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FRIDAY, 17 APRIL 2020 CLASSIC WINNER, SIRE SEVEN-FIGURE FRANKEL COLT BOLTS UP DOWN UNDER SHAMARDAL DIES High-priced Frankel (GB) colt Significance (Aus) produced the first winning strike of his career at Wyong on Thursday for trainer John O=Shea in a dominating seven-length winning performance. "A scopey, slow maturing colt that is finally putting it all together with racing and experience," O'Shea tweeted after the victory. Purchased at the 2018 Inglis Easter Sale, he was secured out of Arrowfield Stud=s consignment for A$1.1-million by Domeland. Placed once in five previous appearances, Significance is the first foal of the unraced Oasis Dream (GB) mare Aqua Bella (GB), who was unraced and bought by Badgers Bloodstock for i230,000 at the 2014 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. Aqua Bella is a half-sister to the stakes-winner Ame Bleue (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). Their dam is the multiple Group 1 winner Aquarelliste (Fr) (Danehill {Ire}). Shamardal: 2002 - 2020 | Darley By Emma Berry Dual French Classic winner and leading sire Shamardal (Giant=s Causeway--Helsinki {GB}, by Machiavellian) has been euthanised at the age of 18 after dealing with Aa range of health issues.@ Announcing the news on Thursday, Joe Osborne, managing director of Godolphin Ireland, paid tribute to Kildangan Stud=s flagship stallion. AShamardal embodied mental and physical toughnessCas a racehorse and as a stallion,@ he said. AAs the racing world has seen over the past 15 years, he passed those qualities on to his progeny. AHe contended with a range of health issues over recent years and did so with fortitude and resilience. It=s a tough day for us saying goodbye to him. This is an appropriate time to thank our team of stallion personnel and support professionals who cared for him so well and so kindly throughout his time here at Significance as a yearling | Inglis Kildangan Stud.@ Unbeaten on turf and found wanting only once in his seven-race career when contesting the G2 UAE Derby on dirt, IN TDN AMERICA TODAY the bold front-running Shamardal was bred in Kentucky by FASIG-TIPTON TO OFFER ONLINE BIDDING AT ALL Brilliant Stable and was bought as a yearling by the late Sheikh FUTURE AUCTIONS Maktoum al Maktoum=s Gainsborough Stud Management. The platform will be available for the Midlantic Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale on June 29-30. Click or tap here to go straight to Cont. p2 TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 17 APRIL 2020 Classic Winner, Sire Shamardal Dies cont. from p1 Classic year rather than being aimed at the Kentucky Derby. Racing initially for Abdulla Buhaleeba when trained by Mark With stablemate Dubawi (Ire) being prepared for the G1 2000 Johnston, he burst onto the scene in his trainer=s home nation of Guineas in Newmarket, Shamardal was dispatched to Scotland, winning an Ayr maiden in emphatic fashion, leading Longchamp where he swiftly made amends for his disappointing from start to finish and passing the post eight lengths clear. resumption with a narrow victory over Indestachel (Ire) in the From Ayr, it was straight to Glorious Goodwood just over a G1 Poule d=Essai des Poulains. He had subsequent G1 Prix de fortnight later, where he beat subsequent GI Breeders= Cup l=Arc de Triomphe winner Hurricane Run (Ire) a neck behind him Juvenile winner Wilko (Awesome Again) by 2 1/2 lengths when when annexing his second Classic at Chantilly in the G1 Prix du landing the G2 Veuve Clicquot Vintage S. in the hands of Joe Jockey Club in the first year that the race was reduced in Fanning. distance to 2100 metres. Returning to a mile just nine days later for what would prove to be his final start, Shamardal again made all to emulate his sire Giant=s Causeway by winning the G1 St James=s Palace S. when Royal Ascot was held at York. Dubawi, by that time the winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas, had been scratched from the race for unsuitably fast ground. Scheduled to meet Derby winner Motivator (GB) in a hotly anticipated clash for the G1 Coral-Eclipse S., Shamardal was found to be lame two days before the race and a chip in his fetlock brought about his swift retirement. Coming at a relatively early stage in the season, he was able to enter quarantine to stand his first season in the Southern Hemisphere at Darley=s Australian base. Shamardal winning the Dewhurst | Racing Post IT’S A SAD DAY BUT I AM SURE THAT By the time Shamardal returned to the track in mid-October HIS PROGENY WILL CONTINUE HIS for a crack at the G1 Darley Dewhurst S., Kevin