2 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com On the value trail in the search for winners

HE term budget does not necessarily Danehill Line fellow freshman sires Bated Breath (standing is responsible for seven sires from the line mean low-cost, as every breeder has By far most prevalent in these parameters is the at Banstead Manor for £8,000) Foxwedge available under £10,000/€12,000, including his or her own budget to which they Danehill sire line, featuring both sons of the (Whitsbury Manor, £7,500), Delegator studmate Rail Link (Banstead Manor, £5,000), T adhere. Some may be fortunate to great sire and those of the next generation, by (Overbury Stud, £5,000), Requinto (Coolmore, Thousand Words (Rathasker Stud, €2,500) have finances that allow for the the likes of Dansili, Danehill Dancer and €5,000), Famous Name (Irish National Stud, and Zoffany (Coolmore, €7,500), who will see Galileos, Frankels and Oasis Dreams of the Danetime. €4,000) and Elzaam (Ballyhane Stud, €4,000), his first foals arrive in 2013. world, but for most a slightly more modest Championships in both hemispheres and a all Danehill descendents. The first crop of yearlings by Fast Company figure will determine the parentage of next leading broodmare sire title have ensured a This year will also see the first offerings by a (Rathasker Stud, €5,000), Alfred Nobel year’s produce. slice of the Danehill line is easy to come by, number of new recruits belonging to this (Coolmore, €4,000), Stimulation (Llety Whether aiming for the upper echelons of and such is the versatility of Coolmore’s illustrious line, both on and off the track. Farms, £3,000) and Le Cadre Noir (Sweep Epsom glory, or simply hoping to land a cornerstone that a match for all budgets The highly regarded Bushranger (standing Lane Stud, €2,500) will be seen this year, Hamilton handicap, for owner-breeders the aim is available. at Tally-Ho Stud for €7,500) will see his first offering breeders another opportunity to gauge is the same – to produce a winner. The thrill of Helmet, a son of Exceed And Excel standing crop running in 2013, as will Palace House the ongoing commercial popularity of seeing a horse created by hours of study, nick for €10,000, equals Dylan Thomas in the Stakes winner Dandy Man (Ballyhane Stud, descendants more removed from the sire research, stallion viewings, racing replays and Danehill line price league and heads the list of €4,000) and Champs Elysees (Banstead himself. conformation analysis parading in the winner’s next-generation representatives. Manor, £5,000). Those looking for more tried and tested enclosure is part of what makes the process so The Kildangan Stud resident is joined by Champs Elysees’s brother, leading sire Dansili, members of the line will not be disappointed. and keeps owners coming back time Another Coolmore resident tops the price list and again. in the form of Choisir, available this year for For commercial breeders the highs are found £10,000/€12,000 DANEHILL LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED FOR 2013 €10,000. Boasting a cv that includes a Royal not on the track but in the trade. A different tack stallion age sire descending from stud fee Ascot sprinting double of his own and offspring may be needed but the whole operation requires Alfred Nobel 6 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €4,000 who have landed Group 1 races up to a mile, this just as much effort, and in turn can offer just as Aussie Rules 10 Danehill Danzig Lanwades £5,000 year he will be represented by Guineas hopeful much reward. Baltic King 13 Danetime Danehill Tally-Ho €3,000 Olympic Glory. The Richard Hannon-trained It all starts with a meeting, however. Not the colt is currently third in the ante-post market, Bated Breath 6 Dansili Danehill Banstead Manor £8,000 briefcase, suit and tie kind, but one that could and has already earned Choisir’s 2009 covering result in the ‘next big thing’ on the racecourse. Bushranger 7 Danetime Danehill Tally-Ho €7,500 fee of €8,000 40 times over. This particular meeting can be a pricey one, Camacho 11 Danehill Danzig Mickley £2,750 At the other end of the scale, Girsonfield Stud but fortunately Britain and Ireland have long Champs Elysees 10 Danehill Danzig Banstead Manor £5,000 offers Ferrule, a five-time winning son of boasted an enviable host of stallions available to Choisir 13 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €10,000 Danehill from the family of Haafhd, for just suit a range of pockets, and this year there are £800. Clodovil 13 Danehill Danzig Rathasker €7,500 more than 160 sires standing for Of course budget is only half of the matter £10,000/€12,000 or less. Dandy Man 10 Mozart Danehill Ballyhane €4,000 when selecting a sire, but just as there is a Concentrating on those under the age of 18, Delegator 7 Dansili Danehill Overbury £5,000 Danehill for every pocket, stallions from the line ten stallions are found at the upper limits of this Dylan Thomas 10 Danehill Danzig Coolmore €10,000 offer a variety of attributes depending on the figure, largely hailing from the prolific Northern Elzaam 5 Redoute’s Choice Danehill Ballyhane €4,000 breeder’s desired outcome. Dancer and Mr Prospector lines. From the potential staying powers of Jeremy Famous Name 8 Dansili Danehill Irish National €4,000 Surprisingly, only one of three stallions by (Garryrichard Stud, €3,000), the speedy champion sire Galileo available for under Fast Company 8 Danehill Dancer Danehill Rathasker €5,000 offspring thrown by Monsieur Bond (Norton £10,000/€12,000 sits in the five-figure bracket Ferrule 15 Danehill Danzig Girsonfi eld £800 Grove Stud, £5,000) and the promise shown by – good news for those hoping to nick some of Foxwedge 4 Fastnet Rock Danehill Whitsbury Manor £7,500 Mount Nelson juveniles those illustrious bloodlines at a lower price-tag. Helmet 4 Exceed And Excel Danehill Kildangan €10,000 (Newsells Park, £6,000), The sire in question, Roderic O’Connor, is a the Danehill line is Indesatchel 11 Danehill Dancer Danehill Bearstone £2,500 Classic-winning example of the ultra successful seemingly still as versatile Galileo-Danehill cross to which Frankel, Teofilo Jeremy 10 Danehill Dancer Danehill Garryrichard €3,000 as the sire himself. and Cima De Triomphe all belong. Only the Kodiac 12 Danehill Danzig Tally-Ho €7,500 French-based Cima De Triomphe is available Le Cadre Noir 9 Danetime Danehill Sweep Lane €2,500 under the £10,000/€12,000 threshold, keeping Misu Bond 10 Danehill Dancer Danehill Norton Grove £1,500 budget-priced sons of Galileo a rare commodity. Monsieur Bond 13 Danehill Dancer Danehill Norton Grove £5,000 Ballyhane’s second-season sire is one of three from the top bracket to have landed a Classic. Mount Nelson 9 Rock Of Gibraltar Danehill Newsells Park £6,000 hero Dylan Thomas and 2,000 Mr Dinos 14 Desert King Danehill Whytemount €1,000 Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand are also at Multiplex 10 Danehill Danzig Mickley £3,000 the €10,000 mark. Rail Link 10 Dansili Danehill Banstead Manor £5,000 All three share Northern Dancer as a common Requinto 4 Dansili Danehill Coolmore €5,000 Olympic Glory: ancestor, but have descended through distinctly Stimulation 8 Choisir Danehill Dancer Llety Farms £3,000 the son of different lines. This offers several options for Choisir is mares whose pedigrees are already populated Thousand Words 9 Dansili Danehill Rathasker €2,500 a leading by the legendary sire. Westerner 14 Danehill Danzig Castle Hyde €4,000 fancy for the Katherine Fidler Zoffany 5 Dansili Danehill Coolmore €7,500 2,000 Guineas SeeARCHIPENKO andAUSSIE RULESatthe TBAStallion ParadeatTattersalls today

ARCHIPENKO World Class Group 1 winning miler & one of the best bred stallions in the world £6,000 (1st Oct. SLF) First yearlingssold at the major 2012 sales averagedoverfour times his 2010 fee • First runnersin2013.

AUSSIE RULES Classicwinning miler by DANEHILL fromthe famous ALRUCCABA family £5,000 (1st Oct. SLF) TheLeading British-based3rd CropSirein2012 (individualwinners) • Sire of Gr.3 winner HARDBALLGET in 2012.

