeating Gr.1 winners MODERN GAMES and INSPIRAL
TOP CLASS AT 2
Won the Gr.2 Champagne Stakes
3rd Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes
3rd Gr.1 Futurity Trophy Stakes 123
the best sons of DUBAWI at stud, out of a Stakes winning, Group producing mare from a high quality damline
“He was one of the best two-year-olds of his generation... He is an exceptionally good-looking colt and was very sound to train. He possesses a lot of natural speed and his turn of foot in the Queen Elizabeth II showed the public what we always saw at home.”
ROGER VARIAN
AFTER claiming a breakthrough champion Flat stallions’ title on home soil in 2021, Frankel added another accomplishment to his burgeoning stud record by topping the French sires’ list for the first time in 2022.
Juddmonte’s Banstead Manor Stud resident was represented by 67 runners in France and 37 of those passed the winning post in front to give their sire progeny prizemoney earnings of €6,269,245, which is more than double the total achieved by the runner-up, the previous year’s champion and home-based Siyouni.
Those 37 include 12 black-type winners, eight of whom struck in Group company. It is, however, the exploits of just one name who had the greatest bearing on Frankel’s domination of the sires’ charts: Alpinista.
Homebred by Kirsten Rausing and trained by Sir Mark Prescott, Alpinista accounted for a full 49 per cent (€3,085,560) of Frankel’s French earnings as her unbeaten five-year-old campaign began with success in the Group 1 Prix de Saint-Cloud and culminated with a famous victory in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
The latter contest is Europe’s richest Flat race with a prize fund of €5 million, with an astronomical €2.8m going to the winner.
While Alpinista may have been Frankel’s leading light in 2022, the gifted grey was not his only French Group 1 winner.
The son of Galileo sired nine top-flight winners in 2022 and four of those struck in France, with Alpinista joined by Prix Jacques
le Marois heroine Inspiral, Prix de Diane victress Nashwa and Grand Prix de Paris scorer Onesto, who also annexed the Group 2 Prix Greffulhe earlier in the season.
Four other names in the French top ten stand in Britain or Ireland, with Ballylinch Stud’s Lope De Vega in third, Coolmore’s Churchill in fourth, Darley’s Dubawi in fifth and Yeomanstown Stud stalwart Dark Angel in tenth.
Lope De Vega, who has had good progeny success in France over the years, was represented by three Group 1 winners in Dreamloper (Prix d’Ispahan and Prix du Moulin), Place Du Carrousel (Prix de l’Opera) and Sweet Lady (Prix Vermeille); Churchill supplied two in Blue Rose Cen (Prix Marcel Boussac) and Vadeni (Prix du Jockey-Club); while Dark Angel and Dubawi had one apiece with Mangoustine (Poule d’Essai des Pouliches) and Modern Games (Poule d’Essai des Poulains) respectively.
Siyouni finished second by virtue of 63 winners, more than any other name on the list. His six black-type scorers headed by the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano victor Al Hakeem, who also finished fourth in the Arc.
Also posting solid tallies of winners were Dabirsim in sixth (61 winners), Kendargent in seventh (55), Anodin in eighth (57) and the much-missed Le Havre in ninth (52).
While four out of the top ten, namely Frankel, Siyouni, Lope De Vega and Dubawi, cover exclusively blue-chip books at punchy six-figure fees, the prominence of Dabirsim and Anodin is noteworthy given they are available at the much more humble end of
the market in 2023 – the former is priced at €8,000 in his new home at Haras de Montaigu and the latter at just €4,000 in his second season at Haras De La Haie Neuve.
Zarak continues to prove the brightest light among the French up-and-comers and the Aga Khan’s Haras de Bonneval resident finished just outside the top ten in 12th.
The blue-blooded son of Dubawi and Zarkava, whose fee has more than doubled to €60,000 for 2023, up from €25,000, posted another eye-catching set of stats with 35 winners at strike rate of 58 per cent.
He was also the source of nine black-type performers, headed by the Group 2 Prix de Sandringham scorer Purplepay, the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont winner Baiykara, as well as La Parisienne, who was beaten just a short
neck when placed in the both the Prix de Diane and the Prix Vermeille.
A slightly more under-the-radar performer in 2022 was Muhaarar, who is about to begin his second season after relocating from Shadwell’s Nunnery Stud, at Haras des Faunes.
The son of Oasis Dream, who will stand a slightly upgraded fee of €7,500, had relatively limited opportunities with just 36 runners in France, but not only managed 18 winners at a clip of 50 per cent, but four of those struck in stakes company.
That quartet is headed by Group 2 Prix de la Nonette scorer Trevaunance, and means he had more black-type winners in France than the likes of Le Havre, Kodiac and Wootton Bassett, and the same as Kingman
THE LATE, LAMENTED Adlerflug emphasised just what a loss the German breeding industry suffered when he died unexpectedly at the age of 17 in April 2021 by claiming a third consecutive sires’ title in his home country. The son of In The Wings sired 36 winners from 69 runners for earnings of €1,021,402.
Not only is that a personal best in terms of progeny earnings for Adlerflug, at least in Germany, but it is the first time since Soldier Hollow in 2018 that the country’s leading sire has been responsible for a seven-figure sum of winnings.
His 36 winners included eight in stakes company, headed by Mendocino, who led home a one-two for the sire when denying Torquator Tasso by a head in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden.
Torquator Tasso, the heir apparent to Adlerflug, won the Group 2 Grosser Hansa-Preis and bowed out of his racing career with a gallant third, beaten only three-quarters of a length, behind Alpinista in the Arc.
He begins his stud career at Gestüt Auenquelle at a fee of €20,000.
Other notable performers for Adlerflug in 2022 include the Group 2 winners Alter Adler (Grosser Preis der Badischen Wirtschaft), Loft (Oleander-Rennen) and Gestüt Ittlingen’s three-time Group 3 winner India.
