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Plus• Marwan Koukashsets his sights onracing’s top table

• Team Valor: aninternationalsuccess story

• New columnistJames Willoughbyon beating the odds

Clive Brittain and Philip Robinson back in tandem

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STALLIONS FOR 2011 • ALFRED NOBEL • AUSSIE RULES • CHOISIR • DANEHILL DANCER • DUKE OF MARMALADE • DYLAN THOMAS • EXCELLENT ART • FASTNET ROCK • FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND • • GALILEO • HIGH CHAPARRAL • HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR • HURRICANE RUN • MASTERCRAFTSMAN • MONTJEU • ORATORIO • PEINTRE CELEBRE • RIP VAN WINKLE •

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17/04 First crop Group winner for HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR Sandslash won Premio Carlo Chiesa-Gr.3

13/04 Another Group winner for FOOTSTEPSINTHESAND Barefoot Lady won Nell Gwyn Stakes-Gr.3

10/04 First crop Group winner for HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR Banimpire won Ballysax Stakes-Gr.3

03/04 Triple Group winner for Gr.1 sire ORATORIO Lolly For Dolly won Gladness Stakes-Gr.3

03/04 6th first crop Stakes winner for AUSSIE RULES Cazals won Premio Gardone-L.R.

25/03 First 2YO runner a winner for DYLAN THOMAS Snowflake Dancer won over 5f. for Jim Bolger

19/03 5th first crop Stakes winner for AUSSIE RULES Staros won Prix Maurice Caillault-L.R.

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WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR

Marwan Koukash is not a man lacking inambition. “I want to own 200 horses, win100 races in a season and be in the top five

owners,” he tells Tim Richards in a superb Talking To(pages 37-39).“Currently I am in the process of trying to find a

yard near my home to use for breeding; I must startlooking for suitable broodmares. I am in this game forthe long haul.” The statistics tell their own story; from six runners

and one winner in 2007 to 381 runners and 45winners in Britain last year, Koukash now has around80 horses in training with a dozen trainers. Bulwarkhas won a Chester Cup,Redford has captured an AyrGold Cup and Group 2 successhas been provided by OurJonathan.At a time when racing needs

to attract every penny it canget, men like Koukash who areprepared to invest so heavily inthe industry should beembraced with open arms andmade to feel welcome – whichis why some of his othercomments should set alarmbells ringing.“Chester racecourse is

outstanding,” he says. “When I go to Chester I haverunners in almost every race. It has a specialatmosphere. An important factor is the way [theracecourse] looks after owners and trainers, which issomething many other tracks could learn from. “York is also fantastic and Doncaster good. But there

are not many other racecourses where I could say Ienjoy going, including Ascot, where the owners’ andtrainers’ facilities leave a lot to be desired.”If racing wants to retain owners like Koukash – and

there are plenty of other avenues for a wealthy man tospend his leisure pound – it needs to ensure that thepeople who provide the runners from which the sportfunctions and profits are well looked after and nottreated as a burden.

Another owner making waves is Team Valor, theglobal partnership which has runners all over theworld. Founded by Barry Irwin, the likes of Gitano Hernando, Ipi Tombe and Irridescence havecarried the green and red silks with distinction inrecent times.Irwin’s excellent knowledge of international racing

makes his views on the subject even more valid andhe is no doubt about the biggest threat to the industryworldwide.“I’m really worried about Betfair,” he explains to

Frances Karon (The Big Interview, pages 44-48). “Theyscare the hell out of me – I think they can ruin our sport.

“They don’t realise they needto give something back toracing, which I find disturbing.I just wish that worldwide wecould eliminate all bookmakersand especially Betfair.”This issue also features an

interview with Clive Brittainand Philip Robinson (pages 40-43). The two veterans havedecided to re-form anassociation that started threedecades ago and which enjoyedearly success with the brilliantfilly Pebbles, who gave the duotheir first Group 1 win together

in the 1984 1,000 Guineas.With over 100 horses listed in training at Carlburg

Stables, Brittain and Robinson will certainly haveplenty of ammunition to go to war with. An earlystrike with Nideeb in the Group 3 Winter Derby gotthe ball rolling and they have a host of unexposedrunners to look forward to in the coming months.

The tragic equine deaths at Aintee and Ayr promptedplenty of comments in the wider media, somethoughtful, some irresponsible. Read what our newcolumnist James Willoughby has to say on the matter,plus a fascinating theory on how the underdog cantriumph against the odds, on page 25.

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• New columnistJames Willoughbyon beating the odds

Clive Brittain and Philip Robinson back in tandem

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NEWS & VIEWS

7 ROA LeaderRacing can influence Tote verdict

9 TBA LeaderNext generation of enthusiasts

10 NewsBirdcage steps up a gear

12 ChangesNews in a nutshell

22 Tony MorrisThe Derby ‘winner’ Bend Or

25 NEW COLUMNIST! James WilloughbyCan racing learn from baseball?

INTERNATIONAL SCENE

28 View From IrelandThe Queen set to visit

30 Continental TalesRupert Plersch’s global vision

33 Going GlobalJapanese industry in recovery

FEATURES

14 The Big PictureFrom Aintree and Meydan

26 Great Owner/BreedersLouis Freedman

37 Talking To...Owner Marwan Koukash

40 COVER STORYClive Brittain andPhilip RobinsonDuo back together again andhoping for a big season

44 The Big Interview Team Valor’s Barry Irwin

51 Sales CircuitAnalysing the breeze-up sales

88 FlashbackSea Pigeon’s 1977 Chester Cup

CONTENTSMAY 2011

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63 BBM FocusBahri in the spotlight

64 Next Generation ClubEvents programme kicks off at Newbury

66 TBA ForumJulian Richmond-Watson co-opted to TBA Board

72 Vet ForumInjuries on turf and synthetics

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Obtaining the exclusive rights to operate poolbetting in this country has long been regardedas the one remaining chance to put British racing

on a sound financial footing. While it has always been accepted that the British

punter has a preference for fixed odds betting, many of uswithin the industry cling to the notion that the Tote,properly exploited outside of the clutches of governmentand using the global market, represents a wonderfulopportunity.Driven by this belief, the racing industry has spent

many years engaging with various governments, first withthe expectation that the Tote would be gifted to racingand then, when the spectre ofEuropean state aid legislationappeared, that racing could atleast acquire the Tote for a sumsubstantially less than the open-market value.So when the coalition

announced a definite intentionto sell the Tote, it first gave riseto optimism but then to agradual realisation that thegovernment – and moreparticularly the Treasury – wouldbe motivated more by whowould pay the highest price thanby any moral or ethical arguments.The recent news that the so-called Tote Foundation

had failed in its bid to retain the business was thereforegreeted with more disappointment than surprise.Certainly, racing had been clear in its support of thischaritable foundation as a vehicle for the Tote, but, inrecent weeks, it became apparent that the foundation wasunable to raise sufficient funds, even when the half shareof the proceeds that racing was promised was put intothe equation.Although, at the time of writing, there has been no

official statement by the Department for Culture, Mediaand Sport, it became known in mid-April that the onlytwo parties left in the race were the bookmaker Betfredand a consortium headed up by the former BHBChairman, Martin Broughton.

Non-disclosure agreements make open discussiondifficult but it is clear the government are walking atightrope. Although they need to maximise the openmarket value, if for no other reason but to avoid a stateaid challenge, they would also be keen to avoid stirringup hostility from the racing industry.By gifting a half-share of the proceeds of the sale to

racing, it may be the government believes it will havedone enough to assuage this industry but nobody shouldhave any doubts as to how much conditionality andlongevity they will attach to the fulfilment of their pledge.It is imperative that racing stays united if it is to extract

anything from this messy and unsatisfactory situation.Whatever the differencesbetween horsemen andracecourses in recent months, weneed to put these to one side inagreeing where we should nowbe with the Tote.We may have to accept that

British horseracing is not goingto own the exclusive pool bettinglicence, but the racing industrystill has some strong cards left toplay in influencing whoevereventually acquires the licence.A shopping list of racing’s

requirements should now bepresented to the two parties left in the race in order to‘buy’ racing’s support. This should insist that the Tote’scurrent annual contribution through sponsorship andracecourse payments are at least maintained inperpetuity; that the Tote’s current payments to the levyremain on the same basis as now; that racing has Boardrepresentation on the vehicle set up to run pool betting;and that there is an opportunity for racing entities andindividuals to obtain equity share in the business.I am certainly not in a position at this sensitive stage to

speculate on which of the two remaining bidders for theTote could meet these demands, but, if they are met,British racing will perhaps not look back on its failure toacquire the Tote with the remorse that still surrounds ourfailure to achieve an off-course betting monopoly in theearly sixties.

PAUL DIXON PresidentRacehorse Owners Association

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Tony Morris, ‘the man you can’t ignore’, called merecently to share his delight in the young membersof the Newmarket pedigree club, an informal group

founded by the late Leslie Harrison, dedicated to debatingthe merits of breeding theories and practices.

Despite the concerns that the industry faces, Tony wasnot downcast, because the younger members’ enthusiasmhas not been worn down by the factionalism that plaguesour industry. In fact, we are lucky to have their keen youngminds soaking up knowledge like sponges with a view todeveloping their careers in the breeding world.

The TBA’s Next Generation Club aims to extend thisconcept through its committee. As news travels of theClub’s progress, we are reaching awider audience and helping tocreate a structure around theinterest in our sport shown by theyoung. This needs to embraceracing and breeding on the widestscale, from the complexities ofpedigree assessment to providingdirection and further educationand training opportunities forstudents. Reinforcing a socialnetwork of likemindedindividuals and creating aplatform to encourage futureinvestors in racing and breedingare important tasks for the TBA.

The NGC has received valuable support, not only inoffers to host visits but also to provide some independentfunding to expand the Club. This has really encouragedour committee to push forward and “take ownership” ofthe younger sector. I believe this is one of our most excitinginitiatives and it will boost awareness of horseracing acrossall frontiers, creating a greater understanding of thebreeding industry whilst also developing the theme ofmutual respect for all racing’s participants in years to come.

If this is the TBA’s legacy under my Chairmanship I ammore than happy to devote time and effort to promoting it.I encourage anyone under 35 to register on the websitewww.the-ngc.co.uk.

Whilst the TBA has focused its efforts in developing theNGC, the opportunity to create a following from the young

nowadays starts much earlier. The TBA’s Education andEmployment Committee recognised this and throughseveral Pony Club outreach days, co-ordinated by DerekChristopher and our regional representatives, we haveintroduced racing and breeding to those on the very firstrungs of the equine ladder who may be for the first timeconsidering their career and life options.

The BHEST Racing to School programme casts thewidest possible net to catch young minds and enthusiasmthrough its educational activities in support of the schoolcurriculum. Through visits to racecourses and studs byschoolchildren of all ages, the programme has beenoperating for ten years and some 75,000 schoolchildren

have participated. Now that theolder complement of children ispassing into universities andworkplaces, it will be interestingto see if racing can re-establish aconnection with those childrenfrom diverse backgrounds. This isa very worth while initiative andmore information is available onwww.bhest.co.uk.

April cannot pass withoutpaying tribute to Newmarket’sCraven meeting which provideda feast of racing of which bothTony Morris and his predecessor

would have approved. As always, the racing dovetailedwith Tattersalls’ Craven breeze-up sale, the only two-year-old auction in Newmarket this year, meaning a slighterlarger catalogue than in 2010. Key indicators were slightlydown on last year but, following an upturn at Goffs’Kempton breeze-up, which was helped by its later date,pinhookers have not fared too badly.

With the 2011 breeze-up season now almost over, wecan ponder the outcome and the effect this will have on theyearling market. Mating plans for the 2012 foal crop arelargely addressed and there is little anecdotal evidence of anincrease in numbers of mares covered. Ironically, how wedeal with the long-term effects of the economic situationand the inadequate returns to owners will be judged bythose same young people that we are focusing on today toattract to our sport.

KIRSTEN RAUSING Chairman Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association

Harnessing new talentas the industry evolvesMuch encouragement to be found in the breadth of young enthusiasm

“We have introduced

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The Birdcage, an exclusive membership clubdesigned to get young, wealthy individuals togo racing, held a fashion show at Chelseanightclub Public in mid-April ahead of thisyear’s Royal Ascot meeting, to highlight the linkbetween the sport and high fashion.

Attracting new participants is one of racing’smajor aims at present, with Racing For Changefocussed on getting more people through theturnstiles. Jake Warren came up with the visionfor The Birdcage in 2009, with the belief thatpeople would get hooked on the sport if theygave it a try.

“It started with an idea just to get somefriends racing and to see if they enjoyed theexperience – I hired a box one day just to testthe water,” said Warren, the son of renownedbloodstock agent and the Queen’s bloodstockadvisor John Warren.

“That went really well so last year we steppedit up and held a facility in the Royal Enclosureon the Saturday of Royal Ascot, featuring a barand music with racing personalities in

attendance. We wanted to create an exclusiveenvironment where young racegoers couldrelax and enjoy themselves.

“We hope that events like the fashion showwill appeal to the younger, fashion-consciouscrowd. Dressing up and looking glamorous is abig part of racing, especially for women, andwe want our brand to resonate with thisaudience.

“The idea is that The Birdcage will become amembership club with a focus on racing. Wewould like to get a syndicate horse and takemembers on trips.”

Warren, who represents Pitch PR, runs TheBirdcage with good friend Guy Pelly and istargeting the 18 to 35 age group, although thereis no age limit for members. He has a five-yearplan and is hoping to build the club into a forcein racing.

The Birdcage will again have its facility in theRoyal Enclosure on the Saturday of Royal Ascoton June 18, with anywhere up to 800 peopleexpected throughout the day.

Warren added: “This is an expensive sport sowe want to attract people who will be in aposition to invest in it in future years. My uncle,Harry Herbert, has shown how syndication canbe a more affordable way of ownership with theRoyal Ascot Racing Club and Highlere.

“We accept that The Birdcage is not foreveryone, but we want to cultivate the ownersof tomorrow by giving them an unforgettableexperience. Ascot is the right location and theperfect shop window to showcase thiswonderful sport.”

Following the BHA’s decision to turn down anapplication to run the Listed Lansdown Fillies’Stakes in August, Bath racecourse has decidedto resurrect a contest first held in 1823 and notrun for over a decade.

The Somersetshire Stakes, a Class 2 event overan extended five furlongs for three-year-olds andupwards (who have not won a Group 1 or 2

race), carries minimum prize-money of £20,000and will be staged on August 20.

Jim Allen, Head of Racing Development atNorthern Racing, said: “We were disappointedwith the decision from the BHA but hope to beable to find a suitable fixture to apply to stagethe Listed race next April.

“The problem arose when the April fixture

which previously held the Lansdown Stakes wastaken away as part of the changes to the 2011fixture list.

“When it became apparent that there was ademand for the race, particularly among owners and breeders, as well as trainers, weapplied to stage the race this season, albeit inAugust rather than in April. In order to put ona Listed race we wanted it to be on a consumer-friendly fixture, in front of a good crowd.

“Unfortunately, the BHA sub-committee didnot approve the application. I am particularlysorry for Chris Harper of Whitsbury ManorStud, who had offered to sponsor the race. Wehave had to look at alternatives and I’m pleasedto be able to announce the return of the historicSomersetshire Stakes to the calendar.”

He added: “It’s an important year for Bath,celebrating 200 years of racing. The anniversarycelebrations will take place on Saturday, August20 and it will also be Ladies’ Day, helping to drawa big crowd and make for a really specialoccasion.”


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The Birdcage aims to dazzle at Royal Ascot Exclusive club aims to sell racing to the young and wealthy

Jockey Pat Dobbs with TenishiaMcSweeney, modelling racing silks

Bath restores race with 188-year history

The track has re-introduced a sprint, run over five furlongs and worth £20,000

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The use of social media within racehorseownership took a big step forward in April withthe purchase of a two-year-old colt at the DBSbreeze-up sale for a syndicate of 50 ownersformed on Twitter.

Internet entrepreneur Eamonn Wilmott, theco-owner of Horses First Racing and Chairmanof Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder, set up thesyndicate, known to users of Twitter as#twitterhorse, with trainer Jeremy Gask, who isbased at Wilmott’s Beeches Farm trainingestablishment in Wiltshire.

“It was a massive case of déjà vu for me. Itsays on my CV that I launched the first evercommercial internet service over 20 years agoand that makes me feel really old,” said Wilmott,who tweeted details of a potential syndicate onthe first morning of the Tattersalls breeze-up andwas besieged by interested parties.

Despite several attempts to buy a two-year-old in Newmarket, the team was unsuccessfuland then focused its attention on the followingweek’s sale at Doncaster, where it signed for acolt by early first-season sires’ championshipleader Dark Angel.

He continued: “The vibe and buzz when itfirst started on the Tuesday of the Cravenbreeze-up really reminded me of the old dotcomdays. There’s a nice positive vibe behind it, nohard sell involved – it’s a cool, fun thing.

“It was Jeremy’s idea to start a Twittersyndicate and it finally came about when JamesKnight tweeted Jeremy at the Craven breeze-upsale and I replied with the outline of a syndicate.Within two hours we had 30 people sign up.”

The syndicate of 50, in which each membercontributed £400 to the horse’s purchase priceand will pay £50 per month in training fees, hasnow been filled but Wilmott and Gask alreadyhave plans for a second Twitter-based syndicate.

“Racing’s had a terrible couple of weeks onthe publicity front but this is a bit of fun andvery positive. We’re sending out a weekly e-zine

to the syndicate members and we’ll set up aTwitter account in the horse’s name, which youcan only follow if you’re an owner.

“We’ll also continue to use Twitter as amedium for communication and make surethere are lots of votes among members aboutcolours, jockey bookings etc.”

The forward-thinking team stole a march onRacing For Change, which also has plans tolaunch a Twitter syndicate in May.

Wilmott added: “I think they were a bit crossthat we beat them to it but [RFC ProjectDirector] Rod Street has joined #twitterhorse.”

A special guest at the Grand National meetingwas Svensk Galopp representative ElisabethOldengren who had brought with her theSwedish Grand National trophy (inset) whichhad been presented to the country’s racingauthorities by Aintree’s former doyenneMirabel Topham 40 years ago.

The elaborate prize,which was on display inthe trophy marqueethroughout themeeting, was donated tomark the inauguralrunning of the Swedish GrandNational in 1971 after Sweden’sARK race committee had soughtpermission from Mrs Topham to usethe name of Aintree’s famous racefor their own version.

Her reply to the request was

sent along with the trophy and read: “Howconsiderate of you to ask. No other ‘GrandNational’ in the world has bothered to do

that before. Good luck to you.” Oldengren’s other mission inLiverpool was to attempt to encourage

British trainers and owners tofield runners in the

Swedish GrandNational andChampion Hurdle,both of which are to

be run at thepicturesque Osterangen

racecourse at Stromsholm onJune 12.“Lucinda Russell ran Ormello in2009 and he finished second. Sheand Peter Scudamore will return

this year, and John Francome

and Edward Gillespie are also attending,” saidOldengren, who is also a race steward inSweden and formerly worked in Britain forLuca Cumani.

“The racetrack is used only once a year andit is situated in a national park next to thebeautiful Stromsholm Royal Castle. We arehappy to assist with travel costs for overseasrunners up to €500.”

The Swedish Grand National is run overtwo miles and five furlongs and is for five-year-olds and upwards, while the ChampionHurdle, open to four-year-olds and upwards,is over two miles and two and a half furlongs.

Entries close on Monday, May 2, butsupplementary nominations will be acceptedup until May 23. For further details,Oldengren can be contacted [email protected] or +46 70794 88 47.

Twitter syndicate up and runningwith two-year-old DBS purchase

Eamonn Wilmott (second right) says the initiative “has a nice positive vibe”

British contenders sought for Swedish Grand National

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RACEHORSE AND STALLION – MOVEMENTS AND RETIREMENTSA P Indy Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, later a dual champion stallion in the US as sire of Mineshaft, Bernardini and Rags To Riches, is pensioned aged 22Captain Gerrard Mickley Stud stallion will shuttle to Wyndholm Park Stud in Victoria, Australia for 2011 Big Fella Thanks Smart chaser sold by Harry Findlay to Max Fawbert and Nick Williamson, who have horses in training with Ferdy MurphyComply Or Die Grand National winner of 2008 is retired at the age of 12 by owner David Johnson after pulling up in this year’s renewalHalicarnassus Son of Cape Cross, winner of the 2009 Group 2 Bosphorus Cup in Turkey, will stand as a stallion in that country next year at Atman Karatas Stud Mother Russia Daughter of Windrush, a multiple Grade 1-winner in South Africa, is retired to owner Mary Slack’s Wilgerbosdrift StudHussonet Stallion moves from Arrowfield to Lindsay Park Stud for the southern hemisphere breeding season; the son of Mr Prospector’s fee is AUS$25,000Manduro Darley sire set to shuttle to Brazil for the southern hemisphere breeding season

PEOPLE OBITUARIES AGE

George Walker 81 Former amateur boxer who went on to purchase bookmaker William HillElizabeth Taylor 79 Hollywood actress who had horses in training with John Gosden in America Derek Hunnisett 79 Served as a steward at Brighton for 20 years and owned Group 1 winner Highland ChieftainNoel Pelat 94 Breeder of Golden Silver, Mansonnien and Le Coudray who owned Haras de la Croix SonnetJoe Feane 80 Ex-jockey who worked for trainers including Paddy Prendergast and Stuart Murless Earl of Dunraven 71 Bred Group 2 winner Pyjama Hunt from his Fort Union Stud in Adare, IrelandNed Byrne 54 Yard manager at Darley’s Woodpark Stud in Co Meath who pinhooked Grand National first and second Ballabriggs and Oscar Time

HORSE OBITUARIES AGE

Docklands Express 29 Dual winner of the Racing Post Chase who also won two Martell Cups, a Whitbread and was placed in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and NationalPrince Sabo 29 Top sprinter during the 1980s, landing the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes, and sire of speedsters Fire Up The Band and Princely HushDancing Spree 26 Winner of the 1989 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Gulfstream Park who is the sire of Group 3 scorer Rowe ParkMo Mon 13 New Jersey-based stallion by Maria’s MonThe Wicked North 22 Son of Far North who was a multiple Grade 1 scorer and Eclipse Award winner in the US Bonanza Boy 30 Grand staying chaser for the Martin Pipe stable, winner of two Welsh Grand Nationals and the Racing Post ChaseOrnais 9 Paul Nicholls-trained chaser, owned by the Stewart Family, is one of two casualties in this year’s Grand NationalDooneys Gate 10 Five-time winner, trained by Willie Mullins, is fatally injured at AintreeSuper Coin 23 Talented chaser, owned by George Brookes and trained by Richard Lee, whose nine wins included the 1998 Mildmay of Flete ChaseParadise Creek 22 US champion turf male in 1994, when winning the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap, Arlington Million and Washington DC InternationalComalagold 11 All-time leading Alabama-bred female earner ($311,080) who won the Alabama Belle Stakes in 2003, 2004 and 2005Kazadancoa 33 Foundation mare at Catesby Clay’s Runnymede Farm whose descendants include Racing Post Trophy winner Palace EpisodeAuction House 15 Son of Exbourne won the 1998 Champagne Stakes and had been standing at David Hodge’s Llety Stud in Carmarthenshire One Cool Cookie 10 Grade 1-winning chaser for owner Gigginstown House Stud and trainer Charlie SwanManzotti 28 Successful stallion, who had been pensioned, and stakes winner, including Grade 1 John B Campbell Handicap at PimlicoPrimal Force 24 US Broodmare of the Year in 2000; she produced two Breeders’ Cup winners in Awesome Again and Macho Uno Minella Four Star 8 This year’s Midlands Grand National winner is fatally injured in the Scottish Grand National; the race also claims Regal Heights

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T H E B I G P I C T U R E

And they’re off! The 40 runners head towards the first fencein this year’s Grand National – eventual winner Ballabriggs isalready to the fore, wearing a noseband towards the outside

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A I N T R E E




Ballabriggs and Jason Maguirenegotiate the Canal Turn on thefirst circuit as Santa’s Son leads;it was a first victory in the race

for both jockey and trainerDonald McCain, below with

father Ginger, and a second forowner Trevor Hemmings

A I N T R E E



From top to bottom: Nacarat makesvirtually all to win the Bowl; Baby Rungains a deserved success in the FoxHunters’; the mighty Big Buck’s beatsGrands Crus in the Liverpool Hurdle


A I N T R E E

Master Minded brushes economicallythrough a fence en route to winningthe Grade 1 Melling Chase over twoand a half miles – setting himself up fora crack at the King George VI Chase




M E Y D A N

Victoire Pisa, partnered by Mirco Demuro, defeats Transcend (right) in theDubai World Cup to record a 1-2 for Japan. The result was followed byemotional scenes in the winner’s enclosure (see Going Global page 34)

Photo George Selwyn

Towering victory


Of the two great mysteries of the1880s, one seems long odds againstever being solved. There have been

plenty of theories and suspects, but can webe persuaded that Walter Sickert was Jack theRipper? Pull the other one. The Duke ofClarence? Come off it, that’s far too fanciful.

But it appears that we do now have asolution to the other question of identity thatsurfaced in the same decade and for so longseemed to be impossible to resolve: who wasthe colt who finished first in the Derby of1880? The record books will tell you he wasBend Or, a son of Doncaster and theThormanby mare Rouge Rose, bred andowned by the 1st Duke of Westminster,trained by Robert Peck, and ridden to anarrow victory by Fred Archer. He later hadan outstanding stud career, becoming sire ofOrmonde, the best horse of the 19th century,and among his fourth-generation tail-maledescendants was Phalaris, the mostinfluential sire of the 20th century. It hardlyneeds saying he was a horse of tremendoussignificance in the development of the breed.

So where is the mystery? Well, the studgroom at Eaton, where Westminster’s stockwas kept, said two colts, both chesnut sonsof Doncaster, had been inadvertentlyswitched after they left the stud, and that theone who raced as Bend Or was Tadcaster, theproduct of a Newminster mare, Clemence.

Bearing in mind that the groom, RichardArnull, had been fired by Westminster andwas working out his notice when he madethe allegation, it might have been construedas a mischievous, even malicious, attempt toembarrass his employer. But it was said thatArnull persisted in his story until his dyingday, long after the Epsom stewards had cometo the decision that Bend Or was the horsehe was supposed to be. Doubts remained,fuelled some years later by a statement fromone of the stewards, James Lowther,indicating that from evidence he hadobtained subsequently, he was inclined to thebelief that he and his colleagues had come to

the wrong conclusion. Sadly, he appears notto have divulged the nature of that laterevidence. The matter had been brought tothe attention of the Jockey Club in mid-July,seven weeks after the running of the Derby.

Acting on the information given to themby Arnull, Charles Brewer and his trainerCharles Blanton, joint-owners of runner-upRobert The Devil, wrote to the stewards andto Weatherbys, objecting to the result “on theground that Bend Or was not the horse hewas represented to be, either in the entry orat the time of the race.” They naturally alsoclaimed the winner’s purse of £6,375.

The case was considered in four sessions

over ten days, the first to decide onprocedure, with witnesses examined on thesecond and third occasions. Some witnesseswere re-examined on the fourth day beforethe stewards retired to deliberate, and afterthree-quarters of an hour they issued theirverdict, declaring that Bend Or was Bend Or,and that the Derby result would stand.

All the meetings were conducted in privateand none of the evidence presented was everpublished. But, inevitably, a few snippets didemerge from those involved, not least thatthe Duke of Westminster’s private stud bookwas kept so haphazardly as to be a virtuallyworthless document. The Duke’s Master ofthe Horse, Colonel Barlow, had not even kepta record of the markings of the colts foaledin 1877 before they left the stud for Barrow’sstable in Newmarket, en route to Russley.

Evidence provided by Arnull and his twosons (both of whom had also been employedat Eaton) was all to the effect that Bend Orwas Tadcaster. Just why the stewards neededto interview Peck and Sherwood, his headman, it was hard to imagine. Yes, they couldconfirm, from markings recorded, that thecolts who arrived at Russley were those whohad been at Barrow’s, and whose markingshad been duly noted there. But that was notthe issue; if there had been a switch, it hadoccurred because the pair had not beenproperly identified before they left Eaton.

Anyone aware of how the Jockey Clubused to administer justice will not find ithard to imagine that the stewards woulddecline to take the word of common groomsagainst that of the nobility; the Duke ofWestminster was the richest man in Englandat the time. They would have been at pains toavoid the slightest whiff of a scandal.

The affair had been pretty much of a nine-day wonder and the public soon put it to theback of their minds as they considered theforthcoming St Leger – won, incidentally, byRobert The Devil, with Bend Or the unplacedodds-on favourite. But from time to time thesubject surfaced and for some reason it wasresurrected in 1914, when it became subjectof debate in the columns of Horse & Houndand the Bloodstock Breeders’ Review.

What emerged then were several items ofcircumstantial evidence that supported thestewards’ decision. Bend Or had very roundhoofs, a characteristic common in the familyfrom which Rouge Rose descended. A lot ofBend Or’s stock were crib-biters, a vice forwhich Rouge Rose was herself notorious.And the Russley blacksmith reported thatBend Or and the other produce of RougeRose were always easy to shoe; Tadcasterwould not allow him near his hind feet andothers out of Clemence were the same.

Besides, although both colts were chesnut,Bend Or was of the golden type with blackspots, Tadcaster of the red variety and withlop-ears. There could be no mistaking them.


The identity of Jack The Ripper was not the only mystery of the 1880s, but unlike thatone the debate about whether Derby hero Bend Or was, in fact, Bend Or, seems over

THE MAN YOU CAN’T IGNORECOMMENT

Tony Morris

“Arnull persisted inhis story, despite the

stewards’ verdict, untilhis dying day”

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Well, not when they were in training, but that was not the point.An interesting fact that drew no comment in the 1914 debate was

that in 1882 Clemence was covered by Bend Or. It is hard to imaginethat the Duke of Westminster would have sanctioned that mating, ifhe had believed that Clemence was Bend Or’s dam. He did, though,quickly dispose of the resultant filly, Lenity, who ran three times insellers for James Machell and was once placed second. She went onto breed several winners, none of them of much account.The Bloodstock Breeders’ Review, in its issue of April 1914,

observed: “There is little likelihood of any further light being thrownon the dispute. For all practical purposes, the decision of the Epsomstewards was final. We have cause to be thankful that it must stand,right or wrong.” In 1880 nobody was aware of Gregor Mendel’s researches and the

word genetics had yet to be coined. By 1914 that branch of sciencewas new and littleunderstood, even by thoseinvolved, and many practicalhorsemen were focusing onBruce Lowe’s classification offemale lines as a tool to applyin the mating of their mares.We know now that Lowe’s

ideas were nonsense;adherence to his figuresystem never helped anyoneto produce a superior horse.But there was to be anunexpected by-product of his family classifications when geneticistscame to discover mitochondria and recognise a factor that waspassed solely in the maternal line. And when techniques weredeveloped to extract DNA from the bones of dead horses, there wasa way to verify or disprove their female lineage. A team led by Mim Bower at Cambridge University got to work on

the skeleton of Bend Or, long preserved in the Natural HistoryMuseum, to discover whether he came from the No. 1 family towhich Rouge Rose belonged or the No. 2 family of Clemence. It’stime to re-write a million pedigrees! The skeleton’s mitochondrialDNA proved characteristic of the No. 2 family, the assumption beinghe was the son of Clemence. He could not have been out of RougeRose, despite all that circumstantial evidence.Unlike his chief rival, whom he beat three times out of five, Robert

The Devil made no mark as a sire, but he is still with us, a tribute tothe taxidermist’s art, adorning Gibson’s saddlery in Newmarket.Celebrated as winner of the Grand Prix de Paris and St Leger, wemust now recognise him as the horse who should also have beenawarded the Derby.


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JAMES WILLOUGHBYCOMMENT

How the brave can find fortune

Want to beat the odds on a limited budget? Our new columnist says the sportof baseball has shown it is possible – but doing so in racing may prove trickier

Is racing ready for a Moneyball revolution? Inone of the smartest books ever, authorMichael Lewis describes how the game of

baseball was changed by quantitative analysis.By exploiting inefficiencies created by the

narrow focus of traditional beliefs, the OaklandA’s overcame teams with much bigger payrolls.Eventually, of course, the defeated assumed thesuperior approach themselves.

The message of Moneyball is both profoundand universal: any decision-making processwhich can be quantified can be improved.Getting better starts with doing things differentlybecause the numbers tell you they are better.

Designing mating plans; sourcing yearlingtalent; maximising prize-money expectation. Allthese are done with some degree of irrationality.

Quantitative analysis can never replaceintuition totally; that was not the lesson ofMoneyball. Scouts who ran their eye over aprospect – like agents inspecting yearlings – hadknowledge of calculable value itself.

At the heart of refining operating procedure isimproved information. It is the same processthat informs business analysis, except appliedto areas which are usually considered to beoutside its reach. Then, those of experience canmake better decisions.

There are those of impressive acumen alreadythriving in racing. They might come to it fromother worlds; they might exist already within itand run sizeable breeding or training operationsor agencies.

But, what can you do with the desire to getbetter yet with a disadvantage of resources?

What you can’t do is afford to play the gamethe same way as the behemoths. Take a leaf out

of David’s book: exploit the areas which Goliathcan usually afford to overlook.

I don’t pretend to have the answers, but atleast I now have a better feel for the questions –thanks to trainer Ed Dunlop and bloodstockagent Charlie Gordon-Watson at the recentCraven Breeze-up Sale in Newmarket.

“Tell me how you would do things differently,genius,” Ed said to me with mock provocation.“How could I prepare better?”

The horse as a physical entity is a mystery tome, but I tried to understand the approach ofthose who do know what they are doing. I sawhow trainers and agents inspect a horse; I talkedto vendors, consignors, breeders and purchasersto improve my sense of how the bloodstockmarket operates.

Before the sale, I analysed the pedigrees of the196 lots and the record of its graduates. Themost the numbers allow is to assess the chanceof an entrant reaching a 100 rating. Throughtechniques like logistic regression which are thestaple of economics, I learned the importanceof the consignor, the sire, the record of the firstthree dams and the foaling date.

To this, I added the sectional times from everybreeze, refined by rider effort on a scale of 1-5.I also made note of temperament and action.

In turn, I found how trainer and agent meetthe needs of a potential client; how the conceptof value is relative to each individual for whomthey are acting. It was at once bewildering,exciting and maddening to understand themotivations of each link of the chain.

The prices paid for yearlings means every onehas a negative expectation – but some are morenegative than others. It is easy to see how anowner can improve their chances, but asignificant investment is still required tosubjugate chance. Otherwise, you are just backto a horse and a dream.

So, to answer my own question: I am not surethe Moneyball revolution will ever come. To bethe Oakland A’s of racing requires the strengthof purpose to defy conventional wisdom – apowerful force within a sport founded onreceived wisdom.

Those in a stronger position will doubt youand undermine the confidence of your clients.And they have the strength in numbers whichwould appear to justify the orthodox approach.

At first, the A’s found it hard to silence thedoubters. Perhaps it is more difficult still in thisgreat game of ours.

The Oakland A’s: an example of howto succeed against richer opponents

If there was any shaft of light amid the gloomof the Grand National deaths, it was providedby Professor Tim Morris, the BHA’s Directorof Equine Science and Welfare.

The Prof’s contribution to the ensuingethical debate confirmed the importance toracing of executives not just capable ofrigorous analysis, but of eloquent expressionand reasonable debate. For what it is worth,everyone within my own peer group in themedia has been impressed by him.

What frustrates is that some of those

perceived as capable of leadership do notappear to understand the difference betweensubjective and objective expression. Framingan argument entirely with the prism of yourown self-interest – no matter how persistently– does not constitute a worthy contribution.

Whether Morris has pretensions for a morecentral role, or indeed whether he has the fullrange of capabilities necessary for leadership,is beyond me to know. All I am saying is thatthe thinking man now has a most excitingcandidate to get behind.

Sadly, there are many within racingincapable of constructing an ethical defencefor it, one which depends on acceptingracehorse death as an inevitable consequence.The excellent standards of welfare maintainedby racing professionals off the course say a lot,but they can do little to protect againstcharges made on the basis of death-rates on it.

Racing has a lot to be proud of in theresearch it has commissioned for the benefitof equines in general – and a lot for which tobe thankful that The Prof is associated with it.

Professor stands tallest among the National defenders

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L ouis Freedman came a long way in arelatively short time as anowner/breeder, to the extent that a

tribute by Henry Cecil after his longstandingpatron’s death in 1998 could not be cavilled at.Cecil said: “(He was) one of the last great

owner/breeders of his generation”, and thewords carry all the more force when one realisesthat no British owner has bred and raced aDerby winner since Freedman hit the buttonwith Reference Point in 1987.Reference Point was the acme of a passion for

racing that had come to Freedman in the early1960s, as a means of obtaining relaxation fromhis business as a property developer. He had been closely involved in major post-warworks in such cities as Coventry, Plymouth,Sheffield and Swansea. Money ultimately was no object but

Freedman started in just a small way,encouraged by noted owner Isidore Kerman,with whom he bought the filly Fairsica as ayearling at Deauville in 1962. She won at threeand on his own Freedman purchased I Say, thirdin the 1965 Derby and successful in theCoronation Cup. This high-level triumph encouraged

Freedman to go much further and at the end of1966 he bought Cliveden Stud in Berkshirefrom the executors of Viscount Astor. The dealinvolved 130 acres of land but no bloodstock,and until Freedman bought Beech House Studin Newmarket, with its stock, from Lady

Sassoon in 1971 he developed a broodmareband via his own individual purchases.Two yearlings and a mare obtained in 1967

provided a fine nucleus. The yearlings wereLucyrowe (9,000gns) and Seventh Bride(1,550gns). Lucyrowe, from a family that hadalready produced Nearctic, won the CoronationStakes, Nassau Stakes and Sun Chariot Stakes.Seventh Bride landed the Princess Royal Stakesand finished second to Lucyrowe in the Nassau.Lucyrowe did not scale any heights at stud

but Seventh Bride got the tiny but lion-heartedPolygamy, touched off in the 1,000 Guineas andsuccessful in the Oaks in 1974, and One OverParr (Cheshire Oaks, Lancashire Oaks). Inpassing, if necessity is the mother of invention,wit must be its father and Freedman showedunerring wit in the naming of his horses.The third 1967 purchase was Byblis, who

cost 5,700gns. Byblis’s daughter Great Gunswas a smart middle-distance stayer and sheproduced an even better filly in Home On TheRange, winner of the Sun Chariot Stakes. HomeOn The Range was by Habitat, a stallionFreedman used consistently to impart speedinto stamina-laden pedigrees and whose recordas a broodmare sire was tremendous.Home On The Range died aged only 12 in

1990 but she left behind her the colt ReferencePoint and the filly Sahara Forest, whoseinfluence continues.

Reference Point, foaled in 1984, was the onlyexceptional colt bred by Freedman and he wasCliveden’s crowning glory. Top of the FreeHandicap after easily landing the William HillFuturity, he showed brilliant ability at three withwins in the Derby, King George VI and QueenElizabeth Stakes, and St Leger. Sadly he diedaged only seven.Other useful pre-Beech House mares

included Tina, who produced Guillotina (Prix

de Royallieu), herself dam of One Way Street(Princess Royal Stakes).Beech House Stud, sold on in 1975 so

Freedman could focus his attention onCliveden, provided its own quality and initiallyboosted Freedman’s broodmare tally to 31.The same year that Polygamy was strutting

her stuff in the Classics Freedman had another

THE GREAT OWNER/BREEDERSBy JEREMY EARLY

LOUIS FREEDMAN

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Dual Classic winner Reference Point, the pinnacle of Cliveden Stud’s achievements

“Habitat was a stallion Freedman usedconsistently to impartspeed into stamina-

laden pedigrees”

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Philip Freedman has enjoyed significant success with the familiesdeveloped by his father under the name Cliveden Stud, but he soldthe land in 2006, noting simply: “I haven’t got enough mares tojustify keeping the stud. I’ve got eight or nine who are covered inEurope and when you think of the overheads involved, you’ve gotto have around 15 mares at least.”

The mares are boarded and while fillies produced have been raced,the colts generally have been sold – with some cracking results.Sahara Forest foaled Yukon Hope, dam of Independence (SunChariot Stakes). The latter has produced Mount Nelson, successfulin the Criterium International and Eclipse Stakes, and Great Voltigeurwinner Monitor Closely.

Francfurter got Fraulein (EP Taylor Stakes) and Madame Duboisis responsible for Count Dubois (Gran Criterium), Indian Haven(Irish 2,000 Guineas) and Place de l’Opera. The last-named hasfoaled three well-above-average runners in High Pitched, ImperialStride and Derby fourth Hala Bek.

Cliveden-breds out of One Way Street included Grape Tree Road(Grand Prix de Paris) and Red Route (Geoffrey Freer Stakes).

Elsewhere, Bygone (out of Byblis) produced Australian Derbywinner Heroicity when Freedman snr was still alive. As a remarkabletribute, champion 2004 New Zealand juvenile filly Iflooxcouldkillrepresented the best of Cliveden on both sides of her pedigree, byDaggers Drawn out of a mare tracing to Lucyrowe.

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top filly in Mil’s Bomb (Nassau Stakes, Park Hill Stakes, runner-up in theYorkshire Oaks). She came from Beech House Stud and was giving herbreeder a second Park Hill Stakes win in three years following AtticaMeli, another from a Sassoon family.

Attica Meli also notched the Yorkshire Oaks and Doncaster Cup, andher half-sister Royal Hive won the 1977 Park Hill Stakes and finishedsecond in the Yorkshire Oaks, Prix Vermeille and 1978 Gold Cup.

Top miler The Creditor was also in the package, along with her youngprogeny Abwah, a good sprinter, and 1973 Dante Stakes victor OwenDudley. The Creditor left no lasting mark, Mil’s Bomb and Polygamydied young, and Attica Meli and Royal Hive did not exactly set the worldalight at stud. But Bally’s Mill, dam of Mil’s Bomb, made a major long-term contribution via her granddaughter Shadywood, dam of MadameDubois (Park Hill Stakes) and grandam of Daggers Drawn (1997Richmond Stakes, Champagne Stakes).

