VALUE SIRES PART I: Nomination Fee Into a Reliable Money-Spinner That Turns up Year After Year on the Racecourse
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SUNDAY, 29 DECEMBER 2019 For the end-user, value is doubtless turning a modest VALUE SIRES PART I: nomination fee into a reliable money-spinner that turns up year after year on the racecourse. But this style of breeding is falling THE NEWCOMERS out of fashion in favour of a mating that will meet the demands of the yearling sale market, and in this realm value is most likely to be found among the young sires who have not yet had the opportunity to decrease their worth with progeny on the racecourse. While the definition of value is muddled, for the purposes of this series we will look to strike a happy medium between those sires whose progeny are likelier to earn their keep on the racecourse, and those that may prove most fruitful earlier on in sales rings. At the end of each installment we will present a podium of value for the sire crop. Standing alone at the top of the fee table for his sire crop is Too Darn Hot (GB), Darley=s triple Group 1-winning and dual Cartier champion son of Dubawi who starts out at Dalham Hall Stud alongside his sire for ,50,000. Cont. p2 Too Darn Hot | racingfotos.com IN TDN AMERICA TODAY SANTA ANITA KICKS OFF Santa Anita Park kicks off its 2020 winter meeting with a seven- By Kelsey Riley stakes card, including three Grade Is. Click or tap here to go The holiday season is done and dusted for another year, but straight to TDN America. for those in the bloodstock business the most prized packages remain wrapped and hidden away. In the coming weeks and months, another year=s worth of planning, investment and anticipation will come to fruition in the form of a fresh crop of foals frolicking the paddocks, and the cycle of boundless optimism that has fueled the Thoroughbred business for so many years will begin anew. And one cycle rolls right into the next, as foaling season brings with it the endlessly fascinating task of planning a new round of matings. Proven sires and those on the bubble are joined by yet another intake of young pretenders. Over the coming weeks the TDN will present its annual multi-part Value Sires series, analyzing stallions by sire crop and career stage. We begin this week with the new class of 2020 and will advance through stallions with first foals, yearlings and runners, and later look at the stallions who have already proven their worth on the racecourse, highlighting value at each level. That begs the question, what is value in the bloodstock business? TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 29 DECEMBER 2019 Value Sires Part I: The Newcomers cont. from p1 seven furlongs and the one-mile Sussex S., where he beat the That is fully double the fee that Dubawi--a Group 1 winner at G1 St James=s Palace S. winner Circus Maximus (Ire) (Galileo two and G1 Irish 2000 Guineas and G1 Prix Jacques le Marois {Ire}). Too Darn Hot was Europe=s best miling 3-year-old in 2019 winner at three--commanded when he retired to Dalham Hall in and duly earned divisional honours at the Cartier awards. Too 2006, and the manner in which Dubawi clawed his way to the Darn Hot retained the same level of brilliance across both top means his son won=t have to do the same. It won=t be lost on seasons, posting RPRs of 125 at both two and three. breeders, either, that Dubawi=s Night of Thunder (Ire) is this Too Darn Hot isn=t the only champion and multiple Group 1 year=s leading first-season sire in Europe, the G1 2000 Guineas winner that Darley introduces alongside his sire in 2020: at and G1 Lockinge S. winner having notched an eye-popping seven Kildangan Stud it is the triple Royal Ascot hero Blue Point (Ire), black-type winners in 2019. The fact that he has already left the who stands in the same yard as his sire Shamardal at i45,000. likes of Makfi (GB)--in turn the sire of another useful young sire While Galileo and Dubawi once again occupy the top two spots in Make Believe (GB)--as well as Poet=s Word (GB) and Al on Europe=s general sires table, there should be little doubt that Kazeem (GB), who have both enjoyed success from limited it was Shamardal who closed out the year as the sire of the opportunities, bodes well for the preservation of Dubawi=s line, moment, his Group 1-winning juveniles Pinatubo (Ire), Earthlight and Too Darn Hot should be short odds to top the table. He is (Ire) and Victor Ludorum (Ire) putting the exclamation point on a beautifully bred, being out of Dar Re Mi (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}), stellar