Coolmore’s Camelot may have sired only a solitary stakes winner in Germany in 2022, but it was a significant one with Helmut von Finck’s homebred Sammarco claiming back-toback Group 1s in the Deutsches Derby and the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, while the colt also reached the places in the Grosser Preis von Baden and Preis von Europa.
Those exploits contributed the lion’s share of Camelot’s progeny
prize-money earnings of €694,524, which was enough for him to finish in second place on the sires’ table.
Third went to Soldier Hollow, a three-time champion sire who stands besides Torquator Tasso at Gestüt Auenquelle. The recently turned 23-year-old sired five German stakes winners in 2022, most notably the Group 2 Oettingen Rennen scorer Dapango.
A pair of British-based names occupied spots inside the top ten, with Lanwades Stud’s Sea The Moon, who was a winner of the Deutsches Derby in his youth, in fourth and Dubawi in sixth.
Dubawi’s four stakes winners included Rebel’s Romance, who landed a brace of Group 1s in the Preis von Berlin and Preis von Europa.
Areion, a four-time German champion sire, ended the campaign in fifth with 30 winners. The son of Big Shuffle spent the latter stages of his stallion career at Gestüt Etzean, but was euthanized due to complications from colic in November. He was 27 years of age.
One French-based name figured inside the top ten with Shamalgan, who stood at the now defunct Haras de Grandcamp, responsible for Preis der Diana heroine Toskana Belle.
The Andreas Wohler-trained filly was one of just three winners the son of Footstepsinthesand sired in Germany in 2022, with her personal haul of €319,500 contributing 94 per cent of her sire’s progeny earnings of €341,450.
While Torquator Tasso helped fly the flag for Adlerflug, his half-brother Tunnes did likewise for his sire Guiliani, with his 10l victory in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern contributing to the Gestüt Erftmuhle resident’s eighth-place finish on the table.
The top ten was completed by the late Lord Of England in ninth and Gestüt Etzean’s Amaron in tenth.
Japan: one of only two German-based sires standing over €10,000 for 2023
Darley Stud has three highly promising sires with first runners in 2023, and the excitement is mounting with the beginning of the new European Flat season in sight
IT IS OFTEN a spring of mixed emotions and anticipation for stallion farms when standing a stallion as he goes into his fourth season and just about to have first runners.
The nominations team will confirm that it can be the most difficult season in which to market a stallion.
By then it is nearly half a decade since the sire retired to stud so his racing performances have become more distant memories for clients to recall. A stallion farm’s commercial breeding clients, who will be selling progeny by those sires, can also be a little more reticent to use stallions of that generation so close to those runners appearing – they need to weigh up the opportunity of a handsome reward if those debut crops work out, against the threat of a market leaving the sire’s progeny later-born crops on the benches if he is not perceived to be a success.
But the over-riding feeling on the stallion farms really is one of excitement and anticipation – after four years of book planning and plotting, marketing and hoping, the fruits of that labour are coming to fruition and hitting the racecourse. By the end of the year the farm may be stabling the season’s leading first-season sire or a stallion with a chance of becoming a generation-defining sire.
Then the marketing teams will be able to swing into full action through the summer and give a weight of publicity to the sire.
Godolphin and its Darley stallion brand are triple handed in the division for 2023 with three exciting young sires with first runners this year – Masar, Blue Point and Too Darn Hot.
The three have quite individual profiles,
Too Darn Hot: has the pedigree and the performance, has seen top books of mares and his stock has been well received at sales in Europe and in Australia – he has every chance of making it
and when Sam Bullard, director of stallions, chatted about the trio he was keen to get back to basics and remind us of their unique qualities.
“We are so lucky to have three really exciting young stallions for this year,” says Bullard with a twinkle in his eye – the dark grey winter beginning to become a memory as we chatted a month out from the start of the 2023 covering season and just ten weeks away from the start of the new European Turf Flat season.
“Obviously standing Masar as our first homebred Derby winner is hugely exciting. As we as all know being a Derby winner isn’t necessarily the strongest selling point for a young stallion anymore, but I think breeders have really caught on to his two-year-old form,” clarifies Bullard.
“He won first time out beating Invincible Army, was then a good third in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot and then won the Solario Stakes (G3) very well.
“He also started his three-year-old career extremely well, and I think people have caught on to his speed.
“I would say his yearlings have left him in a higher point than he’s ever been in breeders’ perception. The yearling market was really good for him and he has been quite popular this year and he is good value.
“Hopefully, he will get a good book this year, and I hope those people who have supported him are rewarded with some decent winners on the track.”
Too Darn Hot stands under the brand in partnership with breeder Watership Down Stud. Through his racing career the son of Dubawi carried his fine pedigree forward to the track where he was an unbeaten champion two-year-old with the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on his resume.
As a three-year-old he won the Prix Jean Prat (G1) and the Sussex Stakes (G1) and was Classic runner-up in the Irish 2,000 Guineas (G1).
He also boasts a mighty pedigree being out of the three-time Group 1 winner and the Group 1-placed Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) and a grand-son of the Group 1 winner Darara (Top Ville).
She was dam of UAE champion Rewilding and the Hong Kong champion Diaghilev, and the family boasts the presence of the
Showing the numbers of mares covered and details of those mares in numbers and percentages (2020, 2021 and 2022)
influential stallion and champion Darshaan.
“Too Darn Hot is obviously huge,” exclaims Bullard. “He’s got a tremendous chance – sons of Dubawi are carrying everything before them, it is just such a strong sire-line and one that is building.
“He’s got an unbelievable pedigree, while the Singspiel side of him makes him all the more attractive to us at Darley because we had him, too. He is just very exciting, and of course he had the ability on the racecourse as well.
“His foal sales were very positive, and he was leading first-season sire at last autumn’s yearling sales.
“He has also been supported by many top owner-breeders so there is an awful lot with stock by him who were in their paddocks at home last autumn. Owner-breeders love him and many are using him again on leading mares, which is really good.”
