DATA BOOK STAKES RESULTS National Hunt Grade Ones such as Grandouet, Vasco du The 2012 edition of Aintree’s Lord Windermere was still in third 179 SUPREME NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 Ronceray, Solix and Baby Mix. Champion Standard Open National place when Boston Bob fell in the lead Simonsig’s dam Dusty Too won a Hunt Flat Race appears to be living up at the last in the RSA Chase, but his CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f 110yds. Soft. pair of bumpers and two novice to its ambitious name. The runner-up, stamina came into play on the run-in. 1. CHAMPAGNE FEVER (IRE) 6 gr g Stowaway - Forever Bubbles (Roselier) hurdles. Her 2009 Presenting gelding My Tent Or Yours, went close to He wore down Lyreen Legend to win O- Mrs S Ricci B- JP Cahill TR- WP Mullins sold for €50,000 as a three-year-old. justifying favouritism in the 2013 in the style of a potential Gold Cup 2. My Tent Or Yours (IRE) 6 b g Simonsig’s broodmare sire Terimon Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and the contender. Desert Prince - Spartan Girl (Ela-Mana-Mou) won the Gr1 Juddmonte International winner, The New One, was highly His win – together with the Festival 3. Jezki (IRE) 5 b g more than two years after he chased impressive in taking the Neptune efforts of At Fishers Cross and Rock Milan - La Noire (Phardante) home Nashwan in the Derby. As a son Investment Management Novices’ On Ruby – ensured that his sire Oscar Age Starts Wins Places Earned of Bustino, Terimon was expected to Hurdle. The New One’s win was his is yet again contending for the title of 4-6 10 73£211,960 succeed as a sire of jumpers but he third in four starts over hurdles, his champion sire, having finished runner- See race 139 in the April issue didn’t live up to expectations, his best defeat being a narrow one at the up to Presenting in 2010/2011 and CHAMPAGNE FEVER gr g 2007 winners being the very useful chaser hands of At Fishers Cross, winner of to King’s Theatre in 2011/2012. Mill Reef Roman Ark and the versatile stayer the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle. Oscar’s progeny vary in their distance Shirley Heights Hardiemma The New One has been racing requirements but they include stayers Slip Anchor Scots Grey. Another of Terimon’s Birkhahn Sayonara daughters is the dam of the admirable beyond two and a half miles over of the calibre of Black Jack Ketchum Suleika STOWAWAY b 94 Northfields Countrywide Flame. hurdles, but his dazzling Cheltenham and At Fishers Cross. No Pass No Sale No Disgrace On Credit Simonsig’s second dam, the Festival win raised the possibility that It is possible that Oscar needs a bit Vaguely Noble Noble Tiara Tayyara unraced Princess Florine, is also the he might have enough speed to of help to sire a top-notch stayer, and Medium second dam of the smart My Murphy, become a Champion Hurdle he received it from Lord Windermere’s Misti IV Mist Roselier a Gr3 winner over hurdles. Queen contender. However, his pedigree isn’t dam Satellite Dancer. This lightly- Fastnet Rock Peace Rose La Paix Vega, Simonsig’s third dam, was a that of a two-mile specialist. He ranks raced hurdler is by Satco, a son of FOREVER BUBBLES gr 92 Pampered King Deep Run half-sister to In Fijar, a talented French alongside African Gold as one of the Derby winner Blakeney who won the Trial By Fire Cool Blue miler and winner of the Poule d’Essai very smart young hurdlers by King’s Prix Berteux over 15 furlongs and also Royal Buck Blue Buck Blue Jirao des Poulains. Theatre, who has been making a bold contested France’s Gold Cup, the Prix bid to repeat his well-deserved sires’ du Cadran, finishing second to Royal 180 ARKLE CHALLENGE championship during the 2011-12 Gait in 1987 and third in 1988. 181 CHAMPION HURDLE G1 TROPHY CHASE G1 season. The former Ballylinch stallion Satco passed on plenty of stamina has also received strong support from to his best sons, including the CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f. Soft. CHELTENHAM. March 12. 16f 110yds. Soft. 1. SIMONSIG (GB) 7 gr g 1. HURRICANE FLY (IRE) 9 b g Montjeu - Scandisk such as Cue Card, Menorah, Captain Cesarewitch winner Turnpike, the Fair Mix - Dusty Too (Terimon) (Kenmare) O- G Creighton, Rose Boyd Chris, Baily Green and Balthazar King. Scottish Grand National winner Paris O- Mr RA Bartlett B- S Tindall B- Agricola Del Parco TR- WP Mullins Sadly he died in 2011, at the age of Pike and the high-class chaser TR- Nicky Henderson 2. Rock On Ruby (IRE) 8 b g 20. Sackville. 