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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27 2020 SAY HELLO, DUBAI WORLD CUP PURSE REMAINS AT US$12M FOR 2021 WAVE GOODBYE Dubai Racing Club announced that the Dubai World Cup purse- -sponsored by Emirates Airline--has been retained at US$12Million and that the deadline for free nominations to the 25th renewal of the race will be extended through Jan. 20, 2021. Hosted at Meydan Racecourse, the 2000-meter event, which will be run Mar. 27, 2021, includes six Group 1 and three Group 2 races. Last year a total of 1,774 nominations were accepted from 902 horses trained in 21 countries. Purses for the remaining eight races are slightly reduced from prior renewals, however, purse structure will be modified to allow for payment all the way down an 8th-place finish in all races on the night. Haras d=Etreham=s 2021 stallion roster if highlighted by Cont. p4 Hello Youmzain and Persian King By Emma Berry It has been a year of change at Haras d'Etreham. In August it IN TDN AMERICA TODAY was announced that the farm's flagship stallion Wootton Bassett (GB) had been sold to Coolmore. The dominant Irish operation CHARLATAN FLIES HOME IN MALIBU was wise to catch a rising tide but it is Etreham, and in particular Charlatan (Speightstown) silenced his detractors once and for all Nicolas de Chambure, who must be credited with establishing with a tour-de-force performance in Saturday’s GI Runhappy the increasingly popular stallion. Malibu S. at Santa Anita. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. If we accept the conservative estimate that only one in 10 stallions really make it, then it is clear that finding Wootton Bassett's replacement will be no easy task. Perhaps Etreham already has a worthy successor in his first-crop champion son Almanzor (Fr). Time will tell. And as back up, the farm welcomes two new stallions this year, both Group 1 winners, both by hugely popular sires, and one of them a Classic winner. Most farms would welcome the chance to start the career of Persian King (GB) or Hello Youmzain (Fr). Etreham has the golden opportunity of launching them both together, having kept the latter in training for 2020 after buying him the previous season in partnership with New Zealand's Cambridge Stud. Persian King, who was raced by Godolphin in partnership with his breeder Ballymore Thoroughbred, also raced on at four, adding the G1 Prix d'Ispahan and G1 Prix du Moulin to his victory in the Poule d'Essai des Poulains at three, as well as finishing an honourable third in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe as his parting shot before retirement. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 27 DECEMBER 2020 Haras d=Etreham feature cont. from p1 Though sprinting was clearly his game, Hello Youmzain could "Persian King is one of the best sons of Kingman so he was well be multi-dimensional as a stallion prospect. His dam Spasha attractive to many studs around Europe," says de Chambure. (GB) (Shamardal) has produced another two stakes winners on "I think the dynamism of France recently helped us to be able to the Flat, including the G2 Gran Criterium winner and buy into him and for his owners to be happy about the idea of G1 Deutsches Derby place-getter Royal Youmzain (Fr) (Youmzain our partnership, and for the horse to stand in France." {Ire}), as well as that colt's full-brother, the Grade 2-winning Persian King was one of the early stars among Kingman's hurdler Saglawy (Fr). Furthermore, though his first two dams are offspring, winning three of his four starts at two, including unraced, his third dam, the G3 Lancashire Oaks winner Sandy beating subsequent G1 2000 Guineas winner Magna Grecia (Ire) Island (GB), is a Mill Reef half-sister to Lord Howard de Walden's in the G3 Autumn S. at Derby winner Slip Anchor Newmarket. While that (GB) (Shirley Heights outing from his native {GB}). France suggested that his "For a sprinter he has a trainer Andre Fabre may lot of scope," de well target the 2000 Chambure said. "He's a Guineas with the imposing good size for a Kodiac and colt, Persian King stayed at a very good walker, so home as a 3-year-old, this, as well as the fact winning the G3 Prix de that he's out of a Fontainebleau en route to Shamardal mare with a bit his Classic success and then of pedigree as well, I think finishing second to Sottsass he ticks a lot of the boxes. (Fr) in the G1 Prix du Jockey I'm sure he'll get some Club. good 2-year-olds but I can "He came back better see him getting good than ever this year as a Hello Youmzain (inside) | racingfotos.com milers, and even 4-year-old,@ he said. AI think his run in the Arc was a bit special 10-furlong horses, because he's got a great mind, and bred with for the breeders. They saw something that they didn't think he mares with a just a little bit more stamina I'm sure he will be was capable of doing. We don't see that much these days, able to. And we hope for that because I always like a stallion trainers trying something a bit different with their horses. I think who can produce horses that can stay a bit more." people like the fact that he tried and ran very well in the Arc." The winner of the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte in his He added, "When we buy a stallion prospect their sire is very debut season, Hello Youmzain made two successful trips to important so the fact that he is by Kingman is a big plus. It gives Haydock at three to win the G2 Sandy Lane S. followed by the French breeders access to that sireline." G1 Betfair Sprint Cup. For most stallion operations that would Thanks to Haras d'Etreham and Cambridge Stud, French have been enough but, in announcing their purchase of him in breeders now also have easy access to a son of Kodiac (GB) in October 2019, the partners also declared that he would remain the dual Group 1-winning sprinter Hello Youmzain. While there in training at four. is a growing throng of Kodiac's stallion sons in Ireland and "I think I'll always do that," said de Chambure of a decision Britain, the former Kevin Ryan trainee is the first to retire to which was not without its risks. "With Almanzor, we bought into stud in France. him when he was three and he won the Champion S., and "There was never much of a culture of sprinters in France," everybody through that we were going to retire him because it de Chambure explained. "The last really good one to retire was was the easy thing to do. But I feel we are all retiring horses too Anabaa. This is something a little bit new, and when we found soon these days--stallions and mares. We are driven by the out that he could be bought last year as a 3-year-old it didn't whole economy of the thing but we are all in the industry to take us too long to make up our minds. And we were very happy have horses to win races, and for me that must be the most also to keep him in training this year because he won another important thing rather than the economy around it. When you Group 1 for us and was second in the Maurice de Gheest. So are lucky enough to own part of a Group 1 horse I think it is even though we couldn't go racing, it was a very good year for important to keep them in training, and horses still progress us and Kevin Ryan did a very good job with him." from three to four.@ TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 27 DECEMBER 2020 He continued, AWe have enough stallions, we have enough mares, and I think we need to enjoy the sport more. Obviously, prize-money doesn't help in Europe but I still think we need to give the horses more exposure and keep them running more. So in the end, yes, it was a little bit of a risk, but we were happy to do it." Of course, this investment in enticing stallion prospects would Senior Vice President Gary King have been harder to do without the trading of Wootton Bassett. Twitter: @garykingTDN Now firmly established in the vanguard of European stallions, [email protected] when he retired to stud in 2012 following a winless 3-year-old + 1.732.320.0975 season he was no easy sell. De Chambure reflected, "He was very hard work the first International Editor couple of years. He was the first stallion I bought when I took Kelsey Riley over the stud in 2011. I guess people didn't know me then and Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN the horse wasn't perfect and there was a question mark over [email protected] [his sire] Iffraaj (GB) at the time, and so all that together made European Editor him not that attractive for breeders." Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Cafe Racing Nicholas de Chambure | Tattersalls Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] "Everything he did was from very little opportunity but then he got bigger numbers of mares and he has just shown that he is an Irish Correspondent exceptional stallion,@ he said.

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