The first vibes for stallions can be the subject of rumour and second-hand stories, so Bullard and the Darley team aim to get those early reports in from source.
“We are already starting to talk to people such as pre-trainer Malcolm Bastard as to what impression he is getting of Too Darn Hot’s stock, and it is favourable,” says Bullard.
“I know of two or three mares, who had been going elsewhere to be covered this spring, redirected back into Too Darn Hot because their two-year-old is going so well in its early work.
“The owners have been told that they would be mad not to go back to the stallion because they think the yearling could be a machine, so that’s really exciting.”
On the track, Blue Point, by Shamardal, was the fastest of the three and famously collected those two Group 1 Royal Ascot Group 1 sprints in 2019.
He also showed good form as a two-yearold when winning the Gimcrack Stakes (G2) and then Group 1-placed form in the 6f Middle Park and the 7f Dewhurst Stakes.
“At the moment, he’s probably got the best chance of all of them as a first-season sire based on market performance,” says Bullard. “We know the market often gets it wrong, but the buyers were really steaming into his yearlings by the end of Book 2.
“He is a son of sire-producing Shamardal,
he was unbelievable that year at Royal Ascot, and he ticks all the boxes. He does all that we want him to do – who is say that he’s not going to be the one?”
Bullard obviously has a job to market these stallions, and while he would surely love a three-way tie at the top of the firstseason sires’ table come next December, the stallion man is a bit more realistic than that.
“All three are not going to be leading first-season stallion, that is not possible!” he smiles. “And, while we are expecting some good things from all three, we’ve all been around long enough to know that, even if the sales ring thinks one thing, that is very often not necessarily the case.
“But it’s exciting to have three horses with such great potential, and if one of them really ‘makes it’ then that will be fantastic.”
Bullard continues, his ambitions growing as he chats and he considers the three prospects in more depth: “It would not be a surprise if one of these three could become
a ‘breed-shaper’– okay, that is probably a bit strong at this stage, but they all have the potential to become a ‘proper’ stallion for the long term and whose fee goes to a serious level in five years’ time leaving current prices well behind. It is not a completely unrealistic hope.”
Stallions fees are often dramatically reduced for sires as they head into their fourth covering year in order to attract mares, tilting the price and demand balance into kilter.
And, indeed Darley has tweaked the fees for the three slightly downward for this season, but the price change has not been huge – Too Darn Hot’s 2023 fee is £40,000 from an initial price in 2020 of £50,000, Blue Point stands at €35,000 having started his career at €45,000.
Masar is the cheapest of the three at £14,000, but it is only £1,000 down from his 2020 starter price.
The stud has not had the need to drop fees dramatically in order to attract clients.
“Stallion fees are a massive outlay for breeders, but if the stallions are oversubscribed it’s very hard to argue they’re too expensive, market forces tells you that,” says Bullard, who had no need to market the three cheap and pile in the mares high.
“I don’t think any of them would have deserved that,” he responds to that suggestion, continuing: “We’ve never had a horse fill up at Dalham like Too Darn Hot did in his first years, while the yearling prices for Blue Point have made him incredibly attractive – to be paying £35,000 for him this year is not unreasonable when compared to what people were getting for their yearlings.
“Masar has always been good value – he is a good-looking horse, I think people were expecting to see a horse with a bit more on the leg. He has good depth to him and not too much daylight underneath him and I think people like him more than they expected to.”
The quality of book that a stallion sees plays its own part in the development of a stallion’s career – after all there are two parties involved in the mating process.
As can be seen from the covering stats for this generation on these pages, Too Darn Hot has consistently been visited by the best quality mares of this generation of sires.
In his three years covering to date he has been visited by large numbers of mares who were black-type quality –even in 2022 the momentum continued when he saw 22 Group race winners, an amazing achievement.
“Too Darn Hot is a quality horse, and, every now and again, a quality horse retires,” says Bullard. “The real quality horses don’t come around all the time, but when they do it is a different level.
“The quality mares will come to a horse such as him anyway, but with the in-house systems that over the years we’ve developed here at Darley, mare quality is something that we pay great attention to.
“I think that it is starting to pay dividends and certainly the level of mare he has got has been very high class.”
SIMON MARSH, general manager for Watership Down Stud, is very much looking forward to seeing what the year can bring for Too Darn Hot, the farm’s homebred stallion son of Dubawi.
Marsh spoke to us from Magic Millions, Australia, having travelled to see the stallion’s first crop southern-hemisphere sale yearlings.
He left Johnny McKeever, buying on behalf of the Lloyd Webbers of Watership Down, in charge of paying A$1 million for the Too Darn Hot filly out of the Group 2-winning two-year-old Enbihaar (Magnus). She is the most expensive yearling by a new sire sold at the sale since 2015, and his 12 yearlings sold for an average price of A$276,786.
Marsh has understandably been delighted with the stallion’s performance in both hemispheres.
“Too Darn Hot is stamping his stock, they’re all really ‘butty’ and a number do look early types,” he says. “They are all bay – there has not been a chestnut, and a lot of them have no white on them. He also seems
really well with his yearlings making up to 600,000gns; we were delighted. Importantly, they’ve gone to some very good trainers.
“The second crop of foals sold on the back of his yearlings were also well received.
“Encouragingly, the pre-trainers and trainers are giving us positive feedback on the two-year-olds and how they’re going at this stage. We couldn’t be happier
“All the main breeders have bred to him – Coolmore, Juddmonte, the Niarchos family, The Aga Khan. A lot of owner breeders have supported him too, so a lot of his progeny did not go through a sale ring. Many breeders have come back again and repeat custom is always good, it gives a lot of confidence that they are happy with the youngstock by him.
“Watership Down sold most of its homebred stock by him as yearlings and foals, but has got two to go into training.
“We have about a dozen Watership mares to go to Too Darn Hot this spring, and some lovely mares in-foal to him now, including The Fugue.