Sadly, only one year after Reference Point’s annus mirabilis, LouisFreedman reduced his connection with the sport and transferred all hisbloodstock to his son Philip, well known to readers of this magazine forhis words of wisdom as former Chairman of the TBA.

The reason for the withdrawal was libellous racing-linked allegationsin a newspaper which greatly upset Freedman and led to a substantialout-of-court settlement. This must have been all the more offensive tosomeone whose commitments to public life, including with varioushealth authorities and the Race Relations Board – he was made a CBE in1978 for the latter – make one wonder how he found the time for racing.

Freedman also served the sport he loved as President of the RacehorseOwners’ Association in 1973-4 and Deputy Senior Steward of the JockeyClub in 1981 and 1983.

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The news that Queen Elizabeth II willinclude a visit to the Irish National Studduring her upcoming state visit to

Ireland was greeted warmly by the industry.At the time of writing there has not been a

firm date or time yet announced and there isfurther speculation that the monarch may alsopay private visits to Gilltown Stud and to Coolmore. She has patronised stallions at both of these farms, as she also has done at the Irish National Stud. Her current crop of yearlings includes two sons ofInvincible Spirit.At a time when the fortunes of the

bloodstock and racing industries, and those ofmany of its participants are low, the focus onracing and breeding will be most welcome.This visit, the first by a reigning Britishmonarch since 1911, will take place fromTuesday, May 17 to Saturday, May 20.

Needless to say, the visit will garner hugemedia interest around the globe and theinclusion of a visit to the Irish National Studwill generate enormous publicity. This will alsofocus attention on the history of the stud,which is situated in Tully, on the outskirts ofKildare town, and just a few miles from theCurragh.Indeed, there has been a long association

between the British royals and Ireland’s racingheadquarters, and each year the Royal WhipStakes is staged. This was first presented byGeorge VI and run in 1821. A replacementwhip was presented by William IV in 1830. While the legend of horse breeding in the

area around Tully dates back to the mists oftime, the first record of the setting up of a studfarm is in 1900, when the lands werepurchased by Colonel William Hall-Walker.He later became Lord Wavertree, who quickly

turned the farm into one of the best studs inEurope at the time. He built up a collection of broodmares who

had a tremendous influence on racing. In theten-year period to 1914 there were sevenClassic winners bred at Tully, includingMinoru (leased to Edward VII and winner ofthe Derby and 2,000 Guineas), Prince Palatine(St Leger and Ascot Gold Cup) and CherryLass (Oaks and 1,000 Guineas). Colonel Hall Walker also built a Japanese

Garden on a boggy site near Tully House. Thegarden was laid out by an eminent Japaneselandscape gardener Tassa Eida, assisted by anarmy of local workers. Today it is one ofIreland’s leading tourist attractions, along withthe museum and the stud itself. In 1916, Colonel Hall Walker presented

the stud to the British government for thepurpose of founding a British National Stud.Under the guidance of its first director, SirHenry Greer, the National Stud continued tomaintain the high standard of bloodstockproduction set by its predecessor. Blandford,Big Game and Sun Chariot were among thosebred at this time. In 1943, the newly formed Irish

government took over the land and buildingsat an agreed valuation and two years later theIrish National Stud Company Ltd was formed.It officially took over the running of the studon August 31, 1946.The stud is currently under the

stewardship of John Osborne – whose fatherMichael once held the same position – andthe board is chaired by Lady O’Reilly. The current stallion roster includes

Amadeus Wolf, Art Connoisseur, Big BadBob, Indian Haven, Invincible Spirit, Jeremy,Lord Shanakill and Verglas.

National Stud on state visit planThe focus on racing and breeding through the Queen’s trip will be a boon to the country

VIEW FROM IRELANDBy LEO POWELL, MANAGING EDITOR OF THE IRISH FIELD

The Queen will be the first reigning monarch to visit Ireland for a century

The world famous apprentice school atRACE, beside the Curragh, can rightly beproud of so many of its graduates. JohnnyMurtagh and Conor O’Dwyer are two of itsbest known graduates and they have bothmaintained their support for the courserun there.Last year there was a hiccup when the

state training body raised issues over their

funding of the course and the intendedstudent intake last autumn was informedthat the course was being suspended. Now comes news that all is well again

and students will once more be taken onfor the next course, which will start in earlySeptember.Prospective candidates will be able

to see the facilities during a series of

open days throughout May or can visitwww.racingacademy.ie to learn more. Allstudents live on the campus during the weekand many leading figures in the industrycontribute their time and expertise to talkingwith them.Such is the prestige of the course and the

academy that such as John Oxx and StanCosgrove are among its trustees.

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Former champion jockey Liam Ward made thepresentation of the winning trophy followingthe first running of the Anne Brewster MemorialLoughbrown Stakes at the Curragh. Sadly, formost present on the day this name wasunfamiliar.

Anne Brewster was the daughter of theleading American diplomat William C Bullittand his wife Louise Bryant (played by DianeKeaton in the movie Reds). Bullitt was the USAmbassador in Paris and the first in that role inthe USSR. Born in 1924, Anne Brewster died inAugust 2007 and in her obituary published inThe Irish Field at the time was described as “forso long the First Lady of Irish racing.”

She was champion owner in Ireland in 1958when her nine winners accumulated 14 winsand £11,026 in prize money, the year thatSindon won the Irish Derby. Two years laterZenobia won the Irish 1,000 Guineas, whileother major winners included the Pretty PollyStakes (Zenobia), the Irish Champion Stakes(March Wind), the Blandford Stakes (Jongleur),the Phoenix Stakes (with champion juvenile fillySarissa) and the National Stakes in successiveyears (Mystery and Partholon).

In England she won races at Ascot withIonian and Marco Polo, the Ebor withPartholon, and at Epsom with L’Homme Arme,while Scissors was controversially disqualifiedafter landing the Timeform Gold Cup atDoncaster.

Brewster won the Galway Hurdle with KnightErrant and that gelding went on to land one ofthree Galway Plate wins for the owner, theothers coming courtesy of Amber Point. Theywere brothers.

Married a number of times, she raced underthe name Mrs Roderic More O’Farrell beforethat marriage famously ended following acelebrated court case. She owned the 700-acrePalmerstown Stud, where one of the mostsuccessful stallions of his time, Milesian,stood.

On August 31, 1966 Liam Ward won theCork Stakes at Naas on the favourite FlyingTiger – this was a piece of history as it was thefirst official victory for a horse in Ireland trainedby a female licensed trainer. Prior to this manyof her horses were trained privately for her atPalmerstown Stud, adjoining the present Goffssales complex.

Anne Brewster, described in The Irish Field as “for so long the First Lady of Irish racing”

In BriefJim Bolger was recently the subject of adocumentary shown on Setanta. TheMaster of Cool was a beautifully shot storyof his life in and out of racing. Now 68, hewas the subject of many plaudits. Payinghim a handsome compliment, Coolmoresupremo John Magnier summed him upsuccinctly: “He’s not slow, our Jim.”

Leading Irish breeder and stud owner JimMernagh had a day to remember whentwo of his mares in training with PaulNolan, Aura About You and GoldenSunbird, won at Limerick. Theimportance of the victories was that theywere achieved in black type races, a mostvaluable commodity when they both go toCoolamurry Stud. That County Wexfordfarm, which stands Ashkalani, has a longhistory of producing top-classperformers. Aura About You (by SupremeLeader) won a Grade 3 mares’ novicechase, while the Bob Back mare GoldenSunbird won a mares’ novice hurdle. Bothwinners were also bred by Mernagh.

Leading sales consignor Josie Rohan (néeMoore) died the week before Cheltenham.Within days the victories of Captain Chrisand Skint provided further testimony tothe talents of this young woman, socruelly struck down at the age of 38. HerBallincurrig House Stud is one of the bestknown names at the sales, which she ranwith her brother Michael, the Irish agentfor Brightwells. Josie’s husband Richardhas been responsible for War Of Attritionand Looks Like Trouble, both of whompassed through his hands.

Interest in the proposal to build a newracecourse in Tipperary, as part of a majorentertainment and tourist development,has attracted much media attention. Theidea of prominent businessman RichardQuirke, the project is subject to a planningappeal. Among those lending their weightto the proposal was Annemarie O’Brien,wife of Aidan. She described it as “the firstEuropean track capable of holding aBreeders’ Cup meeting.” A decision isexpected shortly on whether the greenlight will be given.

The Irish Field is now available in a digitalversion. A sample copy can be viewedonline at www.theirishfield.ie

History well worth recalling

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CONTINENTAL TALESBy JAMES CRISPE, INTERNATIONAL RACING BUREAU

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Channel Four has a lot to answer for!War Artist’s owner Rupert Plersch was bitten by the bug and now has 15 horses

Southwell, Vichy, Meydan, Baden-Badenand Wolverhampton are not groupedtogether often. But one thing they have

in common is that their winner’s enclosureshave all been graced by the silks of Germanowner Rupert Plersch in the last eight months.

The boss of his family’s 90-year-oldrefrigeration company, which he re-establishedin 1986 as KTI and has since become a worldleader in concrete cooling technology, Plerschlives 75 miles west of Munich, near the KTIfactory in Balzheim.

Although there is no family history in racing,Plersch has been riding since the age of ten andused to try his hand at showjumping and three-day eventing. “But then I had to concentrate onmy business and for many years I had nothingat all to do with horses,” Plersch mused.

A two-year spell based in Kentucky broughta first visit to a track in 1980, to see GenuineRisk become the first filly in 65 years to win theKentucky Derby, and a memorable encounterwith Secretariat, whom he was allowed totouch during a visit to Claiborne Farm.

But it was not until 2002 that Plersch, who

by then had a division of his company based atJebel Ali, near Dubai, was persuaded to dip histoe into the cruel sea of racehorse ownershipby way of a 27th share in the Satish Seemar-trained colt Channel Four. Fired by ChannelFour winning four times and with KTI reapingthe benefits of the Dubai construction boom,the Plersch bloodstock empire has grown tosuch an extent that he is now a stallion ownerwith a 15-strong broodmare band and horses intraining in three different countries.

His initial big-race triumph came as a partnerin Festive Style, who landed the 2004 CapeVerdi Stakes before finishing second in the UAEOaks, and in 2008 his colours were successfulin Group 1 company for the first time whenLinngari won the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen athis local course in Munich. Linngari retired atthe end of that season but has remained underPlersch’s name as he has enjoyed a hectic startat stud, shuttling between France and Brazil.His place as Plersch’s on-course standardbearerhas been taken by War Artist, who has wonGermany’s top sprint, the Goldene Peitsche,plus a pair of valuable handicaps at Meydan.

Last time he was caught on the line by J J TheJet Plane in the Al Quoz Sprint. Plersch said: “Ifhis head was 20cm longer he’d have won! ButI was more than happy he has recovered so wellfrom the issues that caused me to move himfrom Alain de Royer-Dupre to Rodolphe Collet.

“Much of the credit is due to my racingmanager, Paul Harley, and his wife Christiane.Ever since War Artist went out to Dubai onDecember 15 they have looked after him socarefully, Paul using all the expertise he built upwhile managing for the Ullmann family, andChristiane (who, like her Irish husband, used tobe a jockey) riding him every morning. Heloves the fast ground in Dubai and seems to likeher feminine touch.”

Plersch now has his string of 15 or so splitbetween Collet in France, German trainersWerner Hefter and John Hillis, and AlanMcCabe (who recently saddled his HonkersBonkers to win twice) in Britain.

He is realistic about his ability to take on thebig owners during the upcoming Europeanseason, saying: “You have to remember thatracing is just a hobby for me, I have fun andrely on some good advisers.

“I am not in the business of buying at theyearling auctions and at times you will havesetbacks and maybe go six months without awinner. My best mare died in South Africa awhile back, while two of my best foals inFrance suffered the same fate.

“When I initially bought War Artist off JamesAtkinson I was not sure he would be able torace again because of a leg injury. I took a risk– sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.As a gelding he has no value as a breedingprospect. At the end of his racing career he willjust become another one of my riding horses.”

Plersch likes to be hands-on and declaresthat the favourite part of his involvement iswhen he visits his foals and yearlings at stud,watches them play and gives them polos.

“Some people like cats or dogs but I am ahorse man,” he admits. “They have characterand personality.”

He should get to enjoy more adventures inthe coming months. War Artist has been invitedto run in Singapore on May 22 but may insteadbe campaigned in Britain, with a third crack atthe Dubai Carnival on the agenda for 2012.

Superstition, a useful staying mare, and thesprinter Lipocco give him two further strings tohis Pattern Race bow. Then there is Linngari’sfirst progeny to look forward to – they willcome under orders in a year’s time.Rupert Plersch and his globe-trotting sprinter, War Artist, who may return to the UK

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Spaniard Javier Maldonado and his fivebrothers are becoming serious players in theglobal racing industry.Javier, 48, has lived in London for the last

seven years, where he works for Santander Bankas General Manager of their Middle Eastdivision. But his love of racing dates back to theage of three, when he first accompanied hisfather, Jose-Maria, on one of the family’s regularSunday afternoon visits to La Zarzuelaracecourse in Madrid.The brothers have always had an international

outlook on life, having all been educated atNorthwestern University in Chicago. This American sojourn is reflected in both

the choice of the stable name for theirownership syndicate back in Spain, where theyhave eight horses in training with MauricioDelcher under the banner ‘Chicago Stable’, andtheir colours, which are white with red stars andlight blue sleeves to mirror the flag of the city of Chicago.However, outside Spain their charges run

under the name ‘Sunday Horses Club’ inreference to those childhood trips to Zarzuela.‘Sunday Horses’ first came to wider prominencelast July when Irish Field landed the Group 2Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte.After receiving “an offer too good to refuse”

according to Javier, Irish Field was promptlysold to Hong Kong owner Eddie Wong, leavingAs de Trebol and Norris as the big hopes for theMaldonado brothers.As de Trebol has taken time to settle into the

Delcher yard after his purchase at the end of histhree-year-old season in late 2009. But he is backin top form now and, prior to being undone bya lack of pace in the Godolphin Mile, washeaded only close home when third in theGroup 3 Burj Nahaar at Meydan on March 3.A Peintre Celebre colt, Norris was ante-post

favourite for last year’s Spanish Derby until atendon injury was discovered 48 hours beforethe race. Absent since, he has been nursed backto fitness and his comeback race is imminent.Javier has also had shares in horses trained in

England by Andrew Balding and owned byDavid Brownlow. “The Huntswood Group, where David is

CEO, are major customers of Santander and wehave become very good friends,” Javier explains. “So far the best one of his horses I have been

involved with has been Stargaze, who finishedthird in the 2009 Richmond Stakes.“We have also branched out into breeding

through the purchase of Nessa, who is a half-sister to Equiano. She is based with CharlieVigors at Hillwood Stud and has just visitedMakfi, having given birth to a Holy RomanEmperor colt foal.”The Maldonados’ appetite for attending the

global showpiece races knows no bounds. Theyhave witnessed the last five Dubai World Cupsand an earlier visit to the Melbourne Cupprompted the naming of the Balding-trainedYarra River.And when Javier says: “We are not in this to

make money – we just want to win races abroadto lift Spanish racing to another level”, you sensehe means business.

Javier Maldonado and his brothers, whose cosmopolitan education has influenced their outlook on international horseracing

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attract any British or Irishentries, despite its elevation to Group 3 statusand provision of a tasty first prize of £66,079. Run every year at Ovrevoll in Oslo on

Norway’s National Day (May 17) over amile and a half on turf, and offering a goodchance of at least paying your travel

expenses (even fifth place is worth £4,405),there ought to be plenty of enterprisingtrainers from these cash-strapped shoreswilling to make the trip.The midweek raceday in Sweden has

sensibly been brought forward 24 hours toWednesday, meaning that it no longerclashes with neighbouring Norway, thusmaximising simulcast betting income.

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GOING GLOBALBy MICHELE MACDONALD

In the boldest initiative yet by any NorthAmerican racing organisation regardingthe use of drugs in racehorses, the

Association of Racing CommissionersInternational has committed to a campaign toeliminate medication in racing within five years.

“We’re serious about this,” said Ed Martin,President of the North American organisationof racing regulators.

“Our members are frustrated, as are a lot ofpeople, with the status quo. We’re concernedthat the overuse of medication is potentiallymore dangerous to our sport than it’s worth.Medications that mask ailments do adisservice to both the horses and the sport.”

Debate about medication has raged insideand outside US racing for more than a decadeas rules became progressively more liberaland then, in recent years, more restrictivewith the banning of steroids. In 2009, LouisRomanet, Chairman of the InternationalFederation of Horseracing Authorities, calledon American officials to phase out the use ofLasix in graded and black type races by 2012to bring the continent in line withinternational standards.

North America is a key part of theinternational community as there is moreracing and breeding in the United States thanany other nation in the world. Americanhorsemen’s groups have generally opposedrestrictions on the use of medication, sayingdrugs are necessary to keep horses activelycompeting in the sport, which is conductedyear-round and typically on dirt racetracks inNorth America. While opposition isexpected, the RCI will be resolute, accordingto its leaders, who emphasised that Americanracing must change the way it is perceived.

“Today, over 99% of thoroughbredracehorses and 70% of standardbredracehorses have a needle stuck in them fourhours before a race; that just does not passthe smell test with the public or anyone elseexcept horse trainers who think it necessaryto win a race,” declared Willie Koester,Chairman of both the RCI and the Ohio StateRacing Commission.

“I’m sure the decision-makers at the timemeant well when these drugs were permitted.However, this decision has forced ourjurisdictions to juggle threshold levels ashorsemen become more desperate to win

races and it’s given horseracing a black eye.”General response to the RCI’s call, which

was issued in late March, has been positive,with the American Jockey Club supportingthe call to ban raceday medication within fiveyears. Another goal is to create an industrycompact for a uniform North American drugpolicy that creates consistency for owners andtrainers participating in domestic orinternational racing events. Changing ideasand behaviours regarding drugs will not beeasy, but Martin said he believes the task canbe accomplished and that elimination ofmedication will result in a stronger Americanproduct, both in racing and breeding.

“There’s a lot to be said for havingconsistent medication policiesinternationally,” he said. “Hopefully, it mightencourage additional interest in NorthAmerican racing overseas and would certainlyfacilitate those owners, trainers and breederswho participate in international racing.”

RCI leaders planned to open up discussionon how best to move the sport away frommedication and the Racing Medication andTesting Consortium was set to discuss thetopic at its spring meeting, Martin said.

The American Jockey Club has provided momentum to the RCI’s call to ban medication in horseracing within the next five years

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GOING GLOBAL

Victoire for Japan when most neededGalvanised by the Tohoku-Kanto earthquakeand tsunami crisis, Japanese racing leaders,fans and professionals joined together to helprelief efforts, delivering the equivalent of about£8.2 million to the Japan Red Cross Societyroughly two weeks after the disaster.Donations were amassed through

contributions of owners, trainers and jockeys,along with admission fees at Japanese RacingAssociation courses still able to operate.Jockeys wore black armbands when Hanshinracecourse reopened more than a week afterthe March 11 earthquake, while the nationalflag flew at half mast.“We want to do anything we can to help,

even the smallest of things,” said star jockeyYutaka Take to encourage fundraising efforts.No racehorses or breeding stock were

reported hurt or lost in the earthquakeaftermath but, like everything else in Japan, thethoroughbred industry – already challenged byglobal economic trends and a contraction thathas been ongoing for more than a decade – willundoubtedly feel aftershocks for a long time.The first impact took the form of an

immediate plunge in betting turnover, whichprovides most of the revenue for the sport, asmany areas of Japan were plagued with powerand supply shortages while the human deathtoll and property damages multiplied. Off-course and telephone betting, major generatorsof turnover, were suspended until April 2, andracecourses and off-track betting shops ineastern Japan were still closed at that time. The Japan Racing Association’s Fukushima

racecourse in northern Honshu was heavilydamaged, to the point where racing will not bepossible until autumn, while Nakayamaracecourse in the Tokyo area was marred lessseriously. However, rolling electricity blackoutsand disrupted public transportation caused theJRA to keep Nakayama closed until late April,resulting in the transfer of the Satsuki Sho(Japanese 2,000 Guineas) to Tokyo racecourseand a change in date from April 17 to April 24.A total of five Group races were moved from

Nakayama to Hanshin, outside of Osaka, andthe Nakayama Grand Jump, an internationalevent, was suspended with no rescheduleddate. One of the transferred races, the Group 2Spring Stakes, a major prep for the SatsukiSho, suffered a 64% decline in betting turnovercompared to last year’s running and other racesalso resulted in significant declines.About 200 racehorses stabled at the Yoshida

family’s Yamamoto Training Center in theheavily damaged Sendai area were spared onlyby a blessing of topography. Tsunami flood

waters raged to the edge of the facility, whichis located on a hill, but could reach no further,and the horses and staff were evacuated later asfresh water and electricity became unavailable.Other factors will also affect the

thoroughbred industry and key participants.For example, Sendai-based natural foodentrepreneur Takaya Shimakawa, who hasbeen a leading buyer at the Japan Racing HorseAssociation’s international select sale and whohas had more than 100 horses in training,suffered the destruction of a prime part of hisbusiness facilities.While the JRHA sale of yearlings and foals

was still set for July 11-12, officials are bracedfor possible dramatic declines as Japan worksto recover. “It looks like it will take a long timebefore things get back to normal in thiscountry,” said Naohiro Goda of Regent Co. Ltd,who coordinates international promotion ofthe sale and is a racing journalist and televisioncommentator.

‘Next Frankie’ makes his mark For years, jockey Mirco Demuro was knownmostly for who he was compared to, ratherthan for his own accomplishments.“Everyone was saying I was the next Frankie

Dettori,” reflected the 32-year-old, four-timeItalian riding champion. “But that is difficult,” he acknowledged with

a soft laugh that contained no trace of envy.Demuro had just emulated Dettori in

winning the Dubai World Cup – now worth$10 million. Launching one of the boldestmoves during one of the most emotionalmoments of recent racing history, he shot fromlast place early in the 14-horse field aboard2010 Japanese champion three-year-old

Victoire Pisa to vie for the early lead and thendefied all closers to complete a one-two finishfor Japan, as Transcend was runner-up.Mobbed by celebrating Italians after the

race, including trainer Luca Cumani whoembraced the jockey jubilantly as others brokeout in impromptu song, Demuro, 32, said hewas proud to win for Japan at the time theisland nation is struggling to recover from theearthquake and tsunami disaster. “I thought that whole country was backing

me up,” said Demuro, who has ridden in Japanfor 13 years on special part-time retainers forprominent owners such as Teruya Yoshida ofShadai Farm and his wife, Chizu. “I love thepeople of Japan.”Demuro’s most significant victories in a

career that has spanned 2,380 wins, including57 in Graded/Group stakes and $113.8m inearnings up to April 4, have beenaccomplished in Japan or for Japan. He rodeVictoire Pisa’s sire, the Sunday Silence stallionNeo Universe, to triumphs in the 2003 TokyoYushun (Japanese Derby) and Satsuki Sho, soclearly, Demuro has been able to establish aspecial connection with this line.“He is a fantastic horse – he will do

anything I ask of him,” he declared of VictoirePisa after kissing the four-year-old colt on theneck after the race.Demuro, who also won the 2008 Japan Cup

on Yoshida’s Screen Hero, is likely to havemore chances to display his talent to aninternational audience this year. Owner Yoshimi Ichikawa and trainer

Katsuhiko Sumii said Victoire Pisa’s goalsinclude the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup inHong Kong on May 1 and the Prix de l’Arc deTriomphe at Longchamp on October 2.

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TALKING TO...MARWAN KOUKASH

Marwan Koukash has quickly become one of Flat racing’s leading owners, but his thirst formore horses and winners is unquenched – and he is not afraid to voice strong views either

By Tim Richards • Photos George Selwyn

Koukash forQUESTIONS

How did your interest inhorseracing and ownershipcome about?

Four years ago my bank manager invited me toa corporate day at Haydock. I enjoyed itenormously but thought it would be evenbetter if I had a horse running, so I contactedIan Williams and asked him to buy me one.We ran the horse at Haydock and it finishedlast. Even so, the experience was tremendouslyexciting, to the extent that I bought severalmore horses, including Bulwark, who sixmonths later won the Chester Cup. It was atthat time I was contemplating whether toinvest in football (I am a Liverpool supporter),but the Chester Cup gave me so much of athrill I forgot the football and stuck to racing.

What brought you to England fromKuwait?My father wanted me to be a medical doctorand I came to study at John MooresUniversity in Liverpool 35 years ago. I gavemedicine a try but it wasn’t for me, so Iswitched to engineering and qualified as anelectrical engineer. I then became a lecturerbefore joining the commercial side of theuniversity. I became a director of theuniversity and left in 1991 to set up my ownbusiness, Euromatech, which providescorporate training in engineeringmanagement, budget management and financial management. We havean office in Liverpool butthe main offices are in

Dubai and that’s where my family is living. Iam also involved in property development;the Layla, Liverpool’s first five-star hotel, isdue to open this summer.

You have 80 horses spread among adozen trainers – is it difficult to keepup with their progress? I have a stressful job; it is my relaxation topick up the phone and chat to my trainers.I don’t treat my horses like numbers. I knowevery one of them and I like to be involvedin making plans. It makes a break from mydaily routine to speak with my trainers and

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Marwan Koukashwith one of his

daughters, Lexi

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>> How big a part does bloodstockagent Stephen Hillen play in buyingand managing your horses?There is going to be a slight change in Steve’sjob for me this year; I am very grateful forwhat I have learnt from him and he will stillbuy horses for me. But as I have said, I like todeal personally with my trainers and I shall bemore in contact with them. You need peoplelike Steve that you can trust and I have beenlucky in the way he has looked after me, as Ihave with another agent, Bobby O’Ryan, andall my trainers. But, I have to say there aresome people in racing it is wise to avoid.

Many of your string are purchased ashorses in training. Do you prefer thisto buying yearlings or unracedhorses?I have a balance between the two purchasingpolicies; for this year I bought 25-30 yearlingsand probably about the same number intraining, and at this stage I think the bettervalue is probably with the horses in training.

Do you have a special naming policyfor your horses?Some are named after my daughter Layla andsome after my other daughter Lexi. Now wehave a three-month-old son, Gabrial, and wealready have three or four horses carrying hisname. Just before Gabrial was born I said tomy wife Mandy that we should changetradition and, rather than name the horsesafter our children, name the new arrival afterone of the horses. I tried to get her to acceptRedford, but she would allow only Redford asa second name, so our baby is called GabrialRedford!

Is your family passionate aboutracing?Ninety-five per cent of the time we go racingall together. Mandy enjoys the races and wemake it a family day out with the children. Wethink racing provides the ideal leisure activityfor the family. We are fortunate most ofthe racetracks we go to lookafter us well.

Why do you have horses trained in allcorners of the country?You get the benefit of working with a variety oftrainers and their different methods andsystems. When there is a virus around youdon’t want to have all your eggs in one basket.Ideally I don’t like to have more than abouthalf a dozen horses in each yard.

What is the biggest challenge inhaving such a large string?Making sure you have the right plan orprogramme for each horse. At times theratings dictate that you have more than onerunner in a race, so I find myself competingagainst myself. For example, a race like theVictoria Cup at Ascot could end up withDavid Simcock, Kevin Ryan and DandyNicholls all running one of my horses simplybecause there aren’t enough opportunities forseven-furlong handicappers rated 95-100.

Do you have a favourite jockey whoyou would like to ride your horseswhen available. If so, what is specialabout him?I have to be careful how I answer this! Anumber have served me very well over theyears – Paul Hanagan, Tony Hamilton, SteveDonohoe, Frankie Dettori, TomQueally and AdrianNicholls – but

one who has shown an exceptional attitude isJamie Spencer. Earlier this year he rode for mein the last race at Kempton on the Wednesday,dashed to catch a plane to ride in Dubai onthe Thursday and returned to ride for meagain at Wolverhampton on the Friday. Thatshowed me the guy is committed to my causeand with that outlook I think he will have agood season. I am not saying he will bechampion jockey again, but his championshipodds of 66-1 look particularly generous. It’shis attitude that I like.

What is it that fascinates you aboutBritish racing?I haven’t had a great deal of experienceelsewhere, so I have very little to comparewith British racing. The whole conceptfascinates me and racing here means that I cango with my family and also that I can workwith and visit my trainers.

Why do you send your horses toboard at the National Stud?Like us, horses work most of the year anddeserve a holiday away from home. Althoughmany of my trainers have the facilities to lookafter them over the winter, I think a changeof scenery refreshes them. I chose theNational Stud because the facilities areexcellent and the Managing Director BrianO’Rourke is a fantastic guy who keeps usinformed about each horse’s progress. Also,my trainers are able to visit the horses whenthey’re around Newmarket. Brae Hill showedhow much he’d benefited from his stay there

“My wife would allowRedford only as a

second name; our sonis Gabrial Redford!”

Redford wins the Challenge Cupat Ascot a week after takingthe Ayr Gold Cup


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by finishing second in the Lincoln Handicapat Doncaster last month.

How involved are you in breedingbloodstock?I am in the process of trying to find a yard nearmy home in the North West to use forbreeding. It would need to be in my locality,near Haydock, because I would want to watchthe progress of the foals and yearlings. I realiseI must start looking for suitable broodmares.I am in this game for the long haul.

You won the Chester Cup withBulwark and like to have runners onthe Roodee. What is it about Chesterthat you enjoy?The brilliant atmosphere. Also it is compact,you are close to the action and the course iseasily accessible. A most important factor isthe way they look after owners and trainers,which is something many other racecoursescould learn from. When I go to Chester I haverunners in almost every race and the owners’and trainers’ facilities are close to the paradering, with a special atmosphere. I rate Chesteroutstanding, York fantastic and Doncastergood. But there are not many where I couldsay I enjoy going, including Ascot where,surprisingly, the owners’ and trainers’ facilitiesleave a lot to be desired.

Low prize-money is a big issue formany owners – do you support theHorsemen’s Tariff?I do support the Horsemen’s Tariff and thelow prize-money is a big issue for me, as it isfor every owner. Over the winter I had 21winners and 20 seconds and received only£60,000 in prize-money, hardly enough totransport all my runners to and from the races.Many owners are turning their back on the

sport or reducing their numbers of horses.Like everyone else, I have been hit by thefinancial crisis. I had hoped to have between100 and 120 horses by now, and if the prize-money had been better that number may haveeven gone up to 150. For me, the only horsesworth buying now are the ones that can run inthe top handicaps or Listed races.

You have won a Group 2 in Francewith Our Jonathan. Will you continueto look abroad for suitable prizes?Absolutely, though I’d rather go for the valueof the prize than the fun day out. Occasionally,you can find a Group 2 in France can beworth more than a Group 1 in England.

How do you see the future of Britishracing?With far fewer owners than we have now. Ihave been to a lot of sales and on my mostrecent visits have been underbidder on anumber of decent horses; on each occasionthe horse was bought to go overseas. At theother end of the spectrum, horses rated 75would have made £20,000 three or four yearsago because there were more owners wantingthem, but now the number of owners isdwindling. I have friends who used to havesix horses and now have only one and somehave even turned their back on the sportaltogether. As a result you can pick up a 75-rated horse for £2,000. The good qualityhorses are going overseas and the bottom endof the market is crashing.

We need more prize-money to encourageowners to come into the game, or at least stayin it. If owners keep deserting racing thesituation will get even worse.

Which horse is your big hope for thecoming season and what is your

ambition as an owner?Mount Athos, a Montjeu four-year-old webought for nearly £200,000, and sent to DavidWachman in Ireland [winner at Dundalk onApril 15]. He could be anything and may runin the Chester Cup, and hopefully go on tobetter things. My ambition is the same aswhen I set out: to own 200 horses, win 100races a season and be in the top five owners.

You have an affiliation to Liverpool –does the Grand National feature inyour thoughts?No way. No way will I ever own a horse to gojumping again. It may be controversial to saythis, but I don’t think jump racing is safeenough for horses. It’s so sad to see a horse inthe parade ring, go out to do its best and thenext minute it’s dead.

T A L K I N G T O . . .

Bulwark lands the Chester Cup, giving Koukash his most memorable day’s racing

CLOSE UP AND…PERSONALI am inspired by...my father

I can’t get through the daywithout...looking through the entriesand declarations

My favourite relaxation is...playing with my children

I get annoyed when...my daughterLexi wants my attention during a race

My biggest fear is...not owning horses

CLOSE UP AND…PROFESSIONALMy racing idol is...Sheikh Mohammed

The one thing I’d change in racing would be...the level ofprize-money

My most memorable day’s racingwas...winning the 2008 Chester Cup

The most I’d spend on a horse is...£200,000

I handle defeat by...sulking


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BRITTAIN AND ROBINSON

Early risers: trainer andjockey talking shop in thetrainer’s kitchen pre-dawn

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Old friendsNEW BEGINNING

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CLIVE on PHILIP

The minute Philip was free I had nohesitation in calling him. I should thinkhe was within hours of announcing his

retirement, but we talked for only about twominutes before he decided to give it a go.

He had ridden for me as an apprentice andwe took him on when Captain Lemos waslooking for a stable jockey. We hit it off straightaway and I would have used him more since,but Michael [Jarvis] was his first choice andthey had a very good relationship.

Philip always thinks a race through andalways gets his mount in the right position. Hehas so much experience over the years andthere’s no substitute for it. He’s never given ahorse of mine a bad ride and is always in aposition to win when they are good enough.

Although some people had been wonderingfor a while when he might retire, he’s like PatEddery and Mick Kinane before him – he’svery fit and dedicated. They wouldn’t haveridden on unless they were fit, nor wouldPhilip. He comes in four mornings a week at aquarter to five and he’ll stay for as long as he’sneeded. It’s great to have him on the teamagain and he’s a big help with all the unracedand lightly raced horses, of which there aremore than usual in a string of 80 to 100, as wedidn’t keep going on the all-weather throughthe winter this time owing to the prize-money.Philip will tell you more about them than youcan tell him.

It was Philip who set Pebbles on her wayand it was because of the way he handled heras a two-year-old that she was able to develop

Clive Brittain and Philip Robinson may have a combined age of 127 yet both are optimistic of a bright future for a partnership that started almost 30 years ago

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into the mare she became later on in her career.He set her up and put in all of the hard work.He had a great understanding with her and shewas a filly who needed understanding, as shewas very highly strung. Philip had a way withher and got her to relax. It’s down to him thatshe turned out the mare she did. He rode her in all her two-year-old races

except one and he was on her when she wonthe Nell Gwyn and 1,000 Guineas. But he wasalso riding Katies for Mick Ryan at the sametime and after she won the Irish 1,000 Guineashe had a choice to make in the CoronationStakes at Royal Ascot. Pebbles had changedhands by then and was owned by SheikhMohammed. If she had still been owned byCaptain Lemos he would have ridden her. Jockeys want to be on the best and Philip

knew Katies was very good. He went with her,which was the right choice on the day as Katiesbeat us, but in the longer term it wasn’t thewisest choice of his life as if he’d stuck with herhe’d have kept the ride, and she went on towin all of those good races at four. She was agreat mare and a lot of it was down to Philipand the start he gave her. Philip made a big difference to Crimplene

too. She was beaten in Dubai by the colts andthen beaten again in the Italian 1,000 Guineas,where Philip was furious as she’d been given arough time in the stalls. With Philip’s help shegot over that and won the German and Irish1000 Guineas, and then the Coronation Stakesand the Nassau. All of those good races camequickly after one another, but Philip neveremptied her and always left something in thetank. It was a big throw for us when wesupplemented her for Ireland, as I think wepaid £20,000 and the bookmakers priced herup at about 33-1, but she proved what a goodmare she was by making all to beat Amethyst. Warrsan, who won four Group 1s in a career

that spanned five seasons, was another goodwinner Philip rode for me. When we startedwith him he was a horse who didn’t enjoy hisexercise, but Philip broke his resistance andmade a racehorse of him – and he did it withkindness, not by bullying him. Warrsan was agreat fighter, but you didn’t want him fightingyou. Philip rode him in nearly all of his earlyraces and won the Jockey Club Stakes and theCoronation Cup on him in 2003. It wasn’t just the big winners though. He’s

won lots of other races for me and ridden lotsof good races on horses that didn’t win. In theDerby everyone remembers for GrevilleStarkey’s ride on Dancing Brave, he was on avirtual no hoper of mine, Sirk, and by huggingthe inside while Greville was wide he got agreat run out of him and only just missed outon the places, finishing a great deal closer thanhe was entitled to. That was typical of whatyou get from Philip and as long as he maintainshis fitness and enthusiasm I still don’t thinkyou can get anyone better.

PHILIP on CLIVE

With Michael Jarvis having retiredthrough ill health I was within halfan hour of a decision about my

future when Clive rang. I can’t say which wayI would have gone, but I was certainly givingretirement considerable thought. I wasn’tprepared at this stage to start going round thecountry for bits and bobs. Don’t get me wrong,I’ll ride for anyone with a chance, and a goodhorse can turn up anywhere, but there’s somuch racing and so many jockeys nowadaysthat you do need a base to work from. It wasn’t going to be an easy decision to

retire, as I felt fantastic after finally getting myhips completely pain free – better than I’d feltfor years. It didn’t take me too long to makeup my mind after Clive and I spoke. He’s got90-odd horses and that was the sort of base Ineeded. When that base is with someone youknow and trust it’s a bonus. We get onextremely well – not just professionally, as he’sbeen a personal friend for 30-odd years – andthat made my mind up pretty quick. Everyone sees the larger than life, jovial side

of Clive, but he’s a very serious trainer andgives every horse a lot of thought. People laughat him getting first lot out in the dark, but it’ssurprising how much more relaxed horses areat that time, without Newmarket’s usual hustleand bustle. You can go out an hour or two laterand there are 12 strings crossing one another,with horses waiting and getting revved up.You hardly ever see one of Clive’s jig-jogging

or doing too much. They just get on with theirwork and relax. He’s got it off to a fine art andknows which will benefit most from being outfirst lot. It’s been a major factor in his training

and he’s proved it works. From the outside hecan seem very ambitious in his targets, but he’sgot very good instincts and he’s upset the boatmany times over the years. There’s no questioneither that when he gets a good horse hecertainly knows how to train it. Pebbles was the first top horse I rode for

him, she was exceptional. But she was a raceyfilly and early on was very buzzy – she couldhave gone either way. At times, myself andClive would take her off on her own to keepher going the right way. He’d ride Hunt Cupwinner Come On The Blues, or something likethat, and I’d ride Pebbles, and we’d do a bit ofwork on our own. Obviously it worked.When she won the Guineas it was my first

Classic win. I was only 23. Within weeks I’dwon the Irish Guineas too on Katies for MickRyan, but that put me in a difficult positionwhen the Coronation Stakes came along. I’d been riding for Clive since I came out of

my apprenticeship, because when I left FrankieDurr I had a retainer with Clive’s main ownerMarcos Lemos, but I also had a retainer atMick’s with Jack Fisher and Terry Ramsden,

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“As long as Philipmaintains his fitness

and enthusiasmthere’s nobody better”

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1,000 Guineas (1984 Pebbles)Irish 1,000 Guineas (2000 Crimplene)Coronation Stakes (2000 Crimplene)Nassau Stakes (2000 Crimplene)Coronation Cup (2003 Warrsan)

Brittain and Robinson: Group 1 wins



who owned Katies. By that time Pebbles hadbeen sold to Sheikh Mohammed and in someways I felt obliged to ride Katies, but all creditto Mick, who gave me the choice. I knew thefillies so well I think both would have liked meto have ridden, but Lester Piggott was waitingin the wings for my reject, so I don’t supposethey were overly worried. Clive, being such agentleman, accepted my decision. I chose rightso far as the Coronation Stakes was concerned,but it probably cost me the long term ride onPebbles and I rode her only once more, whenshe was second in the Champion Stakes. That’sracing though.

Crimplene came years later. She wasn’t easyeither but probably improved more from twoto three than any horse I’ve known in myentire career. At two I thought she might beListed class at best but Clive took her to Dubaifor the Derby and it seemed to transform her.Something clicked and she blossomed. Shenever stopped improving, winning theGerman Guineas, Irish Guineas, theCoronation and the Nassau.

That was the same season I won the

Coronation Cup on Warrsan, so it was quite ayear for both Clive and me. Warrsan was afunny horse who refused to trot. He was afunny mover and he’d half hack everywhere,but I said to Clive there was something there,and he knew it too. The more we did with himthe better he got. At home he wouldn’t showyou anything, but get him on a racecourse andhe was a different horse. He loved racing andhe never stopped improving. He loved a battletoo and he’d take something on from three orfour furlongs out and give everything.

A relationship between trainer and jockey isalways important, but when partnerships work

you just trust each other and let each other dotheir job. A lot of it happens instinctively, butif Clive wants my opinion on anything hedoesn’t hesitate to get on the phone to pick mybrain, and vice versa. As far as the future isconcerned it doesn’t bother me at all that I’mthe oldest in the weighing room now. I’ve justturned 50, but Lester went on a lot longer andGeorge Duffield was riding better at 54 than atany stage in his career. If at any time I feel Ican’t do the job I’ll pull the pin, but so long asI’m feeling as good as I do now and everyoneis happy I’ll carry on and enjoy it.

Clive has a lot of unexposed horses this yearand I’m going in four times a week to get toknow them. But in some ways it’s a job madein heaven for me. Maybe it’s a relic of my daysin Hong Kong, but I’m up anyway at that timeand if I’m not going in to Clive’s I’ll be havinga coffee and watching the news at 4.30am.

But you know in all those 30 years I’ve neveronce got into the yard before him and everyday he’ll be bouncing around as if he’s been upfor six hours. I’d love to get in ahead of himjust once! �

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“In 30 years I’venever got into the

yard before him. I’dlove to just once!”

Pebbles romps clear in the 1984 1,000 Guineas: more than a quarter of a century later trainer and jockey are still going strong


Barry Irwin leads in Pluck after victoryin the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at

Churchill Downs last year

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Where did you come up with the idea for a partnership, first withClover Racing in 1987 and with Team Valor International from 1992? I was approached by some men who, well, the best way to put it would be to say thatthey were boiler room-type salesmen who wound up in Southern California. Theysyndicated a couple of horses but were rip-off artists. They’d buy a horse with a greatpedigree for $100,000 and syndicate it for $900,000 or a million. These guys cameto my office one day and said, ‘Why don’t we form a partnership? We’ll raise themoney, you pick the horses and manage them.’