SIR PERCY Unbeaten Champion 2yearold andClassicwinning Champion 3yearold £7,000 (1st Oct. SLF) TheLeading Sire of 3yos in Europe in 2012 (% winners/runners,40+ runners) • Sire of 80%winnerstorunnersfromhis first crop. LANWADES The independent option™ [email protected]•www.lanwades.com•Telephone: +44(0)1638750222•Fax: +44 (0)1638 751186 Racing Post Thursday, February 7, 2013 breeding on a budget 3

Montjeu’s son Authorized (left) at Dalham Hall, (right) Norman Court resident Sixties Icon, by Galileo, in his racecourse pomp and (inset) his Group 3-winning son Chilworth Icon Sadler’s Wells Line in the infancy of their careers, and as such Doyen (Sunnyhill Stud, €3,000) are just three under £10,000/€12,000 on six counts via his most expensive sire son, Oasis Dream. From a former champion sire to the current, cannot be guaranteed to remain on the market more sons of Sadler’s Wells available under The Juddmonte resident has sired nine Galileo provides three stallions available for at such value indefinitely. £10,000/€12,000, and all boasted an average Group 1 winners, two of whom are available at under £10,000/€12,000 hailing from the Ranging from €3,000 for Frozen Fire and 2012 yearling sales price greater than that of stud this year for under the budget threshold. Sadler’s Wells branch of Northern Dancer’s Papal Bull, both standing at Coolagown Stud, their 2010 fee. Prix du Moulin winner Aqlaam (Nunnery breeding dynasty. to Derby winner Authorized, standing at Green Desert Line Stud, £7,000) will see his first two-year-olds this The Coolmore resident’s private stud fee is Dalham Hall for £7,000, breeders this year are likely out of reach for many breeders, but in this presented with several opportunities to help Green Desert has established himself as a year, having retired to stud a year earlier than trio, led by the aforementioned Roderic extend the legacy of Montjeu. leading sire of sires and his line is available for Continues page 4 O’Connor, a piece of the champion sire can be St Leger winner Scorpion completes the purchased for as little as €4,000 through his son quartet, standing at Castle Hyde for €5,000, and Finsceal Fior. from limited produce to run due to his Standing at Green Hills Stud, the unraced son dual-purpose billing, he has unsurprisingly of dual 1,000 Guineas winner Finsceal Beo produced runners gifted with stamina. This provides an exciting opportunity for breeders quality has also been frequently displayed in looking to exploit the Galileo cross. Owners of Authorized’s offspring, and looks to be mirrored Danehill mares could also be pleased to know in the first crop of Papal Bull, many of whom that Finsceal Beo is by Mr Greeley out of a Royal contested a mile at two. Academy mare, allowing for a next-generation Kildangan Stud’s late sire In The Wings did take on the illustrious Galileo-Danehill nick. much to propagate the Sadler’s Wells line Norman Court Stud resident Sixties Icon under both codes. Singspiel, a son of In The (£8,500) completes the trio, having enjoyed a Wings, has produced many notable runners; two promising first season last year, topped by of these, Moon Ballad and Eastern Group 3 winner Chilworth Icon. The St Leger Anthem, stand for €2,500 and £2,000 at winner may be the only sire from the group to Woodlands Stud and Withyslade Farm. have produced runners, but fellow sophomore Offering the Sadler’s Wells line at less than and the older Teofilo have done two per cent of his legendary ancestor’s last much to suggest sons of Galileo can thrive at advertised fee, In The Wings’s son Kutub has stud. produced winners under both codes and stands Galileo’s paternal sibling and Coolmore this season for just £2,000. A winner of three stablemate Montjeu is responsible for four on Group 1s, the Batsford Stud resident has also the list, and following his premature death last sired black-type performers in Superstition, year, his progeny are an even more valued Terre Du Vent and Topclas, a Group 3 winner. commodity. Beat Hollow (Ballylinch, €6,500), Like Galileo, stallion sons of Montjeu are still Sholokhov (Glenview Stud, €5,000) and £10,000/€12,000 SADLER’S WELLS LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013 stallion age sire descending from stud fee Atlantic Waves 10 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Woodlands €1,500 Authorized 9 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Dalham Hall £7,000 Beat Hollow 16 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Ballylinch €6,500 Doyen 13 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Sunnyhill €3,000 Eastern Anthem 9 Singspiel In The Wings Withyslade Farm £2,000 Finsceal Fior 3 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Green Hills €4,000 Frozen Fire 8 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Coolagown €3,000 Geordieland 12 Johann Quatz Sadler’s Wells Beech Tree £1,500 Kutub 16 In The Wings Sadler’s Wells Batsford £2,000 Let The Lion Roar 12 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Bridge House €500 Masterofthehorse 7 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Annshoon €2,000 Moon Ballad 14 Singspiel In The Wings Woodlands €2,500 Papal Bull 10 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Coolagown €3,000 Robert Emmet 13 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Woodlands €1,000 Roderic O’Connor 4 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Ballyhane €10,000 Scorpion 11 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Castle Hyde €5,000 Sholokhov 14 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Glenview €5,000 Sixties Icon 10 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Norman Court £8,500 Tamure 21 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Beech Tree £1,500 4 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com

Born To Sea (left), a regally bred son of Invincible Spirit, (top right) Paco Boy, whose foals sold well last year, and (bottom right) Casamento, who hails from the Storm Cat line

From page 3 vv £10,000/€12,000 green desert line BritisH- And irisH-BAsed stAlliOns FOr 2013 Storm Cat Line winner Arcano (Derrinstown Stud, As Canada’s most famous export, it is only right stallion age sire descending from stud fee €6,000). that the majority of Northern Dancer blood Given that their sire has only just turned 13, Approve 5 Oasis Dream Green Desert Morristown Lattin €5,000 should be continued by bona fide North none of Oasis Dream’s sons have yet to see any Aqlaam 8 Oasis Dream Green Desert Nunnery £7,000 American families. Through his fellow runners. Captain Gerrard (Mickley Stud, Arcano 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Derrinstown €6,000 Canadian-bred son Storm Bird, and his son £3,500) joins Aqlaam in the freshman sire race Born To Sea 4 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Rathasker €10,000 Storm Cat, Northern Dancer proliferates the this year, while Approve (Morristown Lattin pedigree of several sires on our list via Giant’s Captain Gerrard 8 Oasis Dream Green Desert Mickley £3,500 Stud, €5,000) and Showcasing (Whitsbury Causeway. Manor Stud, £4,500) both welcome their first Crosspeace 11 Cape Cross Green Desert Dairy House £1,000 Conceived during Storm Cat’s own ‘budget’ yearlings in 2013. The first foals by Frozen Frozen 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Ballyhane €4,000 years, when the Overbrook Stud resident was Power (Ballyhane Stud, €4,000) arrive this available for $125,000, Giant’s Causeway season. Kheleyf 12 Green Desert Danzig Dalham Hall £6,000 Mayson 5 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Cheveley Park £8,000 launched into his own stud career with two Green Desert’s son Invincible Spirit enters the Classic winners from his first crop, Shamardal list with a quartet of stallion sons, but like those Paco Boy 8 Desert Style Green Desert Highclere £8,000 and Footstepsinthesand. Both strands of the line of Oasis Dream, all are still in the early stages of Sayif 7 Kheleyf Green Desert Llety Farms £3,000 are available for under £10,000/€12,000, their careers. Showcasing 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Whitsbury Manor £4,500 through Footstepsinthesand himself, and A fine example of breeding on a budget could for Shamardal, through his first-season son well be the resulting progeny of Invincible Vale Of York 6 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Kildangan €3,000 Casamento. Spirit’s son Born To Sea. Although standing at Zebedee 5 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Tally-Ho €5,000 The Kildangan Stud resident, available for the upper end for €10,000, the Rathasker Stud €8,000. Available this year for £6,000 having 2013, and debutant sire Doncaster Rover €5,000, is one of eight Group 1 winners for his resident boasts one of the most sought-after switched from Kildangan to Dalham Hall in (Hedgeholme Stud, £2,000). sire, earning his own black-type credentials pedigrees in the business as a half-brother to 2011, Darley’s consistent juvenile-producer The more established Danzig duo of when landing the Racing Post Trophy. Though Galileo and . remains an attractive prospect for commercial Librettist (Yorton Farm, £2,000), sire of none of Shamardal’s sons have yet to see any Tough sprinter Mayson (Cheveley Park, breeders. multiple Group winner Libranno, and Haatef runners, foals by Lope De Vega sold for an £8,000) is a second newcomer for Invincible (Derrinstown, €3,000) also offer breeders a nip average of 53,339gns last year, almost four Spirit, while juvenile winners Vale Of York Standing for £8,000 at Highclere, triple of the Northern Dancer line at just four figures. times his €15,000 2011 fee. (Kildangan Stud, €3,000) and Zebedee Group 1 winner Paco Boy sits among the (Tally-Ho Stud, €5,000) will be represented by higher end of Green Desert-line sires available their first yearlings in 2013. Invincible Spirit for under £10,000/€12,000. However, foals by £10,000/€12,000 dAnzig line BritisH- And irisH-BAsed stAlliOns FOr 2013 offspring are renowned for their precocity, a the son of Desert Style commanded an average stallion age sire descending from stud fee trait that, if passed on to their own produce, will of 29,994gns last year, easily surpassing his Doncaster Rover 7 War Chant Danzig Hedgeholme £2,000 serve commercial breeders well at the current 2011 price tag of £8,500. Elnadim 19 Danzig Northern Dancer Derrinstown €5,000 fees. Grandera 15 Grand Lodge Chief’s Crown Woodlands €4,000 Kheleyf doubles up on the list, both as the Other Danzig Options Haatef 9 Danzig Northern Dancer Derrinstown €3,000 sire of freshman Sayif (Llety Farms, £3,000) Danzig, prolific in the extreme on account of and in his own right. Last year the son of Green Danehill and Green Desert, offers many more Hellvelyn 9 Ishiguru Danzig Bucklands Farm £2,500 Desert not only topped the two-year-old routes to the Northern Dancer line through the Librettist 11 Danzig Northern Dancer Yorton Farm £2,000 winners table, but his yearlings averaged likes of Hellvelyn (Bucklands Farm & Stud, Mawatheeq 8 Danzig Northern Dancer Nunnery £4,000 23,011gns, an excellent return on his 2010 fee of £2,500), who welcomes his first yearlings in Mullionmileanhour 7 Mull Of Kintyre Danzig Hedgeholme £1,250