“Standing a stallion has been exciting and we will now see if he makes or not, we have done everything we can.
“He has had 160 mares in each of his three years so far in the northern hemisphere, he has had 130 mares in each year so far in the southern hemisphere which is where we are limiting him.
“It is now all in the tea leaves! He will either make it or he won’t, but we have a huge belief in him and he ticks every single box – he is out of a brilliant racemare, he was a brilliant racehorse, he was a miler and he is a beautiful-looking horse. There is no reason why he shouldn’t make it and all the chat about him is strong.
“People need to be get into him this year. Dubawi’s sons Night Of Thunder, Zarak and New Bay – in their fourth year they were inexpensive stallions, now they are all expensive stallions!
“Too Darn Hot has actually got greater and far better credentials than them!”
“It is all in the tea leaves now!”
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Beating the best of his generation. Timeform: 126
8 Gr.1 winners - Magna Grecia, The Revenant, Benbatl, Mohaather, Phoenix Of Spain, Veracious, Lord Glitters, Accidental Agent.
Also 2nd Gr.1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas.
By Gr.1 miler FarhhFirst foals averaged over 4.5x his stud fee
Realising €50,000, €48,000, 30,000gns, etc.
Won 5f Gr.3 Palace House in blistering speed
Timeform Rating higher than leading stallions Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Dark Angel, No Nay Never and Showcasing.
First foals averaged over 4x his stud fee
Realising 52,000gns, €48,000, €30,000, €28,000, 27,000gns, €24,000 x2, etc.
GROUP WINNER UNDEFEATED OVER 5F/6F
TIMEFORM: 122
250+ mares in his first two books
Joint second highest rated 2yo in 2021
2nd Gr.1 Darley Dewhurst Stakes to dual Gr.1 winner Native Trail.
A higher rated 2yo than his contemporaries
as a 3yo
17% Black-Type horses to foals from his first-crop Kurious, Dunkerron,
First 2yo winners since his return to Europe inc:
2022 yearlings realised up to £120,000
The recently retired Steve Caddel talks about his life spent first with Quarter Horses in Texas and then thoroughbreds in Kentucky, where he became the sales and weighing man for Hallway Feeds and Kentucky Equine Research – over 30 years he has got to know more about the development of the state's young thoroughbreds than anyone.
THE WORLD OF BIG DATA is taking the equine world forward in so many exciting ways – from analysing growth rates to ensure optimum development of the young horse to wearable tech allowing trainers to analyse exactly what is going on in when a horse gallops.
None of these developments could have happened without significant scientific input, but these advances are also due to the concerted efforts of horsemen and women who have put in the hard yards with a dedicated goal of developing a greater understanding of the thoroughbred’s physiology in order to improve their wellbeing and care, as well as finding the best ways to achieve competitive success.
One such individual is Steve Caddel, whose dedicated and concentrated work over the last 20 years in Lexington, Kentucky, has focused on monitoring and understanding equine growth. His work contributed significantly to the development of data records at the heart of Kentucky Equine Research’s (KER) equine growth tracking software, Gro-Trac®.
As we discussed in the autumn issues, this software application helps breeders and producers record the growth of a farm’s youngstock, and compares that development against a population benchmark.
The population standards have not been transmitted from a virtual data god in the cloud, but are the result of decades of
weighing and measuring thoroughbreds, mostly carried out by KER, and particularly by the Texan-born and Kentucky resident, Caddel. The extensive thoroughbred growth database now includes over 50,000 individuals worldwide and over a million growth data points. It started in Kentucky, where nearly all of the data was collected by Caddel and his team as they travelled around the state’s stud farms with a mobile weighing machine with, at first, a record book in hand, but now armed with an iPad.
He has had close contact with more USborn thoroughbreds over the last 20 years than anyone, even the resident vets.
Caddel, who retired last year, has learnt plenty over the years and his knowledge is that of a true horseman; his longevity in the business allows him an understanding of the modern-day thoroughbred which few possess.
“Every year I was getting to see a whole new crop of babies,” he reminisces, adding: “And every year I would never know when I’m going to put be putting my hands on the next champion.
“We weighed Curlin from the time he was born until he left to go to the yearling sale; I just love being in those barns in the morning.”
Caddel moved to Kentucky from Texas in the 1980s, but his 1950s upbringing in the drier and typically more arid state and his involvement with the local Quarter Horses was not lost on the horseman.
The breed now has become more divided
Dedicated to the improvement of equine nutritional knowledge and understanding, Caddel’s experience has led him to the firm belief that more is not necessarily better.
“I grew up in south-west Texas in a semiarid area, it was range land,” he recalls. “There would be areas of open grazing and the underbrush was composed of a type of tree called mesquite tree. The area was also grazed by cattle and the horses got pretty feral in 20,000-acre pasture!
“The mares were very lean – they would constantly be on the move to graze. There would be maybe 25 mares on 3,000-acres with one water source and just sparse bunch grass.
“Those mares carried no extra body weight. They at best scored a body condition score five, but more likely a four plus, and the babies after weaning were lean, too.
“All the growth went into building a skeleton, it didn’t go into putting extra pounds on the horse.”
WHILE WE MAY think that this lean upbringing was disadvantageous, Caddel says, “Although those horses didn’t mature till they were four, but they were just incredibly durable – you couldn’t break them down with a hammer!”
When the racing Quarter Horse began to become a more specific type within the breed, produced under “assumed” better conditions, the calories fed started to go toward the production of body weight rather than toward skeletal development. However, one experience for the young Caddel left him with a view it was not necessarily the best way to progress.
“There was an old rancher way up in in hill country who was still raising them the old way,” he recalls, laughing: “Those horses were just as wild as march hares!
“We took three of them to Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico, which is a centre for racing Quarter Horses through the summer. We had those three horses in a shed row with 25 farm-raised and fed, racing-bred Quarter Horses, and those three, well they were just different. We never had a bandage on one of them.”