Our first was [multiple Grade 1 winner] Political Ambition, who I bought fromBrereton Jones. After he’d won, I realised he was a real horse and I said to my thenbusiness partner Jeff [Siegel], ‘Look, these guys are going to get us in trouble.’ We

bought them out and allowed them to be salespeople for a short period of timebefore we phased them out.

You had immediate success with Clover…The first couple of years were unreal. We bought Martial Law as a cullfrom Sheikh Mohammed, for $60,000, and he won the Grade 1Santa Anita Handicap on his third start for us. We bought half ofPrized from Barbara LaCroix and he won the Breeders’ Cup Turf.We were off and rolling. We won the Del Mar Oaks in our firstyear with Lizzy Hare, a filly I bought in England from LucaCumani. We were just off to a good start.

How have things changed in your 24 years ofbeing involved with racing syndicates?The main difference is that when I started it was me, CotCampbell, Centennial Farm, and that was about it. Nowthere are hundreds of people who do what I do. Someof them are the antithesis of what I try to do. In mycompany, it’s the horse that comes first. The people comesecond. But I’ve got guys from Political Ambition andfrom Lizzy Hare in the 1980s that are still with us today.

Is it getting harder to recruit new partners?We’ve had the same number of partners for about 20 years:250 people. I don’t know why that is. Some come, some go.

I purposely don’t advertise. I would like to find a way to

THE BIG INTERVIEWBARRY IRWIN

It’s a TeamGAME

Barry Irwin has made a huge success of Team Valor, his ownershipvehicle that has captured major races all over the world. So what are the secrets behind his global operation?

By Frances J Karon • Photos Horsephotos.com


promote my business but the kind of people youmeet when you advertise aren’t the kind ofpeople you want and when I do take ads out Inever put my phone number, I put my website.If somebody takes the initiative to try to find me,there’s a greater likelihood that the person willbe the kind of partner I’m looking for. I don’twant impulse buyers; they’re not the kind ofpeople that are in it for the long run.

You have nice homebreds, like Grade 3winner Animal Kingdom, bought fromanother Team Valor partnership as ayearling. How does that work? With everything I do, there’s no real game plan.I try to be flexible and try to give myself optionsas nobody knows where a good horse is goingto come from. This year we’ve got five three-year-olds that can run and I bred four of them.I might not be able to do that again for ten years.Who knows why? So when I breed a horse I ambreeding it in a way that hopefully I will like thehorse enough to keep it. If I sell it that means Idon’t want it. It’s difficult when you have as few mares as

we do to breed a good horse. As an example –and this is a strange set-up, fraught with conflictof interest although fortunately my partnerstrust me enough to support me – AnimalKingdom and Ebony Flyer are the same kind ofsituation. With Animal Kingdom, we put himin a sale, I bought him myself for $100,000, andafter I went back to the people who owned himwith me and I said if anybody wants in, you canhave in, here’s the price, just what I paid for it.Then I offered him to the rest of the partnership.I bought Ebony Flyer as a suckling and put herin a yearling sale. I bought her and formed anew partnership. Ebony Flyer is the best fillyI’ve ever had – she’s better than Ipi Tombe.

How did you develop an interest insuch an international portfolio?I attribute that to my curiosity and restlessness.I get bored easily and am always looking for new

challenges. My first love is track and field. I wasan athlete (high jump and hurdling) and trackand field’s international, so I treated the horsesthe same way, always looking to other countriesto see what was happening. When I was a writerI probably wrote for well over 20 internationalpublications at one time or another.

Does athletics help you recognise themechanics of a good racehorse?Definitely. I never had a mentor – nobody in myfamily is a horse person. As I became an athleteI saw a direct comparison between humanrunners and horses. I spend a lot of time in thepaddock looking at horses. When I was a writerI had the luxury of asking anybody I wanted asmany questions as I could come up with. Idrove guys like Charlie Whittingham crazy!

What I try to look for in a horse is a certainrhythm and cadence, and the horses that havethat do well. If you watch two in a stretch battleand one of them, his front legs are movingstraight and he’s reaching out, and the otherone’s going all over the place, legs going in eachdirection, and if they’re of equal talent, the horsethat moves best is going to get to the wire first.

So you saw those mechanics in GitanoHernando when you bought him?He had a great way of going and could keep itup. I thought he was a robust horse and I lovedhim. I am not a fan of synthetic tracks – I thinkthey’re great to train on but I don’t think they’rethat great to race on. When I bought him he was

the only horse I’d seen, that I could remember,that moved like a dirt horse on a synthetic track.That’s what got me interested in him.

After you bought him, he won twiceand ran second in the Dee Stakesbefore he won the Grade 1Goodwood Stakes in California…The trainer, Marco Botti, is a brilliant young guybut we always had a difference of opinion onwhether he was a grass or synthetic horse. Evenwhen we got ready to bring him over to run inCalifornia, he wanted to run him in another racethe same weekend on turf. I don’t like to getheavy-handed with trainers – I like to turn ahorse over to a trainer and say, ‘Here’s my goal,this is what I think, go get ’em.’ If I seesomething I think I can contribute, I will. Marcokept insisting and finally I blew a little bit andsaid: ‘We’re running in this as he’s a synthetichorse, just give me a break!” After we won therace I never heard much about that from him.

Why did you sell Gitano Hernando toRamzan Kadyrov?We had a very good run with the horse.Everybody enjoyed him, everybody mademoney. We sold him to a guy who should dowell with him, he’s got plenty of racing left. Tome it was a perfect type of scenario where wedidn’t squeeze him dry. We had our fun, thisnext guy’s going to have his fun, and I thinkthat’s good. It’s not easy to sell a good horse.

How many racehorses do you have?In the US we have 15 four-year-olds and up, tenthree-year-olds and seven two-year-olds. InSouth Africa we’ve 20 and in Europe four.Andre Fabre has a homebred called Brigantin;he’s a Group 3 winner and we’re pointing himat the Ascot Gold Cup, which should be fun.And then I’ve got a couple of two-year-olds, onewith Peter Schiergen in Germany out of a mareI own that’s a Group 1 producer and then wealso have a two-year-old Mr Greeley colt that Ibought as a weanling who’s a half-brother toBecrux that we won the Woodbine Mile with.

Has low prize-money deterred youfrom having more horses in Europe?We’ve never been overly concerned with prize-money. Our focus is on developing horses. If thehorses are good enough, they’ll race for the rightmoney. We consider purses and incentives forowners and breeders in France to be attractive,so we have always kept half a dozen mares atHaras des Capucines in Normandy. But we racein Germany, where the prize-money sucks,because they have excellent racing and terrifictrainers capable of developing world-classhorses. This is what we are after.

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Animal Kingdom: Irwin finds it “amazing” that he is a Kentucky Derby contender

“I don’t want impulsebuyers; they’re not

the kind of people in itfor the long run”


Europe with Marco, Peter Schiergen and JohnHammond. We don’t plan to have anythingmore extensive. We want to run a boutiqueoperation centred at Fair Hill in Maryland anduse European horses to supplement the stable.

You have a possible Kentucky Derbycontender in Animal Kingdom, who isby Leroidesanimaux out of the Group-winning Acatenango mare Dalicia...Animal Kingdom’s a fabulous looking horse. Iam perplexed to find a horse like him that mightbe able to run on the dirt, because you can’t findanything in his pedigree to suggest it. I certainlydidn’t breed him to be a Kentucky Derby horse,so I just think I got lucky. I find it just amazing.

Another Derby candidate is CrimsonChina, a son of Giant’s Causeway youpurchased privately out of BrianMeehan’s yard after winning atWolverhampton. What was his appeal?Brian is a guy that takes his time – his horsesdon’t fire first time. But this one almost won firsttime out and the horse he almost beat had justlost a photo finish to Abjer, who went out andwon a Group 3, so the form was good, the horsemoved well and I do love Giant’s Causeway –I’ve bred to him several times and I’ve boughtoffspring of his, he was such a neat horse.

Your newest purchase, Kentucky Oakshopeful Summer Soiree, won theGrade 3 Bourbonette Oaks by overten lengths at Turfway Park. How longafter did you know you wanted her?I didn’t think about it at the time but the nextday I zeroed in on her. We were lucky as shewas owned by Brereton Jones and he is a seller.Every year he sells a good horse. A lot of peoplewon’t sell a horse as they think they’ll never getanother like it, but he’s got enough confidenceto know he can crank them out every year.

This year you’ve consolidated your UShorses, with broodmares and youngstock at Denali in Paris, Kentucky, andthe racehorses with British-born trainerGraham Motion at Fair Hill. What ledto that?It’ll be a lot easier to work with. When I used tospread the racehorses around I did it becauseone guy can’t train every type of horse. Guysthat can train sprinters can’t train long distancehorses. And also I like the adventurism of beingable to have horses in various locales.

I went to Graham Motion for a few reasons.Number one, I don’t want to have a trainer that’sgoing to get me in trouble with drugs and withthis guy I don’t have to worry about that. That’snot the main reason but it’s one that gives mecomfort. I don’t want to be embarrassed. I’vebeen embarrassed and it’s no fun. Number two,he trains the kind of horses that I aspire to own,horses that run long and can run on turf or dirt.

I’ve always wanted to have my horses trained offthe track. Graham trains at a place that isincredible. You can train a horse there and goanywhere you want and run in a race and dowell, and that appeals to me. I think the trade-off with him is I’m probably not going to haveas many early two-year-old winners, but I’mwilling to take that trade-off because I think I’ll

get what I want out of my horses and they’ll lastlonger.

How would you like to see horseracingimproved on a global scale?I’m really worried about Betfair, to tell you thetruth. They scare the hell out of me. I think theycan ruin our sport. The only thing that keeps



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Horse Race (country)

Becrux (ITY) Woodbine Mile (Canada)

Captain Bodgit (USA) Florida Derby (USA)

Captain’s Lover (SAF) Cape Fillies Guineas (South Africa)

Carnadore (SAF) Medallion (SA)

Cashier’s Dream (USA) Spinaway Stakes (USA)

Ebony Flyer (SAF) Cape Fillies Guineas (SA)

Gitano Hernando (GB) Goodwood Stakes (USA)

Golden Ballet (USA) Las Virgenes Stakes, Santa Anita Oaks (USA)

Gypsy’s Warning (SAF) Matriarch Stakes (USA); Thekwini Stakes, FilliesClassic (SA)

Ipi Tombe (ZIM) Dubai Duty Free (UAE); Fillies Guineas, DurbanJuly Cup (SA)

Irridescence (SAF) Woolavington Stakes, Fillies Classic (SA); QEII Cup (Hong Kong)

Little Miss Magic (SAF) Empress Club Stakes (SA)

Martial Law (USA) Santa Anita Handicap (USA)

On Her Toes (SAF) Fillies Championship (SA)

Political Ambition (USA)* Hollywood Derby, Hollywood Invitational (USA)

Prized (USA)* Breeders’ Cup Turf, San Luis Rey Stakes (USA);Molsom Million (CN)

Russian Sage (SAF) Cape Derby, Daily News 2000 (SA)

Star Of Cozzene (USA) Arlington Million, Man o’War Stakes (USA)

Stratos (SAF) Empress Club Stakes (SA)

Sweet Stream (ITY) Prix Vermeille (France)

The Deputy (IRE) Santa Anita Derby (USA)

Unbridled Belle (USA) Beldame Stakes (USA)

Visionaire (USA) King’s Bishop Stakes (USA)

*Clover Racing Stable

Team Valor & Partners Group/Grade 1 winners

Irwin (centre) and his partners have won top-flight races in six countries



our sport going is that there’s a partnershipbetween people who want to bet horses and thepeople who want to conduct the sport, andright now, worldwide, the punters are up inarms, and I think it’s a good thing. I used to bea horseplayer myself so I can identify with thesepeople. I think that they need better treatmentand they do need to have a voice because theyare legitimate stakeholders and people in racing,especially the owners and trainers, have to takethat into consideration. I just wish that worldwide we could come up

with something that would include theelimination of all bookmakers and especially ofBetfair. They don’t recognise that they need togive anything back to racing. I find thatdisturbing.

And your ultimate goal in racing, whatwould that be?I don’t really have an ultimate goal. What Iwould like to do is just have a small, well-runoperation that produces horses that run in goodraces every year and gives the people that I haveas customers as much pleasure as possible. Thegreatest joy and – it sounds corny – yes, it’sexciting to win a big race, there’s no doubt aboutit. That’s why we all do it. But it is so much morefun to watch the people’s reaction when theywin a big race. I know that I’m giving this joy tothese people.


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Gitano Hernando won the Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes for Team Valor before being sold to Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov

Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion’sinternational outlook makes him a perfect fitwith Team Valor. It’s an outlook forged byhis background in racing, with Motion – likemany budding trainers – inclined to seekdifferent experiences as a youngster toprepare him for the vagaries of the job.The British-born Motion says: “I left

England for the US at 16 so I never reallyworked in racing there, but my parents hada farm so I was always involved with horses. “My first introduction to training was at

Haras du Mesnil in France after high school.When I came back to the States I went towork for Jonathan Sheppard for five years,and then I was with Jonathan Pease inFrance for a season.”Asked whether the fact Barry Irwin is one

of racing’s most international American-based owners affected his decision to starttraining for Team Valor last November,Motion replies: “Definitely. After theBreeders’ Cup, Barry was very keen to sendPluck to Europe and that’s something I’vealways wanted to do. “What I love about racing, as much as

anything, is the international aspect of it, like

the Breeders’ Cup. I would love to take ahorse to Europe to be competitive in a well-known race. My roots are European so it’ssomething that’s always appealed to me.“Probably one of the neatest things I’ve

done before my own career was taking[Sheppard’s] Flatterer to Europe, where hewas second in the 1986 French ChampionHurdle and the 1987 Champion Hurdle.”Thoughts of taking Pluck to Europe this

year have been dashed by his injury butMotion adds: “Part of the excitement to meis that Team Valor look to do something likethat and hopefully we’ll get another chance.There’s a much better shot of doing it withsomeone like Barry than with most people.”

Graham Motion: international goals

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Our table on pages56-57 containsonly a small

portion of data on the fatesof the three top lots fromthe last three years at eachof the major Europeanbreeze-up sales but it tells

its own story of success and failure.Every agent or trainer at sales of young stock

looks for the best bloodlines merged with thebest physical specimen available to themwithin their budget. At the breeze-ups, the jobshould be made slightly easier by the fact thatthese fledgling racehorses are already athletes.They can gallop, some faster than others, somein a more taking manner than others, but theyhave all been tried to a degree which manyhomebreds and a large portion of salesyearlings will not have been at the equivalentpoint in their upbringing.

If the table gives any message at all, it is thatthe term ‘ready to run’ can be a misnomer.Bearing in mind that many breeze-upgraduates will have had tough preparations foryearling sales only six months beforehand and,even with a break before the serious workbuilding up to a breeze begins, it is

nevertheless an awful lot to be asking of ahorse both mentally and physically at such atender age. Some can cope; others will fall bythe wayside.

Of the two top performers in our smallsample, Passion For Gold didn’t race until theend of August in his two-year-old season,while Rainfall didn’t make the track at all as ajuvenile but doubtless benefited from thiscautious approach – she posted a six-lengthmaiden win on debut and won the JerseyStakes at Royal Ascot on only her thirdracecourse appearance.

There have been plenty of good reasons tokeep buyers coming back to the breeze-ups,including 30,000gns DBS purchase Speciosabecoming the first British Classic winner toemanate from this sphere and colts such as RioDe La Plata and Amadeus Wolf being rated inthe top five two-year-olds of their generations.It’s no coincidence that these three hailed fromthe drafts of Mocklershill (Speciosa) andBansha House Stables (Rio De La Plata andAmadeus Wolf), two outfits whose names havetaken up permanent residence in the list of topvendors at breeze-up sales.

More recently, Native Khan landed theCraven Stakes – which is sponsored by a

conglomerate of breeze-up vendors – almostexactly a year to the day after he was asked tostretch out on turf alongside the Rowley Milein the 2010 Craven breeze-up sale, and NellGwyn Stakes winner Barefoot Lady became thesecond high-profile graduate of theGoresbridge sale after Music Show.

In these difficult financial times, there hadbeen hope that the breeze-up sales might see asurge of buyers who had kept their powder dryat the yearling sales and saved on six months’keep by buying a horse that bit closer tomaking its racecourse debut. The picture willbecome clearer once the dust has settled on thesales at Doncaster and Saint-Cloud, the formerhaving just begun as this issue went to press,but the early indications are that, while thereremains a clutch of bigger purchasers, there arestill too few players operating in the crucial middle market.

Evans aboveOne man who would surely be a success as abreeze-up consignor were he ever to give up hiscurrent job is David Evans. The trainer hasusually had at least a handful of two-year-oldwinners before the sales have even started. Thisyear is no exception.

Evans is already responsible for the first winner by three first-season sires. Dual winnerJack Who’s He got Red Clubs off the mark onMarch 31, Seven Year Itch did the same forLawman on April 13, while Cockney Fire wasCockney Rebel’s first winner on April 16.

This was the second time that Cockney Fire’sdam Camp Fire had produced the first winnerby a freshman sire, as her 2007 foal, Kumbeshwar, was the first to strike for Doyen,albeit in September. No prizes for guessing whotrained Kumbeshwar before he switched toAlan King’s yard and became one of the best juvenile hurdlers in the land.

Stallion masters looking to get some earlywinners on the board for their young sirescould do worse than sending a few two-year-olds to Wales to the unorthodox but highlyeffective yard of David Evans.

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Our coverage this month includes:

• S a l e s C i r c u i t : r e p o r t s a n d a n a l y s i sFrom breeze-ups in Britain and America to yearlings in Australia and South Africa – pages 52-55

• B r e e z e - u p s t a r s : w h a t h a p p e n e d n e x t ?A look at the fates of recent high-priced lots at the major European two-year-old sales – pages 56-57

BREEDERS’ DIGESTBy EMMA BERRY, Bloodstock Editor

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Tattersalls’ Craven and Goffs’ Kemptonbreeze-ups may operate at differentmarket levels but both brought some

cheer to vendors as the two-year-old sales gotunderway in Britain.Consignors approached Newmarket with

most trepidation for a sale that in twoevenings can determine whether or not theiryear is profitable and while by no meanseverybody finished in the black, it was a goodweek for big vendors such as Willie Browneand Con Marnane.The Craven Breeze-up, which was first

introduced to compete with Doncaster’slonger-established rival in 1989, grewrelentlessly from a 9,522gns average pricethat first year to a sum breaching six figures in2008 when reaching 102,448gns.The price and quality of yearling bought for

resale by consignors rose accordingly as theysaw prices of up to 625,000gns and theTattersalls breeze-up had established itself asa real alternative in the eyes of major buyersto the premier European yearling sales atNewmarket, Goffs and Arqana.But that sale three years ago, with a top

price of 540,000gns, proved to be themarket’s peak and after sales in 2009 and2010 that failed to recover the huge outlaysmade by vendors, things stepped back a levelthis year.Those selling did not invest as much in

yearlings and as a result several buyerssuggested the overall standard of horse atTattersalls was not as high as in past years andthe 71,313gns Newmarket average was thelowest since 2005.“Last year’s sales were difficult for us,”

admitted Marnane, who consigns from

Bansha House Stables in County Tipperary.“As a result we didn’t buy as many yearlingsas we just didn’t know what the 2011 saleswere going to be like and had to be careful.But we came to Tattersalls with nice horses,all my regular customers were buying and wehad a great sale this year.”Tattersalls’ sale came a fortnight after

ex cellent trade at Goffs’ Kempton breeze-up,which was rejuvenated after moving to a new date.“Kempton was good to us as well but we

were selling a very different type of horse inNewmarket and didn’t know what to

expect,” added Marnane.Doncaster’s breeze-up, taking place as we

went to press, was set to tell us more aboutthe middle market buyers in an arena thatcontinues to evolve.While Tattersalls’ Guineas Sale has been

axed this year, Tattersalls Ireland will stage anew sale on April 28. Goresbridge’s fixture ison May 20 and Arqana’s auction at Saint-Cloud (May 14) has grown rapidly to now beseen by vendors as a credible alternative toNewmarket at which to consign their besttwo-year-olds. There is also a new post-racingBrightwells sale at Ascot on May 7.

Cautious approach reaps rewardsThe European breeze-up season is in full swing and has provided some relief for vendors

SALES CIRCUITBy EDWARD PROSSER AND EMMA BERRY

Tattersalls CravenVendors in Newmarket were reassured to seesome of the familiar faces at Tattersalls whohave made the Craven Breeze-up such asuccess in recent years.Sheikh Mohammed was there on both

nights while the likes of Sir Robert Ogden,Andrew Tinkler and jockey John Egan, whotraditionally buys some of the dearer lots forvarious clients, were all present.But the days when Sheikh Mohammed

provided over a third of the sale’s turnoverare gone. Although he is believed to have

bought a pair of 200,000gns lots throughAngie Loder and Dick O’Gorman, his team’sspending was restrained, as in 2010.Ogden snapped up the two dearest lots

while Egan, who in the past has shopped forJim Hay and clients in Bahrain, bought a260,000gns Danehill Dancer colt and155,000gns Cape Cross colt to head to HongKong. Meanwhile, Tinkler bought two ofthree dearest lots at the 2010 sale, when healso purchased Dubawi Gold, but wasnoticeably less active this year.A Hong Kong client of Johnny McKeever

and young Qatari royal Sheikh Fahad Al Willie Browne sold the Craven top two

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Thani, purchasing through David Redvers’agency, were others to make their mark at thevery top end.

Although Hong Kong spending was ashigh as it as ever been at the sale,understandably there were few visitors fromJapan in Newmarket and those that werethere made little impression.

Among the buyers at the sale was Turkish-based Ibrahim Araci, who had seen hisNative Khan – a 180,000gns graduate of the2010 auction – win the Craven Stakes a fewhours earlier. Buying through Ed Dunlop,Araci paid 100,000gns for a More ThanReady colt.

Willie Browne’s County Tipperary-basedMocklershill operation was leading vendorfor a seventh consecutive year at a sale whosetop end was dominated more than ever byIrish consignors, who accounted for all of thetop ten lots, although Malcolm Bastard andHillwood Stud were respectively the sixthand ninth highest-grossing consignors

The two dearest lots, both consigned by Mocklershill and bought by Ogden,provided the sale’s biggest pinhookingsuccesses.

Although trainers were buying sparingly,Nottinghamshire-based Alan McCabe wasone of those with a big budget. With theassistance of agent Tom Malone, McCabespent 120,000gns on an Amadeus Wolf coltconsigned from Gay O’Callaghan’sYeomanstown Stud.

The 320,000gns sale-topping DistortedHumor colt had cost $60,000 as a yearling atKeeneland in September, while the315,000gns son of Azamour had beenknocked down to Mags O’Toole at the GoffsOrby Sale in October.

Following the abandonment of its GuineasBreeze-up Sale this year, it was originallyplanned to have three sessions at the CravenBreeze-up with around 250 horses.

But the final sale only drew 196 lots, 30up on 2010, and with a clearance rate of 68%it seems unlikely that there would have beendemand for many more juveniles in what isclearly a finite market.

Goffs KemptonGoffs’ Kempton breeze-up had been in steadydecline since first taking place in 2007 but that all changed this year.

The sale moved back to the racecourse’sswish panoramic restaurant, its originalhome, Goffs held an exclusive launch partyin London and moved the auction’s date tothe end of March from its previous slot priorto the Cheltenham Festival.

They were measures that seemed to workas the figures had only been bettered oncebefore, in the sale’s first year, and the£130,000 top price set a new record for the event.

Owner Fred Sines signed for the top lot, aCalifornia-bred Medaglia D’Oro colt offeredfrom Mocklershill, in the name of his father

Maurice. The juvenile is set to race for theSines family and Jimmy Crickmore, who areadvised by agent Kerri Radcliffe. Thetransaction helped ensure Mocklershill poleposition in the leading vendors’ table.

Other buyers included the FavouritesRacing syndicate, who paid £70,000 throughBobby O’Ryan for a Dutch Art colt.


Tattersalls Craven Top lotsSex/Breeding Vendor Price (gns) Buyer

c Distorted Humor-Stupendous Miss (Dynaformer) Mocklershill 320,000 Sir Robert Ogden

c Azamour-Khayrat (Polar Falcon) Mocklershill 315,000 Sir Robert Ogden

c Danehill Dancer-Showbiz (Sadler’s Wells) Oak Tree Farm 260,000 John Egan

f Iffraaj-Tamora (Dr Fong) Yeomanstown Stud 200,000 Angie Loder Bloodstock

c Dubawi-Desert Frolic (Persian Bold) Kilminfoyle House Stud 200,000 Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

c Pivotal-Ooh Aah Camara (Danehill Dancer) Hawthorn Villa Stud 200,000 David Redvers Bloodstock

c Bernardini-Lucifer’s Stone (Horse Chestnut) Ballyhane 195,000 Hugo Merry Bloodstock

c Speightstown-Kenza (Menifee) Yeomanstown Stud 180,000 McKeever Bloodstock

c Dynaformer-Juke (Mr Prospector) Oak Tree Farm 180,000 Seamus Burns

c Cape Cross-Miss Sally (Danetime) Mocklershill 155,000 Piero Co Ltd

Five-year taleYear Catalogued Offered Sold Clearance (%) Agg (gns) Avg (gns) Mdn (gns) Top Price (gns)

2011 196 164 112 68.3% 7,987,000 71,313 60,000 320,000

2010 166 139 96 69.1% 7,656,500 79,755 70,000 400,000

2009 183 163 115 70.6% 8,561,000 74,443 60,000 260,000

2008 194 158 116 73.4% 11,884,000 102,448 70,000 540,000

2007 213 190 120 63.2% 8,636,000 71,967 55,000 370,000

Goffs Kempton Top lotsSex/Breeding Vendor Price (£) Buyer

c Medaglia D’Oro-Dancingonice (Robyn Dancer) Mocklershill 130,000 Maurice Sines

c Dutch Art-Far Post (Defensive Play) Harefield Lodge Stud (Agent) 70,000 Bobby O’Ryan

c Marju-Appetina (Perugino) Suirview Stables 65,000 T G & B B Mills

c Amadeus Wolf-Mathuna (Tagula) Bansha House Stables 50,000 Ross Doyle

c Exceed And Excel-Mimi Mouse (Diktat) Mocklershill 50,000 Mike Murphy

f Invincible Spirit-Oulianovsk (Peintre Celebre) Hillwood Stud 46,000 Peter & Ross Doyle Ltd

c Speightstown-Suena Cay (Maria’s Mon) Brown Island Stables 46,000 Stephen Hillen

f Iffraaj-Just One Look (Barathea) Ballyhane 45,000 Gary Moore Racing

c Invincible Spirit-Plymsole (Diesis) The Bloodstock Connection 42,000 Kilstone Ltd

c El Prado- Sant Elena (Efisio) The Bloodstock Connection 42,000 Gordian Troeller B/S

Five-year taleYear Catalogued Offered Sold Clearance (%) Aggregate (£) Average (£) Median (£) Top Price (£)

2011 90 82 64 78% 1,600,500 25,008 20,000 130,000

2010 94 81 54 67% 863,500 15,991 12,500 55,000

2009 75 57 36 63% 663,100 18,728 15,000 58,000

2008 101 86 64 74% 1,944,500 30,383 25,000 105,000

2007 100 82 65 79% 2,074,000 31,908 26,000 110,000

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Among the trainers in action were Epsom-based Robert Mills, who spent £65,000 on aMarju colt and Mike Murphy, who picked upa son of Exceed And Excel for £50,000.The sale is set to feature on Channel 4

Racing’s Morning Line in a piece on buying ahorse fronted by former England rugby starMatt Dawson.

Keeneland April Californian wine mogul Jess Jackson bought the two dearest lots at Keeneland’sApril breeze-up, a $625,000 Indian Charliecolt and $485,000 son of War Front, butfigures overall fell short of their 2010equivalents.The $165,200 average dropped by 2.4%,

the $130,000 median was down 3.7% as wasthe $11,564,000 turnover.Although the clearance rate improved on

last year to 67.3%, as ever at the US breeze-ups there were plenty of withdrawals and only41.4% of those catalogued changed hands.

Buoyant jumpstrade continuesBrightwellsCheltenham April Brightwells’ April Sale attracted a biggercollection of alluring lightly-raced bumper andIrish point-to-point performers than anyauction of its type before and it duly resultedin some impressive trading figures.Turnover shot up by 42% to £3.55 million

and although the median dropped by £1,000to £37,000, the average increased 22% to £63,482.“It was a staggering sale,” said David Minton

of Highflyer Bloodstock. “There was a goodselection of form horses but it was amazing theprices some with very ordinary pedigrees made.

“The format works well and they are able toattract a lot of the big owners there and it wasa very healthy market which you hope will rollback into stores because those boys (vendors)will want to reinvest.”Michael Buckley was at the sale and bought

point-to-point winner Minella Forfitness for£130,000 through Minton to join NickyHenderson. Minton also paid £120,000 forFiery King for a new syndicate to go to Henderson, who will continue to train Skint(£100,000) under the new ownership ofFavourites Racing.Many major owners were at Cheltenham and

among the other big buyers were BarryConnell, who bought the £250,000 sale-topper, dual bumper winner MountBenbulben, to join Gordon Elliott.John Hales spent £240,000 on point-to-

point winner Italian Master through AidenMurphy, who was at the sale with CaptainChris’s owner Grahame Whateley and paid

£230,000 for Minella For Steak.Derrick Smith’s son Paul was at Cheltenham

with Jonjo O’Neill, who made a couple of£150,000 purchases, while Tim Leslie wasanother there and his trainer Donald McCainbought a pair of point-to-pointers for £160,000and £120,000.

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Keeneland AprilTop lotsSex/Breeding Vendor Price ($) Buyer

c Indian Charlie-Teenage Temper (A.P. Indy) Hartley/De Renzo T’breds 625,000 Stonestreet Stables

c War Front- La Prada (El Prado) Wavertree Stables 485,000 Stonestreet Stables

c War Front- Rose Of Summer (El Prado) Niall Brennan Stables 475,000 Steven W Young

c Tiznow- Lake Lady (Salt Lake) SGV Thoroughbreds 400,000 John C Oxley

c Empire Maker-Cosmic Wish (Dixieland Band) Niall Brennan Stables 400,000 Lake Villa Farm

c Unbridled�s Song- Di�s Time (Gilded Time) Nick de Meric 400,000 Steven W Young

Year-on-year figuresYear Catalogued Offered Sold Clearance (%) Aggregate ($) Average ($) Median ($)

2011 169 104 70 67.3% 11,564,000 165,200 130,000

2010 181 112 71 63.4% 12,013,000 169,197 135,000

Brightwells Cheltenham April Top lotsName/Sex/Age/Sire Vendor Price (£) Buyer

Mount Benbulben (6g Beneficial) Gillian Callaghan (Agent) 250,000 Boher Bloodstock

Italian Master (5g Milan) Silver Fort Stud 240,000 Aiden Murphy

Minella For Steak (4g King�s Theatre) John F Nallen 230,000 Aiden Murphy

Rock Of Allen (4g Chevalier) Joseph Logan/Skehanagh Stables 185,000 Henrietta Knight

Dannanceys Hill (4g Revoque) Bernice Stables 160,000 Donald McCain

Wheres The Hare (4g Flemensfirth) Fforest Farm 150,000 Jonjo O’Neill

Merry King (4g Old Vic) Glenview Stables 150,000 Jonjo O’Neill

Minella Forfitness (4g Westerner) John F Nallen 130,000 Highflyer Bloodstock

Avenging Ace (5g Heron Island) Knockbordon Stables 120,000 Donald McCain

Rally The Troops (4g Flemensfirth) Lingstown Stables 120,000 Aiden Murphy

Four-year taleYear Catalogued Offered Sold Aggregate (£) Average (£) Median (£) Top Price (£)

2011 93 73 58 3,555,000 63,482 37,000 250,000

2010 86 63 47 2,300,000 52,641 38,000 260,000

2009 91 69 45 1,829,500 42,546 24,000 200,000

2008 127 89 62 £3,227,600 £52,058 35,000 £230,000

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Positive pointers at Australia’s major yearling saleInglis Easter Yearlings Australia’s flagship yearling sale may havepreceded Easter by more than two weeks but itreturned some encouraging improvements onthe previous year’s figures, with a first-sessionaverage of A$239,484, up by 9%.

The three-day session also boasted anincrease in its median price – up 12.5% toA$180,000 – and a clearance rate of 81%.

With sprinting star Black Caviar rarely out ofthe racing news this season, it was no surpriseto see her Casino Prince half-brother top thesale, selling for A$1,025,000 to Sydney-basedtrainer John Hawkes.

The only other yearling to reach the million-dollar mark was a filly by Redoute’s Choice outof the Woodman mare Schiaparelli, herself adaughter of multiple Group 1 winner CannyLass. This is also very much a family in thenews of late, with this filly and this season’sBlue Diamond and Golden Slipper winnerSepoy sharing their third dam, Jesmond Lass.

The team of James Bester Bloodstock andDemi O’Byrne topped the buyers’ list onaggregate, with six purchased for a total ofA$3,510,000, while Shadwell Australiasplashed out for ten yearlings to the tune ofA$3,280,000. Gérard Larrieu’s French-basedChantilly Bloodstock bought three forA$2,040,000 and BBA Ireland signed for fiveyearlings for a total of A$1,675,000.

There was a new record top price for theone-day second session of the sale when a coltby Darley’s Kentucky Derby-winning shuttler

Street Sense – the leading freshman sire at thesale overall by average – was knocked down toTony Bott for A$320,000.

Inglis Easter Broodmares A three-day breeding stock sale comprised ofmore than 600 mares followed the yearlings inSydney, with Allez Wonder, a Group 1-winning

daughter of Redoute’s Choice, holding sway atthe top of the market when fetchingA$1million. She joins the broodmare band atNathan Tinkler’s Patinack Farm.

Banc De Fortune, a Listed-winning Galileomare in foal to Redoute’s Choice, was, atA$800,000, another high-price purchse byJames Bester, while David Redvers was in actionon behalf of Sheikh Fahad Al Thani and boughtDanehill Dancer mare Chinamora, in foal toStreet Cry, for A$445,000.

Enduja, by Encosta de Lago and in foal toShamardal with a Lonhro colt at foot, wasanother purchase for Redvers at $300,000.With five mares snapped up for A$1,147,000,Redvers was the second top purchaser of thesale. Only Patinack Farm spent more: a totalof A$3,504,000 on 20 mares.

The sale’s average of $72,058 and medianof $30,000 were both improvements on2010 figures when the sale was spread overfour days and 948 lots were catalogued.


A daughter of South Africa’s leading sire JetMaster topped the 557-strong Emperors PalaceNational Yearling Sale when selling forR3,200,000 to Ormond Ferraris.

One of 16 yearlings to breach the million-rand mark, the filly, out of Grade 3 winnerJalberry, is named Heart’s Content and wasconsigned by Varsfontein Stud, which alsopresented the second highest-priced yearling,a Jet Master colt called Master Of My Fate,

who fetched R3,000,000 (£271,000).Despite a decent clearance rate – only 65

yearlings failed to find a buyer – the aggregate ofR115,310,000 was the lowest at the sale for sixyears, and the recorded average of R244,301was down on the 2010 figure of R324,557.

Having been responsible for the top duo,Varsfontein Stud ended the sale as leadingvendor by aggregate. In total, the Kalmansonfamily’s operation sold 17 of its 18 yearlings for R7,055,000.

Jehan Malherbe’s Form Bloodstock toppedthe buyers’ list, signing for 20 yearlings for a

total of R10.2 million.Champion sire Jet Master remains very much

in demand, with 35 of his 37 yearlings on offerselling for a combined sum of R21,325,000. Heled the stallion tables by aggregate and average.

As with the rest of the bloodstock world, anabsence of second-tier buyers is also a cause forconcern in South Africa.

Jan Naude, the Chief Executive Officer of thecountry’s TBA, commented: “These prices are arealistic reflection of the economy. There wasplenty of good money for the top horses, butthe middle market struggled.”

Inglis Easter Yearlings Top lots

Sex/Breeding Vendor Price (A$) Buyer

c Casino Prince-Helsinge Makybe, Gnarwarre 1,025,000 Hawkes Racing

f Redoute’s Choice-Schiaparelli Emirates Park 1,000,000 G Ryan

c Redoute’s Choice-Champagne Cressfield, Scone 850,000 James Bester Bloodstock / D O’Byrne

c Redoute’s Choice-Park Esteem Cressfield, Scone 850,000 Moody Racing Pty

f Redoute’s Choice-Special Harmony Arrowfield Stud, Scone 850,000 Chantilly Bloodstock

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Tattersalls Craven2010

THEN: Elusive Quality (USA) – Love Match (USA) C 400,000gnsConsignor: MocklershillPurchaser: Oliver St Lawrence Bloodstock

NOW: MAYMEEN – unraced to date

THEN: Speightstown (USA) – Affordability (USA) C 215,000gnsConsignor: Oak Tree Farm Purchaser: Dwayne Woods

NOW: UPTOWN GUY – three runs, placed twice in maidens. OR: 70

THEN: Shamardal (USA) – Dream Shared (GB) C 210,000gnsConsignor: Kilminfoyle House Stud Purchaser: Dwayne Woods

NOW: FANTASTIC DREAM – unraced

2009

THEN: Medaglia d’Oro (USA) – C’Est L’Amour (USA) C 260,000gnsConsignor: Yeomanstown Stud Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: PASSION FOR GOLD – Group 1 winner, Group 2-placed at two,no starts at three. OR: 116

THEN: Giant’s Causeway (USA) – Zoe Montana (USA) C 230,000gnsConsignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Sir Robert Ogden

NOW: AZIMUTH – four places from five runs at three, sold TattersallsHIT Sale 2010 for 16,000gns. One placed run this year. OR: 73

THEN: Invincible Spirit (IRE) – Tathkara (USA) F 220,000gnsConsignor: Hawthorn Villa Stud Purchaser: Jamie McCalmont

NOW: FULL OF HOPE – one run at two, one win and two places fromeight runs at three. OR: 92

2008

THEN: Mr Greeley (USA) – Silver Kestrel (USA) F 540,000gns Consignor: Mocklershill Stables Purchaser: Kerri Radcliffe

NOW: BIG HEART - unraced

THEN: Dansili (GB) – Red Bravo (USA) C 490,000gnsConsignor: Oak Tree Farm Purchaser: Sir Robert Ogden

NOW: ESPIRITU – two runs, one place at two; one win and five placesfrom 15 subsequent runs. OR: 98

THEN: Invincible Spirit (IRE) – Need You Badly (GB) C 440,000gnsConsignor: Oak Tree Farm Purchaser: John Gosden Racing

NOW: Al WASL – five runs, one place at four. OR: 75

Doncaster2010

THEN: Dubawi (IRE) – Improvise (GB) C £140,000Consignor: Bansha House Stables Purchaser: Malih Al Basti

NOW: BIG ISSUE – two wins, four places from seven runs at two;Listed-placed, fifth in the G3 Horris Hill. OR: 106

THEN: Officer (USA) – Dun Roamin Lady (USA) C £135,000Consignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Dwayne Woods

NOW: YES OFFICER – unraced to date

THEN: Speightstown (USA) – Crown You (USA) C £125,000Consignor: Gaybrook Lodge Stud Purchaser: P Swann

NOW: ROYAL BAJAN – unraced at two, won first time out at three,two starts. OR: 60

2009

THEN: Pastoral Pursuits – Midnight Angel C £190,000Consignor: Bansha House Stables Purchaser: Malih Al Basti

NOW: ANGEL’S PURSUIT – won first start in May 09; from 20 runs haswon four, placed six times; Listed winner, runner-up in the G2Mill Reef Stakes. OR: 104

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) – Georgianna C £92,000Consignor: Malcolm Bastard Purchaser: Bryan Smart

NOW: ARRY’S ORSE – one run at two, winner at three, four starts. OR: 83

THEN: Maria’s Mon (USA) – Gender Dance (USA) C £80,000Consignor: Knockanglass Stables Purchaser: Blandford Bloodstock

NOW: QUARREL – two wins and third in the G2 Mill Reef Stakes fromthree starts at two; unplaced in eight starts at three. OR: 75

2008

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) – Victory Peak C £200,000 Consignor: Bansha House StablesPurchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: GLOBAL CITY – won twice and placed at two; four subsequentwins and three places; 22 lifetime starts. OR: 96

THEN: Tobougg – Night Haven F £180,000Consignor: Mocklershill Stables Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: DREAM OF MINE – placed twice at two from four starts, fourmore starts at three, unplaced. OR: 57

THEN: Tale Of The Cat (USA) – Notting Hill (BRZ) C £95,000Consignor: Sherbourne Lodge Purchaser: Jeremy Brummitt

NOW: ALDERMOOR – two wins and a second from three starts at two;18 subsequent runs for one win and one place. OR: 74

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) Eschasse (USA) C £95,000 Consignor: Meadowview Stables Purchaser: BBA Ireland

NOW: GORE HILL – two unplaced runs at two; one place from threeruns at three. OR: 56

Goffs Kempton2010

THEN: Street Cry (IRE) – Inspired Kiss (CAN) C £55,000Consignor: Oak Tree Farm Purchaser: Zawawi Racing

NOW: INSPIRED CRY – won and placed three times in Sweden at two.