Andrew Spalding, HEDGEHOLME STUD STALLIONS2013 Hedgeholme Stud, Winston, Darlington, Co. Durham ARABIAN GLEAM DONCASTER ROVER MULLIONMILEANHOUR DL2 3RS Multiple StakesWinner Royal Ascot placed 2yo and 01325730209 Triple Group 2winning son of Ran in 34 Group /Stakes races stakes placed 07990518751 or 07818400419 leading sire KYLLACHY Retires to stud sound after 47 starts Narrowly beaten by BOARDING VACANCIES First yearlings 2013 AND SALES PREPARATION NEW for 2013 First yearlings 2013 UNDERTAKEN Excellentterms and realistic keep rates, NO VATfor NON VATregistered breeders under the FRF scheme Racing Post Thursday, February 7, 2013 breeding on a budget 5 THE LAST STALLION SON OF DANZIG

AGroup 1performer from one of the most prolific lines of Classic and Group 1performers

Higher-rated than stallions of his generation POET’S VOICE (£12,000 -G1W), BATED BREATH (£8,000 -G2W), AQLAAM (£7,000 -G1W), CAMPANOLOGIST (€7,500 -G1W), RIO DE LA PLATA (€7,000 -G1W),

Intense Focus, a son of Giant’s Causeway who stands for €5,500, will have his fi rst runners JUKEBOX JURY (€5,500-G1W), etc. this year, and (inset) Acclamation’s son Harbour Watch is a new recruit for 2013 at £7,500

£10,000/€12,000 STORM CAT LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013 stallion age sire descending from stud fee Higher-rated than his Champion sister Casamento 5 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway Kildangan €5,000 Footstepsinthesand 11 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Coolmore €10,000 GHANAATI,Classic and dual Gr.1 winner. Intense Focus 7 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Ballylinch €5,500 Yorgunnabelucky 7 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Throckmorton Court £1,750 An interesting new recruit from the Storm Cat Harbour Watch (Tweenhills Farm & Stud, line is Throckmorton Stud’s Yorgunnabelucky. £7,500) is standing his first season this year, Available for £1,750, this former hurdler is a while Lilbourne Lad (Rathbarry Stud, brother to Shamardal, thus offering breeders a €7,500) and Equiano (Newsells Park, £8,000) much more accessible alternative to Kildangan welcome their first foals and yearlings Stud’s €50,000 resident. respectively in 2013. Intense Focus completes the budget A similar line is available through Lovelace offerings from Storm Cat’s line this year, (Springlodge Stud, €1,000), by Acclamation’s standing at Ballylinch Stud for €5,500. The sire Royal Applause. A tough sprinter/miler, Dewhurst winner’s first crop will make their Lovelace’s first foals arrive this year. debut this season, having been well received at The high-class Pivotal, sire of 21 individual the sales last year. Group 1 winners and a Northern Dancer descendant under the Nureyev branch, fields Other Northern Dancer three stallions under the threshold. He is joined Options at Cheveley Park Stud by his son Virtual, Acclamation, a fourth-generation descendant of available for a fraction of his sire’s price at Northern Dancer, is represented in this price £3,500. bracket by three sons – Harbour Watch, Captain Rio, from Pivotal’s second crop, Lilbourne Lad and Equiano. All boasted speed stands at Ballyhane Stud for €3,500, while new and precocity but have yet to have runners. Continues page 6 OTHER ‘BUDGET’ NORTHERN DANCER LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013 stallion age sire descending from stud fee Alhaarth 20 Unfuwain Northern Dancer Derrinstown €4,000 Arakan 13 Nureyev Northern Dancer Ballyhane €3,500 Azamour 12 Night Shift Northern Dancer Gilltown €10,000 Captain Rio 14 Pivotal Polar Falcon Ballyhane €3,500 Cockney Rebel 9 Val Royal Royal Academy National £2,500 Dick Turpin 6 Arakan Nureyev National £5,000 Dragon Pulse 4 Kyllachy Pivotal Irish National €6,000 Dream Eater 8 Night Shift Northern Dancer Vauterhill £800 Equiano 8 Acclamation Royal Applause Newsells Park £8,000 Foreign Affairs 15 Hernando Niniski Woodlands €1,000 Haafhd 12 Alhaarth Unfuwain Beechwood Grange £3,000 Harbour Watch 4 Acclamation Royal Applause Tweenhills Farm £7,500 Lilbourne Lad 4 Acclamation Royal Applause Rathbarry €7,500 Lovelace 9 Royal Applause Waajib Springlodge €1,000 MAWATHEEQ £4,000(1S TJAN SLF) Malinas 12 Lomitas Niniski Yorton Farm £2,500 Overbury 22 Caerleon Mickley £1,500 Discover moreabout the Shadwell Stallions at Passing Glance 14 Polar Falcon Nureyev Pitchall £2,000 www.shadwellstud.co.uk Pasternak 20 Nureyev Batsford £1,250 Or call Richard, Johnny or Audrey on Peintre Celebre 19 Nureyev Northern Dancer Coolmore €10,000 Phoenix Reach 13 Alhaarth Unfuwain Mickley £1,500 01842755913 Revoque 19 Fairy King Northern Dancer Yorton Farm £1,000 Email us at: [email protected] Sulamani 14 Hernando Niniski Yorton Farm £2,500 Virtual 8 Pivotal Polar Falcon Cheveley Park £3,500 6 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com

