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OFBREEDER THE MONTH >> October 2015 >> Vote free online for your choice today Bred by the fi rst winners of the Con- McStay and Merry also had another piece nolly’s Red Mills/The Irish Field Breeder of of good fortune last December when they the Year award, David and Diane Nagle at had offered and failed to sell the dam of Barronstown Stud, brought her at Arqana. Her value has in- record to fi ve wins and two places from eight creased by multiples from the €19,000 she starts and earnings of £800,000. She had was retained at last December! In February also won a Group 3 fi llies’ race at Goodwood this year Darley sold a winning Invincible this year and she was unraced at two. Spirit half-sister to the winner for is now at stud in 35,000gns to Graham Thorner. Her value South Africa and Simple Verse is his fourth has rocketed also. classic winner in Europe in 2015, his other Covert Love is now the winner of fi ve of winners coming in France, Germany and her eight starts and in between her Group 1 Italy. Simple Verse is the best winner to date wins she was second in the . DAVID AND DIANE NAGLE, BARRONSTOWN STUD for her unraced Sadler’s Wells dam, and HUGO MERRY & MARK MCSTAY, She has earned £500,000 to date and most she in turn is out of a stakes-placed mare by SOMMERVILLE BLOODSTOCK recently she was fourth in the Group 1 won ■ Simple Verse (Ire), 2012 f. by Duke . The third dam Instinctive Move, a by Simple Verse. Of Marmalade out of Guantanamera, by winning daughter of , is a half-sister ■ Covert Love (Ire), 2012 f. by Covert Love is the third foal of her dam Sadler’s Wells to 11 winners, but the best known here out of Wing Stealth, by who comes from a top-class Moyglare Stud would be Law Society, a champion at two family. Covert Love’s third dam Bubinka Simple Verse will for a long time be remem- and three years who won the There were great scenes of joy in the parade has established a dynasty and from her line bered for the classic she won, lost and won and was runner-up at Epsom. He was later a ring following the success of Covert Love in has come the likes of Hong Kong champion back. While the manner of her ultimate successful sire. the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp , the Irish Derby and Tat- victory was far from ideal, she will forever Simple Verse cost David Redvers and few could have been happier than tersalls Gold Cup winner and be credited with winning the 2015 St Leger €240,000 at the Goffs Orby Sale in 2013. the co-breeders of the Azamour fi lly, Mark the Group 1 winning juvenile Night Style. at Doncaster and she is a fi lly who has McStay and Hugo Merry. They also had the improved with almost every start she has VOTE FREE ONLINE: good fortune to remain involved in her own- VOTE FREE ONLINE: made. She added to her record at Ascot www.TheIrishField.ie/vote ership as part of the Fomo Syndicate. This www.TheIrishField.ie/vote when she won the Group 1 Qipco British victory added to the earlier success enjoyed Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes. BREEDER 1 by the fi lly in the Darley Irish Oaks. BREEDER 2

winner of the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Bred at Oghill House Stud by David Leopardstown as a three-year-old and the Hyland, Marcel is the latest Group 1 winner Group 1 Lockinge Stakes the following year. for his Ballylinch Stud sire Lawman. He is She is also the dam of the Group 3 win- the second foal and fi rst winner for his dam ning two-year-old Magical Dream and this Mauresmo and she has a colt foal by Lope year’s stakes winning juvenile fi lly Best In De Vega. Marcel was sold as a foal at Goffs The World. She has really clicked with the to agent Mick Flanagan for €50,000 and world’s best sire and has a colt foal by him resold from Baroda and Colbinstown Studs in 2015. as a yearling for 26,000gns. Red Evie won nine races and is one of Put in training with Michael Grassick two winners out of the Nordico mare Mala- following her purchase as a yearling by his femmena. She was trained by John Dunlop brother Brian, Mauresmo did not race and JOHN MAGNIER, RONCON, WYNATT AND and won a listed race in Italy and was group- was bought as a three-year-old for €22,000. CHELSTON placed in France. She had only four foals DAVID HYLAND She was the only one of her dam’s six foals and she is a daughter of the Athasi Stakes not to run and four of them won. The best of ■ (Ire), 2012 f. by out of Red winner Martinova who was placed in the ■ Marcel (Ire), 2013 c. by Lawman out of these was her full-brother Munjiz who won Evie, by Intikhab Irish 1000 Guineas. Mauresmo, by Marju six times and was runner-up in the Group 2 With Best In The World having classic Diadem Stakes at Ascot. Found fl ew the fl ag prominently for Irish aspirations in 2015 and Found being the Peter Chapple-Hyam won the Racing Post Marcel is the latest Group 1 winner in a breeding when she battled to a famous winner of two Group/Grade 1 races, runner- Trophy with the subsequent Derby winner family that has also produced the outstand- victory in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf up in four and third in another, this is a and he repeated the feat this ing US racemare Annoconnor and the against the boys, and in the process landed pedigree that is improving by the day. year with Marcel, a colt who had also just Melbourne Cup winner At Talaq. The latter a well-deserved second success at the high- won a maiden prior to his Group 1 vic- also won the Grand Prix de Paris. est level. Only once out of the money in 11 VOTE FREE ONLINE: tory. The form of the recent race received starts, she has won £1.86 million. an immediate boost when the runner-up VOTE FREE ONLINE: A daughter of Galileo, Found is the www.TheIrishField.ie/vote Johannes Vermeer won a Group 1 in Long- www.TheIrishField.ie/vote best of the winners to date for Red Evie, BREEDER 3 champ a week later. BREEDER 4

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