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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 2019 RARE OPPORTUNITIES DONNACHA O=BRIEN RETIRES FROM THE SADDLE, WILL TRAIN IN 2020 AMONG WADDESDON DRAFT Multiple Group 1-winning jockey Donnacha O'Brien has announced his retirement from the saddle via Twitter and will embark on a training career. The 21-year-old was crowned champion jockey in Ireland this year, defending the title he first secured 12 months ago, and he bows out with 10 top-level wins to his name. O'Brien's final Group 1 success came aboard Magical (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G1 Champion S. at Ascot in October. In a statement on Twitter, he said, "After thinking about things for a while, I have decided to concentrate on training next year. Riding has been very good to me and I owe everything to the people around me. I want to give special thanks to the Magnier, Smith and Tabor families, along with my own family, for all their support. I look forward to training a small group of horses next year and will hopefully build from there." Cont. p4 G1SW Thistle Bird is one of the highlights of the Waddesdon Dispersal at Tattersalls. Selling begins at Newmarket with the yearling session IN TDN AMERICA TODAY on Monday. | Racing Post PHOENIX FOUNDER ALLEGED AS MONEY-LAUNDERER Amer Abdulaziz Salman, the founder of Phoenix Thoroughbreds, By Emma Berry has been named a “key figure in a major-money laundering operation,” Racing Post reported. Click or tap here to go In January of this year, British racing lost one of its few straight to TDN America. remaining traditional owner-breeders with the death of Lady Rothschild at the age of 84. Admired and appreciated by those who came into contact with her via her breeding operation at Waddesdon Stud in Buckinghamshire, Lady Rothschild's most notable success came through her purchase of the Musidora S. winner Magnificient Style (Silver Hawk) from the late Robert Sangster's Swettenham Stud when carrying to Galileo (Ire). The subsequent foal was named Nathaniel (Ire) after Lady Rothschild's son and, trained by John Gosden, his victories included the G1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth S. and G1 Coral-Eclipse S. An exact contemporary of Frankel (GB)--he finished second to Frankel on debut in a Newmarket maiden and was third in their final appearance in the Champion S.--Nathaniel retired to Newsells Park Stud for a syndicate which included his breeder. The following year, Magnificient Style foaled Nathaniel=s full-sister, Great Heavens (GB), winner of the G1 Irish Oaks, and it was the Classic winner's son Great Bear (GB) (Dansili {GB}) who was Lady Rothschild's final winner on his November 2018 debut. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 25 NOVEMBER 2019 Waddesdon Cont. from p1 variety of choice that there used to be. The animals from good Two of Magnificient Style's families have mostly been daughters can be found among accumulated by the big names." the 15 fillies and mares to be Top-level success for Lady offered in the first part of the Rothschild on the track in recent Waddesdon Stud Dispersal years did not end with the through the Castlebridge Magnificient Style clan. In 2014, Consignment on Monday week Thistle Bird (GB) (Selkirk) won on the opening day of the the G1 Pretty Polly S. at the Tattersalls December Mares' Curragh and the 11-year-old Sale. The first of the pair to sell mare, currently in foal to (lot 1512) will be the 6-year-old Kingman (GB), is likely to provide Rocksavage (Ire) (Fastnet Rock one of the highlights of the {Aus}), who is in foal to New Bay opening session when she passes (GB), and she will be followed by through the ring as lot 1515. Her the final member of the draft (lot listed-winning dam Dolma (Fr) 1517), the unraced Willoughby (Marchand De Sable) has also (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), in foal produced the dual Australian to Lope De Vega (Ire). group winner McCreery (GB), a "It is very seldom that an Nathaniel pictured after his victory in the Coral-Eclipse with John son of Big Bad Bob (Ire) named opportunity arises like this for Gosden, William Buick and Lady Rothschild | Racing Post by Lady Rothschild after the late breeders to buy into these types of families," says James Wigan, Bob McCreery, and she features in the dispersal as lot 1505 in who was Lady Rothschild's bloodstock advisor for the last 20 foal to Sea The Moon (Ger). years. "You look through the sales these days and there isn't the Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 25 NOVEMBER 2019 Waddesdon Cont. Meanwhile another of her daughters to be sold is the 4-year-old Dabble (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) (lot 1503), in foal for the first time to Nathaniel. It was at the December Sale 13 years ago that Lady Rothschild made two significant purchases. The G1 Sun Chariot S. winner Vice President, International Operations Gary King Spinning Queen (GB) (Spinning World) was bought through Twitter: @garykingTDN Wigan's London Thoroughbred Services for 3 million gns and 24 [email protected] hours later her fellow Group 1 winner Magical Romance (Ire) + 1.732.320.0975 (Barathea {Ire}) set a new record for a broodmare when sold in foal to Pivotal (GB) for 4.6 million gns. Both mares--now 16 and International Editor 17, respectively--feature in the catalogue though only Magical Kelsey Riley Romance (lot 1508) will travel to Tattersalls this year. Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Wigan explains, "Spinning Queen has been taken out of the [email protected] sale as she lost her pregnancy. Great Heavens was not in foal European Editor this year so the idea is to sell her next year. There are four Emma Berry mares coming back next year as well as the remaining horses in Twitter: @collingsberry training and yearlings. The plan is for the yearlings of this year to [email protected] go into training as usual. They have all been named by Lady Rothschild and they will be sold off at the appropriate moment, Associate International Editor through the Horses-in-Training Sale and the December Sale for Heather Anderson the fillies." Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Magical Romance's winning Shamardal daughter Aflame (GB) Marketing Manager will start the Dec. 2 dispersal as lot 1502, and it is a family which Alayna Cullen has been given an extra Classic boost this season via Aflame's Twitter: @AlaynaCullen half-sister Love Magic (GB), who is the dam of the G1 Prix de [email protected] Diane winner Channel (Ire) (Nathaniel {Ire}). "The fact that Nathaniel is doing well at stud was thrilling for Contributing Editor Lady Rothschild and of course she took great pleasure in Alan Carasso watching Enable as well," says Wigan. "It's very sad that the stud Twitter: @EquinealTDN is breaking up but there are some very nice mares coming to the Cafe Racing sale and it looks as if Magical Romance's daughters are going to Sean Cronin make good broodmares as well." Tom Frary The family which Wigan believes was perhaps closest to the [email protected] breeder's heart was that of Bay Bay (GB) (Bay Express {GB}), which includes her listed-winning granddaughter Strut (GB) Irish Correspondent (Danehill Dancer {Ire}), who sells in foal to Havana Gold (Ire) as Daithi Harvey lot 1514. That mare's daughter Mince (GB), the champion 3-year-old sprinter in Europe in 2012, comes earlier (lot 1511) Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | Andrew Caulfield with a Gleneagles (Ire) covering. John Berry | Kevin Blake "She was particularly fond of that family even though it probably wasn't as busy as Magnificient Style's family," Wigan says. "It was only really because that was the original family of hers. It wasn't one that we bought and she had it for a very long IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY time." PETERS’S FAITH IN PIERRO PAYING OFF Roger Charlton was the trainer of Thistle Bird, Strut and Mince Owner/breeder Bob Peters’s faith in Pierro (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}) among plenty of others for Lady Rothschild over the years. rewarded him with G1SW Regal Power (Aus). Click or tap here Cont. p4 to go straight to TDN Aus/NZ. 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All the staff on the stud were very fond of her, as were the people at the training stables. She divided her time between Waddesdon and Stowell, which was her old family home near Marlborough. She went backwards and forwards between the two every week and when she was at Stowell she would pop it in to Roger Charlton's at least once a month.