Fast forward ten years, Caddel was running a division of a large Quarter Horse stallion station.
“It was a time when they had started to add hundreds of thousands of dollars in stakes money to the competitions and the horses were the modern-type of quarter horse,” he says. “Some guys brought in some old rangetype mares from Montana, they probably had not seen much extra feed beyond what they were grazing, perhaps an odd bit of extra hay.
“Although those mares never got fat, once they moved to the farm, we started seeing some developmental issues with their babies – they were mares who had never had a horse with a developmental problem in their life.
“They started throwing babies with angular limb deformities, having babies with cartilage defects. It was not a significant number, but we had never seen defects in that type of horse. It was completely out of place, it was at least 10 to 12 years before the thoroughbred industry ever even thought about cartilage defects and the effect of nutrition.”
A conversation in the 1970s, while on a visit to Claiborne Farm to see the legendary Secretariat, also sticks out in Caddel’s mind.
“I was with the vet Dr. Sager and one of the farm managers walked up,” he recalls.
“The conversation came around to the fact that it was green and lush up there, and how good the grass was. I said that it’s not that way in South Texas where I grew up.
“The manager kinda laughed and said, ‘Well, I’ll tell you something, over the years our best crops have come when we have had a drought here, and the quality of the grass was greatly diminished.’ ”
Perhaps after all we don’t need to worry too much if climate change causes our drier summers to become more frequent!
By the 1980s, Cadell had made the move to Kentucky to run a thoroughbred farm housing stallions and breeding horses to race.
The common thinking at the time was that any deformities or issues were due to copper deficiency, but after a meeting with nutritionist Dr. Joe Pagan, Caddel was convinced that was not the answer.
“My personality is such that I’m always interested in new technologies and ideas,” says Caddel. “I met up with Dr. Pagan after a suggestion from my wife, who then edited a Quarter Horse magazine – she had heard him speak at a breeders’ conference.
“The first thing Joe told me that he did when he got to Kentucky was to balance the rations, and he really could not see that copper was the cause of problems.
“While our discussion then was very elementary, we touched on weight and he felt, even then, that young horses were being born and raised too heavy.
“Everything that I had experienced growing up and as a young adult rang true with me, and I understood exactly what he was talking about.”
With a unity of thought the pair started to work in tandem.
“Joe had convinced a farm to let him start weighing their stock regularly from foaling and I worked there for two crops, in the meantime Joe also started Kentucky Equine Research.”
PAGAN, intent on making his mission a reality, then persuaded Hallway Feeds owner Bob Hall to buy a lightweight, mobile-friendly, electronic aluminium scale.
Caddel smiles: “Joe convinced me on my day off to start going around as a mobile weighing service, we had about five or six farms all in the same area that I could easily get around in a day.
“A year later this developed into a full-time role. Although officially I was listed as a salesman for Hallway Feeds, selling did not really fit my personality at all, but Mr Bob told me that if I made myself a ‘problem solver’ for these farm managers, I won’t ever have to sell a bag of feed!”
At the time many of the farms and stud
Well, I’ll tell you something, over the years our best crops have come when we have had a drought here...
men had not seriously considered the role of nutrition in the production of their horses, and were wary of outside information.
Caddel, with a background on farms, was accepted by the local clan of stud farmers –the mobile weighing service grew, as well as the acceptance of the nutritional advice from KER.
“By 2005 we were weighing 1,000 individuals in a foal crop,” he smiles, “and I would see about an average of 750 yearlings leave the programme in the fall of each year. I got to put my hand on probably more thoroughbreds here in Central Kentucky than any other individual here.
“I loved my job, but I was dedicated to trying to understand the triggering mechanism that predisposes these horses to these developmental problems.”
Through Caddel’s working life, a fundamental change had taken place in the production of the Kentucky-bred racehorse.
In the 1960s, racing began to become economically important; horseracing had started to be seen as a recreational and economically dynamic venture, with a
growing rich sector of the population wanting to be involved in and successful at the sport.
This translated into the incredible boom period in the 1980s when big, precocious yearlings who were broader, stouter, and taller with more muscle, became popular at the US sales. Massive prices and profit could be realised at auction for such types, and the
market started gravitating to such horses – in response the farms started to aim to produce these bigger yearlings who brought a premium at the sales.
Caddell saw this development take place at essentially the grass root level.
“Our horses started change, very slowly and subtly, but it was an alteration which has continued into this century.
“When Joe took a broad look at the data in the 2000s, the weight of the average yearling, that 50th percentile horse, had increased by 35lb come sale time.
“When we had started out with the weighing programme rarely would I see an 1100lb [500kg] yearling – yearling colts going to sale would be 1000lb [455kg], fillies would be a little lighter.
“By the time of Joe’s review, these percentiles had changed, we were finding so many at higher weights, and that horse 1100lb+ horse went from being a rarity to become a much more common individual.”
Caddel had also started weighing the mares before and after foaling. He found that after foaling mares would lose just the weight of
I got to put my hand on probably more thoroughbreds here in central Kentucky than any other individual here; I loved it.The growth and weight data produced by Caddel (left) over 30 years of working has produced quantities of data for KER’s growth monitoring software Photo: Hallway Feeds
the pregnancy, and yet within 60 days would be gaining weight.
“I would tell the managers to back off how much food they were giving these mares in January, February, and March,” says Caddel. “We saw it as essential that the farms cut back on calories.
“I really felt over a period of about from 1990 to 2000, we really diminished the number of angular deformities – and that was caused by just cutting back the calories.”
in Kentucky is famed, but the forage in those pastures can become equine rocket fuel if not handled and managed correctly.
“When the grass is green here, it completely overrides the rest of the nutrition programme, it just throws it out of the water,” he explains.
