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THE IRISH FIELD, Saturday, July 11, 2015 A14 OFBREEDER THE MONTH >> JUNE 2015 >> Vote free online for your choice today Derby winner Australia on his only other juvenile There are few better bred fi llies in the world outing. At three he made a belated seasonal than this daughter of Fastnet Rock. She is the appearance a winning one when landing a Group best of six winners to date for her dam Quarter 3 race at Leopardstown before fi nishing third to Moon and the same owners – Roisin Henry and Noble Mission at Ascot. His win at the royal meet- Sue Magnier – must be looking forward to the ing this year was on only his fi fth run and he has eventual racecourse appearance of the juvenile now amassed more than half a million pounds full-sister to this latest Group 1 winner, the aptly sterling. He will retire to the Irish National Stud on named How High The Moon. She holds an entry the completion of his racing career. in the Moyglare Stud Stakes. Free Eagle joins Toronado and So You Think That same Group 1 juvenile contest was won among the galaxy of Group 1 winners for his sire by Quarter Moon who was the champion fi lly High Chaparral, while he is the third stakes win- of her year in Ireland. The next season she was ning offspring of the Danehill mare Polished Gem. runner-up in the Irish 1000 Guineas, the Epsom She won a Leopardstown maiden at two and her Oaks and the Irish Oaks. Her own-sister Yesterday EVA MARIA BUCHER-HAEFNER fi rst four foals have all won, three of them at group ROISIN HENRY went one better and landed a classic, the Irish level. The others are the Group 2 winner Sapphire, 1000 Guineas, and was second in the Epsom now herself a member of the broodmare band ■ Diamondsandrubies (Ire), 2012 f. by Fastnet Oaks. Yet another full-sister All My Loving was ■ Free Eagle (Ire), 2011 c. by High Chaparral at Moyglare, and Custom Cut, a multiple group Rock out of Quarter Moon, by Sadler’s Wells placed in the Irish and English Oaks and she bred out of Polished Gem, by Danehill winner including in 2015. the ill-fated Hardwicke Stakes winner Thomas Eva Maria Bucher Haefner continues the mag- There was great joy for breeder and part-owner Chippendale. Unraced since he fi nished third in the Group 1 nifi cent tradition of her late father Walter at the Roisin Henry when Diamondsandrubies earned All this is happening in the family and without Champion Stakes at the same course last Oc- world famous Moyglare Stud in Co Kildare. a well-deserved Group 1 success at the Curragh going back to the third dam Alruccaba, the gran- tober, Free Eagle made his reappearance in the in the Sea The Stars Pretty Polly Stakes, denying dam of a further four Group 1 winners in Aussie Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot classic heroine Legatissimo in a stirring fi nish. Rules, Allegretto, Albanova and Alborada! and in a thrilling fi nish denied The Grey Gatsby A Tipperary maiden winner in April and a listed and seven other opponents to open his racing VOTE FREE ONLINE: winner at Chester the following month, Diamond- VOTE FREE ONLINE: account at the highest level. www.TheIrishField.ie/vote sandrubies was very unlucky in the Epsom Oaks www.TheIrishField.ie/vote An ultra impressive winner on his debut at two, where she fi nished fourth, having been the victim Free Eagle was beaten by the subsequent dual BREEDER 1 of some barging. BREEDER 2 tion Cup at Epsom. ing could well prove an able successor to trainer He has recorded a number of other group Ed Dunlop’s globetrotter Red Cadeaux. and stakes wins among his seven career The Monaghans have been associated with victories, including the valuable Group 2 the family of Trip To Paris for four generations. The Bosphorus Cup in Turkey. His recent win third dam of the Gold Cup winner was purchased was his fi rst effort at Group 1 level. He is the by them and she bred the Eclipse Stakes and best of three foals produced by his dam and dual Juddmonte International winner Ezzoud. She one of a pair of winners. was also dam of the Sussex Stakes and Prix du Softly Tread was a listed winner at two Moulin de Longchamp winner Distant Relative. and added the Group 3 Gladness Stakes at La Grande Zoa was sold as a yearling by the three to her tally when trained by Con Col- Monaghans but they bought her back for stud lins. Michael Daly from Enfi eld in Co Meath and she is now dam of a Group 1 winner. She has bought her as a broodmare at Keeneland a two-year-old in training with Jamie Osborne, a MICHAEL DALY but sadly she suffered a fatal injury a few yearling fi lly by Mastercraftsman and a colt foal years ago. TOM AND PAUL MONAGHAN by Invincible Spirit. The latter pair will likely go to ■ Pether’s Moon (Ire), 2010 c. by Dylan Michael has 17 mares and has owned the sales this autumn, while La Grande Zoa was Thomas out of Softly Tread, by Tirol and bred plenty of winners under both ■ Trip To Paris (Ire), 2011 g. by Champs Elysees rested and will hopefully be covered early in 2016. codes. He sold Pether’s Moon as a yearling out of La Grande Zoa, by Fantastic Light Trip To Paris has now won 10 times his foal Two weeks before an intended appointment at Tattersalls Ireland for €52,000 to Peter sale price of 37,000gns when he was purchased with the auctioneer in Doncaster, Pether’s and Ross Doyle. Trip To Paris beat three Irish-trained horses to by Mark Dwyer’s Oaks Farm Stables. He was sold Moon was beaten half a length in a maiden land the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, but there was on from Mocklershill as a breezer at Newmarket at Kempton. Owner John Manley’s decision no lack of celebration here as the four-year-old for 20,000gns to agent Federico Barberini. to withdraw the then two-year-old from the gelding was bred by father and son, Tom and Paul sale has long since been justifi ed and the VOTE FREE ONLINE: Monaghan, at The Cottage Stud near Kilcock, Co now fi ve-year-old is approaching £600,000 Kildare. This was the sixth career win for Trip To VOTE FREE ONLINE: in career earnings, aided signifi cantly by his www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Paris who was crediting his sire Champs Elysees www.TheIrishField.ie/vote earnings from the Group 1 Investec Corona- BREEDER 3 with his fi rst Group 1 winner. The improving geld- BREEDER 4 Voting closes at midnight on Tuesday, July 21st. The winner will be announced on July 25th in The Irish Field. Only one entry allowed for each email address. ™.