vvFrom page 5 sire Dragon Pulse, by Pivotal’s son Kyllachy, is available for €6,000 at the Irish National Stud. Passing Glance, by Pivotal’s late sire Polar Falcon, currently stands at Pitchall Stud for £2,000. The pair are just two who have helped extend the line through Polar Falcon’s sire Nureyev, who is also responsible for Ballyhane resident Arakan, available for €3,500, and Arakan’s son Dick Turpin (National Stud, £5,000). Not many of our ‘budget’ stallions were represented by a Classic winner last year, but four-time Group 1 scorer Azamour (Gilltown Stud, €10,000) was. The son of Night Shift’s ill-fated daughter Valyra landed last season’s Prix de Diane. The final strand of Northern Dancer lineage to feature prominently is that of his Triple Crown-winning son Nijinsky. Nijinsky’s closest descendant on the list, Overbury, is by his son Caerleon. Standing for £1,500 at Mickley Stud, Overbury has sired winners under both codes since retiring from the track 15 years ago. Similarly, Yorton Farm residents Malinas and Sulamani, descendants of Nijinsky through their grandsire Niniski, have proven versatile at stud. The pair are both available this year for £2,500. Native Dancer Line Caspar Netscher (left) is the first by Dutch Art to retire to stud and Sir Prancealot is a young representative of Nayef's Mr Prospector line Native Dancer, present throughout the offers breeders the opportunity to tap into both aforementioned sires in his role as damsire of £10,000/€12,000 mr prOSpectOr line BritiSH- and iriSH-BaSed StalliOnS FOr 2013 a Northern Dancer-free sire line and the Northern Dancer, is also a member of the sire stallion age sire descending from stud fee renowned Height Of Fashion family for £9,000. line on three counts through his descendant Archipenko 9 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Lanwades £6,000 For €6,000, Sir Prancealot represents a Sharpen Up. younger generation of Nayef’s line. By Nayef’s Sharpen Up’s trio of sons – Trempolino, Diesis Caspar Netscher 4 Dutch Art Medicean Morristown Lattin €7,500 son Tamayuz, the Tally-Ho resident retired after and Selkirk – have in turn sired Germany Dubai Destination 14 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Glenview €2,500 his juvenile season, which yielded wins in the (Woodlands Stud, €3,000), Debussy (Llety Elusive Pimpernel 6 Elusive Quality Gone West Islanmore €1,000 Listed National Stakes and Group 2 Flying Farms, £3,500) and Denounce (Louella Stud, Fantastic View 12 Distant View Mr Prospector Throckmorton £1,500 Childers Stakes. £650). Iffraaj 12 Zafonic Gone West Kildangan €10,000 Mr Prospector Line Lord Shanakill 7 Speightstown Gone West Irish National €5,000 Nearco Line – and the A far more prolific source of Native Dancer Medicean 16 Machiavellian Mr Prospector Cheveley Park £10,000 rest blood is through Mr Prospector, who has Nayef 15 Gulch Mr Prospector Nunnery £9,000 Such is the proliferation of Northern Dancer founded one of the most influential sire lines Proclamation 11 King’s Best Kingmambo Girsonfield £2,000 that it is hard to escape the mention of his name, after that of Northern Dancer. and returning briefly to the 20th century Sir Prancealot 3 Tamayuz Nayef Tally-Ho €6,000 A meeting with champion European miler colossus, his sire Nearco went on to found other Miesque resulted in the triple Group 1 winner Thewayyouare 8 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Coolmore €5,000 lines that are still valued today. Kingmambo, whose sons offer four Zamindar 19 Gone West Mr Prospector Banstead Manor £10,000 Outstanding racehorse and dual champion opportunities this year to tap into the At the upper end of the scale, two stallions Medicean to join the stallion ranks. German sire Mill Reef traces his lineage back to Nearco Mr Prospector line for under £10,000/€12,000. from the Mr Prospector line frequent the 2,000 Guineas winner Caspar Netscher will through his sire Never Bend, a son of Nasrullah. Dubai Destination, bought as a yearling five-figure bracket, and both are proven in their command a fee of €7,500 this season, and hails Mill Reef’s son Doyoun is responsible for two stallions on the list, Kalanisi (Boardsmill Stud, for $1.5 million, is much more breeder-friendly second career. from the line of legendary Meon Valley Stud priced in his second career, standing at €4,000) and Daylami (Coolagown Stud, Cheveley Park’s Medicean, by Mr Prospector’s mare Reprocolor. Glenview Stud for just €2,500. €5,000), while Port Etienne, also by Mill Reef, son Machiavellian, has long been one of Britain’s A second Mr Prospector representative Paternal siblings Archipenko (Lanwades sired Batsford Stud resident Kadastrof, leading sires, and from a commercial point of available at the upper-end figure of £10,000 is Stud, £6,000) and Thewayyouare (Coolmore, available for £1,250. view his average yearling sale figures over the Juddmonte’s Zamindar, by Gone West. As the €5,000) are both members of the freshman sire sire of unbeaten Arc heroine Zarkava and Mill Reef also proliferates the list through his band whose first crop hit the track this year, the past four years of 39,874gns, 29,307gns, son Shirley Heights, the grandsire of 31,650gns and 83,388gns should make for having stood at Banstead Manor for a decade, pair having won at two themselves. Zamindar is ranked among the most established Desideratum (Beechwood Stud, £1,250) and pleasant reading. A second generation member of Kingmambo's stallions on the list. Josr Algarhoud (Hedgeholme Stud, £750). Available this year for £10,000, Medicean is clan, Proclamation, will stand his first season Zamindar’s brother Zafonic is one of three more Another grandson of Shirley Heights, Mark Of also represented through a second-generation at Girsonfield Stud in 2013 following his move sons of Gone West to have produced stallions Esteem, sired Derby winner Sir Percy, who from Overbury Stud. In 2012 yearlings by the sire, Caspar Netscher. The Morristown Lattin available for £10,000/€12,000 and under. currently stands at Lanwades Stud for £7,000. son of King’s Best made an average of 12,222gns Stud resident is the first offspring by Dutch Art Iffraaj (Kildangan Stud, €10,000), by the late Never Bend, a grandson of Nearco, is also found off the back of a £3,000 2010 covering fee. to stand at stud, who in turn was the first son of Zafonic, remains consistently well-supported at in the lineage of Girsonfield Stud resident Bahri. the sales and produced the Group 1 winner A dual Group 1 winner, Bahri stands this season £10,000/€12,000 native dancer line BritiSH- and iriSH-BaSed StalliOnS FOr 2013 Wootton Bassett in his first crop. for £2,000, while his Arc-winning son Sakhee stallion age sire descending from stud fee Craven winner Elusive Pimpernel recently relocated from Nunnery Stud to Yorton Assertive 10 Bold Edge Beveled Throckmorton Court £2,500 (Islanmore Stud, €1,000) and Farm Stud, and will stand for £2,500 this season. Debussy 7 Diesis Sharpen Up Llety Farms £3,500 scorer Lord Shanakill (Irish National Stud, The line continues to a third active generation €5,000) are by sons of Gone West in Elusive following the retirement of Sakhee’s Secret Denounce 12 Selkirk Sharpen Up Louella Stud £650 Quality and Speightstown. to Whitsbury Manor in 2009. The champion Franklins Gardens 13 Halling Diesis East Lynch £1,250 Another more seasoned member who sprinter, who stands at a fee of £5,500, finished Germany 22 Trempolino Sharpen Up Woodlands €3,000 re-enters the £10,000-and-under ranks is 2012 as Europe’s leading first-season sire by Halling 22 Diesis Sharpen Up Dalham Hall £10,000 Nayef, a son of Gulch. The Nunnery Stud number of winners with 22 individual runners Norse Dancer 13 Halling Diesis Littleton £2,500 resident stood for £12,500 in 2012, but this year posting a victory.

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Derby winner Roberto, a descendant of Nearco through his son Royal Charger, became an influential sire from his base at Darby Dan Farm in Kentucky, present here through grandson Big Bad Bob. The Irish National Stud resident boasts an admirable set of statistics from limited numbers produced during his early career, including 28 per cent winners-to-runners strike-rate for European stakes races. He stands this year for €6,000. Northern Dancer aside, many of the families descending from the Italian-bred Nearco have flourished in Europe, offering mares already boasting a pedigree rich in Northern Dancer blood a number of outcrosses. boasted the ‘Northern Dancer-free’ tag, his closest association with the Canadian being his sire ’s defeat of Nijinksy in the 1970 . Ahonoora’s son , a Group-winning sprinter, boasts three sons among the British and Irish stallion ranks available at the four-figure budget this year. Sleeping Indian will stand his first season at Beechwood Grange Stud this year for £3,000 following a move from Tweenhills Farm & Stud, while his Indian Ridge paternal siblings (Withyslade Farm, £2,500) and Danehill Dancer stallion Mastercraftsman at Coolmore with Michael Power, and (inset) Count Of Limonade, a son of Duke Of Marmalade Dabbers Ridge (Norton Grove Stud, £1,000) provide further options for those in search of a And those a snip over STALLIONS STANDING FOR €12,500 IN 2013 Northern Dancer outcross. budget . . . Bahamian Bounty, hailing from the legendary stallion age sire descending from stud fee THOSE searching for a stallion around the Hyperion line, is joined at the National Stud by 8 Acclamation Royal Applause Morristown Lattin €12,500 upper price range may also wish to take note of his son Pastoral Pursuits, available at £5,500. Duke Of Marmalade 9 Danehill Danzig Coolmore €12,500 the five Irish-based sires standing for a snip over Babodana (East Lynch Stud, £1,000), whose Lope De Vega 6 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway Ballylinch €12,500 first crop turn three this year, provides another budget at €12,500. Mastercraftsman 7 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €12,500 source of Bahamian Bounty’s line, and proved Sophomore sire Duke Of Marmalade, a durable in the extreme following seven years on five-time Group 1 winner, is the first of three Power 4 Oasis Dream Green Desert Coolmore €12,500 from Coolmore at this fee. The son of Danehill the track. French Classic winner Lope De Vega for 2013, juvenile season, the Middle Park Stakes winner sired 12 juvenile winners last year, including Another successful European sire line lost one having stood his initial two years for €15,000, was among the leading first-season sires in the Group-placed Count Of Limonade. of its most cherished members last year offering another route to Northern Dancer via 2011 and last year repeated that feat in the following the death of Monsun. Fortunately for The remaining Coolmore duo are both also Giant’s Causeway and Storm Cat. second-season sire division. Standing at breeders he left a solid legacy behind, including members of the Northern Dancer tribe, Irish Dark Angel, the only member of the group Morristown Lattin Stud, Dark Angel joins the three sons available for under £10,000/€12,000 Guineas winner Mastercraftsman, by represented by runners, boasts some impressive above in descending from Northern Dancer, a – Shirocco (Dalham Hall, £7,000), Danehill Dancer, and freshman sire Power, the credentials in that sphere. Retired after his fourth in the feature for his sire Acclamation. Schiaparelli (Overbury Stud, £2,000) and only son of Juddmonte’s Oasis Dream to land a Arcadio (Arctic Tack Stud, €2,000). Group 1 event at two and three. Susan Corbett interview, page 8 Ballylinch Stud has reduced the fee of its dual NEARCO AND OTHER ‘BUDGET’ LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013 stallion age sire descending from stud fee Arcadio 11 Monsun Konigsstuhl Arctic Tack €2,000 Art Connoisseur 7 Lucky Story Kris S Irish National €4,500 THEAGA KHAN STUDS Avonbridge 13 Averti Oakgrove £3,000 Success Breeds Success Babodana 13 Bahamian Bounty East Lynch £1,000 Bahri 21 Riverman Never Bend Girsonfi eld £2,000 Bahamian Bounty 19 Cadeaux Genereux Young Generation National £10,000 Big Bad Bob 13 Bob Back Roberto Irish National €6,000 19 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Whitsbury Manor £6,500 Dabbers Ridge 11 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Norton Grove £1,000 Azamour Daylami 19 Doyoun Mill Reef Coolagown €5,000 Desideratum 11 Darshaan Shirley Heights Beechwood Grange £1,250 Youcan tellastallion’s quality Double Eclipse 21 Ela-Mana-Mou Pitcairn Deelside €500 Double Trigger 22 Ela-Mana-Mou Pitcairn Clarendon Farm £1,750 by the company he keeps... Firebreak 14 Charnwood Forest Warning Bearstone £3,500 First Trump 22 Primo Dominie Dominion Walton Fields £1,250 LeadingActive SiresinGB&Ire Fleetwood 18 Groom Dancer Blushing Groom Coolagown €1,000 from 2009-2012 Gamut 14 Spectrum Rainbow Quest Sunnyhill €2,000 by percentage of Stakes Horses to runners Indian Haven 13 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Withyslade Farm £2,500