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) – Fingal Nights (IRE) F £50,000Consignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Bobby O’Ryan

NOW: MOONLIT GARDEN – won on debut in May and Listed-placedon three occasions. OR: 96

THEN: Kheleyf (USA) – Monarchy (IRE) F £36,000Consignor: Tally-Ho Stud Purchaser: Stephen Hillen

NOW: KHEYA – placed once from seven starts OR: 56

2009

THEN: Danehill Dancer (IRE) – Le Montrachet (GB) C £58,000Consignor: Jamie Railton Purchaser: Kern Lillingston

NOW: BARZAN – third to Canford Cliffs on debut, won next start,unplaced in four subsequent runs OR:87

THEN: Kyllachy (GB) – Mithl Al Hawa (GB) C £56,000

How recent breeze-up top lots have fared on the racecourse

Passion For Gold: a Group 1-winning juvenile for Godolphin

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Consignor: Harefield Stud Purchaser: O’Ryan/Cloverdale NOW: SECRET MILLIONAIRE – two wins and three places at two, one

win and five places at three from 19 lifetime starts. OR: 89

THEN: Langfuhr (CAN) – Western Vision (USA) C £42,000Consignor: Powerstown Stud Purchaser: Anne Cowley

NOW: THE RECTIFIER – placed once at two in three starts; won tworaces at three, including Listed Midsummer Stakes. OR: 109

2008

THEN: Invincible Spirit (IRE) – Glamorous Air (IRE) F £55,000Consignor: Bansha House Stables Purchaser: Anthony Stroud Bloodstock

NOW: GLAMOROUS SPIRIT – won twice at two and seven times intotal, including 2010 G3 Sapphire Stakes at Curragh. OR: 99

THEN: Proud Citizen (USA) – Endless Reward (USA) C £90,000Consignor: Mocklershill Stables Purchaser: Merry/Callaghan

NOW: PROUD JUNIOR – unplaced in five starts

THEN: Mr Greeley (USA) – She’s Enough (USA) C £88,000Consignor: Gaybrook Lodge Stud Purchaser: Merry/Meehan

NOW: SUMMERS TARGET– placed three times at three, but maidenafter 18 runs. OR: 48

Arqana2010

THEN: Shirocco – Basse Besogne C €300,000 Consignor: Yeomanstown Stud Purchaser: Citywest Inc

NOW: HAIL TO THE CHIEF – unraced, entered in the Irish 2,000Guineas and Irish Derby

THEN: Shamardal – Samerous C €210,000Consignor: Saubouas Purchaser: Chantilly Bloodstock

NOW: SHAMEKH – a winner on debut in August, fourth in onesubsequent run.

THEN: Shamardal – Banakill C €200,000Consignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman

NOW: ARC LIGHT – placed once in three maidens. OR: 81

2009

THEN: Dubawi – Lady Bex C €280,000Consignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Paul Nataf

NOW: DUBAWI JUNIOR – placed twice in four runs at two.

THEN: Mizzen Mast – Coco C €170,000Consignor: Saubouas Purchaser: Jean-Claude Rouget

NOW: PLEASURES – placed twice at two in two starts, one win andseven places from 12 starts at three.

THEN: Nayef – Fasliyeva C €165,000Consignor: Bansha House Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman

NOW: NAVY LIST – one win and two places at two, two unplaced runsat three. OR: 83

2008

THEN: Medaglia D’Oro – Fasateen F €220,000Consignor: Saubouas Purchaser: MAB Agency

NOW: OLGA D’OR – three placed runs from five starts at two, fourplaced runs from nine starts at three.

THEN: Anabaa – Beautifulballerina C €95,000Consignor: Kilminfoyle House Stud Purchaser: MAB Agency

NOW: ARBAT BELLO – one unplaced run at two, three wins and fiveplaces from 14 subsequent starts.

THEN: Verglas –Helianthus F €90,000 Consignor: Saubouas Purchaser: Jean de Roualle

NOW: KATUN – placed once at two in two starts, three more placesfrom 12 subsequent wins.

Tattersalls Guineas (now defunct)2010

THEN: Invincible Spirit (IRE) – Margaree Mary (CAN) C 220,000gnsConsignor: Meadowview Stables Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: ACT OF VALOUR – unraced to date.

THEN: Invincible Spirit (IRE) – Virgin Hawk (USA) C 100,000gnsConsignor: Powerstown Stud Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: CROWN COUNSEL – one win and three places from four startsin 2011. OR: 85

THEN: Street Cry (IRE) – Honolua Bay (USA) C 76,000gnsConsignor: Friarstown Stud Purchaser: Bobby O’Ryan

NOW: CHARPOY – two places from three runs at two, unplaced in solestart this year. OR: 80

2009

THEN: Danehill Dancer (IRE) – Moon Festival (GB) F 170,000gnsConsignor: Mocklershill Purchaser: Jamie McCalmont

NOW: ICE EMPRESS – one unplaced run at two, one win and fiveplaces at three; well beaten in Irish Oaks. OR: 75

THEN: Oasis Dream (GB) – Molomo (GB) F 140,000gnsConsignor: Ballyhane Sales Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: RAINFALL – unraced at two, won on debut at three, won JerseyStakes on her third start; dual G1-placed. OR: 112

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) – Amiata (GB) F 130,000gnsConsignor: Seven Springs Stables Purchaser: Jill Lamb Bloodstock

NOW: EXCELLENT THOUGHT – placed in five of her six starts at two,placed again at three. OR: 58

THEN: Langfuhr (CAN) – Party Circuit (USA) C 130,000gnsConsignor: Powerstown Stud Purchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: BARLAMAN – placed in four of five starts at two, won andplaced at three. OR: 68

2008

THEN: Exceed And Excel (AUS) – Bois De Citron (USA) F 470,000gnsConsignor: The Bloodstock ConnectionPurchaser: Richard O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: BALQEES – unraced to date.

THEN: Johar (USA) – Dippers (USA) C 370,000gnsConsignor: Mocklershill Stables Purchaser: R O’Gorman Bloodstock

NOW: FILM SET – won and placed twice in three starts at two, placedtwice more in ten subsequent starts. OR: 89

THEN: Mr Greeley (USA) – Mariamme (USA) F 155,000gnsConsignor: Seven Springs Stables (Agent)Purchaser: Blandford Bloodstock

NOW: PARTY APPEAL – unraced to date.

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ROA FORUM T h e s p e c i a l s e c t i o n f o r R O A m e m b e r s

Following the ROA Awards last December,the three associated charities are to benefit tothe tune of £67,517.

Spinal Research and the Spinal InjuriesAssociation will each receive £26,097, whilethe House that Jack Built, the Racing Welfareproject to build an Oaksey House in thenorth, will receive £15,323 from the owners’

colours fundraiser within the Awardsbrochure.

ROA Council member Tony Hirschfeld,who headed up the Awards Committee, said:“We are very pleased to have been able tomake such a significant donation to the threecharities, which is testament to the generosityof our members.”

Tony Hirschfeld (left) with Spinal Research’s Chief Executive Jonathan Miall

Charities benefit from ROA Awards

More and moreracecourses are nowupping their prize-money levels tomatch or exceed theHorsemen’s Tariff. Inorder to maintainthis momentum, theROA needs to

persuade more of its members to note whetheror not races are tariff-compliant, while, at thesame time, checking whether their trainershave also taken this information into account.

Faced with an unprecedented drop in levyfunding this year, neither the ROA nor theHorsemen’s Group could stand by whileminimum prize-money values fell by aprojected 17% on an already depressedfigure. At the same time, we watchedracecourses’ media rights income rise whilethe levy declined, shifting the balance infavour of discretionary racecourse spend onpurses and away from compulsory spend.

We cannot say the funding gap hasmiraculously been filled but the tariff is nowmaking a real difference, as racecoursesincreasingly recognise their businesses arelikely to suffer if they do not heed therecommended levels of prize-money.

One of the main functions of the tariff is toencourage competition between racecoursesso that owners and trainers, when they havea choice as to where to run, are encouraged totake the best prize-money option. At thistime, when the horse population is declining,this will intensify competition for runners.

The horsemen’s recent change of policy onClass 1 events – where the prize-money forthese races is now aligned to the lessdemanding BHA minimum values – wasmade because the Horsemen’s Group did notwant to be the spur for an increasing numberof our best horses and jockeys going overseasto race, any more than we wanted to dissuadeowners from running their horses in racesthat may affect their stud values.

Far from being a sop to the major owners– a criticism levelled at the Horsemen’s Group– we believe that, if racecourses are able tocomply with the lower prize-moneyrequirements in Class 1, they will be in abetter position to meet the tariff values ofClass 2 and below.

The ROA will always respect the owner’sright to make his or her own decisions – inconjunction with their trainers – as to wherethey run their horses. We also recognise thatprize-money is not the only factor ownersmust take into account when deciding whereto run.

However, ROA members can make a hugecontribution to raising prize-money levels bychecking the ROA website to see whetherraces are meeting tariff values before finalisingtheir running plans.

The Horsemen’s Tariff Daily Updatecontains the latest information for theupcoming month’s racing. Seewww.racehorseowners.net for full details.

Tariff momentum continues to gather paceMichael Harris on the importance of ROA members noting race values before making entries

Book your AGMlunch ticketsMembers are urged to attend the AGM atthe Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel inLondon on June 23. This event providesmembers with an opportunity to air theirviews on many different subjects relatedto ownership and racing. The AGM willalso feature speeches from the outgoingand incoming ROA Presidents plus JCRChief Executive Simon Bazalgette.

The introduction of prize-money tariffs,the huge implications of both the racingindustry re-structure and the future of theTote combine to make this a watershedyear for British racing. Members shouldmake a special effort to attend this year.

After the morning session, thechampagne reception and lunch is a light-hearted social occasion at which the wholeof the racing industry comes together. It isfollowed by an after-lunch speech.• Book your place now for the AGMlunch by ringing 020 7152 0200, onlineat www.racehorseowners.net or [email protected]. Tickets are £85 perperson and tables of ten are £750.

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Northern Racing recently announced anincrease of £1.5 million in its annualcontribution to prize-money.The group, which runs racecourses

including Chepstow, Newcastle andUttoxeter, is adding the funds to combatfalling levy. Total prize-money from theexecutive now amounts to £2.5m.Group Managing Director Tony Kelly said:

“We are making a total executivecontribution of £2.5 million this year, morethan double what the group contributed in2010. This investment will enable us to meetthe Horsemen’s Group’s tariffs at asubstantial amount of our races.“This announcement reinforces our

commitment to working with the industry

and the Horsemen’s Group.“We were the first racecourse group to sign

prize-money commitments for 2011 and weare also pleased to have reached agreementwith the Horsemen’s Group over 48-hourdeclarations and contributions to prize-money from increases in overseas revenue.“We endorse the view that investors in the

sport should get a fairer return from racingand our approach has been to engageconstructively with the Horsemen’s Groupwhenever we have been given theopportunity to discuss issues with them.”Details of forthcoming fixtures showing

race values compared with recommendedtariffs are available on the ROA website in theHorsemen’s Tariff Daily Update.


www.racehorseowners.net

Tony Kelly: ‘reinforcing commitment’

Northern Racing boosts purses by£1.5m after talks with horsemen

Goodwood’sgloriousearly offerGoodwood racecourse is once againoffering ROA members the opportunity tobook badges for the Richmond Enclosureduring Glorious Goodwood in July at adiscounted rate. The Richmond Enclosure offers excellent

facilities, with access to the paddock and asuperb choice of fine restaurants. It providesthe perfect surroundings to enjoy top classracing and soak up the atmosphere at thismost stylish of summer fixtures.Glorious Goodwood runs from Tuesday,

July 26 to Saturday, July 30 and featurestwo Group 1 contests in the Sussex Stakesand Blue Square Nassau Stakes, plus a hostof other Pattern races and competitivehandicaps, including the Bluesquare.comStewards’ Cup, one of the highlights on thefinal day’s card. To book your Richmond Enclosure

badges, visit the ROA shop atwww.racehorseowners.net or call 0207152 0200. An early booking rate applies on adult

badges up to June 1.• For details of the exclusive Royal Ascotfacility offer, see page 61.

Early bookings before June 1

Adult badges £67 per person (£77pp after June 1)

Junior badges £30 per person Thursday, £20 other days

Car park labels £10 each, Car Park Number 8

Richmond Enclosure at Glorious GoodwoodTuesday, July 26 – Saturday, July 30

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In BriefDiscount for ideal presentsRacing Albums is offering a 15% discountfor ROA members on their products,which are an ideal present idea.

Racing Albums produce luxurybespoke leather-bound owners’ racingrecords, scrapbooks and memorabiliaalbums. They also produce individualracing albums to specific order. Theowner’s racing colours can be hand-painted on the front.

The special ROA offer is for 15% offalbums, which includes the recipient’sname or initials die-stamped in gold, andalso on hand-painted racing colours ifrequired. This includes free p&p withinthe UK mainland.

For more details, visit the ROAwebsite, or call 01273 493000 and quoteABB/76. The offer closes on June 30.

Claiming protocolOwners who wish to either put in aclaim, or reclaim a horse in a claimingrace are reminded that a ClaimingProtocol appears at Schedule 4 in theRace Administration Manual (F) of theonline Rules of Racing.

The protocol sets out the claimingprocess, including how owners canobtain a security code to register a claim,the permitted timeframe for claims, andacceptable methods of payment.

Music Nights at HaydockHaydock Park has issued its prices for its2011 Music Nights, which are excludedfrom the Racecourse Badge Scheme forOwners. As last year, children aged 3-17will also be charged.

For full details of the Music Nightsmeetings and prices, visit Haydock’swebsite: www.haydock-park.co.uk

Badge Scheme reminderCarlisle racecourse reports that somemembers have tried to obtain admissionunder the Racecourse Badge Scheme forOwners without an activated HorseracingPrivilege Card. Members whose cardshave been activated will have received aletter of confirmation and fixture booklet.

If you are a member and registeredowner with 50% ownership of a horse in full training and would like to apply to join the scheme, please contact the ROA office, or apply online atwww.racehorseowners.net

For owner-breeder Roger Brookhouse, therewere more years of hurt involved than thenumber doing the rounds on the dayCheltenian won the Weatherbys ChampionBumper at this year’s Cheltenham Festival.

Brookhouse, it was said, had been trying towin a race at the festival 23 years after firstbecoming a racehorse owner. In fact, it was 30,as the Warwickshire-based businessmanexplains: “It was longer than 23 as my first horsewas called Arenig, and that was in 1981.

“I’d been in the frame before at the Festival.The Sliotar and Star Of Angels are two horses Iwent into the Festival with thinking they had achance. We all dream but you never know inthe bumper, do you, what the form is? But weknew that Cheltenian had good form, especiallyhaving beaten Montbazon.”

Brookhouse has in the past three seasons hadmore winners under rules – 34 jumps and Flatcombined – than in the previous 20-plus years,a fact that can be explained through his decisionto hand in his training permit and send his teamto professional yards.

“I’d always been interested in racing beforedeciding to buy a horse and until three years agoI did have a permit to train, but it was really justtoo busy, so I don’t any more, although we do abit with the younger horses here, getting themready before they go into training,” he says.

Brookhouse has a couple of mares at hisMoor Hall Farm in Alcester, but it was hard cashthat acquired Cheltenian, all £210,000 of it paidat Brightwells’ Cheltenham sale in November2010, money that could look even better spentcome next March should the ultra-promisingfive-year-old graduate to win a novice hurdle atthe festival. Further clues as to whetherCheltenian could do that will not emerge until

the autumn, though, as Brookhouse reports hislatest star to be “on holiday, home with us, andhe’s deserved his rest.”

The Pipes have been the trainers mostassociated with Brookhouse down the years, butthe decision to distribute his jumpers to othertrainers as well, including Philip Hobbs –Cheltenian’s handler – has worked out well.

“This is my first season with Philip,” saysBrookhouse. “We decided to split up thejumpers and decided to go to Philip. We’veabout 15 in training and the Flat horses are withMark Johnston. I would say the best we’ve hadhave been Polish and Leo’s Lucky Star.”

So with the festival hoodoo – “I’d made theframe before this year, with seconds and thirdsand fourths but never won” – ended, what racewould he like to conquer now?

“My favourite day’s racing is the Wednesdayof the Cheltenham Festival, with the QueenMother Champion Chase and Bumper, so nowhaving won one of them, the race I’d most liketo win is the Champion Chase,” answersBrookhouse. “We take a chalet on theWednesday and give the boys a Christmas party.This year was very good!”

Work commitments mean Brookhousedoesn’t always have time to watch his horsesrun, let alone consider a side-career in racingpolitics, but after three decades in the game henaturally has a view on the state of play.

“We’ve got to do something about prize-money,” he says. “There should be enoughpeople out there to look after all this, but it’s gotsilly.”

Some things, like the antipathy betweencertain elements in the sport, stay the same. Butthank goodness some things, like Brookhousehaving a Festival winner, change.

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Snowden’s tripThe ROA website re-launched in Februarywith an online competition. The prize was aVIP trip for two to the PunchestownNational Hunt Racing Festival, withovernight accommodation in the 4*Killashee House Hotel and a pair of reservedenclosure tickets for Punchestown Gold Cupday, with £250 towards travel expenses. We received almost 200 entries and the

lucky winner was Ian Snowden, of Somerset,who was delighted with his prize.We will be running regular competitions

online and members who receive ROAebulletins will have the chance to enter towin some fantastic prizes in the comingmonths. To sign up, simply register for ROAebulletins in the Members section of theROA website.


JUNE 14-18ROA facility at Royal AscotAn exclusive ROA facility in theGrandstand admission enclosure, in the OldPaddock Chalets.The heavily discounted package is on

offer to members at less than half the publicprice. It includes admission (which can bededucted if members already have RoyalEnclosure or Owners Badges), parking,racecard, a champagne reception, fourcourse buffet lunch with half a bottle ofwine per person, and afternoon tea. Therewill be televised viewing, as well as Totefacilities, and a cash bar will operate until30 minutes after the last race.The facility holds 50 members per day

and places are strictly limited to four permember.Prices are per person, which include VAT,

and are as follows:

Tuesday, June 14 £320Wednesday, June 15 £320Thursday, June 16 £380Friday, June 17 £350Saturday, June 18 £310

Members have been sent details by post,or orders can be placed through our websitewww.racehorseowners.net, or by telephoneon 020 7152 0200.

JUNE 23Annual General MeetingThe AGM starts at 10.15am. It includes anOwners’ Forum and all members arewelcome to attend. The AGM is followed bya members’ and guests’ lunch, for whichplaces need to be booked in advance. Tablesof ten are £750 and individual tickets are£85 each. Contact the ROA office or bookonline at www.racehorseowners.net

JULY 26-30Glorious GoodwoodROA members can purchase RichmondEnclosure badges in advance for thishighlight of the summer racing calendar(see page 59 for details).

NOVEMBER 12Paddy Power Gold Cup dayEnjoy the ROA’s exclusive facility formembers and guests at Cheltenham for theSaturday of The Open meeting.

DECEMBER 1 ROA/sportingbet.com HorseracingAwards eveningThe black tie awards evening, dinner anddance, celebrates the horses and theirowners of the year, at the London Hilton,Park Lane.

www.racehorseowners.net

ROA member Ann Ellis posted the followingcomment comparing recent prize-moneypenalty values at Uttoxeter with a race in1998 on the ROA website:

• Uttoxeter, March 21, 1998. HandicapChase, Class 3. 2m5f 0-135. Prize-money penalty value 1st place £7,132.50

• Uttoxeter, March 19, 2011. HandicapHurdle, Class 3. 2m6½f 0-135. Prize-money penalty value 1st place £4,182.42

“I had a runner in both races and it is a goodexample of the problem owners are experiencingregarding prize-money. I do not know how muchtraining fees, etc, have gone up during this 13-year period, but the above details are fact. EntryMoney in 1998 was £50 and in 2011 was £33.”Comments on racing matters are invited

online in the Members’ Area on the ROAwebsite at www.racehorseowners.net

Diary datesand reminders

DID YOU KNOW?Prize-money allocation when there is a dead-heatWhere horses are involved in a dead-heat for any place that offersa prize, prizes are divided equally between connections of thedead-heating horses. As an example, where a second and thirddead-heat, prize-money for second and third place are combinedand shared equally according to the usual distribution of purses.

Where there is a trophy or other indivisible prize, and theowners can’t agree as to which of them takes it, the racecourseexecutive has the option to determine the question by lot anddecide what sum of money should be paid by the owner whotakes the trophy to the other owners or owner.

Comments welcome

Racing Welfare’s major fundraising initiative,the Racing Lottery, is offering a sparkling prizedraw exclusively for members of the ROA.In partnership with Piper Heidsieck, any

ROA member who joins the Racing Lotteryduring April, May and June will beautomatically entered into a draw to win theirown weight in champagne. The weigh-in willtake place during Newmarket’s July Festival.Richard Negus of Racing Welfare explained:

“Following a meeting with the ROA Councilabout the Racing Lottery we decided to createan exclusive opportunity for owners who wantto support the charity. Piper Heidsieck is theJockey Club’s choice of champagne, so itseemed good sense to work with them to addextra fizz to the fantastic prizes that can be wonin the Racing Lottery! This will be one of thoserare occasions where it is to an owner’s benefit

to put up a few pounds overweight!”ROA members should follow the link on the

ROA website to play the Racing Lottery and tobe entered into the champagne draw. All ROARacing Lottery players also have the chance ofwinning £1,750 in prize-money each week orbenefiting from ‘Red Letter Day’ racing prizes,including VIP trips to the Classics.The Racing Lottery costs £1 per week with

over 80p of that going directly to helpingBritish stable and stud staff in times of need.

Benefit of a few pounds overweight!



EXPLANATIONThis table sets out the threemain contributors to prize-money with percentages ofthe total: 1 Racecourses’executive and sponsorship; 2 Levy Board; 3 Owners. A small additionalcontribution is also made bythe Divided Race Fund andthe BHA Development Fund.The order is taken from thepercentage in the secondcolumn of figures. This showshow much each course hascontributed to prize-money,expressed as a percentage oftheir overall prize-money. Thearrows at the end of each lineare based on a comparisonbetween the percentages forthe two rolling year periods. If a racecourse has improvedits position by this criteria itreceives a green ‘up’ arrow. If the year-on-yearpercentage has decreased itreceives a red ‘down’ arrow.Note: All of the figures areproduced on an ‘as originallyprogrammed’ basis, i.e. whereany transferred fixtures wereoriginally programmed ratherthan where the fixtures haveactually taken place. However,any transferred BHA ‘National’fixtures and ‘Regional’ fixturesare attributed to the courseswhere the fixtures haveactually taken place.

ABANDONMENTS: Pleasenote that, occasionally,abandoned meetings distortperformances relating to atrack’s jump fixtures. The year-on-year percentagecomparison on which thistable is based can place tracksin a worse light than theydeserve.

RACECOURSEOWNERSHIP KEY

JCR Jockey Club Racecourses

North Northern Racing Ltd

Arena Arena Leisure Ltd

I Independently owned racecourse

Gold Standard Award

In order of racecourses’ percentage contributions to overall prize-moneyFigures relate to prize-money for the 12-monthperiod April 1, 2010 toMarch 31, 2011

Ptn Racecourse Racecourse Exec + % of Levy Board % of Owners % of Total Total 2009-10 % total Up/ownership Sponsors (£) Total (£) Total (£) Total (£) (£) 2009-10 down

1 Cheltenham JCR 3,182,838 57.3 1,539,182 27.7 831,761 15.0 5,557,782 5,774,499 51.3 �

2 Aintree JCR 1,641,959 52.8 993,232 31.9 476,088 15.3 3,111,279 3,298,592 50.1 �

3 Ascot I 4,191,637 47.5 2,527,535 28.6 2,043,420 23.1 8,832,092 9,433,413 42.8 �

4 Fakenham I 165,157 45.6 194,740 53.8 0 0 361,897 372,375 18.6 �

5 York I 2,317,879 45.5 1,476,282 29.0 1,266,154 24.8 5,097,315 4,791,143 42.6 �

6 Epsom Downs JCR 1,297,708 42.1 906,450 29.4 853,490 27.7 3,080,648 2,952,770 40.4 �

7 Chester I 615,752 40.2 772,860 50.4 90,186 5.9 1,532,548 1,497,417 32.1 �

8 Haydock Park JCR 1,213,423 38.7 1,435,506 45.8 418,572 13.3 3,137,101 3,612,038 34.3 �

9 Wincanton JCR 286,712 38.2 393,540 52.4 65,623 8.7 751,375 819,994 8.0 �

10 Ayr I 694,775 38.1 849,684 46.6 253,505 13.9 1,823,964 1,990,191 26.7 �

11 Goodwood I 1,320,990 37.2 1,676,354 47.2 513,926 14.5 3,551,270 3,752,527 31.3 �

12 Musselburgh I 434,644 37.1 608,742 51.9 104,019 8.9 1,171,905 1,233,700 27.0 �

13 Taunton I 197,698 36.7 300,025 55.7 35,844 6.7 538,567 463,762 8.7 �

14 Ffos Las North 397,478 36.2 598,570 54.6 95,996 8.8 1,097,044 738,514 17.8 �

15 Hamilton Park I 253,818 34.3 410,420 55.4 56,202 7.6 740,440 830,359 27.0 �

16 Newmarket JCR 3,063,140 33.0 3,220,213 34.7 2,851,254 30.7 9,291,107 10,650,410 28.1 �

17 Ripon I 273,884 33.0 436,200 52.6 91,647 11.1 828,731 892,205 23.7 �

18 Beverley I 269,924 32.5 449,960 54.2 60,507 7.3 829,991 849,650 20.7 �

19 Sandown Park JCR 988,208 32.4 1,594,270 52.2 426,310 14.0 3,051,788 3,589,142 28.6 �

20 Hereford North 114,033 32.2 187,672 53.1 45,143 12.8 353,648 490,550 3.2 �

21 Doncaster Arena 1,187,835 32.0 1,470,748 39.6 985,523 26.5 3,716,006 4,467,835 25.2 �

22 Bangor-on-Dee I 195,028 31.2 388,323 62.2 31,429 5.0 624,430 759,175 14.2 �

23 Newbury I 1,147,062 30.9 1,897,852 51.2 532,172 14.4 3,706,586 4,115,722 24.9 �

24 Chepstow North 260,471 28.1 552,330 59.5 102,451 11.0 927,752 1,173,373 17.3 �

25 Stratford I 216,703 28.0 482,815 62.4 64,387 8.3 773,905 939,457 21.0 �

26 Leicester I 288,096 27.6 589,667 56.5 104,584 10.0 1,043,247 1,272,585 18.5 �

27 Newton Abbot I 186,944 27.5 481,780 71.0 5,180 0.8 678,604 671,165 4.1 �

28 Cartmel I 65,224 27.1 151,740 63.0 24,036 10.0 241,000 219,400 14.4 �

29 Salisbury I 237,608 26.7 518,532 58.2 74,984 8.4 890,624 997,499 21.7 �

30 Bath North 163,303 26.0 389,932 62.1 59,145 9.4 627,930 738,886 19.4 �

31 Windsor Arena 278,640 26.0 639,710 59.6 104,983 9.8 1,073,333 1,193,304 19.8 �

32 Thirsk I 187,104 25.9 397,260 55.0 76,376 10.6 722,240 734,195 19.7 �

33 Wetherby I 165,516 25.9 418,286 65.4 54,133 8.5 639,435 666,275 20.0 �

34 Pontefract I 229,851 25.8 562,870 63.3 50,584 5.7 889,305 1,008,791 20.1 �

35 Kempton Park JCR 876,189 22.7 2,463,335 63.7 361,694 9.4 3,867,318 4,845,987 9.6 �

36 Newcastle North 276,612 22.7 758,250 62.2 153,501 12.6 1,218,113 1,528,000 22.5 �

37 Warwick JCR 197,835 22.7 552,288 63.3 102,293 11.7 872,916 1,006,158 10.6 �

38 Kelso I 103,140 22.6 315,638 69.2 34,271 7.5 456,349 635,574 17.5 �

39 Perth I 135,479 22.2 430,520 70.7 38,938 6.4 608,937 619,089 12.8 �

40 Lingfield Park Arena 657,933 22.1 1,932,118 64.8 245,935 8.2 2,983,336 4,055,858 14.9 �

41 Yarmouth North 155,888 21.9 451,082 63.5 77,380 10.9 710,850 842,966 16.2 �

42 Ludlow I 87,827 20.3 307,680 71.2 36,794 8.5 432,301 670,942 16.3 �

43 Nottingham JCR 144,512 19.8 421,870 57.7 93,468 12.8 730,850 828,934 12.9 �

44 Market Rasen JCR 163,189 19.7 583,530 70.5 75,346 9.1 828,065 1,021,160 10.3 �

45 Exeter JCR 129,024 19.4 456,202 68.6 69,186 10.4 664,912 787,052 10.9 �

46 Carlisle JCR 151,521 19.3 546,535 69.8 74,567 9.5 783,123 771,065 18.0 �

47 Wolverhampton Arena 421,443 17.4 1,668,695 68.9 210,977 8.7 2,422,815 3,333,578 1.3 �

48 Folkestone Arena 101,449 16.8 445,521 73.9 54,259 9.0 603,229 643,160 8.0 �

49 Huntingdon JCR 87,651 15.9 393,942 71.7 59,065 10.8 549,658 748,735 9.2 �

50 Brighton North 93,565 15.7 442,420 74.4 52,689 8.9 594,274 647,877 7.2 �

51 Catterick Bridge I 100,849 15.5 471,590 72.4 53,920 8.3 651,559 812,236 10.7 �

52 Redcar I 130,279 15.3 416,670 48.8 277,197 32.5 853,046 854,000 10.3 �

53 Plumpton I 65,174 13.9 366,228 78.1 33,500 7.1 468,902 574,906 3.0 �

54 Sedgefield North 57,709 13.1 341,050 77.5 41,342 9.4 440,101 472,400 13.7 �

55 Fontwell Park North 73,715 12.6 451,758 77.4 58,150 10.0 583,623 856,889 7.6 �

56 Southwell Arena 211,637 12.3 1,356,905 78.8 120,852 7.0 1,722,044 2,431,986 2.0 �

57 Uttoxeter North 83,945 10.4 603,980 74.8 98,718 12.2 807,243 968,205 7.5 �

58 Worcester Arena 46,436 8.3 410,373 73.4 67,191 12.0 559,000 705,566 0.8 �

59 Hexham I 35,900 7.9 364,302 80.5 41,560 9.2 452,762 527,123 0.6 �

60 Towcester I 24,888 4.9 428,668 84.9 45,194 9.0 504,750 549,766 1.9 �

Total 32,344,828 33.5 46,894,431 48.5 15,427,601 16.0 96,664,960 108,730,125 25.5 �

Racecourse League Table

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WITH the emergence

of spring the 2011

Flat season is truly

underway and a host

of potential stars have

been staking their

claims in Classic trials.

British-breds have played party to their connections dreams, not

least Frankel. After a long winter of hype and carrying the burden of being a short-priced 2,000 Guineas favourite, he confi rmed his superiority with an authoritative win in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes at Newbury.

Although jockey Tom Queally struggled to settle the son of Galileo in the early stages, Frankel had only to be shaken up to record a four length win. Trainer Henry Cecil stated that the unbeaten colt was only 80 per cent fi t and he should come on hugely for the race and is justifi ably a short-priced favourite for the Qipco 2,000 Guineas on April 30.

Rimth cemented her Guineas aspirations with an impressive win in the Group 3 Fred Darling Stakes. However the fi lly does not hold an entry in either the Qipco 1,000 Guineas or the French equivalent, the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp, so would have to be supplemented for both.

A homebred fi lly of Prince Faisal Salman’s Denford Stud, Rimth, a daughter

of Oasis Dream, was held at the rear of the fi eld by jockey Christophe

Soumillon but showed an impressive turn of foot in the fi nal furlong to

weave her way through the fi eld and win cosily by one and a quarter lengths.

Doubts have to remain concerning the fi lly’s pedigree as she is from a

speedy family and the Newmarket hill could expose her stamina limitations.

The French trials at Maisons-Laffi tte produced a Qipco 1,000 Guineas

candidate in Moolight Cloud. Trained by Freddy Head, the British-bred

daughter of Invincible Spirit recorded a pillar-to-post victory in the Group

3 Prix Imprudence by two lengths and when asked to quicken she obliged

in the fashion of a classy individual. After the race, Head indicated that she

will take her place in the line-up at Newmarket on May 1.

On the same card, Banstead Manor

Stud’s stallion Dansili posted his fi rst

Group 3 race of the season when

his son Surfrider took the important

trial the Prix Djebel. A 105,000gns

purchase at the 2009 Tattersalls

October Yearling Sale Book 1,

Surfrider looks a promising sort and

will head the line-up for the Poule

d’Essai des Poulains at Longchamp.

focus

in the spotlight

BBM BLOODSTOCK

BRITISH-BREDS ON FORM IN CLASSIC TRIALS

Dansili, sire of Prix Djebel winner Surfrider

Frankel extends his unbeaten stretch in the Group 3 Greenham Stakes

BAHRI

IN a month when top-class

jump action blends into the

start of the Flat season,

one stallion enjoying

success under both codes

is Bahri.

Bahri has made a splash twice in the last month,

fi rst as sire of Lancelot, a Listed winner last season who landed the valuable HH The Emir’s Trophy in Qatar at the end of March, and again with Gilbarry, an easy winner of the Grade 2 Future Champion Novices’ Chase at Ayr.

The son of Riverman is a new recruit this season to Frank and Susan Corbett’s Girsonfi eld Stud in Northumberland having transferred from Derrinstown Stud last summer, and now stands alongside Millkom and Ferrule for £2,000.

Bahri, whose own racecourse exploits include a memorable victory in the 1995 Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes under a masterful tactical ride from Willie Carson, is a useful source of winners over all distances

as evidenced by his Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Sakhee and more recently the Ayr Gold Cup victor Redford.

The Corbetts have stood stallions for 13 years but a decision three years ago to raise the quality of the operation is now yielding plenty of positive results.

“Bahri has changed our lives,” Susan Corbett says. “We’re a small stud in Northumberland and it was a struggle to get people to send their mares here as we’re not exactly close to major transport links. Bahri has changed all that though. He is attracting plenty of mares of his own and the other stallions are getting more because of him too.”

Redford’s Ayr Gold Cup victory last September, followed by victory in another valuable handicap at Ascot, was a great way to announce Bahri’s arrival at stud in Britain, and since then he has sired a steady succession of winners under both codes. A high fertility rate this season is also an encouraging sign that at 19, Bahri is more than capable of siring top performers.

As Corbett explains: “We call him the ultimate professional. He’s so good to deal with and so good with his mares as well. He’s getting mainly Flat mares this season, but there are some National Hunt mares too and every day we’re getting more enquiries about him.”

spotlightBAHRI

IN a month when top-class

jump action blends into the

start of the Flat season,

one stallion enjoying

success under both codes

is Bahri.

Bahri has made a splash twice in the last month,

fi rst as sire of Lancelot, a Listed winner last season who landed the valuable HH The Emir’s

Bahri

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Be there...MAY 4–6May festival, ChesterTop class racing, an electric atmosphereand sunny weather are just three reasonswhy the Roodee is one of the most populardestinations for racing fans and socialitesalike to kick off the summer season.

MAY 11–13Dante meeting, YorkA key prep for the following month’sEpsom showpiece and the first meeting ofwhat is always a buzzing season on theKnavesmire.

JUNE 4The Derby, EpsomWitness history being made in the definingrace of the Flat season. And for those fansof cult Channel 4 documentary My Big FatGypsy Wedding, a chance to witness thestars of the show in their natural habitat!

JUNE 14–18Royal AscotThe jewel in Flat racing’s crown set against a magnificent backdrop of Britishpageantry at its best. We are all allowed toindulge once a year.

JUNE 27Cider Festival, WindsorThe summer season at Windsor is underway and what better way to spend aMonday night than watching qualityracing whilst sipping a local cider on thebanks of the Thames.

Despite the balmy spring temperaturesheralding the start of the Flat season,the final National Hunt meeting of

the Newbury season set the scene for the firstof the Next Generation Club events of 2011.

The day began bright and early by non-racing folks’ standards, at 10am. Thetranquility of the Lambourn countryside wasmomentarily interrupted as 50 young racingenthusiasts descended on WeathercockHouse Stables to be greeted by residenttrainer Warren Greatrex, his wife Tessa, twosmall children and a Cocker Spaniel puppy.

Once the focus was reluctantly divertedfrom the puppy, the group was introduced toour host, all the while trying to avoid theperils of a busy training yard at full tilt.Despite a few near misses as several horses,understandably shocked by the invadingmob, skittered across the yard, attendees hada chance to chat with Warren and ask himplenty of questions about his role and dailyroutine as a trainer.

We proceeded onto the trotting ringunscathed, where we had a closer look atthird lot completing their routine exercise. IfWarren had got off lightly with the initial lineof questioning, it seems our group had fullywarmed up by phase two, grilling the trainer

on the intricacies of wind operations, thedifferences in French and British trainingtechniques, and the merits of various all-weather surfaces.

Luckily the unflappable trainer took themall in his stride and even stuck around forphase three of the morning, which saw usfollow him onto the gallops for a closer lookat the facilities.

After pinning Warren down for a winningtip for the following day at Wincanton, wemanaged to glean some very cautionarypositives about his outsider set to line up inthe bumper later that day. Turbo du Ranchmay have come with a warning but as far asthe group of Newbury-bound racingfledglings were concerned, his forecast priceof 33-1 was too much to miss out on.

THE NEXT GENERATIONBy GINA BRYCE

Dan Davis, Assistant Producer, At The Races

“While I think theChampions’ Series is apretty good idea toregiment the Flat season,I don’t think it’ll makemuch difference inattracting new people.

“Understanding horseracing is like learninga whole new language for people that don’tknow the game, so a slight change in theprogramme can’t be much of a help. My flatmate, who I have subjected to a lot ofhorseracing, both on TV and at severalcourses, asked me about Sea The Stars beforehe was to run in the Arc. He said: ‘Didn’t herun in the National this year?’

“Horseracing is always going to be fightinga losing battle as it’s difficult to follow.Champions’ Day at Ascot will provide a moremarketable day, allowing more people toattend at a more prestigious track thatnewcomers will want to visit.

“The day needs to go alongside the GrandNational and Derby day in the televisioncoverage it is given and the way it’s presentedto the public.

“Horseracing’s quirky idiosyncrasies arewhat makes the sport difficult to get into inthe first place but are what keeps itssupporters enthused. Trying to play aroundwith the traditions may attract new fans butcould just as easily push existing fans away.

“Racing For Change needs to treadcarefully when making changes, but with the

Champions Series’ I don’t think it can be abad initiative.”

Laurence Jones, Student

“I’m actually lookingforward to seeing how itwill pan out. I think thatChampions’ Day is agood idea, thoughpersonally I would havehad it at Newmarket.

“I’d be surprised if trainers change runningplans to suit the series, although perhaps theymight later on when current standings areknown. The one reservation I’d have was thatthe old Order of Merit for National Hunthorses didn't really take off, therefore whyshould this?

Talking Point...Will the British Champions’ Series make Flatracing easier to follow and attract new fans?

NGC onto a winner at

NGC guests cheer home Turbo du Ranch

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Armed with this new-found knowledge, thegroup headed on to Newbury, where theracecourse had kindly allocated us a paddockpavilion to serve as a base for the day. In theabsence of any true racing celebrities, NGCcommittee members took to the mic for a runthrough of the card to pick a few selections foreach race, a task which made the ever shrewdSam Hoskins considerably more popular withthe group than me.Coming and going between the pavilion,

the betting ring and finish line made for anenjoyable day and several members of theparty still had enough in their pocket for acheeky each-way on Warren’s bumper runnerin the last. The price quickly plummeted from an

opening 33-1 to 16-1 by post-time as bookieslooked to one another in bewilderment whenthe very same amateurs who had earlier heldup the queue now laid down their cash withconviction. A thoroughly enjoyable andinformative day was duly capped with theecstasy of a big-priced winner, made all thesweeter by the fact there were no more races inwhich to give any back.The NGC certainly gained a few fans with

considerably heavier wallets by the end ofday. A worrying precedent to set!

www.the-ngc.co.uk

Newbury

What was your background in theracing industry prior to taking overat Kremlin House?I was fortunate as a kid to grow up with theopportunity to ride and I was alwaysfanatical about racing. My first ‘working’ experience was

spending weekends and holidays riding outat Alan and Lawney Hill’s, then a point-to-point yard in Oxfordshire. I moved toCalifornia at 15, finished school out thereand then spent six months riding track workat Hollywood Park for Frank Garza Jnr. When I moved back to the UK, I made an

inauspicious start to my career in the saddle,breaking my shoulder blade in my firstpoint-to-point. I should have realised thenthat I wouldn’t make a jump jockey but Ipersisted for another few years; spendingnearly three seasons at Josh Gifford’s as anamateur/conditional jockey. During that time, I spent two summer

holidays away from Josh, in Newmarket,working for a certain Michael Jarvis. That, ofcourse, would be an important stage in mycareer, not that I knew it at the time!When I finished with Josh, I spent a brief

three months riding for Jack Fisher inMaryland, USA, and rode three winners. My return to the UK in May 2001

coincided with there being a position openfor me to join Michael as assistant trainer. Ijumped at the chance. At the end of the year, with Michael

having trained Ameerat to win the 1,000Guineas, Morshdi to win the Italian Derby,and Holding Court to win the French Derby,I knew then, that at the age of 22, I wassitting in a privileged seat.

During your time as assistant toMichael Jarvis, what was the mostvaluable lesson you learned?It is hard to pinpoint the one most valuablelesson I’ve learnt from Michael because thereis so much I could list. Everyone knows Michael is one of the

great trainers, but he is also a greatbusinessman. He will tell you that manygood horsemen haven’t stood the test of time

because they haven’t run a tight business.He has always drilled that into me. With regards to the horses, there is so

much. He trained with his eyes and his ears.He never missed a thing. He always told me:“Know your horses, detail is everything”.

Give us a horse to follow or watchout for this seasonI am fortunate to have good numbers in theyard with a lot of unproven young horses. Ihope one or two will be above average. To support the younger brigade I have

half a dozen proven older horses who canhopefully continue to fly the flag this year. Iam very excited about getting Alainmaarback to the track. I don’t think we’ve seenthe best of him yet.

If you could introduce one changeor initiative to British racing whatwould it be?For racing to control the Tote as a well-managed, well-marketed system that wouldallow racing to compete with bookmakers. Itwill be a shame if the Tote is sold withracing’s interests not looked after.