Darley was LEGACY BOTH ON THE RACECOURSE aboard to guide the colt, who now bore Sheikh Maktoum=s silks, to another commanding all-the-way victory. AND IN THE BREEDING SHEDS. The leading juvenile colt in Europe for 2004 and a Cartier Saeed bin Suroor, trainer of Shamardal Award winner, Shamardal moved from Johnston=s Yorkshire as a 3-year-old. stable over the winter to join Saeed Bin Suroor=s team in Dubai. His one start at Nad Al Sheba, when fading to ninth in the UAE Derby, transpired to be the only time Shamardal=s colours would be lowered and ensured that he would return to Europe for his TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 17 APRIL 2020 Classic Winner, Sire Shamardal Dies cont. AWe were all very sad to hear of the passing of Shamardal,@ said his former trainer Saeed Bin Suroor. AHe was a champion 2-year-old and became one of Godolphin=s best horses, winning two Classics in France as well as the St James=s Palace S. AHe went on to establish himself as a top sire, producing exceptional horses throughout the world, and everyone is going Senior Vice President Gary King to miss him. It is a sad day but I am sure that his progeny will Twitter: @garykingTDN continue his legacy both on the racecourse and in the breeding [email protected] sheds.@ + 1.732.320.0975 From the first crop of Giant=s Causeway, Shamardal was a terrific advertisement for the stallion prowess of the >Iron Horse= International Editor and both father and son went on to forge stud careers every bit Kelsey Riley as impressive as their racing days. Shamardal=s successful dual Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN career as both racehorse and sire had perhaps seemed unlikely [email protected] in his early days. He had been bought in at $485,000 when European Editor offered as a foal at Keeneland then fetched only 50,000gns at Emma Berry Tattersalls= Houghton Yearling Sale having reportedly been Twitter: @collingsberry misdiagnosed as a >wobbler.= [email protected] That success also owes plenty to his dam side, however. His dam Helsinki, a winner and listed-placed in France, was a Associate International Editor daughter of the Irish Oaks winner Helen Street (GB) (Troy {GB}) Heather Anderson and a full-sister to Street Cry (Ire), who had won the G1 Dubai Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN World Cup for Sheikh Mohammed in the year Shamardal was Marketing Manager born. Helsinki was sold to Coolmore for $3.9-million the month Alayna Cullen after her son had won the Dewhurst and she went on to Twitter: @AlaynaCullen produce the G2 Beresford S. winner Geoffrey Chaucer (Montjeu [email protected] {Ire}). Shamardal=s shuttle career was brought to a premature halt in Contributing Editor 2012 when injury prevented his return to the Hunter Valley, but Alan Carasso he had been quick off the mark in both hemispheres. Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY CORNERSTONE PLANNING FOR SHUTTLERS Pinatubo winning last year=s National S. Click for a video featuring Pinatubo and his sire, Shamardal | Racing Post Cornerstone Stud is confident its shuttlers Sir Prancealot and World of Trouble will arrive for the 2020 breeding season. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 7 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • 17 APRIL 2020 Classic Winner, Sire Shamardal Dies cont. SHAMARDAL=S LEGACY WILL LONG ENDURE In Australia, his first-crop daughter Faint Perfume (Aus) won By Kelsey Riley the G1 VRC Oaks and G1 Vinery Stud S., while G3 Solario S. If there is one adjective that embodies everything about winner Shakespearean (Ire) helped him on his way to leading Shamardal, it would have to be >class.= That magic yet highly first-season sire honours in Europe. Since then, his stud elusive ingredient that separates a great Thoroughbred from the careerCat Kildangan throughout except in 2008 when he stood field has permeated every aspect of his being from the time his at Dalham Hall Stud in NewmarketChas been liberally sprinkled blue chip mating was planned, through to his own quartet of with sons and daughters of the highest calibre. While not a Group 1 successes on the racecourse and on to his sons and stakes winner at two, Lope De Vega (Ire) swiftly proved himself daughters, who made an immediate impact on the track with to be the most illustrious member of Shamardal=s first crop, Classic winners in Europe and Australia in his first crop and emulating his father with his French Classic double before whose dominance was emphasized last year by a remarkable becoming a highly respected stallion in his own right. three unbeaten Group 1-winning 2-year-old colts.