Intikhab 19 Red Ransom Roberto Derrinstown €5,500 RUNNERS %SH/RNRS Josr Algarhoud 17 Darshaan Shirley Heights Hedgeholme £750 1DUBAWI303 21.12% Kadastrof 23 Port Etienne Mill Reef Batsford £1,250 Kalanisi 17 Doyoun Mill Reef Boardsmill €4,000 2GALILEO651 20.74% Major Cadeaux 9 Cadeaux Genereux Young Generation Bearstone £3,500 3DANEHILLDANCER618 16.18% Milk It Mick 12 Millkom Cyrano De Bergerac Kelanne £1,500 4OASIS DREAM 547 15.90% Millkom 22 Cyrano De Bergerac Bold Lad Girsonfi eld £1,000 5SHAMARDAL 33515.22% 11 Inchinor Ahonoora Stanley House £5,000 Pastoral Pursuits 12 Bahamian Bounty Cadeaux Genereux National £5,500 6LAWMAN 108 14.81% Piccolo 22 Warning Known Fact Throckmorton Court £3,000 7AZAMOUR157 14.65% Resplendent Glory 11 Namid Indian Ridge Saywell Farm £2,000 8PIVOTAL 53314.07% Royal Applause 20 Waajib Try My Best Royal Studs £9,000 Sakhee 16 Bahri Riverman Yorton Farm £2,500 9DANSILI512 13.67% Sakhee’s Secret 9 Sakhee Bahri Whitsbury Manor £5,500 Minimumof70runners. Statistics by HyperionPromotions Schiaparelli 10 Monsun Konigsstuhl Overbury £2,000 Shirocco 12 Monsun Konigsstuhl Dalham Hall £7,000 Real valueat€10,000 Sir Percy 10 Mark Of Esteem Darshaan Lanwades £7,000 Sleeping Indian 12 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Beechwood Grange £3,000 GILLTOWN STUD Superior Premium 19 Forzando Formidable I Bridge House €500 Tagula 20 Taufan Stop The Music Rathbarry €4,000 www.agakhanstuds.com Winker Watson 8 Piccolo Warning Norman Court £2,500 8 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com Dedication and hard work the key components for burgeoning family operation Susan Corbett with resident stallion Ferrule at her Girsonfi eld Stud in Northumberland decade, the stud already has in search of Bahri’s services, as “Coupled with a younger son Greece before winning for us Katherine Fidler talks to Susan Corbett, much history behind it. proven by Blandford Lodge who wanted to be a jockey, I over hurdles, and Cogolie, a whose Girsonfield Stud may be remote “We started with the manager Rupert Chennells’ decided to go for my permit. nice, big French mare by little-known Respect and decision to send five mares to Over the last year I’ve learnt so Cyborg. but has a strong hand of value stallions Endoli. They did us no harm the son of Riverman this much, and we’ve had three “The rest of the stud is taken and Endoli has some good season. winners and ten places, all up with boarders and UPPORTERS of the been left to chance – the result stock behind him, not least our Newmarket is not the from inexpensive or homebred youngsters for other clients old adage ‘everything of a sturdy work ethic clearly own homebred Dun To furthest clients have travelled horses. who live as far away as happens for a reason’ instilled in Corbett from an Perfection, who won at 40-1 at to visit one of the Girsonfield “My eldest son said, ‘Mum, Newmarket and London.” may be inclined to use early age. Carlisle in November,” she residents either. Bahri has also most people have a dream. You Now juggling boarders, S says. welcomed a walk-in mare from had a dream of running a stallions, the stud’s own the history of Susan “My parents told me when I and Frank Corbett’s was three I could never own a “Millkom came next – our Cheltenham. stud, got there, broodmares and a rapidly Girsonfield Stud as a prime pony because my father only first Group 1 winner. Ferrule “We got her in foal – phew!” loved it – and then decided to filling racing barn, Corbett example. worked in a factory, so I saved joined us via Hong Kong – he’s laughs Corbett. change the dream’!” admits the early years were a An unexpected broodmare up and bought my own when I a strapping son of Danehill, Boasting 160 acres of huge learning curve, “helped LTHOUGH band, followed by a short-term was 13,” she says. just without any great Northumberland’s finest, by Thoroughbred Breeders’ currently in the resident stallion who never “Years passed and I met my opportunities so far.” Girsonfield is also more than Association courses and process of self-education”. left, set the wheels in motion husband Frank, a farmer with However, Corbett points to able to offer boarding for recent addition Bahri as the mares, and in recent years the applying for her More than ten years on, for what has become one of one hunter, by which time I A full licence, had started breeding from my catalyst behind the venture’s property has seen gradual tricks of the trade help keep northern England’s most Corbett still devotes plenty of own thoroughbred mare. We recent rise in fortune. A dual additions to its real estate in the operation running successful breeding time to continuing the stud’s then got into point-to-pointing Group 1-winning miler, Bahri the form of extra barns, a smoothly, particularly during operations. expansion. One such and loved it.” is best known as the sire of horse-walker, round pen, tough Northumberland “We were offered the development comes in the And so it was through this Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero all-weather paddock and an winters. stallion Respect for the short form of another new addition affiliation with Sakhee. all-weather gallop. “We sleep with the hosepipe term – we thought – and said to the stallion roster, crack the hunt-racing “Our lives changed when we This latest investment gives in the house!”, she says. we’d buy him if he covered 20 miler Proclamation. scene that got Bahri,” she says. “It was a clear indication as to how the However, Corbett is quick to mares. He covered 19!,” says She says: “Edward [Daly] Girsonfield first one of those moments you business is currently evolving. point out the success is not manager Susan. came up trumps again with evolved. Now remember exactly where you With the stud now established hers alone. Nevertheless, Respect Proclamation. He’s such a entering its were – I remember saying to and commercially viable, “I manage two full-time jobs remained at the stud for many lovely stallion – excellent second our agent Edward Daly: Corbett has leapt on the due to two things – my years to come, joined on the ‘Bahri? You mean the Bahri?’ opportunity to re-join the temperament, strong and husband Frank, who is always picturesque Northumberland “I’d asked him to be on the training ranks. plenty of bone. We love him!” working and keeping me property by the operation’s lookout for a new stallion, but “Basically, Frank and I loved Corbett’s enthusiasm for the right, and my excellent team of first broodmares, Corbett’s he had to have a name – we’re point-to-pointing but it got family’s burgeoning business staff. former point-to-pointers. too remote from Newmarket left behind when the stud is clear, but she is realistic in “Things like this don’t “One season all of our to ‘make’ a new stallion.” needed so much development. terms of what is best for the happen by accident!” point-to-point mares got Not so remote, One day we decided it was future. Indeed, while the story of unrelated problems and we hohowweevveerr,, tthhaatt time to go back, especially “We’ve downsized our own Girsonfield may well have ended up with a broodmare Newmarket when we had so many mares over the years as we started through an band by default,” she says. Bahri: “Our residents are not youngsters with no started out with too many unexpected series of events, as Girsonfield may have been lives changed willing to make the commercial value due to the – the benefit of hindsight. We far as ‘things happening for a born out of fickle fate, but when we 260-mile journey downturn in the economy now have two National Hunt reason’ go, that reason is since its formation nothing has got him” up to Girsonfield – what else would they do? mares – Penteli, who raced in evident. Sheer hard work. It’s allabout winnersatWoodlands... 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further. He is also held in some esteem with Cathal Gahan selects ten buyers, with 14 yearlings from 19 offered in inexpensive stallions aged 18 or Europe last year sold for an average of £9,121. older whose lustre has not faded Royal Applause 20yo; b Waajib-Flying Melody Alhaarth (Auction Ring) The Royal Studs, £9,000 Age: 20; pedigree: Unfuwain-Irish Valley Covered 2012: 125 (Irish River) Standing at Derrinstown Stud at a fee of €4,000 Royal Applause has founded a successful sire No. of mares covered in 2012: 21 line in recent years, with his son Acclamation churning out lots of precocious and fast winners Alhaarth was the outstanding two-year-old colt and Acclamation’s son Dark Angel making a of 1995, his finest moment coming in the good start with his first crops. The son of Waajib Dewhurst Stakes when thrashing Danehill is also a consistent source of good winners on Dancer and Tagula. His pedigree ticks all the the track, including last year’s Roses Stakes boxes; he is by the high-class Unfuwain and his Snow Fairy (centre), flanked by (left) Sendmylovetorose and Hoyam: by veteran sires winner Hoyam and the smart Dance And Dance. dam Irish Valley is an unraced half-sister to Because he excels at producing sharp and top-class racehorse and stallion Green Dancer. This is also the family of 2,000 Guineas hero speedy stock – his progeny have run 8,197 times Makfi and last year’s Arc heroine Solemia. Golden oldies showing over 5f-1m1f compared with just 1,382 times Alhaarth’s influence is more stamina-based beyond that – he has retained his popularity at – perhaps it is Unfuwain’s middle-distance the sales. Last year in Europe he had 67 of his 82 influence coming through. His progeny have yearlings offered sell for an average of run over 5-6f 722 times and over 7f and beyond they’re no back numbers 43,984gns. Shadwell paid a high of 220,000gns 3,554 times. At Tattersalls last year, Alhaarth’s for a half-brother to Listed winner Kingsgate unbeaten Listed winner Seolan sold for Prince. 320,000gns out of Paddy Prendergast’s yard. Alhaarth stands this year at just €4,000, a Ireland went to €825,000 for the seven-year-old Piccolo Tagula fraction of the €30,000 he commanded in 2005 Queen Mary Stakes winner Elletelle at Arqana 22yo; b Warning-Woodwind 20yo; b Taufan-Twin Island (Standaan) and 2006, when the exploits of his best offspring in December. The agency also spent €120,000 (Whistling Wind) Rathbarry Stud, €4,000 on a yearling sister to Pasar Silbano, a high-class Bandari, Dominica, Haafhd and Phoenix Reach Throckmorton Court Stud, £3,000 Covered 2012: 55 two-year-old in Ireland before racing in the US, were fresh in the memory. Covered 2012: 45 A longstanding resident of Rathbarry Stud, at the Goffs Orby sale in 2012. Elnadim looks a Tagula is best known for siring the brilliant value option for breeders looking to tap into the Awarded the 1994 as a Bahamian Bounty miler Canford Cliffs. Danzig line. three-year-old, Piccolo bagged a big prize on 19yo; ch Cadeaux Genereux-Clarentia merit in the King’s Stand the following year. He is largely a speed influence; over 5-6f his (Ballad Rock) Halling Those wins may be a distant memory but at the progeny have had 3,200 runs compared to National Stud, £10,000 age of 22 he is still popular and last year he 2,743 over 7f and further. The son of Taufan has Covered 2012: 97 22yo; ch Diesis-Dance Machine (Green Dancer) covered 40 mares. Piccolo’s reputation has, by been holding his own at the sales too; at last Bahamian Bounty enjoyed a fine 2012 with his and large, been made by sprinters – the likes of year’s DBS Premier Yearlings sale Peter & Ross Dalham Hall Stud, £10,000 two-year-olds, with cheap buy La Cucaracha, Picaday, Temple Of Boom, Doyle, the purchasers of Canford Cliffs, spent Covered 2012: 30 Sendmylovetorose winning the Cherry Hinton Tiddliwinks and Winker Watson all having £70,000 on a colt of his out of a Dr Fong mare. Stakes, Cay Verde scoring in the Prix d’Arenberg Durable and progressive on the track himself competed at the top level over the past few years. Despite his advancing years, Tagula still and Baileys Jubilee winning at Listed level and – he developed from a Cambridgeshire winner Evidence of his speed influence can be seen in covered 55 mares in 2012 and stands for finishing third in the . into a five-time Group 1 scorer – Halling also his stud record; between 5-6f his progeny have €4,000. Tagula won the Group 1 Prix Morny Racecourse success translated into strong sales produces industrious offspring. His Group had 5,212 runs compared to 2,977 over 7f and over 6f as a two-year-old for Ian Balding. and he had 51 of his 61 yearlings offered in winners, headed by Cavalryman and Cutlass Europe last year sell for an average of Bay, who scored at the top level, have averaged 31,239gns. 27 career starts. He is primarily a speed source, with his Top sprinters are rare – his progeny have progeny in Britain and Ireland having made made only 252 starts over 5-6f compared with 6,080 starts over 5f-1m1f compared with just 4,046 starts over 7f and beyond, but clearly he is 435 over 1m2f and further. a good stallion to establish a mare. Halling’s £10,000 fee leaves room for profit – in Europe Compton Place last year he had 36 yearlings from 45 offered 19yo; ch Indian Ridge-Nosey (Nebbiolo) sell at an average of 25,332gns. Whitsbury Manor Stud, £6,500 Covered 2012: 77 Intikhab 19yo; b Red Ransom-Crafty Example A winner on good to firm ground, this (Crafty Prospector) son of Indian Ridge is still going strong with 77 coverings last year. One benefit of choosing an Derrinstown Stud, €5,500 older stallion is his record is there for all to see Covered 2012: 79 and one thing is for sure, Compton Place Intikhab could not have asked for a better habitually stamps his stock. His progeny in ambassador than Snow Fairy, his six-year-old Britain and Ireland have run 5,140 times over daughter who has won eight of her 21 starts 5-6f and 2,340 times at 7f-plus. His best-known over four seasons, six at the top level, including performers – the redoubtable , the Epsom and Curragh Oaks double and last Boogie Street, Deacon Blues and Intrepid Jack year’s Irish Champion Stakes. The fact Snow – have taken after their father by winning big Fairy is not a one-off – think of Paita, Red Evie sprints. and Glen’s Diamond – makes Intikhab’s €5,500 His stock are still trading solidly and at seem even more of a bargain. Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling sale He is capable of getting winners over any he had two lots sell to David Redvers (who also distance, although most of his progeny’s starts bought Compton Place’s exciting son Pearl in Britain and Ireland – 1,620 out of 3,076 Secret for £90,000) and Peter and Ross Doyle – have come over 7f-1m1f. Considering he has for £70,000 and £62,000. Standing at £6,500, no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill in his pedigree, he Seeyou his price has not fluctuated too much over the allows breeders plenty of leeway. Last year in years, reaching a high of £10,000 during 2007, Europe Intikhab’s yearlings achieved a good THEBEST Available having started his career at just £3,500. clearance rate at public auction (26 sold from 30 offered) and an average of 21,916gns. SPEED to view at Elnadim Tattstoday! 19yo; Danzig-Elle Seule (Exclusive Native) Peintre Celebre HORSE BY Derrinstown Stud, €5,000 19yo; ch Nureyev-Peinture Bleue later, DANSILI BOX476 Covered 2012: 46 (Alydar) Another July Cup winner to make the list, Coolmore Stud, €10,000 Elnadim began his career in the US standing at a Covered 2012: 44 fee of $15,000. Since his arrival at Derrinstown The 1997 Arc winner was an outstanding Stud his fee has changed little, with a high of middle-distance colt and began his stud career €7,000 and low of €5,000 for the past two years. with high expectations, standing at Ir£65,000 in Delegator! The son of Danzig has done well with his his first season. He will command a fee of only sprinters, even as far afield as New Zealand €10,000 this year, despite producing 12 Group 1 through his Group 1-winning son Culminate, winners, including stars such as Byword, Pride while Elnawin, Wi Dud and Smarty Socks have and Vallee Enchantee. been flying the flag for him in Britain and Peintre Celebre is primarily a middle-distance STANDING AT OVERBURY STUD CALL SIMONSWEETING Ireland. influence and his progeny have run 2,023 times Over 5f-1m1f his progeny have had 1,784 over 7f or further compared to 87 times over NEW£5,000 OCT1,SLF 07796 174926 OR (01386) 725552 runs, in stark contrast to 133 beyond 1m1f. 5f-6f. Of 17 yearlings offered in Europe last year Review his achievements online at www.ovstud.co.uk [email protected] Elnadim’s stock is still in demand and BBA by him, 12 sold for an average of 29,403gns. 10 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com Purchased for a song but making sweet music on course