Do you think the Horsemen's Tariffis a good way to address the prize-money problem?Whatever anyone says, prize-money is thebiggest issue facing British racing. From thebiggest owners to the smallest owners, theindustry should not take for granted thatthese owners are happy to race for suchsmall sums. It would take one or two of the big

operations to pull out of British racing or acollective group of smaller owners to pullout for it to hit home. By then it would betoo late. The Horsemen’s Tariff is as fair a way as

possible for the Horsemen’s Group to standfirm in the face of falling prize-money. It’sdisappointing that it has received so muchnegative press as it’s an initiative aimed toactually protect the sport. It needed re-jigging slightly, like many new things do, butseems to be very fair as it is laid out now.

Q&AROGER VARIAN has succeeded MichaelJarvis to take up the reins at Kremlin House

“If the trainers and owners support it, thenit will work and produce more competitiverivalries between horses with the possibilityof Kauto Star/Denman type battles, which willonly see more people following the sport.However, if trainers do not follow it and aimhorses specifically at the races, then I can’t seeit lasting.”

Will Boddy, FixedIncome Trader

“Looking in from theoutside, the BritishChampions’ Series shouldbe an important addition tothe racing calendar. It isdefinitely going to raise the profile of BritishFlat racing and, hopefully, eventually rank upthere in terms of prestige and coverage withjump meetings such as Cheltenham. “As someone who doesn’t work in racing, I

don’t get time to follow it as much as I wouldlike and anything that can help to flag up themain events and get the key information outinto the mainstream is going to be positive.”

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The TBA Board has sanctioned JulianRichmond-Watson’s co-option to the TBABoard, for a four-year term with effect fromApril 1, 2011. Julian is the TBA’s currentrepresentative on the BHA Racing Committeeand, as the industry enters a phase ofrestructuring, will be at the centre of thediscussions between the Horsemen andRacecourse Groups.

The TBA Board recognises the need toprotect breeders’ interests in race planning andon the Pattern, both of which are inextricablylinked to the fixture list and race programme.The number and quality of the horsesproduced by UK breeders are all-importantfactors in the structure of racing. Richmond-Watson’s specific remit will be to strengthenthe link between the TBA board and race-planning negotiations.

He said: “First and foremost I am anowner/breeder and I will be delighted to help

the TBA and the Horsemen’s Group in theareas of race planning and the Pattern. Thereis some way to go in the BHA restructure andI will work tirelessly to ensure that the Patternand the funding required to support it is seenas a priority.”

TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing welcomedRichmond-Watson’s appointment, saying:“The TBA much appreciates Julian’s generouscontribution to its work.

“He possesses a unique knowledge of therace programme and Pattern, and a closerrelationship with the board will help toprotect breeders’ interests as the industrygoes through its restructuring process.

“The TBA Board will take a closer interestin all race-planning matters and it isenvisaged that Julian’s advice will providevaluable support to Louise Kemble, the TBA’srepresentative on the Horsemen’s Group, asthis process evolves.”

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Co-option of Julian Richmond-Watson to the TBA Board for four-year term

MONDAY, MAY 23East Midlands Regional DayA visit to the Defence Animal Centre and theArmy School of Equitation, Melton Mowbray.

TUESDAY, MAY 24West Midlands Regional DayDonald McCain’s Bankhouse Stables,Cheshire, and Richard Kent’s Mickley Stud inShropshire.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25South East Regional DayAndrew Balding’s Kingsclere Stables,Berkshire, and Jeff Smith’s Littleton Stud,Hampshire.

TUESDAY, MAY 31The West Regional DayA visit to Dominic Burke’s Whitley Stud,Tetbury, followed by a champagne eveningreception at Highgrove House and gardens,Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1East Anglia Regional DaySir Mark Prescott’s Heath House Stables and Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud,Newmarket.

TUESDAY, JUNE 21Wales Regional DayA visit to John Deer’s Oakgrove Stud,Monmouthshire.

MONDAY, JUNE 27TBA Awards DinnerTattersalls, Newmarket, kindly sponsoredthis year by Cheveley Park Stud. Invitationsto purchase tickets will be sent to membersat the beginning of May. Book early to avoiddisappointment.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28TBA AGMTattersalls, Newmarket.The results of the Board elections will beannounced at the Annual General Meeting,which will precede the Annual Seminar.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28TBA Annual SeminarTattersalls, Newmarket, immediatelyfollowing the AGM.

MONDAY, JULY 4Yorkshire Regional DayMark Johnston’s Kingsley House Stables.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13Open Regional DayWeatherbys, Northamptonshire. Whilst July 13 is exclusively for TBAmembers, Weatherbys will also be holding an open day on Tuesday, October 18. Please contact Weatherbys directly if youwish to attend on October 18.

THURSDAY, JULY 14Scotland Regional DayThe Duke of Roxburghe’s Floors Stud, Kelso, followed by lunch and a tour of Floors Castle and gardens.

TBA NEW MEMBERS P Buckner Esq, Suffolk. C Chapman Esq, Hampshire. T F Sage Esq, Gloucestershire. Mrs T F Sage, Gloucestershire. Mrs A Tite, Wales. Mrs R H Lalor, Ireland.

Diary dates and reminders

Julian Richmond-Watson joins TBA Board

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TBA StatisticalAwards 2010As the TBA Awards Dinner on Monday,June 27 is now an established date in thediary, the TBA Board has decided toextend the qualifying period for the Flatstatistical awards, which is presentlyJanuary 1 to November 7, to the calendaryear. This criterion will come into effectfor the 2011 Awards, which will bepresented at the Awards Dinner in 2012.By the same token, the NH statistical

Awards will in the future cover the seasonjust ended, but for this year the old systemprevails, with the awards relating to the2009/2010 season.

Rachel Flynn, of the TBA’s legal advisersTaylor Vinters, examines the abolition of thedefault retirement age and what this will meanfor people working in and employing staff inthe stud and stable world

The end of compulsoryretirementThe default retirement age of 65 is to be phasedout from April 6, 2011. In the transitionalperiod starting on this date, employers will beable to rely on the default retirement age onlyif they meet the following two conditions:notice of retirement must have been issued atleast six months and no more than 12 monthsbefore April 5, 2011 and the employee mustturn 65 before October 1, 2011. After this point any retirement based on the

default retirement age, or indeed based on anyset age, will amount to age discriminationunless it can be objectively justified. What will this mean for the employers who

have allowed older staff to drift towards anexpected retirement at 65 without activelymanaging performance issues? Most of us canthink of members of staff whose service hasbeen long and distinguished but does not quitecome up to the modern mark, or for whomnew methods and technologies have passed by. Gone are the days where 65 is marked with

a gold watch and best wishes, so what willemployers need to do now in order to managean ageing workforce?

Continued use of set retirementage: objective justification?You can continue using a set retirement age if itcan be objectively justified – but what does thismean? Unfortunately, the legislation andGovernment guidance has not been veryhelpful on this so far, and we will have to waitto see cases coming through the system to giveus meaningful guidance. The law says that for a retirement age to be

objectively justified it must be imposed in orderto achieve a legitimate aim, such as workforceplanning, physical requirements and health andsafety issues. Further, it will need to be a proportionate means of achieving these aims.If another means – e.g. increased health andsafety monitoring – would be lessdiscriminatory – that should be adopted.Although stud managers may have general

health and safety concerns about older workers– quick reaction times and good mobility beingessential for working with thoroughbreds – itis important not to generalise in the absence ofany hard evidence. At present, there is a lack of clarity over how

employers’ attempts to objectively justify setretirement ages will be received by the courts,but watch this space for more news.

Other options One option for employers is to abandon fixedretirement ages altogether. This will mean morefrequent discussions with all employees about

what their plans are. Don’t pick out only thepre-retirement ones or this will in itself bediscriminatory!Given that you can no longer simply retire

staff at 65, the performance of older staff willneed to be managed in a way that was notnecessary before. Dismissals will have to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis in thenormal way via the disciplinary procedure. Unfortunately, one can foresee that this could

lead to undignified exits for older workers who will be put through what they may regardas humiliating performance managementprocedures. At this stage our recommendation to

employers is to be aware of the change in thelaw and review their workforce with this inmind. Cases will begin to come through thetribunals in relation to objective justification ofcontractual retirement ages soon enough and,when it does, we will be in a position to givesome more practical and pragmatic guidanceon what objective justification of a defaultretirement age means. As with all employment law issues, there are

resources available free of charge to keepemployers and employees up to date with their employment rights. Call Caroline Turnbullat the TBA, or Rachel Flynn at Taylor Vinters ifyou are a TBA member. Alternatively, ACAS (www.acas.org.uk) and

Business Link (www.businesslink.gov.uk) areparticularly helpful.

Adjusting to working withoutthe default retirement age

TBA Annual Seminar:Nutrition and veterinary management as a means of maximising profitabilityThis year’s TBA Annual Seminar takes placeimmediately after the AGM on Tuesday, June 28at Tattersalls and aims to help breeders improvethe health, growth and development of theirstock, through improved nutrition andveterinary management. Sponsored by Saracen Horse Feeds, the

seminar will feature two senior representativesfrom Saracen’s US partner, Kentucky EquineResearch, in KER President Dr Joe Pagan andresident vet Dr Brian Waldridge. Professor Jacqui Matthews of the Moredun

Institute, Edinburgh University will alsopresent an update on her TBA/HBLB-fundedresearch on how best to manage the increasingresistance of parasites to existing availableanthelmintic drug treatment.Mark the date in your diary now. Further

information will be mailed to TBA membersduring May.Saracen Horse Feeds will be hosting a

second seminar on Tuesday, June 29 atNewbury racecourse. Again, more details tofollow nearer the time.



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Breeders’ Prizes

Soon to be published by Weatherbys is the2010/11 National Hunt Annual, the jumpversion of the Statistical Record. Every winner and placed horse, together

with any winners overseas that wereconceived, bred or trained in Britain andIreland will be listed under their respectivesire. There will also be a comprehensive

index to dams. This title is an essential tool inhelping National Hunt breeders with theirmating plans.The book costs £40 plus p&p and can

be ordered by telephoning Lauren Roberts at Weatherbys on 01933 440077 ext. 2238,or through the online bookshop atwww.weatherbysshop.co.uk

If you have not yet renewed your HorseracingPrivilege photo card, by updating the breedingdetails on the form sent from Stanstead Housein the February send-out, and returning it toWeatherbys by April 30, your Breeders’ PassCard will have expired. This means you will no

longer be entitled to complimentary access toover 1,325 participating fixtures throughoutthe year, for you and a guest to watch a horseyou have bred run.If you have misplaced the form, or have any

questions, please contact Stanstead House.

Flat HBLB Breeders’ Prizes worth £750 or more Based on date money was paid

Breeder Prize (£) Horse Sire Dam Date Course

Rabbah Bloodstock Limited 3,500 Nideeb Exceed And Excel Mantesera 26/03/2011 Lingfield Park

A H Bennett 1,500 Dubawi Gold Dubawi Savannah Belle 26/03/2011 Lingfield Park

J C S Wilson 750 Iver Bridge Lad Avonbridge Fittonia 26/03/2011 Kempton Park

See the table of breeders' prizes effective as from January 1 on the TBA website, www.thetba.co.uk

TBA Board Elections

TBA/RCA Breeders’ Badge Scheme 2011 – 2012

RENEWAL NOW DUE

The nominees going through to the ballot stage, in alphabetical order...

Richard Lancaster Philip Newton Chris Wright

Weatherbys’ National HuntAnnual

Three nominees have received the requirednumber of signatures from Members, to take them through to the Ballot stage for the two vacancies on the Board at the end ofJune.Ballot papers, together with profiles on all the

nominees, will be sent to Members in the send-out from Stanstead House at the beginning of

May; ballot papers must be returned toStanstead House by 9.30 am on Friday, May 27to count.The representatives on the TBA Board are

your voice - it is important that you participatein these elections if you want your voice to beheard and we strongly urge all Members toexercise their right to vote.

Pony Club members takememorable tour of racing HQMembers of the Thetford Chase and SouthNorfolk branches of the Pony Club recently enjoyed a tour of Newmarket, organised by TBA regional representativesRichard and Rachel Wilson.

First stop was a visit to Warren Hill withJames Eustace, where the group also metTraining Grounds Manager Nick Patton.Following a tour of Park Lodge Stables, the group moved on to the BritishRacing School, where they were able todemonstrate their race riding skills on theracehorse simulators. The day ended at the Newmarket

Equine Hospital, where a number of thegroup proved to be budding veterinarysurgeons, demonstrating excellent knowledge of horse health problems. TheTBA is most grateful to Richard andRachel Wilson and to James Eustace, theBritish Racing School and the NEH forhosting such a enjoyable day.



Sponsored byBlue Chip Feed LtdWords Alan Yuill Walker

MARCH 2011

Phyllis Underhill

One of Midnight Legend’s progeny trained by Pat Rodford at his smallstable in Somerset was responsible for the January Breeder of the Month;remarkably there was a repeat scenario regarding the March award.

January’s accolade was earned by Sparky May, who went on to finishan honourable second at the Cheltenham Festival in the David NicholsonMares’ Hurdle on the opening day, and then the little fancied HolmwoodLegend triumphed in the Grade 3 Byrne Group Plate on the Thursday,despite having gained a penalty for his success over fences at Sandown theprevious Saturday.

So a sensational double for Rodford and his stable jockey Keiran Burke,as well as for Holmwood Legend’s breeder Phyllis Underhill, who wins sixsacks of Blue Chip Original and some Blue Chip clothing.

At Cheltenham, Holmwood Legend scored from Midnight Legend’sdaughter Aimigayle, with three more of the stallion’s current winners inthe field, Call Me A Legend, Storymaker and I’m A Legend.

This is a West Country success story through and through. LikeRodford, Phyllis Underhill comes from Somerset. Her home at Bradford-on-Tone is between Wellington and Taunton, as is the family’s Ford Farmat Norton Fitzwarren, where Holmwood Legend was reared. As well asfarming, her son Philip is a building contractor involved in plant hire.

He said: “My mother gave up breeding only a few years ago because ofold age. We had organised a private box at Wincanton racecourse tocelebrate her 90th birthday on April 17. But she then broke a hip andwent into hospital so we had to cancel it all, which was a shame.”

West-Hatch-Spirit, the dam of Holmwood Legend, was bred by theWithers family of Southill Stud, near Cullompton, in Devon, and trainedfor them by former jump jockey George Knight at his yard at Lower WestHatch, near Taunton (hence the name). Knight’s partner is VirginiaWithers and they actually foaled Holmwood Legend.

It was after West-Hatch-Spirit had made a solitary appearance as athree-year-old that she was purchased by Phyllis Underhill.

“The filly suffered from chips in her knees,” recalled Knight. “MrsUnderhill, who has had horses down here for many years, was looking fora potential mare at the time to run with the sheep at home and we thoughtWest-Hatch-Spirit might do.”

Holmwood Legend made two appearances at the Ascot sales – as a five-

year-old in August 2006 when realising £1,600, and as an eight-year-oldwhen purchased by his present owner, Brian Derrick, for £6,000. Inbetween he had gained two wide-margin wins in point-to-points. Sincethen he has notched six chase victories, his Cheltenham Festival exploitsmore than doubling his previous earnings.

The son of Midnight Legend is the intermediate of only threethoroughbred foals produced by his dam. The first was his elder own-brother Midnight Spirit, who is trained by his owner Fred Sutherland atEast Garston and won his maiden over hurdles at Chepstow last year asa ten-year-old.

Third of the trio was an Environment Friend filly. “Unfortunately, shedied as a yearling,” said Knight. “She was found dead out in the field.West-Hatch-Spirit herself was put down in 2009 as she was suffering fromarthritis. By then she had had two non-thoroughbred foals by our ownperformance stallion.”

Just to emphasise the Somerset connection, West-Hatch-Spirit was byForzando, who used to stand at Dick Fowlston’s Britton House Stud, nearCrewkerne. On the distaff side her third dam Media was an own-sister tothe 1959 Derby winner Parthia, ancestress of the close relatives YoungErn and Young Mick.

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The EBF/TBA Mares’ Novices’ Chase Final winner Easter Legend may have inherited more than just herstartling white face from an unusual ancestor, whose circus skills included an extraordinary jumping talent

Seven-year-old Easter Legend became thelatest big-race winner for her sire MidnightLegend when winning the EBF/TBA Mares’Novices’ Chase Final at Newbury on March26. Her victory was also a cause for greatcelebration for her owner/breeder SimonWilles, who has had a long association withthe mare’s family.

Willes, who is busy deciding on a suitablestallion for his star mare as she enters hersecond career, says: “We are still on cloudnine and very proud of our mare with the bigwhite face. This chasing breeding line goesback to a half-sister of Easter Hero and hasbeen in my family for 80 years.

“The EBF Chase comes quite late in theseason, which makes it quite a rush to get herto stud in time. I'm spending most of the daylooking through stallion statistics.

“Easter Legend is just a bit too importantto us to take the risk of carrying on racingwith her, although so many people have toldus that she has more potential on theracecourse.”

With the shortlist of potential suitorscomprising Flemensfirth, Presenting andRobin Des Champs, Easter Legend is set to becovered in Ireland in her first year at stud butwill return to England with the likelihood

being that she will then visit Kayf Tara, whostands close to the Willes family’s farm atAldsworth, Gloucestershire.

The family’s foundation mare was EasterBeauty, foaled in 1926 and a half-sister to thedual Cheltenham Gold Cup winner EasterHero. She was ridden and trained by Willes’sfather Maurice on the gallops at the oldBibury racecourse. Her dam, the half-bredEaster Week, has some rather startlingforebears.

Willes explains: “I still have an article fromthe Horse & Hound of March 27, 1981. Ithighlighted Arabian strains in top chasers andtold the story of Arab Maid, the fourth dam ofEaster Week, who started as a circus horse inEire and was reputed to have cleared 30ftfrom take off to landing.

“We wonder whether Easter Legend'sunusual markings and big white face are athrowback!”

Easter Legend's dam, the unraced EasterComet, was inherited by Willes on the deathof his father.

He says: “When my father died in 2000, Iwas left with one filly only. Easter Comet wasfrom the old line and was by Gunner B, whohad a reputation for toughness.”

Having decided to attempt to revive the

line that had served his family so well, Willessent Easter Comet to the home of her late sire,Shade Oak Stud, to be covered by Alflora, butthe mating was not a success and a change ofplan was required.

“Richard Heyman came up with MidnightLegend, who was then relatively unknown,”recalls Willes.

“Kath Holmes and Pitchall Stud [home ofMidnight Legend] were the perfect choice butwe then hit trouble with Easter Comet's feetand it took intervention from Olympic vetJenny Hall to save her.”

Fortunately for Willes and his wifeMiranda, Easter Comet survived andproduced in the breeder’s own words “afunny looking chestnut filly”, her first foal,Easter Legend.

In subsequent years she has also producedthe five-year-old Easter Meteor to MidnightLegend. He, like his full-sister, is trained byEmma Lavelle, and has been placed threetimes to date, once in a bumper and in twohurdle races.

Easter Comet’s youngsters still to run areEaster Dancer, a four-year-old filly by KaringaBay, a two-year-old gelding by Kayf Taranamed Paskalis (Greek for Easter Man), andshe has a Presenting filly foal at foot.

From the circus ring to the racecourseTBA representatives Robert Waley-Cohen and Louise Kemble present Simon and Miranda Willes, centre, with Easter Legend’s trophy


Some of the topics that will be covered include: • Feeding for maximal reproductive efficiency

• Infections in foals (Lawsonia intracellularis, Rhodococcus equi) and foaling complications in mares (High-risk pregnancies & Hemoabdomen)

• Small strongyles in horses : have the worms turned?• The balancing act of growing a sound, athletic horse

There will also be an update on Weatherby’s breeding statistics and additional veterinary information.

For further information, telephone Polly Bonnor on 01488 73456 or visit www.saracenhorsefeeds.com. Saracen Thoroughbred Office: The Old Bank, Market Place, Lambourn, Berkshire RG17 8XU.

World-class nutrition, world-class results.

Please join us on:Tuesday 28th June at Tattersalls, Newmarket

Or: Wednesday 29th June at Newbury RacecourseTickets available from: Caroline Turnbull at the TBA

to pre-register 01638 661321 email:[email protected]

From Foal to FinishNutrition and veterinary management

to maximise profitability

The Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association invites you to their Annual Seminar, hosted by Saracen Horse Feeds. The event will feature speakers from the internationally renowned research

organisation, Kentucky Equine Research. Their president, Dr Joe Pagan, Ph.D, and resident veterinarian, Dr Bryan Waldridge, DVM, MS, will present current research findings alongside leading parasitologist, Professor Jacqui Matthews, Chair of Veterinary Immunobiology at the

University of Edinburgh, who will present her research funded by the TBA/HBLB.

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Racing in Britain has been run on turf forcenturies and injury statistics stillsuggest that it is the safest racing

surface. However, recent advances in syntheticsurfaces have reduced the gap between theinjury rates seen on turf versus synthetics to asurprisingly narrow margin. This article willexamine how the types of injuries seen onsynthetic surfaces compared to turf can aid ourunderstanding of the differences between thesesurfaces.

It is still widely accepted that ‘good’ turf isthe safest racing surface but a turf track canstand only so much racing and injury rates canincrease significantly with extremes of weather,particularly if it is dry and the track becomeshard. This is what led to the advent ofalternative training and racing surfaces. TheUnited States and several other countriesturned to ‘dirt’, simply a mixture of sand andsoil. However, whilst racing on dirt is still verypopular in the US, injury rates are considerablyhigher on dirt than turf (Mohammed et al.1991 etc), hence the introduction of the sand-based synthetic surfaces in the 1980s.

Racing now takes place on synthetics allover the world, for example there arePolytrack, Tapeta, Cushion Track and Pro-rideracetracks in the United States, and thefamous Meydan racecourse in Dubai openedits Tapeta track in 2010. However, this articlewill analyse the injuries that occurred between2005 and 2009 on the five British ‘all-weather’racecourses of Lingfield, Wolverhampton,Kempton, Southwell and Great Leighs, and

compare them with the injuries seen onBritish turf tracks during the same period.

By comparing the frequency and types ofinjuries seen on turf, versus synthetics, we cangain a unique insight into how the surfacesaffect the horse’s limbs and why certaininjuries might be more prevalent on onesurface rather than another.

How does turf vary from thesynthetic surfaces?When a GoingStick is inserted into ‘good’ turf,there is a ‘tight’ crust on top and then givebelow the surface, before the stick graduallygrinds to a halt as it enters the most compactsoil beneath. However, when a stick is insertedinto a synthetic surface it easily glides throughthe loose material on top prior to coming to arather abrupt halt when it hits the sand-based‘pan’ underneath, and then there is theknowledge that below this there is an evenfirmer tarmac membrane. Having said that,whilst the ‘pan’ seems very solid, there is asignificant amount of ‘spring’ or ‘cushion’associated with it, particularly in the syntheticsurfaces that contain large amounts of wax,rubber and fibres.

Extensive motion and video analysis ofhorses galloping on different types of surfaceshas been carried out, but even more work isnecessary to try to ascertain exactly how thetype of surface affects the horse’s limbs.

However, some valuable information canbe gained by simply watching horsesgalloping and racing, and by looking at the hoofprints. When a horse’s foot lands on turf,

it breaks through the tight crust and thenslides to a halt. In contrast, when a horse’sfoot lands on a synthetic surface it veryquickly brushes through the loose material ontop before coming to a rather sudden halt asit hits the solid (although slightly springy)pan underneath. So how does this affect theinjuries seen?

Cannon bone fractures – the most common type offracture on any surfaceIt is well established that fractures of the‘cannon’ or ‘third metacarpal’ bone are by farthe most common type of fracture on anysurface and the BHA Equine Welfare databaseconfirms this. There are a few different types


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Turf versus syntheticsStatistics suggest that the safety gap between grass and artificial surfaces is narrowing,to such an extent that the latter could one day even produce fewer racehorse injuries

Note the ‘sliding’ effect and the depth of the hoofprint as the horse’s footgradually comes to a halt on turf compared to the perfect hoofprint just a coupleof inches below the surface, with no sliding effect, seen on the synthetic surface

TURF SYNTHETICS

1 CANNON 1 CANNON

2 PASTERN 2 PASTERN

3 PELVIS =3 SHOULDER

=4 KNEE =3 PELVIS

=4 SHOULDER 5 FOREARM

6 SESAMOID 6 KNEE

7 TIBIA 7 FEMUR

=8 FEMUR 8 SESAMOID

=8 FOREARM 9 TIBIA

A table detailing the most commonfractures that occur during Flat racesrun on turf and synthetics in Britain(BHA Equine Welfare database: 2005– 2009). They reveal that by far themost common type of fracture on anytype of surface are cannon bone andpastern fractures. However, there arenotable differences; for example,upper front limb injuries such asshoulder and forearm fractures appearto be more common in races run onsynthetic surfaces. Conversely, upperhind limb injuries, such as tibialfractures and to a lesser extent pelvicfractures, appear to be more commonin turf races

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of cannon bone fracture but the most commonis the ‘condylar fracture’, which received somuch publicity last summer when it broughtHarbinger’s racing career to an abrupt end.Interestingly, cannon bone injuries seem to beslightly more common in front legs onsynthetic surfaces and in hind legs on turf.

Pastern fractures – surprisingly less common on turf than syntheticsPastern fractures are a very common injury inBritish racing and the most common type isthe classical ‘split’ pastern, which runs downthe middle of the bone when viewed from thefront. Traditionally, many trainers andveterinary surgeons have considered ‘splitpasterns’ to be more common on turf and thetheory behind this was that there is thought tobe a rotational force involved in the injury thatmight be more common on uneven ground,for example, a soft patch in a dip on a turftrack. However, the BHA Equine Welfaredatabase statistics not only suggest that this isnot the case but indicate that pastern fracturescould in fact be slightly more common onsynthetics than turf.

Whilst these statistics may be surprising, thisis not the first time this has been suggested, asWilliams et al. found the same during theirstudy of British Flat racing between 1996 and

1998. In addition, on further examination ofthe research available it is interesting that therisk of a pastern fracture seems to besignificantly higher during racing thantraining. Could it simply be that the risk of apastern fracture increases with speed andbecause most gallops and races in Britain takeplace on turf this has given trainers and

veterinary surgeons a false impression?

Forelimb injuries – more common on syntheticsHaving already noted that cannon bonefractures are more common in forelimbs onsynthetics than turf, it then seems all the moresignificant that forearm and shoulder fracturesare also more common on synthetics. Giventhat these injuries are primarily caused by theimpact and stress that the forelimbs take whengalloping, could it be that although thesynthetic surfaces have some cushion, the slideeffect on turf is more effective at protectinghorses against these forelimb injuries?

Hindlimb injuries – more common on turfHaving noted that forelimb injuries are morecommon on synthetics, it is very interestingthat the BHA statistics suggest that exactly theopposite is true with regard to hindlimbinjuries. There seems to be a greater risk ofsuffering a fracture of the tibia and hindcannon bone on turf when compared tosynthetics, and the exact BHA statistics alsoindicate that pelvic fractures are slightly morecommon on turf. So why would the slideeffect on turf not protect against injuries in thehindlimb as it does in the forelimb?

A number of possible reasons have beensuggested. First, that it is somehow related tojumping out of the stalls on turf – after all, it isnot uncommon to see a horse suffer a hindlimbinjury, such as a pelvic fracture, shortly afterjumping out of the stalls. However, if this wasthe case it would not explain why statisticsshow that pelvic and tibial fractures are seeneven more frequently in bumpers run on turf

Forelimb fractures are statistically more common on synthetic surfaces than turf.Could the slide effect on turf protect against these forelimb fractures?

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An outside or ‘lateral’ condylarfracture. Cannon bone fractures areby far the most common type offracture seen on turf or synthetics

The classical ‘split’ pastern has beentraditionally viewed as a turf injury,but BHA Equine Welfare databasestatistics suggest otherwise



where there are no stalls. The second theory isa little more convincing – could the same slideeffect on turf that was fracture-protective forforelimb fractures actually increase the risk offracture in the hindlimb, particularly onundulating tracks? After all, the way in whichthe thoroughbred’s hindlimb lands iscompletely different to the forelimb because itis the hindlimb that provides the vast majorityof its propulsion. In fact, video-analysis carriedout by Bryce et al. in 2010, studying a groupof horses galloping on turf and Tapeta, foundthat whilst the forelimb slides only marginallyfurther on turf than Tapeta, the hindlimb slidesapproximately 50% further on turf. This seemsto support the theory that the slide effect on turfwhich may serve to protect the forelimb couldincrease the risk of fracture in the hindlimb.

Discussion and conclusionIn summary, the injury statistics from the BHAEquine Welfare database provide us with a

unique insight into the differences between turfand synthetic surfaces. However, before anyconclusions are drawn, it must be pointed outthat there are limitations to this comparison. First, all synthetic surfaces vary, for example,

Southwell’s Fibresand surface is quite differentto the Polytrack surfaces seen at the other fourcourses. Also, the way in which a synthetictrack is maintained can make a significantdifference to the way in which it rides; after afew years the track becomes ‘tired’, the waxcontent reduces and the surface becomes verydifferent to its original form. With regard to turftracks, maintenance such as ‘Verti-Draining’,watering and replacing divots can make adifference to the ground, and the weather canhave a huge impact on injury rates. Finally, no

track is identical. Some of the moreundulating, such as Epsom, Chester andGoodwood, should not really be compared toall-weather courses, which are essentially flat.Nevertheless, we have learnt a considerable

amount. Given how different a syntheticsurface is to turf it is amazing that their overallinjury rates are so similar. The main differenceseems to be that forelimb fractures are morecommon on synthetics and hindlimb fracturesare more common on turf, and although thereasons are not certain, there is a good chancethat the slide effect on turf plays a significantpart. Synthetic surfaces must be applauded forthe progress they have made in recent years –it is not inconceivable that one day they mayeven be safer than turf.

Hindlimb fractures are more common on turf than synthetics. Could the sameslide effect on turf that was fracture-protective for forelimb fractures actuallyincrease the risk of fracture in the hindlimb, particularly on undulating tracks?

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Conduit and Harbinger, the last twowinners of the King George VI andQueen Elizabeth Stakes, have

renewed a trend for winners of Ascot’smiddle-distance championship to head toJapan for their stallion careers.

Although Montjeu, Galileo, Azamour,Hurricane Run, Dylan Thomas and Duke OfMarmalade are all safely ensconced in Ireland,there was a time when the European industryoften failed to hang on to its winners of thispremier event. Dancing Brave, Generous andLammtarra were sent to Japan after startingtheir careers in Newmarket, and OperaHouse, Pentire and Alamshar all headeddirectly to the Far East.

Pentire left for Shadai Stallion Station at theend of 1996, after a career which had seen theson of Be My Guest win eight of his 18 starts.The highlights of his three-year-old seasonincluded an easy victory over the future StLeger winner Classic Cliche in the KingEdward VII Stakes, a game defeat of Singspielin the Great Voltigeur and a victory over thefuture Arc runner-up Freedom Cry in theIrish Champion Stakes. Then, at four, hisfinishing speed proved too much for ClassicCliche and Shaamit in the King George.

Pentire was bred well enough to win aDerby. His dam, the Ribblesdale winner GullNook, was by a Derby winner, Mill Reef, andhis second dam, Bempton, was by another inBlakeney. What’s more, Bempton was a half-sister to one of Mill Reef’s Derby winners,Shirley Heights, so there is no fault to befound with Pentire’s bloodlines.

However, he ultimately failed to meetShadai’s very high standards. Although he

had a Japanese St Leger second in his firstcrop and the Group winners MeinerAmundsen, Craft Work, One More Chatterand Meiner Dupre in his next three crops, hismain success has come from the years he hasspent in New Zealand.

These southern hemisphere seasons haveyielded as many as ten Group 1 winners,including two in 2011. At the beginning ofApril the six-year-old gelding Rangirangdoo

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Japan’s loss is New Zealand’s gainPentire was evicted early from Shadai but has been influential in the southern hemisphere

Pentire, left, holds off Shaamit and Classic Cliche to land the 1996 King George

Gentlewave, who stands at Haras du Thenney, has first-crop three-year-olds

There’s a strong possibility that Monsun couldbe the next big name in National Huntbreeding. Two of his best sons are currentlycovering their first mares at leading NationalHunt studs, with Schiaparelli starting outalongside Kayf Tara at Overbury Stud andGetaway making his debut under theCoolmore banner.

Breeders can draw encouragement from theexploits of Network, another son of Monsunbased at the Haras National. A Group 2 winnerover 11 furlongs in Germany, Network is nowresponsible for Rubi Ball, the leading five-year-old jumper in France. Over the last year RubiBall has won the Prix La Haye Jousselin, PrixGeorges Courtois and the Prix Toytown.

Network’s progeny have also underlinedtheir potential in Britain and Ireland. RubiLight finished third behind Albertas Run in the

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added the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes inAustralia to his earlier success in theDoncaster Handicap. Rangirangdoo hasgained all his five Group successes from sixfurlongs to a mile, and speed has also beenthe main asset of Mufhasa, Pentire’s other top-level winner of 2011. His previous Group 1winners include Zarita (South AustralianDerby and Australasian Oaks), Xcellent (NewZealand Derby), Pantani (South AustralianDerby) and Markus Maximus (WestAustralian Derby).

Pentire’s name has also featured inconnection with another top-class galloper, as his daughter Pentamerous is the dam ofShoot Out, the High Chaparral gelding wholanded the Randwick Guineas and AJC Derbyin 2010.

It is always tempting to wonder whether astallion would have fared better in a differentenvironment. Would Pentire, for example,have become an important stallion had hestayed in Britain or Ireland? I suspect not.

He spent several seasons in Germany in themid-2000s, but sired nothing better than ahandful of Listed winners in Germany, plus acouple more in the Czech Republic andSlovakia. There is also Be My Guest’s overallrecord as a sire of sires to take into account.

His sons Assert, Most Welcome, Pelder,Anfield, Double Bed and What A Guest allsired northern hemisphere Grade/Group 1winners, with Most Welcome achieving arespectable total of three. Also Astronef,Charmer and Go And Go all sired Groupwinners. However, none of these sons couldbe described as a runaway success.

NH breeders

The award for the finest performance, froma breeding viewpoint, at the Dubai WorldCup meeting undoubtedly should go toDarara. For the second successive year shesupplied the winner of the richly endowedDubai Sheema Classic, with Rewildingeasily following in the footsteps of his half-sister Dar Re Mi.

This would be remarkable enough, butthe daughter of Top Ville was 22 when shefoaled Dar Re Mi and 24 when sheproduced Rewilding. I suspect it will be along time before we see somethingcomparable from any other veteran mares.

On the score of stallions, the honoursprobably went to the South African stallionJet Master, who was responsible for two ofthe top ten earners during the winter in theUAE, thanks to the efforts of the mare RiverJetez and the gelding J J The Jet Plane. Themare won the Group 2 Balanchine Stakesprior to excelling herself when second toPresvis in the Dubai Duty Free, and herthree starts earned her the equivalent ofaround £730,000. J J The Jet Plane alsocollected considerable earnings in recordinga handicap success and in winning the AlQuoz Sprint for a second time.

Jet Master has also been hitting theheadlines in his native South Africa and atApril 3 he held top position on the leadingsires’ list. He owed his lead partly to thesuccesses of his daughter Ebony Flyer in theCape Fillies Guineas and of his son PastMaster in the J & B Met. Past Master’ssuccess means that Jet Master has achievedthe remarkable feat of siring the winner ofthis very prestigious race in each of the lastfive years, thanks to Horse of the YearPocket Power in 2007, 2008 and 2009 andto Pocket Power’s sister River Jetez in 2010.

These victories have paved the way forfour consecutive sires’ championships, witha fifth looking imminent.

His latest J & B Met winner, Past Master,was conceived in 2005, when Jet Master’sfee stood at R20,000. Becoming championfirst-crop sire and sire of two-year-oldspropelled his fee to R65,000 in 2006, beforeit shot up to R200,000 following his firstgeneral sires’ championship in 2007.

He maintained that level in 2008 but theglobal downturn saw his fee revised toR170,000 in 2009 and to R150,000 lastyear. At current exchange rates, R150,000equates to around £13,700, but Jet Masterwas responsible for the top two lots at theEmperors Palace National Yearling Sale,which sold for R3,200,000 and R3,000,000– approximately £289,000 and £270,000.

Jet Master was born in 1994, a son of theroyally-bred Rakeen. One of the last sons ofNorthern Dancer, Rakeen was a half-brotherto Rahy and Singspiel and wasn’t seen outuntil late in his three-year-old season, whenhe scored at Wolverhampton and Doncasterfor John Gosden. He proved a good buy forSouth Africa, scoring at Grade 2 and Grade3 levels at around a mile and a quarter inhis new home, and finishing third toFlaming Rock and Al Mufti in the importantRothmans July. Jet Master was his mostsuccessful representative, notching up eightGrade 1 successes from five furlongs to amile during his 16-race career. He wasnamed Horse of the Year for 1999/2000.

Jet Master has some distinguishedbloodlines. In addition to being by a son ofNorthern Dancer, he is out of a mare byRollins, a stallion whose sire was AmericanHorse of the Year Damascus and whosedam Glorious Spring was a sister to thebrilliant Roberto. He is inbred 4 x 4 to theinfluential Hail To Reason.

Of course, River Jetez and J J The JetPlane are among an increasingly impressivenumber of horses acting as excellentambassadors for the South African industry.

Jet is truly the master in South AfricaJ J The Jet Plane, second right, bursts through the gloom to win at Meydan

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Festival Chase and Sprinter Sacre filled thesame position behind Al Ferof in theSupreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Another of Monsun’s French-based sons,the 2006 Derby Italiano winnerGentlewave, has his first three-year-oldsrunning in 2011 and he has made a brightstart, with his son Genzy impressing atSaint-Cloud at the end of March.

Monsun has been an exceptional servantto German breeding, but he is a great-grandson of the Irish stallion Tamerlane,whose sons Tiger, Boreen, Cassim andTycoon II made an impact on the jumpingscene in the 1970s and 1980s.

It was Tiger who sired the brilliant but ill-fated chaser Killiney and it was aTamerlane mare who produced Grittar, theGrand National winner.

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European Pattern

DATA BOOKSTAKES RESULTS

NearcticNatalmaBull PageFlaring TopSpy SongPapilaBoleroFirst RoseRaise A NativeGold DiggerBuckpasserBroadwayBold RulerSomethingroyalNearcticCequillo

ROYAL ACADEMY b 87

GOLDEN PARTY b/br 97

Nijinsky

Crimson Saint

Seeking The Gold

Partygoer

Northern Dancer

Flaming Page

Crimson Satan

Bolero Rose

Mr Prospector

Con Game

Secretariat

Quiet Charm

POLYTECHNICIEN ch c 2006Northern DancerPas de NomHis MajestySpring AdieuNorthern DancerMy CharmerWatch Your StepBack BritchesNorthern DancerFairy BridgeShirley HeightsSunbitternHigh HatTime CallSir GaylordSweet And Lovely II

EXCEED AND EXCEL b 2000

MANTESERA ch 2000

Danehill

Patrona

In The Wings

Lucayan Princess

Danzig

Razyana

Lomond

Gladiolus

Sadler’s Wells

High Hawk

High Line

Gay France

NIDEEB ch c 2007

NearcticNatalmaBold ReasonSpecialStar AppealNew WayMr ProspectorGrand LuxeRed GodRunaway BrideBustinoHighclereForliIn Hot PursuitMajor PortionSweet Solera

ENCOSTA DE LAGO b 93

BLUE CLOUD ch 96

Fairy King

Shoal Creek

Nashwan

Batave

Northern Dancer

Fairy Bridge

Star Way

Rolls

Blushing Groom

Height of Fashion

Posse

Bon Appetit

EMPOWERING b f 2008

In RealityTamerettRobertoWhere You LeadNorthern DancerFairy BridgeAhonooraBalidaressBustedCordovillaAbdosGaiaNorthern DancerMy CharmerVaguely NobleMabira

DIKTAT br 95

MOURIYANA b 96

Warning

Arvola

Akarad

Mamoura

Known Fact

Slightly Dangerous

Sadler’s Wells

Park Appeal

Labus

Licata

Lomond

Mamouna

SKINS GAME br h 2006

Storm BirdTerlinguaRahyImmenseMr ProspectorCoup de FolieTroyWaterwayNorthern DancerPas de NomBuckpasserBold ExampleAllegedBold BikiniNorthern DancerExtra Place

SHAMARDAL b 2002

LOVE EXCELLING b 99

Giant’s Causeway

Helsinki

Polish Precedent

La Sky

Storm Cat

Mariah’s Storm

Machiavellian

Helen Street

Danzig

Past Example

Law Society

Maryinsky

DUNBOYNE EXPRESS b c 2008

SAINT-CLOUD. March 19. 4yo+. 2000m.1. POLYTECHNICIEN (USA) 5 8-9 £34,483ch h by Royal Academy - Golden Party (Seeking The Gold)O/B-Wertheimer et Frere TR-A Fabre

2. Cirrus des Aigles (FR) 5 9-2 £13,793b g by Even Top - Taille de Guepe (Septieme Ciel)O-JCA Dupouy B-Y Lelimouzin, B DeschampsTR-Mme C Barande-Barbe

3. Silver Pond (FR) 4 9-2 £10,345gr c by Act One - Silver Fame (Quest For Fame)O/B-Haras Du Quesnay TR-C Laffon-Parias

Margins 0.5, 1.5. Time 2:10.50 (slow 6.10).Going Soft.

Age Starts Wins Places Earned2-5 13 6 3 £120,777

Sire: ROYAL ACADEMY. Sire of 152 Stakes winners.In 2011 - POLYTECHNICIEN Seeking The Gold G3.

1st Dam: Golden Party by Seeking The Gold. Dam of3 winners:2002: Quiet Dare (f Grand Lodge)2003: SOMETHINGSPANISH (c Lomitas) 2 wins at

4 and 5 in France.2004: Perfect Host (c Polish Precedent) unraced.2005: SEEKING THE FUN (f Alhaarth) Winner at 3.2006:POLYTECHNICIEN (c Royal Academy) 6 wins,

Prix Exbury G3, Prix Luthier LR.

