Review of the Year 2017

REVIEW OF THHE YEAR 2017 We take a month-by-month look back at some of the standout moments of what was once again a wonderful campaign for Kingsley Park By JOHN SCANLON HEN you consider the Three horses won at Group 3 level, with Completing the roll call of stakes highlights of the the three-year-old Frankuus being a game winners were the prolific pair of three- campaign, there is little winner of Haydock’s Rose of Lancaster year-old Listed winners, Titi Makfi and doubt that 2017 has Stakes, while the juvenile filly Nyaleti Peach Melba, while four-year-old Renfrew Wproved to be another brilliant year for slammed her field in Ascot’s Princess Street’s Listed win at Cologne struck a Kingsley Park. Margaret Stakes by five lengths. Last but blow for our older horses. The yard chalked up 215 British Flat not least, the highly promising Elarqam At the summer’s main festivals, Mark wins, landing a double-century of won the Tattersalls Stakes over seven added to his Royal Ascot record with successes for the seventh time, with those furlongs at Newmarket at the end of winners Permian and Oriental Fox, while wins headed by Permian’s Group 2 double. September. wins by Londinium, Threading, Soldier In Memorably, the son of Teofilo, owned by There were also a trio of Listed-winning Action and Dee Ex Bee helped Mark take Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, became juveniles. Izzy Bizu led the way with the prize for Leading Trainer at Glorious Mark’s first winner of the Dante Stakes at success in Deauville’s Prix Six Perfections, Goodwood for an amazing 11th time. York before he lifted the ‘Ascot Derby’, followed by Mildenberger in the As is to be expected, Kingsley Park once the King Edward VII Stakes at the Royal Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury, while again had 100 British Flat winners, Meeting in June. Rebel Assault rounded off the treble in extending the winning streak to 24, dating The juveniles also scored at Group 2 York’s Rockingham Stakes. In all, 49 back to 1994. And having become the first level. Cardsharp was an impressive winner individual two-year-olds won 82 races British Flat trainer to record 200 winners in Clockwise from top left: Abareeq and Joe of the July Stakes, while Threading was an between them, including three four-time a calendar year in 2009, Mark achieved Fanning; PJ McDonald aboard The Blues exciting winner of York’s Lowther Stakes winners in Ventura Knight, Izzy Bizu and that feat for the seventh time, passing Master; Sennockian Star wins under Joe on only her second outing. Cardsharp. through the barrier before the end of Fanning October. As a result, more than £3.55 actual progress against his comments. Bill O’Gorman in response to the Steve million in prize-money has been netted for Harman feature, in which Bill informed us our owners. that, after reaching Steve’s response to only Here’s how Kingsley Park’s 2017 the second question, he felt the need to lie campaign unfolded. FEBRUARY down in a darkened room! John Barson’s Watersmeet was the star of the month on the track, easing to success in JANUARY a Lingfield conditions event over a mile MARCH and a half. Elsewhere, Sennockian Star The honour of being our first winner of the notched up his third win of the year, while The yard stepped up a gear in March, with year fell to the HJW Partnership’s The Sutter County landed the odds over the 12 winners from just 45 runners. Joe Blues Master , who landed a mile and a minimum trip at Newcastle. In all, eight Fanning was in top form, winning 9 races half handicap at Kempton on January 6 wins were recorded on the Flat, while from just 23 rides, a win strike rate of more under PJ McDonald. Both Isharah and Markus Graff’s homebred Golden Jeffrey than 39%! Sennockian Star were dual winners in a was a rare winner for the yard under NH Leading the way for Kingsley Park was month which yielded eight wins. rules, landing an Ayr bumper at the end of Alan and Mike Spence’s Abareeq , who In the Klarion, we were delighted to the month! landed two impressive wins in decent feature a Question and Answer session February’s Klarion featured a thought- handicaps at Kempton and Lingfield. with BHA Chairman, Steve Harman. Steve provoking article by James Willoughby Watersmeet followed up his Lingfield deserved huge credit for agreeing to about the going-favouring tendencies of answer our questions and it’s worth the offspring of the leading stallions, and, Joe Fanning aboard John Barson’s Watersmeet looking back at the feature to measure memorably, a letter from former trainer Continued on page 18 16 17 Continued from page 17 success with a win in a Fast-Track Qualifier for the AW Championships at Chelmsford, while young Jane Elliott partnered Tartan Bute