“Grass is just like any other living entity; it grows to reproduce. It grows stems to put out seed pods, and to do that it’s throwing vast amounts of nutrients and sugar into base of that plant. The farms traditionally keep their pastures cut at six, at most eight inches, so these plants can’t put out seed pods, so all that power is going into the plant. Mares who can just get grossly fat on this grass.”
He adds: “It got to be a bit of joke with the farm managers that their feed salesman was telling them all to cut back on the feed!
“I went to Mr. Bob and explained the position to him and, thankfully, he said, ‘Well, if we don’t keep these guys in business, we’re not going to have anybody to sell feed to anyway, so you better go ahead and do what you think you need to do.’ ”
The combination of scientific advances in nutrition and field studies of growth, alongside the dedicated co-operation of experienced individuals such as Caddel, forward-thinking feed manufacturers coupled with the willingness of farm managers to share data for the betterment of the breed, and the industry, have all contributed significantly to get us to where we are today.
“So that is where we are now, we understand the trigger point,” says Caddel. “We know now that when foals get to a certain birth weight, as Joe has been explaining at his recent seminars, the weight
tends to impinge on those capillary beds where the new cartilage is forming. And it causes defects, while not visible then over a period of months it can become a true lesion.
Caddel does recognise that for some pedigrees these deformities will occur due to genetic predisposition, while also that some will rarely have an issue.
But as he says there is a group of horses for whom that trigger point comes into play and where the successful management by the nutritionist and the farm manager can actively reduce the likelihood of a problem.
He also recognises that horses have been running with “joint defects since racing began”, but with the impact of such strong sales prices, allied with the pressure for horses to develop quickly and race before they are necessarily properly mature, unlike the old ranch type of Quarter Horse that he grew up with, there is a need to ensure that incidences are removed as far as possible; he
and Pagan believe this can be achieved by the correct use of nutrition and the monitoring of growth rates both before and after birth.
Although retired from his full-time position, Caddel is continuing to work with a select number of farm managers, still aiming to continue to develop the understanding and importance of nutritional management.
“I am trying to get the farm managers together once a year to discuss what they have been trying out, what worked and what did not work,” explains the 75-year-old, adding: “The whole thing has been fun, but my ultimate goal has always been to get a sounder horse to the racetrack.
“I am hoping that, through the work we have been doing, we can convince the people who put the money out at the sales to make changes in their selection on horses; my goal is to subtlety changing the phenotype and to help improve the soundness of the horse.”
As Lee Hall, vice president of Hallway Feeds, said on Caddel’s retirement: “Having weighed, measured and body condition scored more thoroughbreds than any other individual worldwide, Steve has led Hallway Feeds and Kentucky Equine Research in collecting the largest set of growth data on the breed in the world.”
From Quarter Horses to thoroughbreds, from Texas to Kentucky, from note pad to iPad, Caddel has seen some significant changes in the production of racehorses. However, the horseman has questioned and queried, used his experience and his daily role constructively for the benefit of our industry – he should be proud of his achievements.
The whole thing has been fun, but my ultimate goal has always been to get a sounder horse to the racetrackCaddel jokes that he must have been the only salesman who advised stud managers to feed less Photo: Hallway Feeds
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2YO winners inc. Mascapone (also Stakes placed), Coco Jamboo, Hectic, etc.
Yearlings in 2022 sold for £45,000, £44,000, £43,000, etc.
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
Al Kazeem Harper (Averti) L
Al Rifai El Habeeb (Mr Greeley) L
Mutaraffa (Shamardal)
Pretreville (Fusaichi Pegasus)
Acclamation (USA)
Appreciated (Belong To Me)
Aclaim
Cachet (Teofilo) 1
Royal Aclaim (Soviet Star) L
Adaay
Calajunco (Roderic O’connor)
Harry Three (Compton Place) L
Adlerflug
Alenquer (Areion) 1 3
Alter Adler (Peintre Celebre) 2
India (Peintre Celebre) 3 3 3
Loft (Dubawi) 2
Mendocino (Pivotal) 1
Mythico (Monsun) 3
Niagaro (Dubai Destination) L
Normfliegerin (Samum) L
Torquator Tasso (Toylsome) 2
Wagnis (Mount Nelson) 3
Al Wukair Khamma (Harbour Watch) L La Mehana (Dansili)
Albert Dock Tempesti (Bachelor Duke)
Almanzor Around Midnight (Lawman) L
Katoucha (Holy Roman Emperor)
Lassaut (Sinndar) L
Rajapour (Rock Of Gibraltar) L
Amaron Aggenstein (Alkalde) L