2nd Dam: PARTYGOER by Secretariat. 1 win inUSA. Dam of DARE AND GO (c Alydar: Strub S G1,Pacific Classic G1, 2nd Hollywood Derby G1,Secretariat S G1, Hollywood Turf H G), GO DEPUTY(c Deputy Minister: Sword Dancer Invitational S G1,2nd Canadian International S G1, Man O’War S G1,Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup S G1). Grandam ofQUIET ROYAL, ACAGO, SANDWAKI, BERINGOER,NO DREAM.

Broodmare Sire: SEEKING THE GOLD. Sire of thedams of 71 Stakes winners. In 2011 -POLYTECHNICIEN Royal Academy G3.

1 PRIX EXBURY G3

CURRAGH. March 20. 4yo+. 8f.1. LOLLY FOR DOLLY (IRE) 4 9-13 £44,828b f by Oratorio - Heart Stopping (Chester House)O-David Keoghan B-J Jamgotchian TR-T Stack

2. Gemstone (IRE) 3 8-9 £13,103b f by Galileo - Kincob (Kingmambo)O-Derrick Smith B-Airlie Stud TR-AP O’Brien

3. Banimpire (IRE) 3 8-9 £6,207br f by Holy Roman Emperor - My Renee (Kris S)O-Mrs JS Bolger B-Kilcarn Stud TR-JS Bolger

Margins 2, neck. Time 1:30.90 (slow 7.40).Going Heavy. See race 8 for pedigree

2 PARK EXPRESS S G3

LINGFIELD PARK. March 26. 4yo+. 10f.1. NIDEEB (GB) 4 9-0 £28,385ch c by Exceed And Excel - Mantesera (In The Wings)O-S Manana B-Rabbah TR-CE Brittain

2. Dansili Dancer (GB) 9 9-0 £10,760b g by Dansili - Magic Slipper (Habitat)O-The Loyal Troupe B-The Magic Slipper Partnership TR-CG Cox

3. Pachattack (USA) 5 9-0 £5,385ch m by Pulpit - El Laoob (Red Ransom)O-MV Deegan B-Dapple Broodmares 2004TR-GA Butler

3 WINTER DERBY G3

Margins 1.5, 3.75. Time 2:03.42 (0.58).Going Standard.


Sire: EXCEED AND EXCEL. Sire of 32 Stakeswinners. In 2011 - NIDEEB In The Wings G3,ANEVAY Hennessy LR, CANALI Barathea LR,CHINCHILLA Eternity Range LR, REBEL CALLEncosta de Lago LR, SPIN CYCLE Spinning WorldLR, WAVEBAND Wolfhound LR.

1st Dam: Mantesera by In The Wings. unraced. Ownsister to CLOUD CASTLE. Dam of 1 winner:2005: Zam Zoom (f Dalakhani) unraced. Broodmare.2007: NIDEEB (c Exceed And Excel) Sold

20,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 5 wins at 2 to4, Winter Derby G3, Churchill S LR, WinkfieldS LR, 2nd Wild Flower S LR, Ascendant S LR,3rd Bet365 James Seymour S LR.

2008: Thunder Force (g Shirocco) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: LUCAYAN PRINCESS by High Line. 2wins at 2 Sweet Solera S LR. Dam of LUSO (c Salse:Derby Italiano G1, Aral-Pokal G1 (twice), DeutschlandPreis G1, 2nd Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud G1, PrixGanay G1, Gran Premio del Jockey Club G1, GranPremio di Milano G1 (twice), Aral-Pokal G1, GrosserPreis von Baden G1, Europa Preis G1), WARRSAN (cCaerleon: Coronation Cup G1 (twice), Grosser Preisvon Baden G1 (twice), 2nd Eclipse S G1, GranPremio di Milano G1, 3rd Gran Premio del JockeyClub G1, Credit Suisse Private Banking Pokal G1,Hong Kong Vase G1), NEEDLE GUN (c Sure Blade:Gallinule S G2, 2nd St James’s Palace S G1, DerbyItaliano G1, Premio Presidente della Repubblica G1(3 times), 3rd Premio Roma G1), CLOUD CASTLE (fIn The Wings: Nell Gwyn S G3, 2nd Prix VermeilleG1, 3rd Yorkshire Oaks G1), Luana (f Shaadi: 3rdBentinck S LR). Grandam of BLUE MONDAY,LAAHEB, HATTAN, TASTAHIL, QUEEN’S BEST,REVERIE SOLITAIRE.

Broodmare Sire: IN THE WINGS. Sire of the damsof 24 Stakes winners. In 2011 - NIDEEB ExceedAnd Excel G3, ALGOL Kyllachy LR.

LEOPARDSTOWN. March 27. 3yof. 7f.1. EMPOWERING (IRE) 9-1 £26,616b f by Encosta de Lago - Blue Cloud (Nashwan)O-Mrs AM O’Brien B-Whisperview Trading LtdTR-AP O’Brien

2. Wild Wind (GER) 9-0 £7,780b f by Danehill Dancer - Woman Secret (Sadler’s Wells)O-Mrs John Magnier B-Ecurie Des MonceauxTR-AP O’Brien

3. History Note (IRE) 9-0 £3,685b f by Azamour - Cadence (Cadeaux Genereux)O-Mrs JM Oxx B-CDA Bloodstock TR-John M Oxx

Margins 1.75, short head. Time 1:29.09 (slow 3.49).Going Good to Yielding.


Sire: ENCOSTA DE LAGO. Sire of 78 SWs. In 2011- ALOHA Danehill G1, EMPOWERING Nashwan G3,ONE LAST DANCE Danehill G3, OUR ELLA BELLEMcGinty G3, SAINT ENCOSTA Barathea G3,SACRED KINGDOM Zeditave LR.

1st Dam: BLUE CLOUD by Nashwan. 2 wins at 2and 3 in France, Prix Imprudence LR, 3rd Prix MarcelBoussac G1. Dam of 5 winners:

4 LEOPARDSTOWN 1,000GUINEAS TRIAL S G3

2001: BURNING FIRE (f Polish Precedent) Winner at3 in France.

2002: Brulov (c Green Desert)2003: Batian (c Desert Prince) Unplaced in France.2004: BOMBER PILOT (c Numerous) 7 wins in France.2005: BANK GUARD (c Peintre Celebre) 5 wins at 3

to 5 in France.2006: Casbah Rock (g Rock of Gibraltar)2007: Blue Angel (f Oratorio) 2 wins, 2nd Miles and

Morrison October S LR.2008:EMPOWERING (f Encosta de Lago) 2 wins,

Leopardstown 1000 Guineas Trial S G3.2009: Ahimsa (f Holy Roman Emperor) unraced.

2nd Dam: Batave by Posse. 3 wins, 2nd Prix deMeautry G3, Prix de Saint-Georges G3. Dam ofBIGSTONE (c Last Tycoon: Queen Elizabeth II S G1,Sussex S G1, Prix de la Foret G1, Prix d’Ispahan G1,2nd Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix Jean Prat G1, 3rdQueen Elizabeth II S G1, Prix du Moulin G1), BLUECLOUD (see above), BAGUE BLEUE (f Last Tycoon:Prix Yacowlef LR), Bakari (c Lomond: 3rd PrixQuincey G3). Grandam of BILLY THE KID. Third damof LITTLE TREASURE, Annee Lumiere, Mafia Miss.

Broodmare Sire: NASHWAN. Sire of the dams of 43Stakes winners. In 2011 - EMPOWERING Encostade Lago G3, CROC VALLEY Western Winter LR.

The Encosta de Lago/Nashwan cross has produced:EMPOWERING G3, Abbey Way LR.

LEOPARDSTOWN. March 27. 3yo. 8f.1. DUNBOYNE EXPRESS (IRE) 9-0 £26,616b c by Shamardal - Love Excelling (Polish Precedent)O/B-John Connaughton TR-K Prendergast

2. Exodus (GB) 9-0 £7,780b c by Montjeu - Spacecraft (Distant View)O-Michael Tabor B-Juddmonte FarmsTR-AP O’Brien

3. Whipless (IRE) 9-0 £3,685b c by Whipper - Kimola (King’s Theatre)O-Mrs JS Bolger B-John O’Connor TR-JS Bolger

Margins 1.75, neck. Time 1:41.36 (slow 2.86).Going Good to Yielding.


Sire: SHAMARDAL. Sire of 27 Stakes winners. In2011 - DUNBOYNE EXPRESS Polish PrecedentG3, CAPTAIN SONADOR Kenny’s Best Pal LR,ROSTRUM Rainbow Quest LR.

1st Dam: Love Excelling by Polish Precedent. ranonce at 4. Dam of 3 winners:2005: ANGELS STORY (f Galileo) 2 wins at 3.2006: Dragon Tails (c Danehill Dancer)2007: COJO (f Rock of Gibraltar) 2 wins at 3 in

Kingdom of Saudi Ara.2008:DUNBOYNE EXPRESS (c Shamardal) 3 wins

at 2 and 3, Jebel Ali Racecourse Anglesey SG3, Leopardstown 2000 Guineas Trial S G3.

2010: (c Raven’s Pass)

2nd Dam: La Sky by Law Society. 2 wins at 3, 2ndLancashire Oaks G3. Dam of LOVE DIVINE (f Diesis:Vodafone Oaks S G1, 2nd Aston Upthorpe YorkshireOaks G1), FLOREEDA (f Linamix: EBF Chalice S LR,2nd ACMC Park Hill S G3), Laurentine (f PrivateAccount: 3rd GP.Inter Regional Trophee Ville La TesteLR). Grandam of SIXTIES ICON.

Broodmare Sire: POLISH PRECEDENT. Sire of thedams of 32 Stakes winners. In 2011 - DUNBOYNEEXPRESS Shamardal G3.

5 LEOPARDSTOWN 2,000GUINEAS TRIAL S G3

SAINT-CLOUD. April 3. 4yo+. 1600m.1. SKINS GAME (GB) 5 8-11 £34,483br h by Diktat - Mouriyana (Akarad)O-Marquesa De Moratalla B-Mr & Mrs JG DavisTR-J-C Rouget

2. Rostrum (FR) 4 8-11 £13,793b c by Shamardal - En Public (Rainbow Quest)O-Godolphin SNC B-F Bianco TR-A Fabre

3. Silverside (USA) 5 8-11 £10,345b h by Pleasantly Perfect - Lyrical Ghost (Silver Ghost)O-Safsaf Canarias Srl B-Edward P EvansTR-F Sanchez

Margins Nose, 2. Time 1:48.10. Going Heavy.


Sire: DIKTAT. Sire of 21 Stakes winners. In 2011 -SKINS GAME Akarad G3.

1st Dam: MOURIYANA by Akarad. Winner at 2 inFrance. Dam of 6 winners:2002: Mouraliya (f Kahyasi) unraced.2003: EPATHA (f Highest Honor) 4 wins at 3 in

France, Spain, Prix Occitanie LR.2004: POLLOCK (g Rock of Gibraltar) 3 wins 3-4.2005: GOLDEN THAI (f Red Ransom) 2 wins.2006:SKINS GAME (c Diktat) Sold 32,000gns foal

at TADEF, 26,000gns yearling at TAOC2. 7wins, Prix Edmond Blanc G3, Prix Altipan LR,2nd Prix Edmond Blanc G3, Prix du RanelaghLR, 3rd Prix Perth G3, Prix Andre Baboin G3,G.P. de Bordeaux-Etape du Defi du galop LR.

2007: PENTOMINIUM (c Dubai Destination) 2 wins.2008: OASIS STORM (c Oasis Dream) Winner at 2.

2nd Dam: MAMOURA by Lomond. 2 wins at 3. Dam ofMOURAMARA (f Kahyasi: Prix de Royallieu G2), Pares (cCatrail: 2nd Criterium FEE LR, Prix Aymeri de MauleonLR). Grandam of MOURILYAN, MOURAYAN.

Broodmare Sire: AKARAD. Sire of the dams of 44Stakes winners. In 2011 - SKINS GAME Diktat G3.

6 PRIX EDMOND BLANC G3

COLOGNE. April 3. 4yo+. 2100m.1. ILLO (GER) 5 9-0 £27,586b h by Tertullian - Iora (Konigsstuhl)O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan TR-J Hirchberger

2. Altair Star (IRE) 4 8-11 £9,483b c by Kris Kin - Aglow (Spinning World)O/B-Gestut Ammerland TR-P Schiergen

3. Appel Au Maitre (FR) 7 9-2 £4,741ch h by Starborough - Rotina (Crystal Glitters)O-Stall Perlen B-G & Mme G ForienTR-Wido Neuroth

Margins 3, 10. Time 2:16.68. Going Soft.

7 GRAND PRIX PREMIERE G3

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National HuntGrade Ones

Caulfield on Captain Chris: “The Arkle winner has inherited his dam Function Dream’stalent; she won at three miles and Philip Hobbs thinks Captain Chris needs two miles four-plus”

Raise A NativeGold DiggerBuckpasserRose BowerSharpen UpTrephineLombardAnatevkaTamerlaneDonna DianaTiepolettoKronungNorthern DancerWhat A TreatGreen DancerIdrissa

TERTULLIAN b 95

IORA b 96

Miswaki

Turbaine

Konigsstuhl

Incitation

Mr Prospector

Hopespringseternal

Trempolino

Allegretta

Dschingis Khan

Konigskronung

Be My Guest

Iberica

ILLO b h 2006

Northern DancerPas de NomHis MajestySpring AdieuViennaNoble LassieAlydarKatonkaRaise A NativeGold DiggerEl Gran SenorImage of RealityGroom DancerDance QuestRobertoDisconiz

ORATORIO b 2002

HEART STOPPING b 2002

Danehill

Mahrah

Chester House

Clog Dance

Danzig

Razyana

Vaguely Noble

Montage

Mr Prospector

Toussaud

Pursuit of Love

Discomatic

LOLLY FOR DOLLY b f 2007Age Starts Wins Places Earned2-5 10 4 4 £74,858

Sire: TERTULLIAN. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In2011 - ILLO Konigsstuhl G3.

1st Dam: Iora by Konigsstuhl. 2 wins at 3, 2ndFruhjahrs Stuten Preis LR, Schwarzgold Rennen LR.Dam of 6 winners:2001: IOCASTE (f Acatenango) Winner at 3.2002: IOTA (f Tiger Hill) 3 wins, Preis der Diana G1.2003: IOANNINA (f Rainbow Quest) 2 wins at 3 and

4 in Germany, Preis der Hotellerie Baden-Baden LR, 2nd Walther J Jacobs StutenpreisG3, 3rd Preis von Europa G1. Broodmare.

2004: IOWA (f Lomitas) Winner at 3 in Germany.2005: IANAPOURNA (f Dai Jin) Winner at 3.2006: ILLO (c Tertullian) 4 wins, Grand Prix Premiere

G3, Preis von Dahlwitz LR, 2nd Preis derDeutschen Einheit G3, Henkel Trophy LR, 3rdGrosser Preis der Dortmunder Wirtschaft G3.

2008: Ivanus (c Motivator) unraced to date.2009: Infini (f Sinndar) unraced to date.

2nd Dam: Incitation by Be My Guest. 1 win at 2 inWest Germany, 2nd Everest TV Fruhjahrs StutenPreis LR, IDEE Festa Rennen LR. Dam of Iora (fKonigsstuhl, see above)

Broodmare Sire: KONIGSSTUHL. Sire of the damsof 53 Stakes winners. In 2011 - ILLO Tertullian G3.

CURRAGH. April 3. 4yo+. 7f.1. LOLLY FOR DOLLY (IRE) 4 9-1 £33,621b f by Oratorio - Heart Stopping (Chester House)O-David Keoghan B-J Jamgotchian TR-T Stack

2. The Cheka (IRE) 5 9-1 £9,828b g by Xaar - Veiled Beauty (Royal Academy)O-Anthony Pye-Jeary, Mel Smith B-James Robert Mitchell TR-Eve Johnson Houghton

3. Luisant (GB) 8 9-1 £4,655ch g by Pivotal - La Legere (Lit de Justice)O-JA McCarthy B-Petra Bloodstock Agency LtdTR-JA Nash

Margins Short head, 4. Time 1:30.90 (slow 7.40).Going Heavy.


Sire: ORATORIO. Sire of 11 Stakes winners. In 2011- LOLLY FOR DOLLY Chester House G3, MOURINHOGenerous G3, TIDARA ANGEL Kris S LR.

1st Dam: Heart Stopping by Chester House. Dam of1 winner:2007: LOLLY FOR DOLLY (f Oratorio) Sold

56,000gns foal at TADEF, 57,000gns yearlingat TAOC2. 4 wins at 3 and 4, Oratorio EBFAthasi S G3, Big Bad Bob Gladness S G3,Lodge Park EBF Park Express S G3.

2008: Eclipseoftheheart (f Shamardal) unraced todate.

2009: (c Motivator)

2nd Dam: Clog Dance by Pursuit of Love. 2ndRockfel S G2. Dam of SHORT DANCE (f Hennessy:Stanjamesuk.com Radley S LR, Michael SeelyMemorial Fillies’ S LR, 3rd Dubai Duty Free FredDarling S G3), Yankadi (c Johannesburg: 3rdSomerville Tattersall S G3)

Broodmare Sire: CHESTER HOUSE. Sire of thedams of 2 Stakes winners. In 2011 - TWIRLINGCANDY Candy Ride G2, LOLLY FOR DOLLYOratorio G3.

8 GLADNESS S G3

CHELTENHAM. March 15. 16.5f. Good to Soft.1. AL FEROF (FR) 6 gr gDom Alco - Maralta (Altayan)O-Mr J Hales B-Mr J Rauch, G Chenu TR-PF Nicholls

2. Spirit Son (FR) 5 b gPoliglote - Kirzinnia (Zino)

3. Sprinter Sacre (FR) 5 b/br gNetwork - Fatima III (Bayolidaan)


161 SUPREME NOVICES’ HURDLE G1

TrafficRhenaneLa VarendeArctic StarNearcticSeximeeSheshoonCenerentolaForliIn Hot PursuitRed GodAlannyaRight Royal VChambre d’AmourCarmarthenVamira

DOM ALCO gr 87

MARALTA b 94

Dom Pasquini

Alconaca

Altayan

Marowa

Rheffic

Boursonne

Nonoalco

Vela

Posse

Aleema

Rex Magna

La Romantique

AL FEROF gr g 2005

A recent Caulfield Files highlightedthe fact that Dom Alco, who scored adouble with Neptune Collonges andGrands Crus at Cheltenham at the endof January, had died in November2010 at the age of 23. TheCheltenham Festival saw another ofhis sons, Al Ferof, come through toland the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle, inthe process paying another tribute tothis very good stallion. Grands Crus also ran well at the

Festival, when second to Big Buck’s inthe World Hurdle, and Dom Alco’sother current representatives includeSilviniaco Conti, Robinson Collongesand the smart French hurdler Rhialco.Dom Alco owed his place at stud to

his record over jumps, which includedsix wins over hurdles, including twoListed events at Auteuil. Al Ferof isalso proving a prolific winner and hisrecord over hurdles would probablystand at four wins from five starts hadhe not fallen when in the lead on hishurdling debut. It will be interesting tosee what his optimum distance provesto be. He once defeated the futureTolworth Hurdle winner Minella Classin a three-mile point-to-point and haswon over two and a half miles overhurdles. Dom Alco stayed well and AlFerof’s dam Maralta gained hersolitary success over 15 furlongs on

the Flat. Maralta’s sire Altayan (byPosse out of a Red God mare)appeared to have the pedigree of amiler but he showed high-class formover a mile and a half. The next dam,Marowa, was a middle-distance winnerby Prix Royal-Oak winner Rex Magnaand the third dam, La Romantique,was by Carmarthen, a many-timeschampion sire of jumpers in France. The chances are, then, that Al Ferof

will prove effective at up to three mileslater in his career.

CHELTENHAM. March 15. 16f. Good to Soft.1. CAPTAIN CHRIS (IRE) 7 b gKing’s Theatre - Function Dream (Strong Gale)O-Mrs Diana L Whateley B-Mrs N Walsh T-P Hobbs

2. Finian’s Rainbow (IRE) 8 b gTiraaz - Trinity Gale (Strong Gale)

3. Realt Dubh (IRE) 7 b gBeneficial - Suez Canal (Exit To Nowhere)


162 ARKLE CHASE G1

NearcticNatalmaBold ReasonSpecialRaise A NativeCharloCrafty AdmiralEvasionSir GaylordSticky CaseTamerlaneSternaRarityNilieVaranoHill Dancer

KING’S THEATRE b 91

FUNCTION DREAM b 92

Sadler’s Wells

Regal Beauty

Strong Gale

Rare Dream

Northern Dancer

Fairy Bridge

Princely Native

Dennis Belle

Lord Gayle

Sterntau

Pollerton

Dream House

CAPTAIN CHRIS b g 2004

A career extending to 33 starts underrules, plus another two in point-to-points, hasn’t prejudiced thebroodmare career of Strong Gale’sadmirable daughter Function Dream.Her second foal is Captain Chris, whohas inherited the talent which broughthis dam three Gr2 successes overfences, including victories overCenkos in the Victor Chandler Chaseand another over Flagship Uberalles inthe Game Spirit Chase. FunctionDream raced mainly at up to 21furlongs in the latter part of her careerbut she had earlier scored over threemiles. Captain Chris has yet to be triedbeyond 21 furlongs and his finestsuccess came when he reverted totwo miles in the Arkle Chase. However, his trainer Philip Hobbs

insists that he needs at least two anda half miles.Strong Gale’s daughters achieved a

notable one-two in the Arkle Chase,with the runner-up Finian’s Rainbowalso being out of a daughter of themany-times champion sire. StrongGale mares are also currently beingrepresented by Graded winners of thecalibre of Aura About You, Silver ByNature, Cross Kennon, Menorah andDiamond Harry.Menorah, like his fellow Gr1 winner

Captain Chris, is by the Sadler’s Wellsstallion King’s Theatre, but StrongGale’s youngest daughters are 17years old in 2011, so there won’t betoo many more opportunities toreplicate his outstanding success.

CHELTENHAM. March 15. 16.5f. Good to Soft.1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 7 b gMontjeu - Scandisk (Kenmare)O-G Creighton B-Agri Del Parco TR-WP Mullins

2. Peddlers Cross (IRE) 6 b gOscar - Patscilla (Squill)

3. Oscar Whisky (IRE) 6 b gOscar - Ash Baloo (Phardante)

Age Starts Wins Places Earned2-7 22 12 6 £738,570See race 58 in the February issue

163 CHAMPION HURDLE G1

NearcticNatalmaBold ReasonSpecialHigh TopSega VilleTennysonAdele ToumignonZeddaanKhairunissaMilesianBelle of The BallSir GaylordSticky CaseVimyPal An Oir

MONTJEU b 96

SCANDISK b 95

Sadler’s Wells

Floripedes

Kenmare

Yankee Lady

Northern Dancer

Fairy Bridge

Top Ville

Toute Cy

Kalamoun

Belle of Ireland

Lord Gayle

Ceol An Oir

HURRICANE FLY b g 2004

CHELTENHAM. March 16. 21f. Good to Soft.1. FIRST LIEUTENANT (IRE) 6 ch gPresenting - Fourstargale (Fourstars Allstar)O-Gigginstown House Stud B-Mrs M O’Connor T-MF Morris

2. Rock On Ruby (IRE) 6 b gOscar - Stony View (Tirol)

3. So Young (FR) 5 b g Lavirco - Honey (Highlanders)


164 BINGHAM NOVICES’ HURDLE G1

CrepelloSans Le SouMincioAlzaraBold LadRelkarunnerRivermanVallartaNorthern DancerSex AppealBold ArianCourtneys DollLord GayleSterntauDeep RunMare Nostrom

PRESENTING br 92

FOURSTARGALE ch 97

Mtoto

D’Azy

Fourstars Allstar

Sea Gale

Busted

Amazer

Persian Bold

Belle Viking

Compliance

Broadway Joan

Strong Gale

Sea Scope

FIRST LIEUTENANT ch g 2005

CHELTENHAM. March 16. 24.5f. Good to Soft.1. BOSTONS ANGEL (IRE) 7 b gWinged Love - Lady Boston (Mansonnien)O-E Scouller B-P Scouller T-Mrs J Harrington

2. Jessies Dream (IRE) 8 ch gPresenting - Lady Apprentice (Phardante)

3. Wayward Prince (GB) 7 b gAlflora - Bellino Spirit (Robellino)


165 RSA CHASE G1

Northern DancerFairy BridgeShirley HeightsSunbitternHigh TopSega VilleReliance IIPolanaLuthierTop TwigMargouillatLa SoupePietMiss BereaGustavGuinguette

WINGED LOVE b 92

LADY BOSTON ch 97

In The Wings

J’Ai Deux Amours

Mansonnien

Boston Girl

Sadler’s Wells

High Hawk

Top Ville

Pollenka

Tip Moss

Association

Williamston Kid

Carambole

BOSTONS ANGEL b g 2004

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CHELTENHAM. March 17. 21f. Good.1. ALBERTAS RUN (IRE) 10 b gAccordion - Holly Grove Lass (Le Moss)O- Trevor Hemmings B-Mr & Mrs O Brennan T-Jonjo O’Neill

2. Kalahari King (FR) 10 b/br gKahyasi - Queen of Warsaw (Assert)

3. Rubi Light (FR) 6 b gNetwork - Genny Lights (Lights Out)


168 FESTIVAL TROPHY CHASE G1

NearcticNatalmaBold ReasonSpecialBold RulerMisty MornTudor MinstrelBellesoeurLe LavandouStella’s SisterBallymossFeevaghWolver HollowCleftessTarqoganNever On Time

ACCORDION b 86

HOLLY GROVE LASS b 86

Sadler’s Wells

Sound of Success

Le Moss

Girseach

Northern Dancer

Fairy Bridge

Successor

Belle Musique

Le Levanstell

Feemoss

Furry Glen

Happy Lass

ALBERTAS RUN b g 2001


National Hunt Grade Ones


CHELTENHAM. March 16. 16f. Good to Soft.1. SIZING EUROPE (IRE) 9 b gPistolet Bleu - Jennie Dun (Mandalus)O-Ann & Alan Potts Partnership B-Mrs A Bracken T-H de Bromhead

2. Big Zeb (IRE) 10 b gOscar - Our Siveen (Deep Run)

3. Captain Cee Bee (IRE) 10 b gGermany - Elea Victoria (Sharp Victor)


166 CHAMPION CHASE G1

Derring-DoCamenaeCharlottesvilleLa SegaMossboroughArdelleKlaironAmagallaPetitionGreat FunAbernantLamriPampered KingTrial By FireVic DayPolperro

PISTOLET BLEU b 88

JENNIE DUN b 94

Top Ville

Pampa Bella

Mandalus

Lakelands Girl

High Top

Sega Ville

Armos

Kendie

Mandamus

Laminate

Deep Run

Charlie Girl

SIZING EUROPE b g 2002

Sizing Europe was virtually pulled upwhen he started favourite for the2008 Champion Hurdle, but he hasfared much better on his twosubsequent appearances at theCheltenham Festival. He got the betterof Somersby to take the 2010 ArkleChase and then defeated Big Zeb totake the Queen Mother ChampionChase. The son of Pistolet Bleu hasnow won 11 times, the longestdistance he has won over being twoand a half miles, but he ran creditablywhen second to Kauto Star in thethree-mile Champion Chase at DownRoyal.Sizing Europe’s sire Pistolet Bleu

died at the age of 13 after only oneseason under the Coolmore banner.Fortunately the winner of the Criteriumde Saint-Cloud and Grand Prix deSaint-Cloud had been busy during hisbrief time in Ireland, following thesuccess he had already enjoyed withsuch as Katarino and Geos. Pistolet Bleu’s Irish crop also

contains Your Sum Man (GrandNational Hurdle in the USA), Merigo(Scottish Grand National), TullamoreDew, Seven Is My Number, ParsonsPistol, Copper Bleu,I’msingingtheblues, Cappa Bleu andSnap Tie. It was a daughter of PistoletBleu who produced 2010 ChampionHurdle winner Binocular. SizingEurope’s dam Jennie Dun is adaughter of Mandalus, sire of thosegood staying chasers Sir Rembrandt,Macgeorge and Henry Mann.

CHELTENHAM. March 16. 16.5f. Good to Soft.1. CHELTENIAN (FR) 5 b gAstarabad - Salamaite (Mansonnien)O-RS Brookhouse B-JC Haimet, Jean-Pascal Liberge T-P Hobbs

2. Destroyer Deployed (GB) 5 b gDeploy - Supreme Cove (Supreme Leader)

3. Aupcharlie (IRE) 5 b gDaliapour - Lirfa (Lear Fan)


167 CHAMPION BUMPER NH FLAT RACE G1

Tom RolfeWavy NavyPrince JohnDetermined LadyShirley HeightsDelsyRiberoArcanaLuthierTop TwigMargouillatLa SoupeVal de LoirIngrettePeriwinkelGrande Hetaire

ASTARABAD b 94

SALAMAITE b 2000

Alleged

Anaza

Mansonnien

Maite

Hoist The Flag

Princess Pout

Darshaan

Azaarika

Tip Moss

Association

Valdingran

Whinks

CHELTENIAN b g 2006

Mansonnien scored a notable Gr1double in the role of broodmare sireon the second day of the CheltenhamFestival. Mares by this sire of GoldenSilver, J’y Vole, Taranis and Mansonywere responsible for Bostons Angel(RSA Chase) and Cheltenian. Thelatter decisively won the WeatherbysChampion Bumper, in the processjustifying the £210,000 paid for him atBrightwells’ 2010 Cheltenham Sale.He had cost only €27,000 as ayearling in France but had highlightedhis potential by finishing second in a21-runner Punchestown bumper a fewweeks before the Brightwells sale.Cheltenian’s sire Astarabad enjoyed

his finest moment when he won the1998 Prix Ganay, but he had looked apotential winner of the previous year’sPrix du Jockey-Club, when he led onthe bit early in the straight, only tofade into third place behind PeintreCelebre. He spent 1999 racing in theUSA before returning to France totake up stallion duties in 2001. The son of Alleged ranked fifth

among France’s leading sires ofjumpers in 2010, his bestrepresentative being the prolificwinner Questarabad, who landed theGrande Course de Haies (FrenchChampion Hurdle) in 2009. He hasalso been ably represented in Britainby Gaspara (Imperial Cup), Green BeltElite and Prince Taime, the last-namedbeing a half-brother to Cheltenian’sdam, the maiden hurdler Salamaite.Astarabad covered plenty of

daughters of Mansonnien, with theirwinners including the English chasewinner Arturio, the Irish hurdler Rickand the French Listed hurdle winnerChuchoteure.Cheltenian’s dam is a half-sister to

Gilder, who finished runner-up in theFrench Champion Hurdle. Gilder’ssister Imerina produced the talentedFrench jumpers Townsville and PanchoVillez. This family also produced TotoToscato, third in the 2000 Royal &SunAlliance Chase.

Albertas Run repeated his 2010victory in the Ryanair Chase to takehis total of Festival successes to three.The son of Accordion had alsorecorded a fourth Gr1 win in the 2010Melling Chase but his three startsbetween his Melling victory and hissecond Ryanair Chase triumphresulted in a distant fourth, a fall atAscot and a failed to finish.Albertas Run’s sire Accordion died

in 2007 at the age of 21. The son ofSadler’s Wells left a considerablelegacy, especially for a horse whonever raced. Another of Accordion’ssons, Get Me Out of Here, was beatenonly a nose in the Gr3 County Hurdle.They are following in the distinguishedfootsteps of such as Dato Star, TheTother One, Flagship Uberalles,Accordion Etoile, Featherd Lady,Billyvoddan, Darkness and Weird Al.Albertas Run stays well. His sire

was a brother to the Goodwood Cupwinner Sonus and his broodmare sireis that outstanding stayer Le Moss. His dam Holly Grove Lass, who was

unplaced in bumpers and novicehurdles, was a half-sister to Southolt, avery useful chaser at around two and ahalf miles, The Proms, a smart stayinghurdler, and Mister Morose, who wonthe Gr1 Martell Aintree Hurdle and theGr2 Scottish Champion Hurdle. Their dam, the Furry Glen mare

Girseach, won over hurdles and thenext dam Happy Lass won at up to amile and a half. This female line alsoproduced Earthmover.

CHELTENHAM. March 17. 24f. Good.1. BIG BUCK’S (FR) 8 b/br gCadoudal - Buck’s (Le Glorieux)O-The Stewart Family B-H Poulat T-PF Nicholls

2. Grands Crus (FR) 6 gr gDom Alco - Fee Magic (Phantom Breeze)

3. Mourad (IRE) 6 ch gSinndar - Mouramara (Kahyasi)


169 WORLD HURDLE G1

Northern DancerFlaming PageVal de LoirSly PolaHerbagerSea NymphSayajiraoCamillaStop The MusicQuick CureLe FabuleuxLa MagnanarelleYelapaBete A Bon DieuStar MossBesides

CADOUDAL br 79

BUCK’S b 93

Green Dancer

Come To Sea

Le Glorieux

Buckleby

Nijinsky

Green Valley

Sea Hawk II

Camarilla

Cure The Blues

La Mirande

Buckskin

Thereby

BIG BUCK’S b/br g 2003

CHELTENHAM. March 18. 17f. Good.1. ZARKANDAR (IRE) 4 b gAzamour - Zarkasha (Kahyasi)O-Potensis Ltd, Chris Giles B-HH Aga Khan’s Studs SC T-PF Nicholls

2. Unaccompanied (IRE) 4 b fDanehill Dancer - Legend Has It (Sadler’s Wells)

3. Grandouet (FR) 4 b/br gAl Namix - Virginia River (Indian River)


170 TRIUMPH HURDLE G1

NearcticNatalmaChop ChopWindy AnswerRobertoWacDarshaanAzaarikaNijinskyRoseliereBlushing GroomKalkeenMill ReefDumkaShernazarZahra

AZAMOUR b 2001

ZARKASHA b 99

Night Shift

Asmara

Kahyasi

Zarkana

Northern Dancer

Ciboulette

Lear Fan

Anaza

Ile de Bourbon

Kadissya

Doyoun

Zarna

ZARKANDAR b g 2007

Anyone looking for a three-year-oldwith the potential to become a leadingjuvenile hurdler would be advised tolook at the Aga Khan’s cast-offs. Eachof the last three editions of theTriumph Hurdle has seen a bold showby a graduate of the Aga Khan Studs,with Zaynar winning in 2009, Alaivanfinishing third in 2010 and Zarkandardefeating the very smart fillyUnaccompanied in 2011.The Triumph was only the second

start over hurdles for Zarkandar. Thegelded son of Azamour had made awinning debut at Gr3 level only threeweeks before the Triumph. He hadpreviously won over a mile and a halfon the Flat in France before joiningPaul Nicholls.Part of Zarkandar’s appeal as a

potential jumper must have been thefact that he is out of a daughter ofKahyasi, a stallion responsible for suchfine jumpers as Kasbah Bliss, Paddy’sReturn, Kalahari King, Karabak, Ansar,Afsoun, Sentry Duty and Coralhasi.Kahyasi also figures during the2010/11 season as the broodmaresire of Zaidpour, another Gr1-winninghurdler, plus the Gr3 County Hurdlewinner Final Approach and the WorldHurdle third Mourad.Zarkandar’s dam Zarkasha is bred

along similar lines to the 1998 Prix deDiane winner Zainta, now the dam ofZaidpour. Both mares are by Kahyasiand descend from Zahra, a daughterof the brilliant Petite Etoile. Zahraranks as the second dam of Zaintaand the third dam of Zarkasha. Thisfamily has also produced the topFrench hurdler Zaiyad.Zarkasha found lasting fame as the

dam of the brilliant unbeaten filly andArc de Triomphe winner Zarkava.None of the four mares whichseparate Zarkava from Petite Etoilewas a stakes winner: Zarkasha neverraced; Zarkana won only in the FrenchProvinces; Zarna won a mile handicapat Doncaster; and Zahra came closestof all to winning when running secondat Amiens.

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Caulfield on Bobs Worth: “He is the second major jumping winner produced by adaughter of sires’ table leader King’s Theatre; predecessor Shinrock Paddy also won a Grade 1”

CHELTENHAM. March 18. 24f. Good.1. BOBS WORTH (IRE) 6 b gBob Back - Fashionista (King’s Theatre)O-The Not Afraid Partnership B-Mrs L Eadie T-NJ Henderson

2. Mossley (IRE) 5 b gOld Vic - Sorivera (Irish River)

3. Court In Motion (IRE) 6 br gFruits of Love - Peace Time Girl (Buckskin)


171 SPA NOVICES’ HURDLE G1

Turn-ToNothirdchanceNashuaRareleaSaggyJoppyBeauchefRoman ZephyrNorthern DancerFairy BridgePrincely NativeDennis BelleCrepelloSans Le SouAlcidePaddy’s Sister

BOB BACK br 81

FASHIONISTA b 99

Roberto

Toter Back

King’s Theatre

Last Flair

Hail To Reason

Bramalea

Carry Back

Romantic Miss

Sadler’s Wells

Regal Beauty

Busted

Paddy’s Flair

BOBS WORTH b g 2005

King’s Theatre maintained his lead onthe sires’ table during the CheltenhamFestival, thanks largely to the ArkleChase victory of Captain Chris, and healso struck at the Festival in the role ofbroodmare sire.

His once-raced daughterFashionista is the dam of the SpaNovices’ Hurdle winner Bobs Worth.The Bob Back gelding – now a winnerof the last five of his six starts – is thesecond major jumping winnerproduced by a daughter of King’sTheatre. His predecessor ShinrockPaddy won a Gr1 novice hurdle at theend of 2009. Whereas ShinrockPaddy’s dam was National Hunt-bred,Bobs Worth’s dam Fashionista wasbred with a Flat career in mind.

Her sister Last Theatre was aListed-placed winner of five races atup to 13 furlongs on the Flat, prior towinning over hurdles, and Fashionistais also a half-sister to the smartmiddle-distance filly Ballykett Nancy(by Hero’s Honor).

CHELTENHAM. March 18. 26f 110yds. Good.1. LONG RUN (FR) 6 b/br gCadoudal - Libertina (Balsamo)O-R Waley-Cohen B-M Gabeur T-NJ Henderson

2. Denman (IRE) 11 ch gPresenting - Polly Puttens (Pollerton)

3. Kauto Star (FR) 11 b gVillage Star - Kauto Relka (Port Etienne)

Age Starts Wins Places Earned3-6 18 12 6 £1,110,773See race 96 in the March issue

172 CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP G1

Northern DancerFlaming PageVal de LoirSly PolaHerbagerSea NymphSayajiraoCamillaTudor MelodyQueen of SpeedSanctus IITibestiHardicanuteVirtuousIn The CornerBlue Green

CADOUDAL br 79

LIBERTINA b 85

Green Dancer

Come To Sea

Balsamo

Full Of Pep

Nijinsky

Green Valley

Sea Hawk II

Camarilla

Kashmir II

Reine Helaine

Hard To Beat

Full of Fun

LONG RUN b/br g 2005

Bobs Worth’s second dam Last Flairproduced another three black-typeperformers, including the usefulhurdler Il Trovatore. Last Flair washerself a half-sister to the French1,000 Guineas winner Ukraine Girland Bobs Worth’s third dam Paddy’sFlair was a half-sister to the Irish2,000 Guineas winner Ballymore, theirdam being the top two-year-oldPaddy’s Sister. Ballymore’s sonSeymour Hicks sired the CheltenhamGold Cup winner See More Business.

Bobs Worth, whose victories alsoinclude the Gr2 Classic Novices’Hurdle, is the latest high-classjumping son of Bob Back, other recentexamples being Rare Bob, BurtonPort, Roberto Goldback, Minella FourStar and Back In Focus. Previousflagbearers for the stallion, who waseuthanized at the age of 30 in 2011,included Cousin Vinny, Back In Front,Thisthatandtother, Bachannal, PuttyRoad, Treble Bob, Farmer Brown andCalling Brave.

National Hunt Graded racesDate Grade Race (course) Dist Horse Age Sex Sire Dam Broodmare Sire Index05/3/11 GrB Shamrock H Chase (Gowran Park) 16f The Sneezer (IRE) 8 G Topanoora Bel Azur Electric 17305/3/11 G2 Kelso Novices' Hurdle (Kelso) 18f Bold Sir Brian (IRE) 5 G Brian Boru Black Queen Bob Back 17405/3/11 G3 Greatwood Gold Cup H Chase (Newbury) 20f Fine Parchment (IRE) 8 G Presenting Run For Cover Lafontaine 17506/3/11 GrC Leinster National H Chase (Naas) 24f Benefit Night (IRE) 11 G Beneficial Broomhill Star Deep Society 17612/3/11 G3 EBF Paddy Power NH Novices' H Hurdle (Sandown Park) 20f Skint (GB) 5 G King's Theatre No More Money Alflora 17713/3/11 G3 Dawn Run Novice Chase (Limerick) 22f Aura About You (IRE) 8 M Supreme Leader Windswept Lady Strong Gale 17813/3/11 GrC Irish Stallion Farms EBF Novice H Chase (Navan) 24f Wicklow Lad (GB) 7 G Silver Patriarch Marina Bird Julio Mariner 17915/3/11 G2 David Nicholson Mares' Hurdle (Cheltenham) 20f Quevega (FR) 7 M Robin des Champs Vega IV Cap Martin 18015/3/11 G3 Spinal Research H Chase (Cheltenham) 24.5f Bensalem (IRE) 8 G Turtle Island Peace Time Girl Buckskin 18116/3/11 G3 Coral Cup H Hurdle (Cheltenham) 21f Carlito Brigante (IRE) 5 G Haafhd Desert Magic Green Desert 18216/3/11 G3 Fred Winter Juvenile Novices' H Hurdle (Cheltenham) 16.5f What A Charm (IRE) 4 F Key Of Luck Atalina Linamix 18317/3/11 G3 Byrne Group H Chase (Cheltenham) 21f Holmwood Legend (GB) 10 G Midnight Legend West-Hatch-Spirit Forzando 18417/3/11 G2 Golden Miller Novices' H Chase (Cheltenham) 20f Noble Prince (GER) 7 G Montjeu Noble Pearl Dashing Blade 18518/3/11 G3 Grand Annual Challenge Cup Chase (Cheltenham) 16.5f Oiseau De Nuit (FR) 9 G Evening World Idylle du Marais Panoramic 18618/3/11 G3 Vincent O'Brien County H Hurdle (Cheltenham) 17f Final Approach (GB) 5 G Pivotal College Fund Girl Kahyasi 18726/3/11 G2 Wesbeter Cup Chase (Navan) 20f Hughies Grey (IRE) 7 G Houmayoun Newtown Rosie Roselier 18803/4/11 G2 Hugh McMahon Memorial Novice Chase (Limerick) 24f Mr Cracker (IRE) 6 G Anshan Sesame Cracker Derrylin 189

Statistics to April 2

Leading National Hunt sires by earnings

King’s Theatre aboutto be overhauledAfter being in front virtually from the startof the season King’s Theatre maintainedhis advantage through the CheltenhamFestival thanks principally to Captain Chris’svictory in the Arkle Chase.