2. Baily Green (IRE) 7 b g Oscar - Stony View (Tirol) The New One’s dam Thuringe Lord Windermere’s second dam King’s Theatre - Dream On Boys (Anshan) 3. Countrywide Flame (GB) 5 b g 3. His Excellency (IRE) 5 ch g Haafhd - Third Party (Terimon) finished a creditable third in a Listed Greek Empress is also the second King’s Best - Road Harbour (Rodrigo de Triano) race on her debut over hurdles at dam of the very useful jumpers Stars Age Starts Wins Places Earned Auteuil. Her sire Turgeon numbered Out Tonight and Start Me Up. Greek Age Starts Wins Places Earned 2-9 30 19 7 £1,372,474 the Irish St Leger and Prix Royal-Oak Empress was by Royal Buck, who also 5-7 12 10 1 £248,772 See race 2 in the January issue among his victories, and he was twice sired the dam of Paris Pike. SIMONSIG gr g 2006 HURRICANE FLY b g 2004 third in the Ascot Gold Cup. Turgeon Royal Buck was best known as the Bellypha Nearctic Mendez Northern Dancer sired the smart English chasers Exotic sire of the Cheltenham Gold Cup Miss Carina Natalma Linamix Sadler’s Wells Dancer, Chapoturgeon, Aerial, Turko winner Royal Frolic, the Queen Mother Breton Bold Reason Lunadix Fairy Bridge Lutine Special and Turgeonev, and his French Champion Chase winner Buck House FAIR MIX gr 98 MONTJEU b 96 Icecapade High Top Wild Again Top Ville representatives did so well in 2011 and the very good chasers What A Bushel-N-Peck Sega Ville Fairlee Wild Floripedes that he ended the year as champion Buck and The Pilgarlic. Mr Prospector Tennyson Raise Me Toute Cy Leave Me Adele Toumignon sire of jumpers. The next three mares This is a good old-fashioned Busted Zeddaan Bustino Kalamoun in The New One’s female line all raced jumping family, Greek Empress being Ship Yard Khairunissa Terimon Kenmare Track Spare Milesian at around 12 furlongs. They were a half-sister to the talented Nicholas Grey Belle of Ireland Rosy Morn Belle of The Ball DUSTY TOO gr 98 SCANDISK b 95 respectively daughters of Comrade In Rathgorman, winner of the Queen Exclusive Native Sir Gaylord Our Native Lord Gayle Arms, the Brazilian star Emerson and Mother Champion Chase. The next Our Jackie Sticky Case Princess Florine Yankee Lady Te Vega Vimy Carmarthen, France’s dominant sire of dam, Greek Light, was a half-sister to Queen Vega Ceol An Oir Apache Queen Pal An Oir jumpers during the 1980s. the smart chaser Garnishee. It is a measure of Simonsig’s star 184 QUEEN MOTHER 182 BINGHAM NOVICES’ HURDLE G1 183 RSA CHASE G1 quality that his performance in the CHAMPION CHASE G1 Arkle Chase was considered a bit lacklustre, even though he scored by CHELTENHAM. March 13. 21f. Good to Soft. CHELTENHAM. March 13. 24.5f. Good to Soft. CHELTENHAM. March 13. 16f. Good to Soft. 1. THE NEW ONE (IRE) 5 b g 1. LORD WINDERMERE (IRE) 7 b g 1. SPRINTER SACRE (FR) 7 b/br g more than two lengths. But this was King’s Theatre - Thuringe (Turgeon) Oscar - Satellite Dancer (Satco) Network - Fatima III (Bayolidaan) understandable when the son of Fair O- Mrs S Such B- R Brown, Ballylinch Stud O- Dr R Lambe B- E Coleman O- Caroline Mould B- C Masle TR- N Henderson Mix had won Gr2 events on his last TR- Nigel Twiston-Davies TR- J Culloty 2. Sizing Europe (IRE) 11 b g three appearances by a minimum of 2. Rule The World (GB) 6 b g 2. Lyreen Legend (IRE) 6 b g Pistolet Bleu - Jennie Dun (Mandalus) 15 lengths. He has now won eight of Sulamani - Elaine Tully (Persian Bold) Saint des Saints - Bint Bladi (Garde Royale) 3. Wishfull Thinking (GB) 10 ch g 3. Pont Alexandre (GER) 5 b g 3. Hadrian’s Approach (IRE) 6 b g Alflora - Poussetiere Deux (Garde Royale) his nine starts under rules. Dai Jin - Panzella (Kahyasi) High Chaparral - Gifted Approach (Roselier) The seven-year-old belongs to Fair Age Starts Wins Places Earned Mix’s first crop, and is by far his best Age Starts Wins Places Earned Age Starts Wins Places Earned 4-7 14 12 2 £511,001 representative. Fair Mix won the Gr1 3-5 971£128,206 5-7 12 55£141,955 See race 70 in the February issue. Prix Ganay as a five-year-old in 2003 THE NEW ONE b g 2008 LORD WINDERMERE b g 2006 SPRINTER SACRE b/br g 2006 but his biggest prize came from his Nearctic Nearctic Dschingis Khan Northern Dancer Northern Dancer Konigsstuhl Natalma Natalma Konigskronung victory in the Gr3 Dubai City of Gold Sadler’s Wells Sadler’s Wells Monsun Bold Reason Bold Reason Surumu Stakes in 2004.