multiple of her yearling price-tag – to become a Cathal Gahan highlights the broodmare in Japan. cheaply bought horses from last A half-sister to two minor Flat winners out of an unplaced half-sister to two hurdles winners, season who show you don’t need she is by former National Stud stallion Val Royal, who died at stud in 2008. Val Royal’s son bottomless pockets to buy a star Cockney Rebel continues his father’s work at the National Stud. Belle Royale taking up residence at Woodlands Stud, where winning the Hilary Needler Trophy, Weatherbys Gordon Lord Byron he stands for a small fee. Gordon Lord Byron is Super Sprint and ; she has Age: 5; colour/sex: bay/brown mare 5yo b g Byron-Boa Estrela (Intikhab) the only winner from two foals of racing age out since produced Stakes winners Laajooj and Pedigree: Val Royal-Kahyasi Moll of his unraced dam Boa Estrela, a half-sister to Louvain. Lethal Force is by Dark Angel, a (Brief Truce) Price: €2,000 (2008 Goffs November Foal) Vendor: Owenstown Stud Group 3 winner Cheyenne Star. brilliantly fast two-year-old who won the Price: 800gns (2009 DBS October Yearling) Buyer: Jessica Cahalan St Leger Yearling Stakes, Mill Reef and Middle Vendor: Houghton Bloodstock Earnings: £375,188 Lethal Force Park Stakes. He was subsequently retired that Buyer: Mark Brisbourne Jessica Cahalan landed herself a bargain at the 4yo gr c Dark Angel-Land Army season to stand at Morristown Lattin Stud at a Earnings: £198,430 foal sale in 2008 when buying Gordon Lord (Desert Style) cost of £10,000. Dark Angel is a good source of Belle Royale’s price did not get off the minimum Byron for just €2,000. Expertly handled by Tom Price: €9,500 (2009 Goffs November Foal), €8,500 inexpensive sales horses who belie their bid when she was offered at Doncaster in 2009 Hogan, it was only as a five-year-old that his raw (2010 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling) price-tags – another son, Tough As Nails, cost – evidently it was only Mark Brisbourne who speed and ability came to the fore in a 13-race Vendors: Rathasker Stud/Timogue Stables owner Laurence Mulvany only €3,000 but went saw something in her. His opinion was proved campaign, winning four times between 5-7f, Buyers: John Egan/Clive Cox on to finish third in the Phoenix Stakes. right when he trained her to win seven races including the Group 1 Prix De La Forêt. In the Earnings: £91,490 Maureen between 5f-1m, graduating from sellers to process he became the first Group 1 winner for Although a maiden going into his three-year-old valuable handicaps. Those exploits alone would his sire Byron. campaign, Lethal Force had finished fourth in 3yo b f Holy Roman Emperor-Exotic Mix merit being called a bargain buy. However, last Byron, a dual Group 2 winner, was bred by the Coventry and Vintage Stakes at two. (Linamix) season she did even better, racing for Simon Cheveley Park Stud and raced in the colours of Lethal Force is out of the Desert Style mare Land Price: €20,000 (2011 Goffs Orby) Callaghan and Michael Tabor in America. She Godolphin, winning the Group 2 Mill Reef as a Army, a sister to Ascot Family, a 7f Listed winner Vendor: Osberstown Stud showed a superb turn of foot to land the Grade 1 two-year-old and the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at in France who produced Buyer: Michael Halford Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park and was three. Byron began his stud duties at Kildangan winner Family One. Land Army’s half-sister Earnings: £44,813 subsequently sold – presumably for a large Stud but later switched to Dalham Hall before Flanders was fast and precocious as a juvenile, A 6f winner on her debut, Maureen was unlucky WEATHERBYS STALLION BOOKONLINE find astallion that meets your budget choose from over 250 stallions standing worldwide at www.stallionbook.co.uk