Among those chasing the leader, Oscarmanaged several second places, Beneficialhad a quiet meeting and Presenting madeground with First Lieutenant winning andDenman and Jessies Dream coming second.

The stallion who really hit the jackpotthough was Cadoudal, since Big Buck’sand Long Run catapulted him into sixthplace from 12th.

In a sense all this is academic, as a fewdays after our cut-off, Ballabriggs ensuredPresenting notched another championshipby winning the non-graded Grand Nationaland earning £535,135 – that’s over£100,000 more than Long Run and BigBuck’s jointly collected at Cheltenham.

Name YOF Sire Rnrs Wnrs %WR Races AWD Earnings (£) Top horse Earned (£)King's Theatre 1991 Sadler's Wells 179 71 39.7 102 19.0 1,261,440 Menorah 152,441Presenting 1992 Mtoto 280 67 23.9 101 20.6 1,176,893 Denman 125,692Oscar 1994 Sadler's Wells 292 70 24.0 88 19.1 1,172,030 Big Zeb 156,681Beneficial 1990 Top Ville 274 68 24.8 95 19.5 957,799 Realt Dubh 154,919Flemensfirth 1992 Alleged 234 57 24.4 72 19.5 882,856 Imperial Commander 112,660Cadoudal 1979 Green Dancer 22 12 54.6 21 21.5 759,180 Long Run 403,733Montjeu 1996 Sadler's Wells 81 25 30.9 34 19.2 721,821 Hurricane Fly 373,239Bob Back 1981 Roberto 142 41 28.9 59 19.6 710,779 Bobs Worth 80,126Anshan 1987 Persian Bold 155 45 29.0 69 20.4 708,159 Golden Kite 78,142Accordion 1986 Sadler's Wells 118 31 26.3 40 19.2 701,841 Albertas Run 158,261Old Vic 1986 Sadler's Wells 195 52 26.7 77 21.0 613,863 Jack The Bus 49,684Midnight Legend 1991 Night Shift 62 22 35.5 40 20.8 395,352 Midnight Chase 78,798Winged Love 1992 In The Wings 58 19 32.8 27 21.7 380,082 Bostons Angel 173,680Dom Alco 1987 Dom Pasquini 14 10 71.4 17 20.3 378,765 Grands Crus 133,700Alflora 1989 Niniski 158 32 20.3 45 19.7 375,327 Wishfull Thinking 63,693Definite Article 1992 Indian Ridge 117 25 21.4 35 18.8 364,262 Majestic Concorde 110,796Pistolet Bleu 1988 Top Ville 39 10 25.6 13 20.7 345,803 Sizing Europe 214,372Sadler's Wells 1981 Northern Dancer 76 25 32.9 31 19.6 341,261 Synchronised 54,563Kayf Tara 1994 Sadler's Wells 137 31 22.6 35 20.5 329,751 Planet Of Sound 26,064Supreme Leader 1982 Bustino 90 23 25.6 30 20.8 326,460 Aura About You 30,953Dr Massini 1993 Sadler's Wells 78 25 32.1 37 20.7 324,488 Massini's Maguire 56,330Alderbrook 1989 Ardross 98 26 26.5 39 20.5 312,974 Ballyadam Brook 40,934Saddlers' Hall 1988 Sadler's Wells 134 25 18.7 31 20.6 306,633 Master Of The Hall 28,562Milan 1998 Sadler's Wells 146 34 23.3 41 18.1 250,094 Lascalahall 16,733Kahyasi 1985 Ile de Bourbon 42 10 23.8 13 19.1 235,781 Kalahari King 64,981Sir Harry Lewis 1984 Alleged 61 9 14.8 12 20.8 234,329 Diamond Harry 99,768Robin des Champs 1997 Garde Royale 24 11 45.8 15 20.9 231,594 Quinz 71,870Barathea 1990 Sadler's Wells 45 9 20.0 12 17.8 231,528 Overturn 151,104Pivotal 1993 Polar Falcon 31 11 35.5 16 16.9 229,097 Final Approach 91,631Turtle Island 1991 Fairy King 80 21 26.3 27 19.1 228,679 Bensalem 50,781Mansonnien 1984 Tip Moss 20 7 35.0 12 19.0 221,890 Golden Silver 139,208Overbury 1991 Caerleon 94 21 22.3 30 20.9 221,117 Ballyfitz 41,900


DATA BOOK LISTINGS OF EVERY WORLDWIDE GROUP OR GRADED STAKES WINNER


Global Stakes ResultsDate Grade Race Dist Horse Age Sex Sire Dam Broodmare SireArgentina12/03 G1 GP.Asoc.Latinoamericana de Jockey Clubes 10.0f Bradock (PER) 5 H Keseff (USA) Samara (PER) El Duce (PER)05/03 G1 Gran Premio Santiago Luro 6.0f Angiolo (ARG) 3 C Grand Reward (USA) Wait (ARG) Southern Halo (USA)05/03 G1 Gran Premio Saturnino J Unzue 6.0f La Impaciente (ARG) 3 F Bernstein (USA) La Imparable (ARG) El Compinche (ARG)19/03 G2 Clasico America 8.0f Rupit (ARG) 8 H Lucky Roberto (USA) Avinca (ARG) Cipayo (ARG)12/03 G2 Clasico Ricardo y E Fernandez Guerrico 8.0f Bouclette Gulch (ARG) 5 M Thunder Gulch (USA) Bouclette Champ (ARG) Ski Champ (USA)05/03 G2 Clasico Otono 10.0f Mad Speed (ARG) 6 H Mad Champ (ARG) Speed Wells (ARG) Poliglote (GB)05/03 G2 Clasico Arturo R y Arturo Bullrich 10.0f Liz For Sale (ARG) 4 F Not For Sale (ARG) Lu Toss (ARG) Egg Toss (USA)29/03 G3 Clasico Arturo A Bullrich 6.0f Fiestera Glory (ARG) 4 F Honour And Glory (USA) Enjoy Roma (ARG) Romanov (IRE)26/03 G3 Premio General Arenales 5.0f Tristeza Cat (ARG) 5 M Easing Along (USA) Lagrimas De Oro (ARG) Contested Bid (USA)18/03 G3 Clasico Irlanda 5.0f Augurio Plus (ARG) 7 H Alpha Plus (USA) Jane Queen (ARG) Perfect Parade (USA)03/03 G3 Clasico Agustin B Gambier 6.0f Brooks Brothers (ARG) 3 C Lucky Roberto (USA) Mid Wife (ARG) Slew Gin Fizz (USA)01/03 G3 Clasico Derli A Gomez 6.0f Life For Sale (ARG) 3 F Not For Sale (ARG) Doubt Fire (BRZ) Ski Champ (USA)25/02 G3 Clasico General Viamonte 5.0f Claro Oscuro (ARG) 6 H Mutakddim (USA) Comodora (ARG) Confidential Talk (USA)

Australia02/04 G1 AAMI Golden Slipper Stakes 6.0f Sepoy (AUS) 3 C Elusive Quality (USA) Watchful (AUS) Danehill (USA)02/04 G1 Inglis Queen of the Turf Stakes 7.5f More Joyous (NZ) 5 M More Than Ready (USA) Sunday Joy (AUS) Sunday Silence (USA)02/04 G1 Schweppes WATC Derby 12.0f Dreamaway (AUS) 4 F More Than Ready (USA) Legal Consent (AUS) Danehill (USA)02/04 G1 Vinery Stud Storm Queen Stakes 10.0f Mirjulisa Lass (AUS) 4 F Danasinga (AUS) Dol (AUS) Dolphin Street (FR)02/04 G1 Daily Telegraph George Ryder Stakes 7.5f Rangirangdoo (NZ) 7 G Pentire (GB) She Wishes (NZ) Kenfair (NZ)02/04 G1 BMW HE Tancred Stakes 12.0f Cedarberg (AUS) 5 G Helenus (AUS) Infrared (AUS) Spectrum (IRE)26/03 G1 Flinders Lane Rosehill Guineas 10.0f Jimmy Choux (NZ) 4 C Thorn Park (AUS) Cierzo (NZ) Centaine (AUS)26/03 G1 Sportingbet Robert Sangster Stakes 6.0f Response (AUS) 5 M Charge Forward (AUS) Live It Up (AUS) Match Winner (FR)26/03 G1 Schweppes Australasian Oaks 10.0f Lights Of Heaven (NZ) 4 F Zabeel (NZ) I'm In Heaven (NZ) Volksraad (GB)25/03 G1 Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes 6.0f Black Caviar (AUS) 5 M Bel Esprit (AUS) Helsinge (AUS) Desert Sun (GB)19/03 G1 Ranvet Stakes 10.0f Zavite (NZ) 9 H Zabeel (NZ) Miss Vita (USA) Alleged (USA)19/03 G1 Coolmore Classic 7.5f Aloha (AUS) 5 M Encosta de Lago (AUS) Tennessee Midnight (AUS) Danehill (USA)12/03 G1 Dubai Darley Australian Cup 10.0f Shocking (AUS) 6 H Street Cry (IRE) Maria di Castiglia (GB) Danehill (USA)12/03 G1 Turnpoint Royal Randwick Guineas 8.0f Ilovethiscity (AUS) 4 C Magic Albert (AUS) Kensington Rose (NZ) Kenfair (NZ)12/03 G1 Lexus Newmarket Handicap 6.0f Black Caviar (AUS) 5 M Bel Esprit (AUS) Helsinge (AUS) Desert Sun (GB)05/03 G1 Australian Guineas 8.0f Shamrocker (NZ) 4 F O'Reilly (NZ) Bohemian Blues (NZ) Blues Traveller (IRE)05/03 G1 ATC Chipping Norton Stakes 8.0f Danleigh (AUS) 8 G Mujahid (USA) Graceful Lily (AUS) Dr Grace (NZ)27/03 G2 Stevco Challenge Stakes 5.0f Hay List (AUS) 6 G Statue of Liberty (USA) Sing Hallelujah (AUS) Is It True (USA)26/03 G2 Perfect Vision Pago Pago Stakes 6.0f Salade (AUS) 3 C Snitzel (AUS) Just As Beautiful (AUS) Beautiful Crown (USA)26/03 G2 The Triple M Magic Night Stakes 6.0f Altar (AUS) 3 F Commands (AUS) Hosannah (AUS) Octagonal (NZ)26/03 G2 Hyland Race Colours Ajax Stakes 7.5f Pureness (AUS) 5 G Tale of The Cat (USA) Purespeed (AUS) Flying Spur (AUS)25/03 G2 Sunline Diamond Jubilee Stakes 8.0f Nakaaya (AUS) 5 M Tiger Hill (IRE) Duchess Talaria (AUS) Marwina (AUS)19/03 G2 Jacob's Creek Todman Stakes 6.0f Smart Missile (AUS) 3 C Fastnet Rock (AUS) Comical Smile (USA) Comic Strip (USA)19/03 G2 Myer Canterbury Stakes 6.5f More Joyous (NZ) 5 M More Than Ready (USA) Sunday Joy (AUS) Sunday Silence (USA)19/03 G2 Cleanevent Reisling Slipper Trial Stakes 6.0f Elite Falls (AUS) 3 F More Than Ready (USA) Niagara Falls (AUS) Danehill (USA)19/03 G2 Ausdrill Karrakatta Plate 6.0f Night War (AUS) 3 F General Nediym (AUS) Samar (AUS) Secret Savings (USA)19/03 G2 Cleanevent Phar Lap Stakes 7.5f Blackie (NZ) 4 G Black Minnaloushe (USA) Diamond Babe (NZ) Stravinsky (USA)18/03 G2 Top Cut Alister Clark Stakes 10.0f Domesky (AUS) 4 G Domesday (AUS) Miss Aryan (NZ) Masterclass (USA)14/03 G2 Yallambee Classic 6.0f Shrapnel (AUS) 4 C Charge Forward (AUS) Fragmentation (AUS) Snippets (AUS)14/03 G2 Adelaide Casino Adelaide Cup 16.0f Johann Zoffany (GB) 5 G Galileo (IRE) Belle Allemande (CAN) Royal Academy (USA)13/03 G2 Kewney Stakes 7.0f Do Ra Mi (NZ) 4 F Savabeel (AUS) Aulide (AUS) Snippets (AUS)12/03 G2 Sires' Produce Stakes 7.0f Running Tall (AUS) 3 C Stratum (AUS) Fleeting Touch (USA) Touch Gold (USA)12/03 G2 Blamey Stakes 8.0f Whobegotyou (AUS) 6 G Street Cry (IRE) Temple of Peace (JPN) Carnegie (IRE)05/03 G2 Patinack Farm Surround Stakes 7.0f Parables (AUS) 4 F Lonhro (AUS) Fairytales (AUS) Night Shift (USA)04/03 G2 Sprortingbet Moonee Valley Oaks Classic 8.0f Lights Of Heaven (NZ) 4 F Zabeel (NZ) I'm In Heaven (NZ) Volksraad (GB)26/02 G2 Schweppes Hobartville Stakes 7.0f Ilovethiscity (AUS) 4 C Magic Albert (AUS) Kensington Rose (NZ) Kenfair (NZ)26/02 G2 BMW Angus Armanasco Stakes 7.0f Pinker Pinker (AUS) 4 F Reset (AUS) Miss Marion (AUS) Success Express (USA)26/02 G2 Franklins Silver Slipper Stakes 5.5f Satin Shoes (AUS) 3 F Flying Spur (AUS) Star Satire (NZ) Volksraad (GB)26/02 G2 Carlton Draught St George Stakes 9.0f Heart Of Dreams (AUS) 6 G Show A Heart (AUS) Academy Of Dreams (AUS) Royal Academy (USA)26/03 G3 Styletread Birthday Card Stakes 6.0f Zingaling (AUS) 5 M Redoute's Choice (AUS) Done That (NZ) Centaine (AUS)26/03 G3 Keith F Nolan Classic 9.0f Brazilian Pulse (NZ) 4 F Captain Rio (GB) Sharazad (IRE) Tenby (GB)26/03 G3 Skyy Vodka West Australian Oaks 12.0f Dreamaway (AUS) 4 F More Than Ready (USA) Legal Consent (AUS) Danehill (USA)26/03 G3 Jansz National Stakes 6.0f Triple Asset (AUS) 3 F Nadeem (AUS) Caralowe (AUS) Hennessy (USA)17/03 G3 Newcastle Jets Newmarket Handicap 7.0f Keepin' The Dream (NZ) 7 G Keeper (AUS) Irish Nassie (NZ) Nassipour (USA)14/03 G3 Dunes Port Hughes R N Irwin Stakes 5.5f Avenue (AUS) 5 M Anabaa (USA) Virage (AUS) Kenmare (FR)14/03 G3 Schweppervescence Auraria Stakes 9.0f Shylight (AUS) 4 F Lago Delight (AUS) Be My Person (AUS) Personal Flag (USA)12/03 G3 Turnpoint Randwick City Stakes 10.0f Saint Encosta (AUS) 5 H Encosta de Lago (AUS) St Katherine (AUS) Barathea (IRE)12/03 G3 Jim Beam Skyline Stakes 6.0f Uate (AUS) 3 C Ad Valorem (USA) Long Walk (AUS) Over (AUS)12/03 G3 Schweppervescence Matron Stakes 8.0f Pinker Pinker (AUS) 4 F Reset (AUS) Miss Marion (AUS) Success Express (USA)12/03 G3 Hylands Sweet Embrace Stakes 6.0f Shared Reflections (AUS) 3 F Umatilla (NZ) Ulap (AUS) Hurricane Sky (AUS)12/03 G3 TBV Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes 6.0f Triple Asset (AUS) 3 F Nadeem (AUS) Caralowe (AUS) Hennessy (USA)05/03 G3 Marsh Breeders' Stakes 6.0f Rockshaft (AUS) 3 C Choisir (AUS) Bella Jewel (AUS) Rory's Jester (AUS)05/03 G3 PFD Food Services F Tressady Stakes 7.0f Aloha (AUS) 5 M Encosta de Lago (AUS) Tennessee Midnight (AUS) Danehill (USA)05/03 G3 Boag's Lord Reims Stakes 13.0f Guy No (NZ) 8 G O'Reilly (NZ) River Century (NZ) Centaine (AUS)05/03 G3 Liverpool City Cup 6.5f Triple Elegance (AUS) 5 G Mossman (AUS) Mary Machree (AUS) Quest For Fame26/02 G3 De Bortoli Millie Fox Stakes 6.5f Montana Flyer (AUS) 6 M Flying Spur (AUS) Montana Downs (AUS) Bluebird (USA)26/02 G3 TBV Mannerism Stakes 7.0f Red Flair (AUS) 6 M Testa Rossa (AUS) Blazing Aura (AUS) Blazing Sword (AUS)

South America’s most importantweight-for-age race, the Gran PremioLatinoamericano, was run for the 27thtime at San Isidro in Buenos Aires andbrought a seventh victory in thatduration for Peru as Bradock proved

three lengths too strong for his femalecompatriot Private Affair. Palermo’s two big juvenile races on

March 5 both went to progeny of StormCat stallions formerly trained by AidanO’Brien. Angiolo, a son of the 2003

Mill Reef Stakes runner-up GrandReward, followed an eight-lengthGrade 2 triumph in February by liftingthe Gran Premio Santiago Luro by fourlengths. The fillies’ equivalent, the Gran

Premio Saturnino J Unzue, was muchcloser and much slower, with LaImpaciente, a daughter of the 1999Railway Stakes winner Bernstein,edging out La Toscana Cat by just ahead.

The awesome Black Caviar continueson her unstoppable way, two Group 1wins taking her career unbeaten recordto 11. Undoubtedly the pick of the pairwas the Newmarket Handicap in whichshe gave her ten rivals a minimum of 7lbyet treated them with the utmostcontempt, cruising clear before being

eased down to score by three lengths.In comparison, her William Reid Stakessuccess was mundane, but a bumperFriday night crowd at Moonee Valley didnot seem to mind. She again beatCrystal Lily, but this time by only alength and three-quarters on 8lb betterterms. In her defence, once more she

was not touched by the whip. At almost any other time, More

Joyouswould be the darling of theAustralian racing public. Following herGroup 2 Canterbury Stakes successshe took her Group 1-winning tally tofive in the Queen Of The Turf Stakes –meaning that she has been beaten just

once in her last 13 starts. Another horse who has already built

up a significant following at the tenderage of two is Sheikh Mohammed’shomebred Sepoy, who added theworld’s richest two-year-old race, theGolden Slipper, to his earlier BlueDiamond Stakes triumph. In between

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Brazil13/03 G1 G.P. Francisco E Paula Machado-Stud TNT 10.0f Cisne Branco (ARG) 4 C Lode (USA) Cirandinha (ARG) Ibero (ARG)13/03 G1 Grande Premio Diana-Stud TNT 10.0f Hunka Hunka (BRZ) 4 F Wild Event (USA) Uff-Uff (BRZ) De Quest (GB)12/03 G2 G. P. Presidente Jose de Souza Queiroz 7.0f Iaquinta (BRZ) 3 C Romarin (BRZ) Graxa (BRZ) Tsunami Slew (USA)05/03 G2 Grande Premio Piratininga 11.0f Take The Money (BRZ) 5 H Bright Again (USA) Official Glory (BRZ) Jules (USA)05/03 G2 Grande Premio Presidente Guilherme Ellis 7.0f Licca-Chan (BRZ) 3 F Tiger Heart (USA) Colette (BRZ) Burooj (GB)27/03 G3 Grande Premio Euvaldo Lodi 8.0f Mandjula (BRZ) 5 M Roi Normand (USA) Sea World (BRZ) Midnight Tiger (USA)27/03 G3 Grande Premio Jacutinga 7.0f Alta Vista (BRZ) 3 F Amigoni (IRE) Bella Cy (BRZ) Belo Colony (BRZ)20/03 G3 G. P. Presidente Arthur da Costa e Silva 10.0f Timeo (BRZ) 5 H First American (USA) In The Sand (USA) Atticus (USA)26/02 G3 G. P. Presidente Augusto Souza Queiroz 6.0f Tiger Woods (BRZ) 3 C Tiger Heart (USA) Deep Bay (ARG) Ocean Falls

Chile16/03 G2 Premio Municipal de Vina del Mar 9.5f Prilidiano (ARG) 4 C Orpen (USA) Primera Dama (CHI) Sam M (USA)07/01 G2 Premio Copa Jackson 9.5f Ankar (CHI) 4 C Proud Citizen (USA) Gana La Banca (CHI) Stuka (USA)26/03 G3 Gran Handicap del Chile 8.0f Markado (CHI) 5 H Midnight Foxtrot (GB) India Suntuosa (CHI) Rich Man's Gold (USA)12/03 G3 Premio Seleccion de Potrillos 6.0f Feliz de Vivir (CHI) 3 C Feliz de La Vida (CHI) Frameita (CHI) Favorable Ruling (USA)05/03 G3 Premio Seleccion de Potrancas 6.0f Amani (CHI) 3 F Morning Raider (IRE) Just Fine (CHI) Doneraile Court (USA)02/03 G3 Premio Thompson Matthews 8.0f Sin Respeto (CHI) 4 G Caesarion (IRE) Simbaville (CHI) Barkerville (USA)

Japan27/03 G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen 6.0f Kinshasa No Kiseki (AUS) 8 H Fuji Kiseki (JPN) Keltshaan (USA) Pleasant Colony (USA)26/03 G2 Spring Stakes (Guineas Trial) 9.0f Orfevre (JPN) 3 C Stay Gold (JPN) Oriental Art (JPN) Mejiro McQueen (JPN)21/03 G2 Hochi Hai Revue (fillies GnsTrial) 7.0f French Cactus (JPN) 3 F Taiki Shuttle (USA) Brush With Tequila (USA) Broad Brush (USA)20/03 G2 Hanshin Daishoten 15.0f Namura Crescent (JPN) 6 H Yamanin Seraphim (JPN) Sakura Komina (JPN) Sakura Shori (JPN)06/03 G2 Hochi Hai Yayoi Sho 10.0f Sadamu Patek (JPN) 3 C Fuji Kiseki (JPN) Summer Night City (JPN) Helissio (FR)27/02 G2 Nakayama Kinen 9.0f Victoire Pisa (JPN) 4 C Neo Universe (JPN) Whitewater Affair (GB) Machiavellian (USA)27/03 G3 Mainichi Hai 9.0f Red Davis (JPN) 3 G Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Dixie Jazz (JPN) Tony Bin26/03 G3 Flower Cup 9.0f Trend Hunter (JPN) 3 F Manhattan Cafe (JPN) Royal Perla (JPN) Brian's Time (USA)20/03 G3 Chukyo Kinen 10.0f Narita Crystal (JPN) 5 H Special Week (JPN) Precious Lover (JPN) Pentire (GB)19/03 G3 Chunichi Sports Sho Falcon Stakes 6.0f Henny Hound (USA) 3 C Henny Hughes (USA) Beautiful Moment (USA) Crusader Sword (USA)05/03 G3 Yukan Fuji Sho Ocean Stakes 6.0f Dasher Go Go (JPN) 4 C Sakura Bakushin O (JPN) Negano (CAN) Miswaki (USA)05/03 G3 Tulip Sho 8.0f Reve d'Essor (JPN) 3 F Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Reve d'Oscar (FR) Highest Honor (FR)27/02 G3 Hankyu Hai 7.0f San Carlo (JPN) 5 H Symboli Kris S (USA) Diva (JPN) Crafty Prospector (USA)26/02 G3 Arlington Cup 8.0f Northern River (JPN) 3 C Agnes Tachyon (JPN) Soninke (GB) Machiavellian (USA)

New Zealand02/04 G1 Oaks Stud Stallions Sires Produce Stakes 7.0f Anabandana (AUS) 3 F Anabaa (USA) Great Notice (USA) Nureyev (USA)19/03 G1 Wellfield New Zealand Oaks 12.0f Midnight Oil (NZ) 4 F Keeper (AUS) Gilded Light (AUS) Gilded Time (USA)12/03 G1 Nicolas Feuillatte NZ 2nd Century Stakes 10.0f The Party Stand (NZ) 5 M Thorn Park (AUS) Cremisi (AUS) Royal Academy (USA)12/03 G1 Auckland Diamond Sires' Produce Stakes 6.0f Anabandana (AUS) 3 F Anabaa (USA) Great Notice (USA) Nureyev (USA)09/03 G1 Stella Artois Auckland Cup 16.0f Titch (NZ) 7 G Lord Ballina (AUS) Our Sophie (NZ) Kaapstad (NZ)05/03 G1 Telecom New Zealand Derby 12.0f Jimmy Choux (NZ) 4 C Thorn Park (AUS) Cierzo (NZ) Centaine (AUS)26/03 G2 Windsor Park Stud Japan NZ Trophy 8.0f Our Star Pupil (NZ) 8 G Pupil (AUS) Stark Vader (NZ) Stark South (USA)26/02 G2 J S Contractors Matamata Breeders Stakes 6.0f Anabandana (AUS) 3 F Anabaa (USA) Great Notice (USA) Nureyev (USA)19/03 G3 Rich Hill Stud Thompson Handicap 8.0f Hold It Harvey (AUS) 7 G King Cugat (USA) Daly Charm (AUS) Best Western (AUS)05/03 G3 Darley King's Plate 6.0f Amaryllis (NZ) 6 M Red Ransom (USA) Lafleur (NZ) Zabeel (NZ)05/03 G3 Livamol Lowland Stakes 10.5f Midnight Oil (NZ) 4 F Keeper (AUS) Gilded Light (AUS) Gilded Time (USA)

The season does not finish untilAugust but there can be little doubtabout who will be crownedchampion of the three-year-old andtwo-year-old divisions in NewZealand. Step forward JimmyChoux, who wrapped up the three-year-old crown when, defyingstamina doubts on heavy ground,the four-time Guineas winner (whomade it five at Rosehill in Australia

later in the month) ground out atwo-length success in the NewZealand Derby. The juvenile queen will be

Anabandana, an unprepossessingdaughter of Anabaa who cost just£15,000 as a yearling yet has twicetaken on and beaten the colts inGroup 1 contests. Most recently,Anabandana battled with the front-running Antonio Lombardo all the

way up the home straight atAwapuni, eventually prevailing by anose. Opie Bosson, Anabandana’s

jockey, has been in a rich vein ofform. He also lifted the AucklandCup on seven-year-old Titch, wholanded three hurdle races inAustralia last year, and reactedbrilliantly when no one else wantedto lead when riding his opponents

to sleep from the front aboard TheParty Stand in the New ZealandStakes. Apprentice jockey Rosie Myers

produced a ride of which Bossonwould have been proud in the Oaks,keeping cool when her mount,Midnight Oil, was locked in behinda wall of horses and finding daylightin the nick of time to get up andscore by half a length.

those two events Sepoy suffered a longodds-on defeat at the hands of SmartMissile in the Group 2 Todman Stakes,but that rival was withdrawn from theSlipper on veterinary advice having gota leg over the partition in the startingstalls. The New Zealand-trained Jimmy

Choux is clearly a very tough performeras well as a classy one. Having his ninthstart since September, the NZ Derbywinner found a telling burst of speeddown the outside to lift the RosehillGuineas. And his three-year-old

campaign is far from finished – furtherAustralian targets may even be followedby a visit to Royal Ascot. Old favourite Danleigh lifted the

Chipping Norton Stakes but wasunable to repeat last year’s heroics inthe George Ryder Stakes, finishingeighth. The winner, Rangirandoo, hadbeen nursed back from a tendon injuryby trainer Chris Waller but sadly waslame in the winners’ enclosure. In similar vein, Shocking, the 2009

Melbourne Cup winner, was jarred upby his Australian Cup success and will

now be rested prior to a third tilt at thenation’s top race.

Zavite, at eight the oldest horse inAnthony Cummings’s yard, pulled off a100-1 shock in the Ranvet Stakes butfailed to confirm that form in the BMW,where another longshot, 25-1 chanceCedarberg, landed the spoils. A third big surprise came in the

Storm Queen Stakes as MirjulisaLass, priced at 50-1, scored by twoand a half lengths in the style of a hotfavourite. The three-year-old filly Shamrocker

beat the boys in the Australian Guineas,while Ilovethiscitywon the RandwickGuineas, but both then suffered Group1 reverses, Shamrocker when third toJimmy Choux and Ilovethiscity when fifthto Rangirangdoo. Over in Western Australia, the three-

year-old division is undoubtedly led byDreamaway, who won the two fillies’Classics and then, just a week after theOaks and despite a troubled passagewhich earned jockey William Pike a 14-day ban, produced a dazzling burst ofspeed to land the Derby.

Hunka Hunka turned the tables onher fellow Wild Event filly, OlympicMessage, in the Grande Premio Diana,changing a five and a quarter length

defeat over a mile in February into a twoand three-quarter length victory over anextra quarter mile. The equivalent colts’ race (the

second leg of the Rio de Janeiro TripleCrown) was run in a 1.5 secondsslower time but allowed the lightly-raced Cisne Branco – ‘white swan’ in

Portuguese – to advance his careerrecord to a perfect three from three,with a one and three-quarter lengthtriumph.

Nakayama and Fukushima were closedfor over a month after the earthquakeand tsunami of March 11. Most of thebig races were run elsewhere but the

Nakayama Grand Jump, slated for April16, has been postponed indefinitely.Just 12 hours after fellow countrymanMirco Demuro won the Dubai World

Cup for Japan, Italian Umberto Rispoliregistered the biggest win of his careerwhen guiding Kinshasa No Kiseki toa one and a quarter length score in the

Takamatsunomiya Kinen. Trained byNoriyuki Hori, Kinshasa No Kiseki’s onlyprevious Grade 1 win came in the samerace in 2010.

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Global Stakes ResultsDate Grade Race Dist Horse Age Sex Sire Dam Broodmare SirePeru20/03 G2 Clasico La Copa 11.0f Interoceanico (PER) 6 H Privately Held (USA) India Brava (USA) Fast Gold (USA)

South Africa26/03 G1 South African Classic 9.0f English Garden (SAF) 4 C Camden Park (USA) Royal Habit (SAF) Dominion Royale26/03 G1 H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes 8.0f Dancewiththedevil (SAF) 5 M Modus Vivendi (GB) Emperor's Dance (SAF) Caesour (USA)26/03 G1 South African Fillies Classic 9.5f Igugu (AUS) 4 F Galileo (IRE) Zarinia (IRE) Intikhab (USA)26/02 G2 Gauteng Guineas 8.0f Link Man (SAF) 4 C Toreador (IRE) Western Smoke (SAF) Among Men (USA)26/02 G2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas 8.0f Igugu (AUS) 4 F Galileo (IRE) Zarinia (IRE) Intikhab (USA)26/02 G2 Hawaii Stakes 7.0f Earl Of Surrey (ZIM) 8 G Century Stand (AUS) Bush Chic (SAF) Gay Fandango (USA)26/03 G3 Man O'War Sprint 5.5f Shea Shea (SAF) 4 C National Emblem (SAF) Yankee Clipper (SAF) Jallad (USA)26/03 G3 Protea Stakes 5.5f Delago Deluxe (AUS) 3 C Encosta de Lago (AUS) Succeeding (AUS) Flying Spur (AUS)26/03 G3 Caradoc Gold Cup 14.0f Arcola (SAF) 5 M Caesour (USA) Star Of Arcole (SAF) Foveros26/03 G3 Jacaranda Handicap 9.0f Fisani (SAF) 5 M Kahal (GB) Gypsey Spirit (SAF) Coastal (USA)26/03 G3 Pretty Polly Stakes 5.5f Sheztheclubqueen (SAF) 3 F Fan Club's Mister (USA) Gateway (SAF) Damascus Gate (USA)22/03 G3 King's Cup 8.0f Lady Magpie (SAF) 5 M Dupont (GB) Golden National (SAF) National Emblem (SAF)26/02 G3 Acacia Handicap 8.0f Dancewiththedevil (SAF) 5 M Modus Vivendi (GB) Emperor's Dance (SAF) Caesour (USA)26/02 G3 Chairman's Cup 16.0f Golden Parachute (NZ) 6 G Montjeu (IRE) Maxamore (NZ) Volksraad (GB)

United Arab Emirates26/03 G1 China Guangsha Dubai Sheema Classic 12.0f Rewilding (GB) 4 C Tiger Hill (IRE) Darara Top Ville26/03 G1 Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup 10.0f Victoire Pisa (JPN) 4 C Neo Universe (JPN) Whitewater Affair (GB) Machiavellian (USA)26/03 G1 Dubai Duty Free Stakes 9.0f Presvis (GB) 7 G Sakhee (USA) Forest Fire (SWE) Never So Bold26/03 G1 Gulf News Dubai Golden Shaheen Stakes 6.0f Rocket Man (AUS) 6 G Viscount (AUS) Macrosa (NZ) McGinty (NZ)26/03 G2 Etisalat Godolphin Mile 8.0f Skysurfers (GB) 5 H E Dubai (USA) Fortune (IRE) Night Shift (USA)26/03 G2 The S & M Al Naboodah Group UAE Derby 9.5f Khawlah (IRE) 3 F Cape Cross (IRE) Villarrica (USA) Selkirk (USA)26/03 G2 Emirates NBD Al Quoz Sprint 5.0f J J The Jet Plane (SAF) 7 G Jet Master (SAF) Majestic Guest (SAF) Northern Guest (USA)10/03 G2 Dubai Duty Free Zabeel Mile 8.0f Rileyskeepingfaith (GB) 5 G Hunting Lion (IRE) Keeping The Faith (IRE) Ajraas (USA)03/03 G2 Emirates Airline Al Maktoum Challenge R3 10.0f Twice Over (GB) 6 H Observatory (USA) Double Crossed (GB) Caerleon (USA)03/03 G2 Emirates Air. Dubai City of Gold Stakes 12.0f Monterosso (GB) 4 C Dubawi (IRE) Porto Roca (AUS) Barathea (IRE)03/03 G2 Emirates Airline Jebel Hatta 9.0f Wigmore Hall (IRE) 4 G High Chaparral (IRE) Love And Laughter (IRE) Theatrical20/03 G3 Abu Dhabi Championship 11.0f Topclas (FR) 5 H Kutub (IRE) Noble Presence (FR) Fasliyev (USA)10/03 G3 Dubai Duty Free DRC Gold Cup 16.0f Whispering Gallery (GB) 5 G Daylami (IRE) Echoes In Eternity (IRE) Spinning World (USA)03/03 G3 Emirates Airline Mahab Al Shimaal 6.0f Bankable (IRE) 7 H Medicean (GB) Dance To The Top (GB) Sadler's Wells (USA)03/03 G3 Emirates Airline Burj Nahaar 8.0f Mendip (USA) 4 C Harlan's Holiday (USA) Well Spring (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA)

United States12/03 G1 Santa Margarita Invitational Stakes 9.0f Miss Match (ARG) 6 M Indygo Shiner (USA) Miss Simpatia (ARG) Southern Halo (USA)05/03 G1 Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes 8.0f Fluke (BRZ) 6 H Wild Event (USA) Uff-Uff (BRZ) De Quest (GB)05/03 G1 Santa Anita Oaks 8.5f Turbulent Descent (USA) 3 F Congrats (USA) Roger's Sue (USA) Forestry (USA)05/03 G1 Santa Anita Handicap 10.0f Game On Dude (USA) 4 G Awesome Again (CAN) Worldly Pleasure (USA) Devil His Due (USA)26/03 G2 Mervin Muniz Jr Memorial Handicap 9.0f Smart Bid (USA) 5 H Smart Strike (CAN) Recording (USA) Danzig (USA)26/03 G2 New Orleans Handicap 9.0f Mission Impazible (USA) 4 C Unbridled's Song (USA) La Paz (USA) Hold Your Peace (USA)26/03 G2 Louisiana Derby 9.0f Pants On Fire (USA) 3 C Jump Start (USA) Cabo de Noche (USA) Cape Town (USA)26/03 G2 Fair Grounds Oaks 8.5f Daisy Devine (USA) 3 F Kafwain (USA) Devil's Dispute (USA) Devil's Bag (USA)20/03 G2 San Luis Rey Stakes 12.0f Juniper Pass (USA) 4 C Lemon Drop Kid (USA) Child Bride (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA)19/03 G2 Rebel Stakes 8.5f The Factor (USA) 3 C War Front (USA) Greyciousness (USA) Miswaki (USA)19/03 G2 Inside Information Stakes 7.0f Hilda's Passion (USA) 4 F Canadian Frontier (USA) Executricker (USA) El Prado (IRE)19/03 G2 Santa Ana Stakes 9.0f Malibu Pier (USA) 4 F Malibu Moon (USA) Blue Moon (FR) Lomitas (GB)12/03 G2 San Felipe Stakes 8.5f Premier Pegasus (USA) 3 C Fusaichi Pegasus (USA) Squall Linda (USA) Summer Squall (USA)12/03 G2 Tampa Bay Derby 8.5f Watch Me Go (USA) 3 C West Acre (USA) Sabbath Song (CAN) Deputy Minister (CAN)12/03 G2 Gulfstream Park Handicap 8.0f Tackleberry (USA) 4 G Montbrook (USA) Box of Joy (USA) Concerto (USA)26/02 G2 Hutcheson Stakes 7.0f Flashpoint (USA) 3 C Pomeroy (USA) Two Punch Lil (USA) Two Punch (USA)26/02 G2 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes 9.0f Soldat (USA) 3 C War Front (USA) Le Relais (USA) Coronado's Quest (USA)26/02 G2 Davona Dale Stakes 8.0f R Heat Lightning (USA) 3 F Trippi (USA) Yellow Heat (USA) Gold Fever (USA)27/03 G3 Sunland Derby 9.0f Twice The Appeal (USA) 3 C Successful Appeal (USA) Double Boarded (USA) Cormorant (USA)26/03 G3 Tokyo City Cup Stakes 12.0f Worth Repeating (USA) 5 H Giant's Causeway (USA) Lady Nichola (USA) A P Indy (USA)26/03 G3 Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes 9.0f Animal Kingdom (USA) 3 C Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Dalicia (GER) Acatenango (GER)26/03 G3 Bourbonette Oaks 8.0f Summer Soiree (USA) 3 F War Front (USA) Mazel Tov (USA) Mazel Trick (USA)26/03 G3 Pan American Stakes 12.0f Rahy's Attorney (CAN) 7 G Crown Attorney (CAN) Rahy's Hope (USA) Rahy (USA)20/03 G3 Orchid Stakes 12.0f La Luna de Miel (GER) 4 F Monsun (GER) La Hermana (GB) Hernando (FR)19/03 G3 Tampa Bay Stakes 8.5f Doubles Partner (USA) 4 C Rock Hard Ten (USA) Serena's Sister (USA) Rahy (USA)19/03 G3 Azeri Stakes 8.5f Havre de Grace (USA) 4 F Saint Liam (USA) Easter Bunnette (USA) Carson City (USA)19/03 G3 Cicada Stakes 6.0f Quantum Miss (USA) 3 F Smoke Glacken (USA) Quanah County (USA) Valid Expectations (USA)13/03 G3 Herecomesthebride Stakes 9.0f Dynamic Holiday (USA) 3 F Harlan's Holiday (USA) Dynamic Cat (USA) Dynaformer (USA)12/03 G3 Razorback Handicap 8.5f It Happened Again (USA) 5 H Proud Citizen (USA) Quiet Lucky (USA) Quiet American (USA)12/03 G3 Hillsborough Stakes 9.0f Denomination (USA) 5 M Smart Strike (CAN) Dreamlike (USA) Storm Cat (USA)

The Dubai World Cup produced afairytale result in that it provided a firstwin in the world’s richest race (and asecond place too) for Japan two weeksafter that country was hit by adevastating earthquake. VictoirePisa’s success was in part forged inItaly as, when for the second yearrunning the event was hit by a chroniclack of pace, Italian jockey MicroDemuro made a courageous and race-winning move down the back straight,taking his mount from last to virtually jointhe front-running Japan Cup Dirt winner

Transcend. The pair then duelled up thehome straight, with Victoire Pisa comingout on top by half a length. A son of SirMichael Stoute’s 1997 John PorterStakes winner Whitewater Affair,Victoire Pisa is remarkably battle-hardened for a horse that has only justturned four. He had a break afterwinning the Japanese Guineas andfinishing third in the Japanese Derby,came to France for a two-racecampaign culminating in a fair seventhin the Arc, then returned home for threefurther starts (notching two wins and a

third) before heading to Dubai. Hisbankroll stands at almost £8 million andhe now heads for Hong Kong. The rest of Dubai World Cup night

underlined why this has become theworld’s most international race meeting.Godolphin scored home wins in threeraces, most notably with the St Legerflop Rewilding in the Sheema Classicand the Epsom Oaks-bound Khawlah, abeautifully-bred relative of Sea TheStars, in the UAE Derby. The other three main prizes were all

exported. Luca Cumani’s enigmatic

Presvis found the gaps opening at theright time in the Dubai Duty Free,Singapore-trained Rocket Man landedthe global showpiece that has so longeluded him when beating US raiderEuroears in the Golden Shaheen, andthe South African flying machine J J TheJet Plane got up right on the line in theAl Quoz Sprint. Coolmore even came to the

Maktoum family party, withMasterofhounds getting nailed on theline by Khawlah and Cape Blancotaking fourth in the World Cup.