season that was kick-started with a win by Castle Lady who is not only a triple Group 1 winner and prolific stakes (Ire) in the G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches and Blue Point himself producer, but also a half-sister to leading sire Darshaan (GB). He in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint over the subsequent GI Breeders= Cup was the unbeaten 2-year-old champion, besting the subsequent Turf Sprint heroine Belvoir Bay (GB) (Equiano {Fr}). By that point, Irish 2000 Guineas winner Phoenix of Spain (Ire) (Lope de Vega the 5-year-old Blue Point=s reputation was already well {Ire}) in the G2 Champagne S. and the G1 Commonwealth Cup established: the winner of the G2 Gimcrack S. and placed in two winner Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) and G1 Investec Derby Group 1s at two, Blue Point won the G3 Pavilion S. and the winner Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Dewhurst G3 Bengough S. at three and was third in the G1 Commonwealth S. He added two more Group 1s at three: the Prix Jean Prat over Cup. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 29 DECEMBER 2019 Value Sires cont. stock just seems to keep rising. Kingman (GB) has built on the He took the G1 King=s Stand S. over the record-setting sprinter promise he laid down last year to stamp himself as one of the Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) back at Royal Ascot at four, but hottest sires on the planet, while Cable Bay sits second on the it is doubtless that it was at five when Blue Point was at his best. first-season sires= table and I Am Invincible (Aus) continues to fly He was unbeaten in five starts this year--three at Meydan and the flag Down Under. Other representatives of the dynasty the King=s Stand and G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot, after include Lawman (Fr) and Charm Spirit (Ire), while the first which connections called time on his career. He earned a career- yearlings by Shalaa (Ire) were highly sought after this year. best RPR of 127 in the King=s Stand and ran RPRs of 121-plus in Magna Grecia is one of four sons of Invincible Spirit to retire in every race this year. Europe for 2020. Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) may have had to play Kingman=s potency perhaps needs no better plug than the fact second-fiddle to Too Darn Hot in the Dewhurst last year, but he that the shrewd folks at Coolmore have decided to invest in it built on victories in the G1 Phoenix S. and G2 July S. to take with the purchase of the sire=s first stakes winner, Calyx (GB), command of the 3-year-old sprinters= division in 2019. After who stands for i22,500 in Co. Tipperary next year and is failing to see out the mile in the G1 2000 Guineas, he dropped Kingman=s first son at stud. Calyx is a Juddmonte homebred back to six furlongs to win the Commonwealth Cup with a from a long line as such; his fourth dam, Populi (Star Envoy), was career-best RPR of 121. Second to Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay bought by Khalid Abdullah for $2-million at Keeneland Never) in the G1 July Cup, Advertise bounced back to add the G1 November in 1983 and Khalid Abdullah bred Kingman=s first Prix Maurice de Gheest against elders. Bred by Cheveley Park three dams. First dam Helleborine (GB) (Observatory) won the Stud out of a daughter of that nursery=s potent Pivotal (GB), G3 Prix d=Aumale and was second in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac, Advertise is the first six furlong Group 1 winner at two and three and Calyx certainly inherited her precocity. A >TDN Rising Star= to retire to stud in Britain since Oasis Dream--who also happens when winning by five lengths on debut in Newmarket last June, to be his grandsire. Advertise starts out at the National Stud at he beat Advertise by a length in the G2 Coventry S. just 10 days ,25,000. later. He suffered a setback thereafter which ruled him out until Coolmore introduces a trio of newcomers next season, with May, when he won the G3 Pavilion S., and met with his first this year=s G1 2000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Ire) defeat when second in the G2 Sandy Lane S., after which he was (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) introduced at i22,500. Continuing the retired. Calyx was blessed with the incredible turn of foot that theme that permeates through most of the highest-regarded his sired used to such affect and that many of his best progeny young stallions, Magna Grecia was a Group 1 winner at two who possess.