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first three races before finishing sixth in both Group 1s she contested. The dual Group winner is the second stakes performer to be produced by multiple winner Windy Gulch following 1m5f French Listed scorer Windya (by Linamix). Furthermore, she is from the family of South Ocean, the dam of Storm Bird and Prix du Bois winner Snowday. When Sendmylovetorose won the Group 3 Grangecon Stud Stakes she became the seventh Group winner for her sire Bahamian Bounty. The son of Cadeaux Genereux is best known for his juvenile winners over 5f-6f and also Group 3 winner Cay Verde flying his flag last season. Temida 5 b m Oratorio-Interim Payment (Red Ransom) Price: 13,500gns (2009 Tattersalls October Yearling Book 2) Vendor: Cooneen Stud Buyer: Litex Commerce AD Earnings: £157,000 This mare cost her owners just 13,500gns but is Gordon Lord Byron (left), Maureen and Reckless Abandon fillies Ermine and Swap Fliparoo. A son of now worth an awful lot more as a breeding Reckless Abandon (right) were just three 3yo b c Exchange Rate-Sant Elena (Efisio) Danzig, Exchange Rate stands this year at prospect after winning at Group 1 level in cheap purchases who recouped their $30,000. Reckless Abandon is the second foal Price: £24,000 (2011 DBS Premier Yearling) August. She had just one start as a two-year-old purchase price many times over in 2012 out of the 6f-winning mare Sant Elena, who also Vendor: Car Colston Hall Stud and it took six races for her to get off the mark. finished placed over 1m4f in a Canadian But her crowning glory came as a four-year-old in in running twice last season, in the Cherry Buyer: Clive Cox Stakes race. By Efisio, she is a half-sister to Earnings: £358,917 the Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Bayern, in which Hinton and Cheveley Park Stakes, but put Grade 1-winning filly Ticker Tape and from the she beat Derby Italiano winner Feuerblitz. By Another Clive Cox buy to make the list from last matters to rights in the Group 3 Princess family of Racing Post Trophy winner Crowded Oratorio, a son of Danehill who was sold to stand season. Remarkably, Reckless Abandon and Margaret Stakes, in which she slammed House. in South Africa this year, she now ranks among Lethal Force combined cost the trainer just Sandreamer by more than two lengths. Her sire his top performers, who include Manawanui, £32,500. Possibly the buy of 2012, Reckless Sendmylovetorose Holy Roman Emperor has a habit of producing Beethoven, Lolly For Dolly and King Torus. brilliant fillies – others include the tough Irish Abandon was purchased at Doncaster for a 3yo b f Bahamian Bounty-Windy Gulch Temida’s dam Interim Payment, by Red Oaks runner-up Banimpire, easy 1,000 Guineas modest £24,000. Having scored on his debut (Gulch) Ransom, won two races over 1m2f as a winner Homecoming Queen and over 5f at Doncaster, Reckless Abandon went Price: £5,000 (2011 DBS Premier Yearling) three-year-old but was later sold by Juddmonte scorer Ishvana – so it might be difficult to buy from strength to strength as the season Vendor: Trickledown Stud for just 9,000gns. Interim Payment is out of the his daughters as cheaply again as Michael progressed, adding a further four Group races to Buyer: McKeever Bloodstock Sadler’s Wells mare Interim, who finished second Halford did with Maureen. his tally, including the Norfolk Stakes, the Prix Earnings: £74,883 in the Lancashire Oaks before being sent to Maureen is out of Exotic Mix, a daughter of Robert Papin, the Prix Morny and Middle Park It cost McKeever Bloodstock only £5,000 to buy America, where she won the Grade 2 La Linamix who was placed over 1m1f as a Stakes to amass £358,917 in prize-money, and Sendmylovetorose at the 2011 DBS Premier Prevoyante Handicap over 1m4f. She is also dam three-year-old in France. The dam’s sister Belle was then snapped up by Darley as a future Yearling sale. County Tyrone trainer Andy of Grade 1 Charles Whittingham Memorial Famille was Listed-placed over 1m4f, her stallion. In the meantime he will be leased Oliver, a qualified vet, did a superb job of winner Midships and 1m2f Listed scorer half-brother Shot To Fame was a Group 3 back to his owners and remain in training with handling this filly – sending her out to win her Principal Role. winner over 1m and her half-sister Spinola won Cox. the Cherry Hinton Stakes. Maureen is a Exchange Rate, a relatively unproven sire in half-sister to Roedean (Oratario), a winner at Europe at the time, started his career in Florida plating level over 7f-1m1f, and Glass Mountain but was moved to Three Chimneys Farm in (Verglas), a low-grade handicap winner over Kentucky after a strong start at stud. His best 1m-1m2f. performers are headed by the Grade 1-winning