Sienna (Uncle Mo) L
American Pharoah
Above The Curve (Galileo) 1 2
American Post Hipop De Loire (Muhtathir) L
Animal Kingdom Big Call (Scat Daddy) 3
(Danehill)
Earl Of Tyrone (Pivotal) L
Galashiels (Duke Of Marmalade) L
Mare Australis (Rainbow Quest) 2
Moomba (Danehill Dancer) L
Mooney Love (Indian Ridge)
(Manduro) L
General Quarters
Snow Bird (Discreet Cat) 3
Gleneagles
Cime Tempestose (King’s Best) L
Jumbly (Selkirk) 3
Royal Scotsman (Pivotal) 2
Shavasana (Duke Of Marmalade) L
Silence Please (Machiavellian) 3
Some Respect (Oratorio) L
Vero Atleta (Danehill Dancer) 2 L
Wintry Flower (Fastnet Rock) L
Goken Fang (Muhtathir) 3
Lova (Three Valleys) L
Sivana (Diamond Green) L
Golden Horn
Bartzella (Singspiel) L
Botanik (Street Cry) 2
Diamantis (Fantastic Light) L
Haskoy (Nathaniel)
Gregorian
Princess Shabnam (Green Desert) L
Gris De Gris
Or Gris (Kotky Bleu) L
Guiliani
Mountaha (Sadler’s Wells) 3
Tunnes (Toylsome) 1 3
Harbour Watch
Pyledriver (Le Havre) 1
Tis Marvellous (Oasis Dream) L
Harry Angel Proverb (Showcasing) L
Havana Gold Chateau (Dansili) L
El Caballo (Showcasing) 2 L
Tippy Toes (Oasis Dream) L
Havana Grey
Cuban Mistress (Sakhee’s Secret) L
Eddie’s Boy (Holy Roman Emperor) 3
Lady Hollywood (Cadeaux Genereux) 3 L
Rumstar (Sakhee’s Secret) 3
Shouldvebeenaring (Equiano) L
Heart’s Cry
Continuous (Galileo) 3
Heeraat White Lavender (Rip Van Winkle) L
Helmet
Cantocorale (Street Cry) 2 2 2
Couples (Almutawakel) L Win The Best (Almutawakel) L
Helsinki Espen Hill (Inchrory) L
Holy Roman Emperor
Aemilianus (Galileo) 3
Jadoomi (Sakhee) 2 2 L
Lord Sakay (Red Ransom) L
Ottilien (Bering) L
Roman Mist (Muhtathir) L
Swipe Up (Iffraaj) 3
Hot Streak
A Case Of You (Key Of Luck) 1
3
Trillium (Invincible Spirit) 2 3
Nutan
Alpenjager (High Chaparral) 3
Oasis Dream Al Tariq (Harlan’s Holiday) 3
Grocer Jack (Doyen)
(Bahamian Bounty) 3
Pride Of Dubai
Fancy Man (Galileo) L
Telepatic Glances (Hurricane Run) L
Prince Of Lir
Prince Of Pillo (Majestic Missile) L
Profitable Miramar (Teofilo) 3
Mitbaahy (Invasor) 3 L
Wed (Discreet Cat) 2
Protectionist
Amazing Grace (Danehill Dancer) 2 L
Quality Road
Cairo (Galileo) 3
Missed The Cut (Sea The Stars) L
Raven’s Pass
Amalaura (Sakhee’s Secret) L L L
Romantic Proposal (Diktat) L
Reach The Crown
Crown Pride (King Kamehameha) 2
Recorder
Enola (Barathea) L
Hot Queen (Lomitas) L
Reliable Man
Ardakan (Sternkoenig) 2
Ribchester
Championofmyheart (Titus Livius) L
Facteur Cheval (Shamardal) 3 L
Snooze N You Lose (Noverre) L
Rio De La Plata
Lord Achilles (Sulamani) L
Roaring Lion
Dubai Mile (High Chaparral) 1
Rock Of Gibraltar
Rock Boy (Iffraaj) 3
Ruler
Our unique bloodstock analysis of the Longines World Racehorse Rankings
● Top-class sprinter with a sire’s pedigree
● Group 1 placed in 3 countries
● Successful first crop sire including Washington Heights (earnings of over £75,000 and hd 2nd in valuable sales race to a Listed winner and 3rd in Listed Redcar 2yo Trophy).
● By Zoffany sire of 89 black type horses and 5 Group 1 winners from his European crops.
Fee: £3,000 Oct 1st SLF
Timeform rated 121: “well-made horse: smart performer”
£20,000
Timeform Rated 113 at 2 years
Fee: £2,000 Oct 1st SLF
Dreamflight (Frankel) L
La Mehana (Al Wukair) L
Legionario (Toronado) L
Lost Eden (Sea The Stars) L
Marbling (Kingman) 3
Media Storm (Night Of Thunder) L
Naval Crown (Dubawi) 1 2
Royal Fleet (Dubawi) 3 L
Siskany (Dubawi)
Sweet Lady (Lope De Vega) 1 2
Tempus (Kingman) 3 3
Thunder Beauty (Night Of Thunder) L
Dark Angel Cresta (New Bay) L
Tudo Bem (Sommerabend) L
Darshaan
Perotan (Churchill) L
Sibila Spain (Frankel) 2
The Foxes (Churchill) 2
Dashing Blade
Tiaspettofuori (Mujahid) L
Daylami
Grand Glory (Olympic Glory) 3 L
Definite Article
Ascot Brass (Juniper Tree) L L
Desert Style
Star Of India (Galileo) L
Desert Sun
Nature Strip (Nicconi) 1
Diamond Green Sivana (Goken) L
Diesis Dalek (Plusquemavie) L
Diktat
Distorted
CRO P 1st
Sire of PIZ BADILE, a Group winning, Classic placed 3yo
CRO P 2nd CRO P 3rd
Sire of HOLLOWAY BOY, a Royal Ascot Stakes winning and Gr.1 placed 2yo
Yearlings made 170,000gns, 150,000gns, £150,000, etc, and averaged over £50,000
Fee: £10,000 (1st October SLF)
Lemon Drop Kid Barefoot Angel (Dark Angel)
Lilbourne Lad Ever Given (Kodi Bear)
Lomitas Beamish (Teofilo)
Hot Queen (Recorder)
Lord Leoso (Pastorius)
Lope De Vega
Persian Force (Mehmas)
Self Belief (Make Believe)
The Ridler (Brazen Beau)
Marju By All Means (Kodiac)
Mark Of Esteem
Pennine Hills (Kodiac)
Third Realm (Sea The Stars)
Triple Time (Frankel)
Mastercraftsman
Belloccio (Belardo)
Mawatheeq
Mutasarref (Dark Angel)
Medicean
Garrus (Acclamation)
Magical Sunset (Kodiac)
Regal Reality (Intello) 3
Miswaki Tern
Il Grande Gatsby (Churchill)
Mizzen Mast
Lyrical (Poet’s Voice)
Prosperous Voyage (Zoffany)
Sahib’s Joy (Soldier Hollow)
Sea The Sky (Sea The Stars)
Sippinsoda (War Front)
(Kizuna)
More Than Ready
Aspen Grove
Manisha (Lope De Vega)
Mea Domina (Pivotal)
Mimikyu (Dubawi)
Panthalassa (Lord Kanaloa)
three-time winning 2YO in 2022, THE BLUE PANTHER, SNAPIUS, ROUND SIX, DEVASTE, AUTUMN TWILIGHT, etc.