to success at Lingfield, in the process wrapping up the All-Weather Hands and Heels Series. “To ride for Mark Johnston is a dream come true,” the young jockey told the Klarion. The March issue of the Klarion celebrated Yard Manager Hayley Kelly’s achievement in finishing joint runner-up for the Leadership Award at the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards in London. Hayley was thrilled to have been one of the three finalists for the award, but in typical fashion paid tribute to her colleagues when she told the Klarion: “I regard it as a huge achievement to have made the final, but it First juvenile winner of the season: Emilia James under couldn’t have happened without the great Joe Fanning at Beverley team I have behind me at Kingsley Park.” York’s Group 2 Dante Stakes. Saturday whose Newmarket win on the penultimate May 27 was also a red letter day for the day of the month sealed Kingsley Park’s APRIL yard as Yorkidding , Rusumaat , Sutter 24th successive century of domestic County , Jaameh and Sofia’s Rock pulled winners before the year was half over! The start of the Flat saw a gear change off a memorable across-the-card five-timer. In the Klarion we highlighted Permian’s within the yard, with 92 runners during the The month also witnessed a bizarre Dante win, while James Willoughby month. This was the month, however, incident at Carlisle on May 22, when captivated readers with his thoughts on when we saw a bout of ‘seconditis’ affect Hamdan al Maktoum’s Seyaady was riding tactics. We also introduced readers Clockwise from top left: Peach Melba and Kingsley Park; 13 winners were clocked denied in a photo-finish after a total of to Dave the Dummy, Hayley Kelly’s secret Franny Norton; Franny wins the Dante aboard up across the country, but no fewer than 19 £85,892 was traded on Betfair on the weapon in ‘taming’ the two-year-old filly, Permian; Joe Fanning and Oriental Fox; Ryan of our runners finished second in their Exceed and Excel colt to be named the Rebel Assault, an eight-length debut Moore wins on Nyaleti races. It was, though, also a month of firsts winner at a price of 1.01. Betfair later winner at Catterick in May. – the first winner of the season on turf reported that Seyaady’s defeat ranks in the came when Kirsten Rausing’s classy top 10 in-running losses in Betfair’s James Willoughby’s article on riding the Secretariat Stakes. It was a cruel end to our runners. Hopefully, events in the year Galapiat won at Leicester on April 7, en history. tactics strongly advocating the use of a marvellous campaign for the colt, but to come will underline the significance of route to a win in Epsom’s historic Great May’s Klarion paid tribute to the JULY sectional timing on Britain’s racecourses. sadly the early reports of the incident the introduction of Elarqam . After a Metropolitan Handicap later in the month, legendary Darley stallion, Cape Cross, attracted ill-informed and inappropriate highly satisfactory debut success at York, and the first two-year-old winner of the while we also looked in depth at the Thirty-nine wins, achieved at a high strike comments on social media which were Hamdan al Maktoum’s Frankel colt out of year was James Property Limited’s Emilia pathetic levels of prize-money on offer in rate of 18.54% tells the tale of a fabulous AUGUST upsetting for all concerned. Attraction progressed to land the Group 3 James at Beverley. Britain in the wake of comments reported month for the yard. On the racecourse, Mark was shooting from the hip in Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket on In April’s Klarion, Mark had his say on in the racing press from trainers William Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed’s August’s Straight Talking. He took aim at September 28 and takes his unbeaten the controversy over the proposed sale of Haggas and Richard Hannon. This is a Cardsharp took the honours with a Group The Qatar Goodwood Festival took place the Racing Post and Tom Kerr for their call record into 2018. Mr Abdulla Al Kempton Park, while we had cause to both problem which must be addressed in 2018. 2 success in the July Stakes, followed by 3 at the beginning of August, and thrilling to ban the whip, and at the BHA, both for Mansoori’s Time To Study was a game celebrate (Russ Kennemore’s success in Batterhams and a Reay’s Arch filly wins for Londinium , Threading , Soldier their announcement of a funding boost winner of the Mallard Handicap at qualifying as a jockey coach and new Nyaleti , who won at Group 3 level in the In Action and Dee Ex Bee saw Mark aimed ‘at racing’s grassroots,’ and for their Doncaster’s St Leger Meeting, much to the family arrivals for staff members Gavin Princess Margaret Stakes.

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