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HE accompanying review of cheaply Leaping Water, subsequently the dam of bought superstars shows with the champion St Nicholas Abbey and Grade 1-placed right judgement (and a bit of luck) Grammarian, was sold for 3,200gns at the 1993 T there is talented youngstock at the Tattersalls July sale, while Emeraled Bloodstock sales for all price ranges. But needed to part with just 3,000gns at the 2000 Sinndar breeding is still the sole preserve of the Tattersalls December breeding-stock sale for ridiculously wealthy, right? Wrong. Acidanthera – a winning daughter of Alzao and If you can find a stud that will keep and look a Shirley Heights dam no less! – before she Sire of 4 Gr.1 winners, after your mare at a reasonable rate – and if you produced last year’s Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere read through our stallion focus for a cheaper winner Olympic Glory. including the dual Gr.1 winner stallion and get a deal – there are mares Europe nearly lost Sun Shower in the year she available at breeding-stock sales who make foaled top miler when she was SHARETA in 2012. producing your own horse look affordable. sold to continue her breeding career in India Perhaps the best example of how an for €10,000 at the 2008 Goffs November inexpensive mare can come to be worth much, breeding-stock sale. Coolmore had to rescue her Sire of 52% lifetime much more is Alruccaba, bought by Kirsten from Asia after the emergence of Excelebration, winnerstorunners. Rausing and Sonia Rogers for just 19,000gns in leaving the mare’s new owners with a healthy 1985. Alruccaba is one of the best blue hens of profit, no doubt. recent decades, featuring in the female line of Coolmore also recently privately purchased stars such as Allegretto, Albanova, Alborada, Danedrop, who before her daughter Danedream Broodmare sire of 2012 Quarter Moon, Yesterday, Aussie Rules and won the Arc and King George went through the Last Second. Gr.1 winners ENCKE ring four times as a breeding commodity – for Rausing repeated the trick when she bought €21,000 at Goffs the first time, then not sold at and FLOTILLA. the Affirmed mare Entente Cordiale as a Tattersalls for 40,000gns, sold to BBA Germany three-year-old for just 2,000gns at Tattersalls. for €47,000 at Goffs and lastly moved on to Tony She later produced stakes winners Foreign Clout for just €17,000 at Arqana in 2008. Affairs and Motrice and her progeny were Easy to say in retrospect, but those prices for Consistency &Quality always popular in the sales ring. Then there is Lagrion, a daughter of Diesis Danedrop seem crazy – she is, after all, a at only €6,000 who struggled to a best Racing Post Rating of 70 daughter of the great Danehill out of a after finishing placed in a couple of low-grade Listed-placed High Top mare from the middle-distance contests at Wexford and immediate family of Group 1 winners Groom Gowran Park. If you looked past her race Dancer, Indian Rose and Vert Amande. record, you could have bought the future dam of The lesson? With a little imagination, placing HARASDEBONNEVAL Group 1 winners Dylan Thomas, Homecoming your trust in tried and tested bloodlines and Queen and Queen’s Logic for Ir3,000gns as a keeping an eye on conformation, there are www.agakhanstuds.com three-year-old at Goffs in 1992, or for 22,000gns bargains to be had at the breeding-stock sales. three years’ later at Tattersalls. Martin Stevens 12 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com

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Choisir was a tough racehorse Choisir, who stands at €10,000, Sleeping Indian is great value Dark Angel has had two crops Bahamian Bounty and Choisir Which sires with and gets genuine stock. I have is very good value. Last year at £3,000. He produced the who are good to train and are are two who spring to mind in four by Footstepsinthesand, all was arguably his best with Royal Ascot winner Hototo sound. We’ve had luck with that price range. They’re both runners who fillies, and they’re progressing Olympic Glory and Obviously (pictured) and was ninth in him, while Iffraaj had a proven sires who are popular nicely, although I’d love to doing very well. Medicean the table of two-year-old wonderful first season, with trainers and capable of stand for under train a few of his colts. Big Bad would be another at sires in Britain and Ireland including with Wootton getting fast and sound £10,000/€12,000 Bob is capable of upgrading his £10,000, especially if you last year. Choisir is a proven Bassett, whom we bought. two-year-olds who continue to mares and is breeding horses have Danehill blood Group 1 sire, Sir Percy Pastoral Pursuits has been very improve with age – and they are the best who are tough and talented. somewhere in your upgrades his mares and lucky for us and the five we win over a wide range of Captain Rio is good value and broodmare’s pedigree. Tagula is underrated, bought last season all won. distances and ground. value for money? gets winners year after year, He churns out top-class while Bahamian Bounty Bahamian Bounty and while Clodovil’s stock are nice horses year on year. is a solid sire in the sales Kyllachy also represent good and they run and sell well. ring. value.

Mastercraftsman could be Commercially, Bushranger Bushranger stamps his We bought three by Aqlaam Judging by last year’s sales, . . . and, in the the business. A serious is a no-brainer. His progeny stock well. I’ve never seen a at Newmarket – they’re sound Bushranger and Dandy Man racehorse, he had good size have sold well and to the first-season sire produce so with good temperaments look value. Of this year’s same price and is well worth a visit with right people, so he has every many good-looking, athletic and I like them a lot. Dandy sires, I have a soft spot for a nice mare. Thewayyouare chance. The progeny of yearlings. Paco Boy’s foals Man was a good, hardy horse Caspar Netscher, whom I bracket, which is an attractive Group 1 Myboycharlie – also by look like racehorses, while – we bought four of his and consigned to the breeze-up winner by Kingmambo. Lope Danetime – have been selling Harbour Watch was an they’re very tough and look at Tattersalls. He was a sires yet to have De Vega is a strong-looking well too. Although he’s part exceptional two-year-old like two-year-olds. fast, sound and honest colt horse with a good pedigree, of Coolmore’s jumps roster, who should get quality, Bushranger was popular at from day one. Harbour runners? while Bushranger’s stock Yeats was a two-year-old precocious stock. Dragon the sales with some very Watch was another brilliant look great and sold well. I winner before he became Pulse is a stunning good-looking, sound horses, two-year-old with looks to think they’ll make good one of the best stayers of individual who was a very and we were lucky enough to match who should be very racehorses. recent times. good two-year-old. buy three by him. popular.

I’ve always wanted to train an Bahamian Bounty had a great Danehill Dancer has been a Bahamian Bounty and Dansili, Danehill Dancer, Which older sires Alhaarth and now we have a 2012 and his progeny are most consistent sire of stakes Kyllachy, who give you good, Royal Applause and Pivotal are colt by him who cost €42,000. popular in the sales ring. At winners and is tremendous sound, hardy horses, and also all great sires who are more are still worth The sire is capable of getting a £6,500, you can’t go far wrong value at €40,000 – not within Compton Place and Royal than capable of getting using? nice one. Peintre Celebre was a with Compton Place, ‘budget’, I know, but if you’ll Applause. We always look at brilliant racehorses any year. very good racehorse and is still particularly if you’re looking to indulge me? Peintre Celebre progeny by them at the sales as They still have a certain magic getting big winners, as is establish a young mare. Many and Halling appeal to me, as they’re all capable of getting a about them. Intikhab. Danehill Dancer is of his progeny are progressive, does Zamindar, who is an good horse. We’ve had plenty more expensive but, with the speedy sorts. Alhaarth is excellent choice for an of winners by all of them. right mare, he can get a star, interesting. When you consider owner-breeder for getting a while Canford Cliffs’s he once stood for €30,000, his mare started. (pictured) sire Tagula is still fee of €4,000 appears good turning out the winners. value.

Bad conformation – for Buying-wise, at the lower I won’t buy a poor walker, a If the horse is an athlete and Conformation is always What would example, curbs on hocks end of the market pedigree very narrow or weak has a good outlook and important. A good-looking, and offset knees, or if becomes less relevant and a individual, nor a horse with presence, I’d forgive a lot of correct horse will always you never they’re turned out badly in buyer will inevitably look at a short length of rein. I’d faults but try to avoid buying catch someone’s eye. front or upright on their the individual. I’d avoid definitely buy an offset horses with open knees, Stallions seem to go in and compromise front legs. I also can’t light-boned horses, bad yearling providing it’s and/or are light of bone. out of fashion – I don’t know forgive most stable vices or walkers and would never athletic and appears sound. Breeding-wise, I favour a why – but to have one by the when breeding a weak dam line. touch one with bad knees. When breeding I’d never proven six-furlong-to-mile stallion everybody wants at select a sire who doesn’t stallion, as they’re popular a sale is a big advantage. A or buying on match the mare physically. with prospective buyers, or a stallion isn’t as important first-season sprinting sire once the horse has proved a budget? who might do well at the he can run. sales and get early winners.

The breeze-ups offer good Some people may have been Nearly every sale produces a I think sales companies do a The breeze-ups give buyers a Which sort of value as the horses are broken sceptical about breeze-ups at good horse. If you work any good job sorting yearlings out. clearer picture because there’s and riding, and you can view first, but the auction houses sale hard enough you can DBS, Tattersalls and Goffs sell another six months of work in sales offer the them cantering over two have sourced well in recent often come across a bargain plenty of winners. In recent the horse they may want to buy best value? furlongs. There is value at years and there’s very good – although sometimes patience years the breeze-ups have sold and by that time a lot of hidden most sales if you sit and wait value to be had there. Other is required! The breeze-up a lot of winners and represent problems you didn’t see as a long enough. than that, you have to be sales represent great value, as good value. We’ve been very yearling can surface. On the patient and make yourself an owner can save up to eight lucky at the breeze-ups, buying other hand, a lot of trainers available to go to plenty of months’ keep. Also, buyers get winners including Alben Star, like to start from scratch and sales. There are many good to see the horses gallop, Marine Commando, Rose any of the sales fit that criteria. horses offered at auction – you making the elimination Blossom, Garswood (a private Bonus schemes and sales races just need to be in the right process easier. sale), Heaven’s Guest and are a big help but I don’t think place at the right time. Strange Magic. it’s a huge deciding factor. SAKHEE’S SECRET 2yo Performances,3yo Potential “Secret Recipe has developedwell as a3yo and is potentially avery nice stakes horse” Dermot Weld, trainer of the impressive 2yo maiden winner.

The 3yo Sakhee's Secret Contact: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper,Whitsbury Manor Stud beating Dutch Art in the July Cup T: 01725 518254 Mob: 07778 603691 www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk Fee: £5,500 Oct 1st NFFR