Chindit (Wootton Bassett) 2 L
Could Be King (Bated Breath) L L L
Eternal Pearl (Frankel) 3 3 L
Glenartney (Le Havre) L
Grande Dame (Lope De Vega) L
Iresine (Manduro) 1 2 L
Nations Pride (Teofilo) L
Noon Star (Galileo) L
Pirate Jenny (Exceed And Excel) L
Quickthorn (Nathaniel) 2 2 3
Tippy Toes (Havana Gold) L
Tis Marvellous (Harbour Watch) L
Observatory
Native Trail (Oasis Dream) 1 3
One Cool Cat
Indian Wish (The Grey Gatsby) L
Matilda Picotte (Sioux Nation) L
Royal Lea (Dandy Man) L
Oratorio
Django (Bold Fact) L
Some Respect (Gleneagles) L
Orientate
Iron Butterfly (Swipe) L
Orpen
Aria Importante (Twilight Son) 3 L
Noble Heidi (Intello) L
Paco Boy
Ritournelle (Camelot)
Pastoral Pursuits
Moss Tucker (Excelebration) L
Peintre Celebre
Adler (Adlerflug)
(Adlerflug)
Nachtrose (Australia)
Pivotal
Aldaary (Territories) L
Benefit (Acclamation) L
Desert Wisdom (Dubawi) 3
Earl Of Tyrone (Australia) L
Goldana (Galileo Gold) L
Holloway Boy (Ulysses) L
Mendocino (Adlerflug)
Ransom O’War
Petit Marin (Flamingo Fantasy) 3
Raven’s Pass
Dubawi Legend (Dubawi) 3
Fast Raaj (Iffraaj) L
Saffron Beach (New Bay) 1 2
Tiber Flow (Caravaggio) L
Red Clubs
Lezoo (Zoustar) 1 3 L
Spycatcher (Vadamos) L
Red Ransom
Good Eye (Eishin Dunkirk) L
Lord Sakay (Holy Roman Emperor) L
Refuse To Bend
Life In Motion (Sea The Stars) L L
Rio De La Plata
Ladies Church (Churchill) 2
Rip Van Winkle
Romagna Mia (Mastercraftsman) 2
White Lavender (Heeraat) L
Rock Of Gibraltar
Coeur De Pierre (Zanzibari) 3 L
Donna Anna (Dutch Art) L
Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor) L
Lindy (Le Havre) L
Nirliit (Iffraaj) L
Quest The Moon (Sea The Moon) L
Rajapour (Almanzor) L
Roderic O’Connor
Calajunco (Adaay) L
Royal Applause
Caernarfon (Cityscape) L
Charterhouse (Charming Thought) L
Rocket Rodney (Dandy Man) L
Sadler’s Wells
Achelois (Zoffany) L
Egregious Rock (Luxor) 3
Mountaha (Guiliani) 3
Pusjkin (Muhaarar) L
Yaxeni (Maxios) L L L
Sakhee
Hamish (Motivator) 3 3
Ipompieridiviggiu (Pastoral Pursuits) L L
Jadoomi (Holy Roman Emperor) 2 2 L
Sakhee’s Secret
Amalaura (Raven’s Pass) L L L
Movethechains and Jamie Moore in the Welsh National at Chepstow on December 27, the pair finished fifth to the winner The Two Amigos
A BRAND PASSIONATE ABOUT THE GREAT BRITISH THOROUGHBRED
Planteur, Bangkok and Walzertakt will be parading at the Goffs UK January Sale on 24th January, and at the Cheltenham Festival Trials Day on 28th January 2023.
WELL BRED, TOUGH & CONSISTENT STAKES WINNER
WON/PLACED IN 8 STAKES RACES
OUTSTANDING PEDIGREE
Half-brother to 6 Stakes horses including 2022 Gr.2 winning 2yo The Foxes, descending from the legendary Fall Aspen.
Fee: £3,000 1st October FFR
STAKES PRODUCER ON THE FLAT, OVER HURDLES & JUMPS
Including dual Group 1 winner Trueshan & Grade 2 winners Edidindo & Gran Diose.
HIGHEST EARNING SON OF DANEHILL DANCER
Gr.1 winner & won/placed in 12 Stakes races.
Fee: £4,000 1st October FFR
HIGH-CLASS STAYER BY MONTJEU
WON/PLACED IN 5 STAKES RACES
BY A LEADING NH INFLUENCE IN MONTJEU
Plus a half-brother to 4 Group horses including German Derby winner Wiener Walzer, sire of Grade 1 winner Adagio. Bred on the same cross as Camelot.
Fee: £2,500 1st October FFR
Concessions available
Chapel Stud Ltd Chapel Lane, Bransford, Worcestershire WR6 5JQ 01452 717 342 chapelstud.co.uk
Roisin Close 07738 279 071 roisin@ chapelstud.co.uk
Tina Dawson 07776 165854
tina.dawson@ tdbloodstock.com
GR.1 SIRE OF CHAMPION STAYER TRUESHANThe only horse since Frankel to be rated higher by Timeform than every other member of his generation in Europe at both 2 and 3 years
2 YEAR OLDS
121p ST MARK’S BASILICA (FR) Aidan O’Brien, Ireland
Siyouni (FR) - Cabaret (IRE) (Galileo (IRE))
3 YEAR OLDS
132 ST MARK’S BASILICA (FR) Aidan O’Brien, Ireland
131 ADAYAR (IRE) Charlie Appleby
Siyouni (FR) - Cabaret (IRE) (Galileo (IRE))
Frankel - Anna Salai (USA) (Dubawi (IRE))
130 BAAEED William Haggas
Sea The Stars (IRE) - Aghareed (USA) (Kingmambo (USA))
In-foal mare average bettered only by Frankel and a whopping 9 times his fee!
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