The theory that Cape Town-raidersstruggle to deal with the altitude whenthey journey to Johannesburg was shotto pieces when a pair of long distancetravellers, English Garden and Top

Seller, filled the first two places in theSA Classic at Turffontein. The Mike de Kock-trained Igugu, an

Australian-bred daughter of Galileo, ison target to land the Triple Tiara after

she turned the second leg, the SAFillies Classic, into a procession,coming home more than ten lengthsahead of her nearest rival.

Dancewiththedevilwas another

wide-margin scorer, this time by five anda half lengths, in a Horse ChestnutStakes that was a personal triumph forthe winner’s owner-trainer-breeder StJohn Gray.



Horse Born Sire Stands/Stood BTH BTW GH GWEncosta de Lago (AUS) 1993 Fairy King (USA) AUS IRE 14 9 9 6More Than Ready (USA) 1997 Southern Halo (USA) USA AUS 19 7 10 3Exceed And Excel (AUS) 2000 Danehill (USA) AUS IRE 13 7 6 1Street Cry (IRE) 1998 Machiavellian (USA) USA AUS 13 7 7 4Harlan's Holiday (USA) 1999 Harlan (USA) USA 11 7 5 3Redoute's Choice (AUS) 1996 Danehill (USA) AUS 15 6 12 5Northern Afleet (USA) 1993 Afleet (CAN) USA 6 6 1 1Galileo (IRE) 1998 Sadler's Wells (USA) IRE AUS 12 6 9 2Wild Event (USA) 1993 Wild Again (USA) USA BRZ 8 6 5 4Giant's Causeway (USA) 1997 Storm Cat (USA) USA AUS 12 5 6 3O'Reilly (NZ) 1993 Last Tycoon NZ 6 5 4 3Lonhro (AUS) 1998 Octagonal (NZ) AUS 10 5 6 3Medaglia d'Oro (USA) 1999 El Prado (IRE) USA 7 5 4 1Captain Al (SAF) 1996 Al Mufti (USA) SAF 9 5 4 1Flying Spur (AUS) 1992 Danehill (USA) AUS 13 5 5 2Thunder Gulch (USA) 1992 Gulch (USA) USA AUS ARG 6 5 2 1Indian Charlie (USA) 1995 In Excess USA 7 5 4 2

Leading global sires by stakes winnersAll change at the top as sires based forat least part of the time in Australia haveprofited hugely from the recent mass ofhigh-level races in that country. In theperiod under review there were 16Group 1 events alone contested there,so temporarily the table is bound to beskewed.Encosta de Lago, for whom

Coolmore Classic victor Aloha hasbeen the star, has bounded up from fiveblack type winners to nine including sixin graded company. Second-placed More Than Ready,

who wasn’t even on the list last month,

has done even better. More Joyous andDreamaway gave him a Group 1 doubleat the start of April and his tally of 19black type horses puts him clear ofRedoute’s Choice on 15.Perhaps the most significant aspect

of the list is Galileo’s appearance ineighth before the European turf seasonhas got going in earnest. One Classicwin for Mahbooba at Meydan and twofor South African star Igugu, including arunaway success in the South AfricaFillies’ Classic, look to have set theCoolmore stallion up for another seriouscrack at this championship.BTH = black type horses; BTW = black type winners; GH = Group horses; GW = Group winners

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United States (cont)12/03 G3 Honeybee Stakes 8.5f Joyful Victory (CAN) 3 F Tapit (USA) Wild Lucy Black (USA) Wild Again (USA)12/03 G3 Palm Beach Stakes 9.0f Joes Blazing Aaron (USA) 3 G Graeme Hall (USA) Distorted Blaze (USA) Distorted Humor (USA)05/03 G3 Tom Fool Handicap 6.0f Calibrachoa (USA) 4 C Southern Image (USA) Fort Lauderdale (USA) Montbrook (USA)05/03 G3 Gotham Stakes 8.5f Stay Thirsty (USA) 3 C Bernardini (USA) Marozia (USA) Storm Bird (CAN)05/03 G3 Honey Fox Stakes 8.0f Never Retreat (USA) 6 M Smart Strike (CAN) Lisieux (USA) Steady Growth (CAN)27/02 G3 Canadian Turf Stakes 8.0f Little Mike (USA) 4 G Spanish Steps (USA) Hay Jude (USA) Wavering Monarch (USA)

Pin-up girl Chantal Sutherland becamethe first female winning jockey in the 76-year history of the Santa AnitaHandicap after a highly controversialrace. Her mount, the Bob Baffert-trained Game On Dude, was involvedin some home stretch scrimmaging

which most affected the hot favourite,Twirling Candy. After Game On Dudehad prevailed by a nose from Setsuko,only after a 15-minute stewards’ enquirywas the result allowed to stand. There were more tight finishes in all

three of Santa Anita’s other feature

events. Turbulent Descent took thescore between herself and herKentucky Oaks-bound old rival, Zazu, tothree-one in her favour when taking theSanta Anita Oaks by a neck. Flukemade up for an agonising

reverse in the 2010 Frank E Kilroe Mile

when having a head to spare overCaracortado in the same race. Finally, 45-1 outsider Miss Match,

who had achieved little since winningthe 2008 Argentine Oaks, got up onthe line to nail odds-on favourite Switchin the Santa Margarita Invitational.

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DATA BOOKOVERSEAS WINNERS

Breeder Winner Sire Age/sex Dam Ctry Date Racecourse Distance Prize-money (£)Airlie Stud Fabrino (IRE) Elnadim (USA) 3 c Trullitti (IRE) Swi 27/3/11 Avenches 1m2f165y 2,317Appleby Lodge Stud Domeside (GB) Domedriver (IRE) 5 h Buck's Fizz (GB) Spa 03/4/11 Zarzuela 1m2f 7,759Aston House Stud Latika (GB) Tobougg (IRE) 4 f Emanant (GB) Ity 27/3/11 Pisa 1m2f 4,310Aston Mullins Stud Dubawi Heights (GB) Dubawi (IRE) 4 f Rosie's Posy (IRE) Usa 01/4/11 Santa Anita 1m 21,538Ballybrennan Stud Ltd Black Ranger (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) 3 c Shoshana (IRE) Ity 06/4/11 Rome 7f 3,879Ballygallon Stud Ltd Eldarion (IRE) Aragorn (IRE) 3 c Madame Cerito (USA) Fr 03/4/11 Carpentras 1m2f165y 5,172Ballylinch Stud Cash Queen Anna (IRE) Dr Fong (USA) 4 f Cashel Queen (USA) Usa 20/3/11 Golden Gate 1m 2,891Ballylinch Stud Bakelor (IRE) Bachelor Duke (USA) 3 c Desert Magic (IRE) Ity 22/3/11 Milan 7f110y 8,620Ballylinch Stud Fox Hunt (IRE) Dubawi (IRE) 4 g Kiltubber (IRE) Fr 18/3/11 Deauville 1m4f 12,069Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Sir Eagles (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) 3 c Daftiyna (IRE) Ity 24/3/11 Milan 5f 8,620Barouche Stud Ireland Ltd Senza Rete (IRE) Barathea (IRE) 3 f Lyrical Dance (USA) Ity 03/4/11 Rome 1m 24,137 (L)Barrett, M. Rileyskeepingfaith (GB) Hunting Lion (IRE) 5 g Keeping The Faith (IRE) Uae 10/3/11 Meydan 1m 97,012 (Gr2)Bartlett & J. M. Beever, K. A. Golden Storming (GB) Storming Home (GB) 3 f Dot Com Dot (GB) Ity 06/4/11 Rome 7f110y 3,448Bearstone Stud Oineas (GB) Foxhound (USA) 8 h Santiburi Girl (GB) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 7f 2,517Bearstone Stud Oineas (GB) Foxhound (USA) 8 h Santiburi Girl (GB) Gr 25/3/11 Athens 7f 2,611Begley, M. Ci Penso Un Po (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) 5 m Colour And Spice (IRE) Ity 20/3/11 Milan 1m2f 3,017Black Horse Farm Moorland Boy (GB) Proclamation (IRE) 3 g Superlove (IRE) Swe 06/3/11 Taby 1m 2,873Blanchard, Mrs A. L. Picoloweddingparty (GB) Piccolo (GB) 4 c Aunt Hilda (GB) Ity 03/4/11 Treviso 1m55y 3,017Bourke, O. Elanje (IRE) Redback (GB) 3 c Suddenly (GB) Ity 17/3/11 Milan 1m 6,896Brook Stud Bloodstock Ltd Five Cents (GB) Exceed And Excel (AUS) 4 c Native Nickel (IRE) Uae 11/3/11 Jebel Ali 1m1f 7,381Brosnan, N. Bush Tucker (IRE) Choisir (AUS) 4 c Queen's Victory (GB) Hk 23/3/11 Sha Tin 6f 40,008Bumble BS, C. Liesack & Mrs S. Nicholls Sharp Eclipse (GB) Exceed And Excel (AUS) 4 g Helen Sharp (GB) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 6f 2,832Burns, A. a. M. Monti Iblei (IRE) Titus Livius (FR) 3 f Go For Red (IRE) Ity 26/3/11 Siracusa 5f110y 4,310Byrne, P. Questi Amori (IRE) Choisir (AUS) 4 c Light And Airy (GB) Ity 25/3/11 Rome 6f 6,896Byrne, P. Rey Davis (IRE) King Charlemagne (USA) 6 h San Luis Rey (GB) Fr 22/3/11 Fontainebleau 6f 10,345Byrne, P. Rey Davis (IRE) King Charlemagne (USA) 6 h San Luis Rey (GB) Fr 07/4/11 Maisons-Laffitte 6f 10,345Campbell-Andenaes, Mrs M. Presvis (GB) Sakhee (USA) 7 g Forest Fire (SWE) Uae 26/3/11 Meydan 1m1f 1,940,246 (Gr1)Carradale Cambina (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) 3 f Await (IRE) Usa 13/3/11 Santa Anita 1m 30,442 (L)Carroll, Mr J. M. Bellinissimo (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) 5 h Princess Electra (IRE) Fr 16/3/11 Marseille Pont De Vivaux 1m2f 21,552Carson, W. H. F. Munjum (GB) Sakhee (USA) 5 g Ann Veronica (IRE) Gr 25/3/11 Athens 1m4f 11,328Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Debejki (GB) Where Or When (IRE) 3 c Dream Again (GB) Ity 28/3/11 Pisa 7f110y 2,155Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Burnished (GB) Pivotal (GB) 4 g Flame Valley (USA) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 7f 2,517Cheveley Park Stud Ltd Burnished (GB) Pivotal (GB) 4 g Flame Valley (USA) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 6f 2,832Clee, Mr & Mrs D. D. Longhunter (GB) Halling (USA) 3 c Dawnus (IRE) Usa 02/4/11 Gulfstream Park 1m 19,231Cliveden Stud Ltd Dubawi King (GB) Dubawi (IRE) 4 g Laughing Girl (USA) Qtr 17/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m 4,043Cliveden Stud Ltd Dubawi King (GB) Dubawi (IRE) 4 g Laughing Girl (USA) Qtr 24/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m1f55y 8,085Close, R. D. and M. Majestic Fraam (GB) Fraam (GB) 5 g Yarrita (GB) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 7f 2,045Clovelly Farms High In The Sky (USA) Silver Hawk (USA) 7 h Flora Danica (USA) Ity 31/3/11 Milan 1m4f 3,017Connolly, J. Spirit Grey (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) 4 f Ja Ganhou (GB) Ity 18/3/11 Rome 7f110y 3,017Cooke, K. Sky's Spirit (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) 5 h Zaola (IRE) Ity 17/3/11 Siracusa 1m110y 2,155Cooke, T. Gedalolly (IRE) Key Of Luck (USA) 6 m Amarice (GB) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 1m 2,989Coonan, Mrs M. City Of Tribes (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) 7 g Yellow Trumpet (GB) Hk 12/3/11 Sha Tin 6f 40,008Cooper, T. J. Miss Starlight (GB) Trade Fair (GB) 4 f Redeem (IRE) Qtr 17/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m2f 4,043Cullen, K. and Mrs Young Stack (IRE) Ad Valorem (USA) 3 c Benelux (GB) Ity 18/3/11 Rome 1m 8,620Cullinan, J. Al Rep (IRE) Trade Fair (GB) 3 c Swizzle (GB) Ity 03/4/11 Rome 7f110y 24,137 (L)Darley Burghley (GB) Shamardal (USA) 4 g Badminton (GB) Gr 18/3/11 Athens 7f 2,832Darley Festival City (GB) Green Desert (USA) 3 c Harvest Festival (IRE) Fr 04/4/11 Le Lion D'Angers 7f 6,034Darley Spinning Yarn (GB) Pivotal (GB) 4 f Subtle Charm (GB) Ity 01/4/11 Rome 6f 6,034Darley Graymalkin (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) 4 c Pearl Grey (GB) Uae 18/3/11 Jebel Ali 1m 7,381Darley Chief Officer (GB) King's Best (USA) 3 c Moonlight Sail (USA) Fr 25/3/11 Lyon-Parilly 1m3f 7,759Darley Monarch's Way (GB) King's Best (USA) 4 c La Bayadere (GB) Fr 29/3/11 Compiegne 1m4f 8,621Darley Concordat (GB) Selkirk (USA) 3 c African Peace (USA) Fr 01/4/11 Fontainebleau 1m 10,345Darley Ticket To Paradise (GB) Singspiel (IRE) 4 c Dream Ticket (USA) Ksa 17/3/11 King Abdulaziz 1m2f 10,345Darley Litigant (GB) Sinndar (IRE) 3 c Jomana (IRE) Fr 07/4/11 Maisons-Laffitte 1m2f110y 12,500Darley Karatoya (IRE) Tiger Hill (IRE) 4 c Wajd (USA) Fr 21/3/11 Compiegne 1m6f 12,931Darley Red Alert Day (GB) Diktat (GB) 6 h Strike Hard (IRE) Usa 01/4/11 Santa Anita 1m1f 13,077Darley Mulaqat (GB) Singspiel (IRE) 8 h Atamana (IRE) Uae 18/3/11 Jebel Ali 1m1f165y 13,708Darley Otaared (GB) Storm Cat (USA) 6 h Society Lady (USA) Uae 18/3/11 Jebel Ali 7f 13,708Darley Modern History (IRE) Shamardal (USA) 3 c Fatefully (USA) Fr 04/4/11 Longchamp 1m 14,655Darley Andina (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) 4 f Fragrant Oasis (USA) Usa 12/3/11 Santa Anita 1m 22,692Darley Honour System (IRE) King's Best (USA) 4 c Rawabi (GB) Uae 10/3/11 Meydan 1m1f110y 67,908Darley Whispering Gallery (GB) Daylami (IRE) 5 g Echoes In Eternity (IRE) Uae 10/3/11 Meydan 2m 77,609 (Gr3)Darley Skysurfers (GB) E Dubai (USA) 5 h Fortune (IRE) Uae 26/3/11 Meydan 1m 388,049 (Gr2)Darley Khawlah (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) 3 f Villarrica (USA) Uae 26/3/11 Meydan 1m1f110y 776,098 (Gr2)Davis, J. G. and Mrs Pentominium (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) 4 c Mouriyana (IRE) Ksa 04/3/11 King Abdulaziz 1m1f 3,259Davis, J. G. and Mrs Pentominium (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) 4 c Mouriyana (IRE) Ksa 25/3/11 King Abdulaziz 1m2f 3,259Davis, J. G. and Mrs Skins Game (GB) Diktat (GB) 5 h Mouriyana (IRE) Fr 03/4/11 Saint-Cloud 1m 34,483 (Gr3)Dayton Investments Ltd Oppenort (IRE) Aussie Rules (USA) 3 c Odessa (IRE) Fr 22/3/11 Fontainebleau 1m3f 14,655Deerforest Stud Bergonzi (IRE) Indian Ridge 7 g Lady Windley (GB) Fr 11/3/11 Deauville 1m4f 7,759Derrymore House Syndicate Eyecatsher (IRE) Intikhab (USA) 3 c Docklands Grace (USA) Swi 20/3/11 Avenches 1m 2,648Diomed Bloodstock Ltd Riquita (IRE) High Chaparral (IRE) 3 f Yxenery (IRE) Fr 03/4/11 Saint-Cloud 1m2f110y 9,052Douglas & Ms Carole Douglas, Mr A. & C. Filkewimagi (IRE) Orpen (USA) 5 h Simply Devious (IRE) Ity 01/4/11 Varese 7f110y 3,448Egan, Mrs Ann Irish Silk (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) 4 c Lime Hill Honey (IRE) Gny 20/3/11 Krefeld 1m110y 2,586Ermyn Lodge Stud Limited Nova Hawk (GB) Hawk Wing (USA) 3 f Reveuse de Jour (IRE) Fr 31/3/11 Saint-Cloud 1m 23,707 (L)Forenaghts Stud Al Madina (IRE) Noverre (USA) 3 f Tasha's Dream (USA) Qtr 10/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m 4,043Freedom Partnership Fight For Freedom (IRE) Hawk Wing (USA) 4 c Freedom (GER) Gny 20/3/11 Krefeld 1m3f 4,310Freedom Partnership Free Winner (IRE) Oratorio (IRE) 3 c Freedom (GER) Ity 04/4/11 Florence 7f110y 4,310Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd First Queen (GB) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 5 m Orange Blossom (IRE) Usa 25/3/11 Turf Paradise 1m 2,000Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Never Ending Tale (GB) Singspiel (IRE) 6 g Bright Finish (USA) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 7f 2,423Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Hill Invader (IRE) Danehill (USA) 7 h Youm Jadeed (IRE) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 1m1f 2,517Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Cartel (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) 5 h Nadia (GB) Fr 22/3/11 Fontainebleau 7f 8,621Gainsborough Stud Management Ltd Emirates Champion (GB) Haafhd (GB) 5 h Janaat (GB) Uae 10/3/11 Meydan 1m3f 67,908Gavin, Exors of the Late C. Cape Velvet (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) 7 m Material Lady (IRE) Fr 28/3/11 Saint-Cloud 1m 7,759Genesis Green Stud Ltd March Madness (GB) Noverre (USA) 3 f Spinning Reel (GB) Ity 23/3/11 Rome 1m1f 9,482Glebe Stud & J. F. Dean Ayanz (GB) Tiger Hill (IRE) 3 c Got To Go (GB) Spa 13/3/11 Zarzuela 1m 8,621Glending Bloodstock Open Sesame (IRE) Key Of Luck (USA) 5 g Chiquita Linda (IRE) Hk 12/3/11 Sha Tin 1m 30,124Grangecon Stud Asterrlini (IRE) Refuse To Bend (IRE) 4 f Alithini (IRE) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 6f 2,832Grangecon Stud To Believe (IRE) Elusive City (USA) 5 h Lure Of The Moon (USA) Ity 26/3/11 Siracusa 6f110y 3,448Grangemore Stud Bernieres (IRE) Montjeu (IRE) 3 f Bounce (FR) Fr 22/3/11 Fontainebleau 1m3f 14,655Grundy Bloodstock Ltd Daylang (GB) Daylami (IRE) 6 h Kelang (GB) Ity 04/4/11 Florence 1m3f 4,310Grundy Bloodstock S R L Stay Alive (IRE) Iffraaj (GB) 3 f Pursuit Of Life (GB) Ity 24/3/11 Milan 13y 10,775Grundy, Mrs E. M. Urkanie (GB) Nayef (USA) 3 f Mantle (GB) Fr 24/3/11 Deauville 1m1f110y 10,776Haim, R. Alternative (GB) Dr Fong (USA) 7 h Oatey (GB) Spa 19/3/11 Antela 6f 2,586Hanly & Michael Andrea, J. Sestri Levante (IRE) Diamond Green (FR) 3 f Set Trail (IRE) Ity 02/4/11 Pisa 1m1f 2,155Hannon, Mrs Kathleen Eragons Dream (IRE) Arakan (USA) 4 c Embraceable (IRE) Fr 04/4/11 Longchamp 1m 10,345Harrington, C. Ridge Wood Dani (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) 6 g Dani Ridge (IRE) Qtr 07/4/11 Al Rayyan 5f 4,043Hascombe & Valiant Studs Group Captain (GB) Dr Fong (USA) 9 g Alusha (GB) Fr 30/3/11 Amiens 1m6f110y 6,034Hascombe & Valiant Studs Group Captain (GB) Dr Fong (USA) 9 g Alusha (GB) Fr 15/3/11 Saint-Cloud 1m7f 6,466Herbertstown Stud Ltd Speyside (IRE) Orpen (USA) 6 g Dandaka (GB) Ksa 04/3/11 King Abdulaziz 1m2f 6,034Holborn Trust Co. Icemancometh (IRE) Marju (IRE) 6 g Irina (IRE) Usa 29/3/11 Turf Paradise 1m 2,846Horizon Bloodstock Limited Major Art (GB) Compton Place (GB) 3 c Rosewood Belle (USA) Usa 18/3/11 Santa Anita 1m 21,538Houghton & J. S. Moore, E. J. and Mrs Lebowski (GB) Beveled (USA) 13 g Sandkatoon (IRE) Ity 17/3/11 Grosseto 1m 2,370Howard Barton Stud Johann Zoffany (GB) Galileo (IRE) 5 g Belle Allemande (CAN) Aus 14/3/11 Morphettville 2m 169,281 (Gr2)Hoyer, J. & W. Alkhana (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) 3 f A Beautiful Mind (GER) Gny 03/4/11 Cologne 1m 2,586Hurley & Simon & Mrs S.Marriot, T. J. Polanka (IRE) Ivan Denisovich (IRE) 3 c Christeningpresent (IRE) Ity 18/3/11 Rome 1m2f110y 3,017Iceton, D. G. Redesignation (IRE) Key Of Luck (USA) 6 g Disregard That (IRE) Fr 27/3/11 Ajaccio 1m4f 4,310Irish National Stud Blackberry Boy (IRE) Desert Prince (IRE) 7 h Summer Crush (USA) Spa 27/3/11 Zarzuela 1m3f 3,879Irish National Stud Mister Segway (IRE) Dansili (GB) 3 c Aplysia (USA) Fr 23/3/11 Le Croise-Laroche 1m1f 6,034Jones, Mr D. H. L. Dream Emperor (IRE) King Charlemagne (USA) 6 h Tinsel (GB) Mal 27/3/11 Selangor 6f 8,685Joseph Stewart Investments Rock Of India (IRE) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 4 c Indian Belle (IRE) Swi 20/3/11 Avenches 1m3f 2,317

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Joyce, Mr J. Talimos (IRE) Lomitas (GB) 5 g Silvertone (FR) Mac 26/3/11 Taipa 1m 8,472Juddmonte Farms Ltd Sight Unseen (GB) Sadler's Wells (USA) 5 h High Praise (USA) Fr 01/4/11 Salon-De-Provence 1m4f 7,759Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Making Strides (GB) Beat Hollow (GB) 4 c Daki (USA) Gny 27/3/11 Dusseldorf 1m3f 2,069Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Victory Raid (GB) Observatory (USA) 4 g Didicoy (USA) Cyp 18/3/11 Nicosia 7f110y 2,412Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Gran Zamir (GB) Zamindar (USA) 6 h Woodwardia (USA) Ity 18/3/11 Rome 7f 2,586Juddmonte Farms Ltd. Hunting Tartan (GB) Oasis Dream (GB) 4 c Delta (GB) Qtr 07/4/11 Al Rayyan 1m 4,043Kavanagh, P. Viso Pallido (IRE) Beat Hollow (GB) 3 c English Harbour (GB) Ity 03/4/11 Milan 1m 12,931Kelly, Mr T. Choose Wisely (IRE) Choisir (AUS) 3 c Right After Moyne (IRE) Qtr 30/3/11 Al Rayyan 7f 20,213Kelly, Mrs L. Spin Cycle (IRE) Exceed And Excel (AUS) 5 h Spinamix (GB) Uae 11/3/11 Jebel Ali 5f 52,724 (L)Kelly, P. Via di Fuga (IRE) Ivan Denisovich (IRE) 3 f Just One Smile (IRE) Ity 16/3/11 Rome 1m1f 3,448Kenilworth House Stud Pim Pam (IRE) Verglas (IRE) 4 f Pacy's Ridge (IRE) Fr 29/3/11 Compiegne 1m 7,759Kennedy, P. Volcanico (IRE) Refuse To Bend (IRE) 3 c Zayana (IRE) Spa 27/3/11 Zarzuela 7f 8,621Kilcarn Stud Jehannedarc (IRE) Montjeu (IRE) 3 f Lucky Rainbow (USA) Fr 14/3/11 Compiegne 1m2f 12,500Kildaragh Stud Albaraah (IRE) Oasis Dream (GB) 3 f Coconut Show (GB) Fr 22/3/11 Fontainebleau 1m 10,345Kilfrush Stud Glorious Sight (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) 3 f Zelding (IRE) Fr 23/3/11 Le Croise-Laroche 1m1f 7,759Kilfrush Stud Glorious Sight (IRE) Singspiel (IRE) 3 f Zelding (IRE) Fr 04/4/11 Longchamp 1m 14,655Kilfrush Stud Ryehill Dreamer (IRE) Catcher In The Rye (IRE) 5 h No Way (IRE) Usa 11/3/11 Santa Anita 1m1f 24,231Killeen, B. New Jear's Day (IRE) Antonius Pius (USA) 3 c Ivorbella (IRE) Ity 16/3/11 Rome 1m1f110y 9,482Kilnamoragh Stud Al Nasr Dream (IRE) Marju (IRE) 6 h Batilde (IRE) Usa 12/3/11 Tampa Bay Downs 1m 7,885Kirtlington Stud & Gilridge Bloodstock Anse Georgette (GB) Starcraft (NZ) 4 f Seguro (IRE) Fr 27/3/11 Mont-De-Marsan 1m2f 5,603Knocklong House Stud Vittoria Day (IRE) Arakan (USA) 3 f Maydaymayday (IRE) Ity 06/4/11 Rome 1m1f110y 3,017Leydens Farm Stud Dexippos (GB) Monsieur Bond (IRE) 3 c First Tarf (GB) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 6f 4,091Limestone & Tara Studs Sheikhtothemusic (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) 4 f Oomph (GB) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 6f 2,832Lindsay Park & Templeton Stud Hello Fuji (GB) Dansili (GB) 3 f Ziya (IRE) Fr 25/3/11 Deauville 7f110y 12,500Llety Stud Sagittario (GB) Auction House (USA) 4 c Amwell Star (USA) Ity 06/4/11 Rome 1m 8,620Loughtown Stud Amadeo Rey (IRE) Intikhab (USA) 4 c Friendly Warning (GB) Spa 03/4/11 Zarzuela 7f 10,345Lynch Bages Ltd Utrillo (IRE) Encosta de Lago (AUS) 4 c Mary McGlinchy (USA) Sin 25/3/11 Kranji 1m1f110y 14,800Lynch, Mrs J. & K. Dhahira (IRE) Indian Ridge 4 f West Virginia (IRE) Gr 25/3/11 Athens 7f 2,832Maddenstown Equine Enterprise Ltd Giovane Avvoltoio (IRE) Refuse To Bend (IRE) 3 c Bella Miranda (GB) Ity 02/4/11 Siracusa 5f110y 3,448Madigan, P. Captain Stock Alca (IRE) Captain Rio (GB) 4 c Glamour Stock (USA) Ity 26/3/11 Siracusa 1m 2,155Malard & Westbury Bloodstock, Mr H. Cut Into The Rock (IRE) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 4 c Queen Of Persia (IRE) Fr 04/4/11 Longchamp 1m 7,759McCartan, P. Kala Kanta (IRE) Verglas (IRE) 5 h Rappide (IRE) Uae 18/3/11 Jebel Ali 1m1f165y 8,963McElroy, J. Sheekey (IRE) Okawango (USA) 6 h My Darling Dodo (IRE) Usa 20/3/11 Golden Gate 6f 2,962McEvoy, C. Camacho Speed (IRE) Camacho (GB) 3 c Wondrous Joy (GB) Ity 17/3/11 Siracusa 1m1f110y 4,310McGrath, T. Dorsoduro (IRE) Tiger Hill (IRE) 3 c Oriental Sea (GER) Ity 03/4/11 Rome 1m110y 6,465McHale & Oghill House Stud, C. Hear The Roar (IRE) High Chaparral (IRE) 4 g Talbiya (IRE) Hk 12/3/11 Sha Tin 1m1f 40,008Minster Stud Excellent Thought (GB) Exceed And Excel (AUS) 4 f Amiata (GB) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 6f 3,147Minster Stud Hammerfest (GB) Fantastic Light (USA) 4 c Bathilde (IRE) Fr 17/3/11 Amiens 1m3f 7,328Molony, P. Sudeikin (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) 6 h Sangita (GB) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 1m 2,989Morrissey, S. Running Flame (IRE) Indian Haven (GB) 5 g Discretion (IRE) Gny 03/4/11 Munich 7f 2,069Mountarmstrong Stud A Moment With You (IRE) Redback (GB) 3 f Alexander Capetown (IRE) Fr 25/3/11 Deauville 7f110y 7,759Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd Award Ceremony (IRE) Green Desert (USA) 6 g Ripple Of Pride (IRE) Gr 18/3/11 Athens 6f 2,423Mulligan, G. One Clever Cat (IRE) One Cool Cat (USA) 5 m Burn Baby Burn (IRE) Fr 07/4/11 Maisons-Laffitte 1m1f 22,414 (L)Mulligan, J. Feels All Right (IRE) Danehill Dancer (IRE) 5 h Zagreb Flyer (GB) Usa 27/3/11 Gulfstream Park 1m1f 10,577Murfitt, C. J. Lord Fauntleroy (GB) Zaha (CAN) 6 h Elegant Gracie (IRE) Cyp 18/3/11 Nicosia 7f110y 2,889National Stud, The Elegant Pursuit (GB) Pastoral Pursuits (GB) 3 f Bundle Up (USA) Fr 19/3/11 Toulouse 1m2f110y 6,034Needham, Mr & Mrs S. Amfitryon (GB) Bertolini (USA) 6 h Urban Dancer (IRE) Gr 18/3/11 Athens 7f 10,195Newsells Park Stud Al Muthanaa (GB) Pivotal (GB) 4 g Mail The Desert (IRE) Qtr 17/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m 4,043Newsells Park Stud Auguste Renoir (GB) Montjeu (IRE) 3 c Janet (GB) Qtr 24/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m 4,043Newsells Park Stud Carbon Hoofprint (GB) Green Tune (USA) 5 g Salome's Attack (GB) Usa 18/3/11 Golden Gate 6f 6,923Newsells Park Stud Limited Imasci (GB) Medicean (GB) 4 c She's Classy (USA) Gny 03/4/11 Cologne 1m 3,448Norelands Bloodstock, J. Hanly & H. Lascelles Party Cat (IRE) One Cool Cat (USA) 5 g Congress (IRE) Swe 06/3/11 Taby 1m 3,352Norton Grove Stud Ltd Mister Maskoulas (GB) Timeless Times (USA) 6 g Royal Comedian (GB) Cyp 09/3/11 Nicosia 1m 2,096O'Brien, Mrs J. Moving Ice (IRE) Verglas (IRE) 5 m Iomha (IRE) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 7f 2,360O'Byrne, J. Anuqet (IRE) Choisir (AUS) 5 h Sweet Cicely (IRE) Ity 18/3/11 Rome 7f 17,241O'Connor, J. B. Lear Keye (IRE) Hawkeye (IRE) 4 c Ohreoh (USA) Ity 12/3/11 Siracusa 7f110y 3,448O'Connor, O. Carnival Time (IRE) Captain Rio (GB) 4 g Latest (IRE) Gr 15/3/11 Athens 6f 2,832Old Carhue Stud King Ting (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 3 c Ting A Greeley (GB) Usa 13/3/11 Gulfstream Park 1m 16,308O'Rahilly, Mr M. Toro Rosso (IRE) Fasliyev (USA) 3 c Thelema (IRE) Ity 25/3/11 Rome 6f 3,017Ormsby, L. Wake Me Now (IRE) Almutawakel (GB) 5 m Shiyra Usa 26/3/11 Santa Anita 1m 14,615Osborne & Edgeridge Ltd, J. Monsieurnando (IRE) Antonius Pius (USA) 3 c Fantastic Bid (USA) Ity 27/3/11 Milan 7f110y 6,896Oxford Racing Mr Yaitoy (IRE) Oratorio (IRE) 3 c Shoooz (IRE) Ity 02/4/11 Siracusa 1m 2,155Paget Bloodstock Josala (IRE) Mull Of Kintyre (USA) 8 h Mer Noire (IRE) Ity 12/3/11 Siracusa 1m2f110y 2,155Paget Bloodstock Belle Masquee (IRE) Oratorio (IRE) 4 f Secret Wells (USA) Fr 19/3/11 Saint-Cloud 1m2f110y 14,224Parker, A. Farley Star (GB) Alzao (USA) 7 m Girl Of My Dreams (IRE) Usa 17/3/11 Santa Anita 1m2f 21,538Parker, Sir Eric Dzang He (GB) Shirocco (GER) 3 c Belladera (IRE) Ity 04/4/11 Florence 1m1f 2,155Paulyn Limited Crying Lightening (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 3 f Auction Room (USA) Uae 10/3/11 Meydan 7f 38,804Pegasus Breeding Ltd Miss Bex (IRE) Dalakhani (IRE) 3 f Lady Bex (IRE) Fr 26/3/11 Toulouse 1m2f110y 11,638Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Legendary Glory (IRE) Halling (USA) 3 f Secret Melody (FR) Fr 20/3/11 Lisieux 1m1f110y 3,448Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Brasileira (GB) Dubai Destination (USA) 3 f Shifting Sands (FR) Fr 03/4/11 Lyon-Parilly 1m3f 6,034Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd Isle Of Pearl (IRE) Verglas (IRE) 4 f Sahara Snow (GB) Fr 18/3/11 Deauville 7f110y 8,621Pier House Stud Mysterious Ways (IRE) Oratorio (IRE) 3 c Farewell To Love (IRE) Ity 28/3/11 Pisa 1m2f 3,448Pinnacle Bloodstock PLC Panathenaia (GB) Dr Fong (USA) 5 h Tetralogy (USA) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 7f 2,045Plantation Stud (For Breeder's Prizes Only) Sunchii (GB) Unfuwain (USA) 9 h Sardonic (GB) Ity 03/4/11 Chilivani 1m 2,155Pontchartrain Stud Cadeau For Maggi (GB) Cadeaux Genereux 6 h Maggi For Margaret (GB) Fr 07/4/11 Maisons-Laffitte 6f 20,259Prosser, J. Singh, & N. & E. Kent, E. Spirited Lady (IRE) Invincible Spirit (IRE) 4 f Lanasara (GB) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 7f 2,832Rathasker Stud Handsome Batchelor (IRE) Trans Island (GB) 5 h Batchelor's Button (FR) Hk 20/3/11 Sha Tin 1m2f 30,124Rathbarry Stud Montecchio (IRE) Acclamation (GB) 4 c Fritta Mista (IRE) Hk 12/3/11 Sha Tin 7f 108,258 (L)Rausing, Miss K. Alcimedes (GB) Domedriver (IRE) 6 g Allegra Gr 18/3/11 Athens 7f 2,045Redmyre Bloodstock Ltd Sandoval (GB) Ishiguru (USA) 5 h Route Sixty Six (IRE) Spa 20/3/11 Zarzuela 1m 4,310Reid, Mr A. Kyzyl Kum (GB) Green Desert (USA) 3 g Rise (GB) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 6f 4,091Richmond-Watson, J. H. Desert Sage (GB) Selkirk (USA) 4 f Prairie Flower (IRE) Usa 18/3/11 Gulfstream Park 1m 17,154Rockfield Farm Ottaviano Augusto (IRE) Holy Roman Emperor (IRE) 3 c Moon Legend (USA) Ity 27/3/11 Milan 1m2f 8,620Rockhart Trading Ltd Rogalt (IRE) Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE) 5 h Rills (USA) Fr 23/3/11 Le Croise-Laroche 5f110y 6,034Roundhill Stud & Gleadhill House Stud Ltd Chicago Cop (IRE) Fasliyev (USA) 5 g Sassari (IRE) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 7f 3,084Scott, Mr D. Falkland Flyer (IRE) Johannesburg (USA) 3 c Tree Chopper (USA) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 7f 10,478Selim, Mr B. Garghir (IRE) Whipper (USA) 3 c On My Kness (FR) Ity 25/3/11 Varese 5f 2,586Shack, J. Gulapa (GB) Observatory (USA) 4 c Spitting Image (IRE) Swe 06/3/11 Taby 1m 3,831Shadwell Estate Company Limited Sahbaan (IRE) Indian Ridge 4 c Khulan (USA) Cyp 20/3/11 Nicosia 1m4f55y 7,107Skinner, Mrs B. On The Side (GB) Shinko Forest (IRE) 8 g Apple Sauce (GB) Fr 18/3/11 Deauville 7f110y 7,759Smith, Mrs Helen En Un Clin d'Oeil (IRE) Chineur (FR) 4 c Sans Reserve (IRE) Hk 12/3/11 Sha Tin 7f 40,008Sorento Farm Queen Of Liberty (IRE) Statue Of Liberty (USA) 5 m Andkit (USA) Ity 11/3/11 Siracusa 5f110y 2,155Stratford Place Stud Aristocrat (GB) Galileo (IRE) 5 h Silver Colours (USA) Aus 29/3/11 Moe 1m2f55y 4,624Stynes, F. Picante (IRE) Bertolini (USA) 2 f Undertone (IRE) Fr 03/4/11 Lyon-Parilly 4f110y 6,034Swordlestown Stud Shakalaka (IRE) Montjeu (IRE) 5 g Sweet Times (GB) Fr 25/3/11 Lyon-Parilly 1m3f 10,776T. W. Bloodstock Ltd Last Attempt (IRE) Cape Cross (IRE) 3 c Majestic Role (FR) Fr 14/3/11 Compiegne 1m2f 12,500Tally-Ho Stud Ladyanne (IRE) Redback (GB) 3 f Gillipops (IRE) Qtr 24/3/11 Al Rayyan 7f 4,043Tally-Ho Stud Ladyanne (IRE) Redback (GB) 3 f Gillipops (IRE) Qtr 30/3/11 Al Rayyan 1m2f 20,213Taylor, Mr B. J. Cerveza (GB) Medicean (GB) 3 f Kalindi (GB) Fr 11/3/11 Deauville 7f110y 14,655Theobalds Stud Baylon (GB) Zamindar (USA) 3 c Aegean Dream (IRE) Ity 30/3/11 Rome 1m 6,034Tombs, A. M. Henderson Park (GB) Bertolini (USA) 5 h Armada Grove (GB) Hk 20/3/11 Sha Tin 6f 30,124Usk Valley Stud Spice Souk (GB) Tiger Hill (IRE) 4 c Zanzibar (IRE) Uae 11/3/11 Jebel Ali 1m 6,326Walsh, Mrs N. De Phazz (IRE) Barathea (IRE) 11 g Fizz Up (GB) Fr 14/3/11 Toulouse 1m 6,466Wardstown Stud Ltd Puntero Triste (IRE) Medecis (GB) 6 h Changi (IRE) Ity 20/3/11 Milan 6f 5,172Watership Down Stud Rewilding (GB) Tiger Hill (IRE) 4 c Darara Uae 26/3/11 Meydan 1m4f11y 1,940,246 (Gr1)Whisperview Trading Ltd Tellovoi (IRE) Indian Haven (GB) 3 c Kloonlara (IRE) Ity 30/3/11 Rome 1m 8,620Williams, O. J. Primo Dilettante (GB) Primo Valentino (IRE) 5 g Jezadil (IRE) Ity 27/3/11 Pisa 1m3f 3,017Woodcote Stud Ltd Picorocco (IRE) Generous (IRE) 8 h Immortelle (GB) Gr 11/3/11 Athens 1m 3,556Woodlock & Seamus Kennedy, M. Total Gallery (IRE) Namid (GB) 5 h Diary (IRE) Fr 05/4/11 Moulins 5f 6,897Yeomanstown Stud Ioulianos (IRE) Camacho (GB) 3 c Downland (USA) Gr 29/3/11 Athens 6f 4,091

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FLASHBACK

May 4, 1977 Mark Birch produces Sea Pigeon with a well-timedchallenge to land the first of two successive Chester Cups

1 Sea Pigeon – Mark Birch

2 Ribarbarbo – Edward Hide

3 Mark Henry – John Lowe

Sea Pigeon was one of racing’ssuperstars in the late 1970s andearly 1980s.

The son of Sea Bird II’s achievementsunder both codes, winning twoChampion Hurdles, two Chester Cupsand an Ebor marked him out as a horsewith rare talent.

He was partnered to his Roodeetriumphs by Mark Birch, then stablejockey to trainer Peter Easterby and aseven-time Cock o’ the North.

Birch says: “The ‘77 success was SeaPigeon’s first race on the Flat for us.We thought he’d win, though. Lester[Piggott] wanted the ride but luckilythe owner, Pat Muldoon, stuck withme.

“He was a good two- and three-year-old with Jeremy Tree – he finishedseventh in Morston’s Derby [in 1973] –but was too headstrong to fulfil hispotential early on.

“I held him up near the back – thekey was to get him dropped out andswitched off – and I actually got there

too soon, but I didn’t want todisappoint him.

“He pulled up a bit in front but stillwon by a length. He scored easier thenext year despite the extra weight – Iknew how to ride him then.

“When he won the Ebor [under 10st],Jonjo [O’Neill] dropped his hands andalmost got beat by a young five poundclaimer named Philip Robinson!”

Birch, who retired from riding 14years ago at the age of 48, has workedfor Kevin Ryan since the Hambletontrainer set up.

He adds: “Sea Pigeon was the best Irode, along with Sonnen Gold whowon the 1979 Gimcrack Stakes. He wasjust a pleasure to ride. Sea Pigeondidn’t really get two miles on the Flatbut at Chester you could get abreather into him.

“His biggest asset was his ability – heimproved and improved and won hissecond Champion Hurdle aged 11.John Francome said he was one of thebest he ever sat on – that says it all.”

GEORGE SELWYN

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