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06 Celebrating 40 years of Juddmonte by David Walsh 32 Bated Breath 2007 b h Dansili - Tantina (Distant View) The best value sire in Europe by blacktype performers in 2020 36 Expert Eye 2015 b h Acclamation - Exemplify (Dansili) A top-class 2YO and Breeders’ Cup Mile champion 40 Frankel 2008 b h Galileo - Kind (Danehill) The fastest to sire 40 Group winners in history 44 Kingman 2011 b h Invincible Spirit - Zenda (Zamindar) The Classic winning miler siring Classic winning milers 48 Oasis Dream 2000 b h Green Desert - Hope (Dancing Brave) The proven source of Group 1 speed WELCOME his year, the 40th anniversary of the impact of the stallion rosters on the Green racehorses in each generation. But we also Juddmonte, provides an opportunity to Book is similarly vital. It is very much a family know that the future is never exactly the same Treflect on the achievements of Prince affair with our stallions being homebred to as the past. Khalid bin Abdullah and what lies behind his at least two generations and, in the case of enduring and consistent success. Expert Eye and Bated Breath, four generations. Juddmonte has never been shy of change, Homebred stallions have been responsible for balancing the long-term approach, essential Prince Khalid’s interest in racing goes back to over one-third of Juddmonte’s 113 homebred to achieving a settled and balanced breeding the 1950s. He first became an owner in the Gr.1 winners. programme, with the sometimes difficult mid-1970s and, in 1979, won his first Group 1 decisions that need to be made to ensure an victory with Known Fact in the Middle Park Juddmonte’s activities embrace every stage in effective operation, whilst still competing at Stakes at Newmarket and purchased his first the life of a racehorse from birth to training, the highest level. broodmare with the private acquisition of from racecourse to retirement, across its farms Enable’s historic triple haul of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes trophies Metair. in the UK, Ireland and the USA. We employ Throughout the last 40 years, we have been some 250 people, with our UK headquarters supported in this journey by you, our fellow In 1980, Prince Khalid’s burgeoning breeding based at Banstead Manor Stud in Suffolk, breeders. Many of you have been friends and and racing operation was organised under the our Irish headquarters at Ferrans Stud in clients of Juddmonte from its inception. Your Juddmonte name. For 40 years, Juddmonte’s County Meath and our US headquarters near passion for quality and success mirrors that of achievements have resulted from his Lexington in Kentucky. We look to support Prince Khalid’s and, by entrusting us with so enthusiasm and direct involvement, which racing and breeding in Europe and the USA by many of your mares over the years, you have has translated into an in-depth knowledge of sponsoring major races, by developing strong helped shape the international reputation of his horses, their pedigrees and their families. and long-lasting relationships, especially with Juddmonte’s stallion rosters. The Prince’s time spent in the early days breeders, and by specific donations especially developing his understanding, finding the right to organisations which need our support at We hope you enjoy this celebratory edition horses, the right farms and the right people to times such as this. of our stallion brochure and hearing from look after them established the foundations our staff and breeders alike who play such for Juddmonte’s track record. These are certainly unprecedented and important roles in Juddmonte’s evolving story. challenging times for us all, but our industry The key focus has always been on the is known for its resilience, which will enable broodmare band and the quality of us to plan a brighter future together. What is Juddmonte’s Green Book of broodmare clear is that, whatever is thrown at us, from pedigrees, developed and nurtured over the pandemic to political and cultural change, to last 40 years by Prince Khalid. This Green Book Arrogate’s demise in the USA a few months Douglas Erskine Crum has been instrumental in the development of ago, Juddmonte has rock solid foundations to CEO JUDDMONTE GROUP Juddmonte’s stallion rosters and, conversely, thrive and keep breeding and racing the best A green plaque; Frankel commemorated Concentric: dam of Enable at Banstead Manor Stud 2 3 1984 Dancing Brave 1982 A colt by Lyphard out of Navajo Princess Dam of champions was purchased for $200,000 from the Juddmonte’s origins Prince Khalid bought Razyana as a Fasig-Tipton Yearling Sale. Named Dancing 1981-1983 yearling at the 1982 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Brave, the colt would go on to win the 1980 Creating families Early notable purchases Laying the foundations Sale, and though her racing career was 2000 Guineas, Eclipse, King George VI & Instinct, judgement, homework, luck; short and undistinguished, she reached Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Prix de l’Arc One of the first mares bought by Prince whatever it took, through his advisors impressive heights as a broodmare. Her de Triomphe in 1986. Khalid was Monroe, who would become Prince Khalid found the right mares. He first foal was Danehill, a champion sprinter one of Juddmonte’s foundation mares, acquired Sookera and Mofida from Robert on the track and then a supreme stallion, 1977 helping to create a family line that would Prince Khalid becomes an owner Sangster, Aryenne from France, Slightly in Europe and in Australia where he was endure, including through current stallion Dangerous from Alan Clore, Fleet Girl, A first venture to the Newmarket sales in champion sire nine times. Colours registered Bated Breath. ancestress of the great Enable, from Dr 1977 led to the acquisition of four yearlings. 1979 1979 Herbert Schnapka. Rockfest (pictured), The green silks with the pink sash and First winner First Group 1 winner cap and white sleeves soon became ancestress of Frankel, from Jock Whitney. Two-year-old Charming Native, ridden Known Fact became Prince Khalid’s first associated with success. In time they would The mares created family lines that would by Lester Piggott, became the first horse Group 1 winner when landing the Middle be recognisable throughout the world of come to define Juddmonte. to win in the green, white and pink silks. Park Stakes on Newmarket’s Rowley Mile. racing. Though victory came in a modest race at The following year he returned to the scene Windsor, it foretold a significant change in of that victory and ran a fine race when the Prince’s fortunes as the two-year-old finishing second to the French colt Nureyev filly Abeer won the Gr.2 Queen Mary Stakes in the Gr.1 2000 Guineas. Drama followed at Royal Ascot in the early summer. as the stewards enquired into Philippe Paquet’s riding of Nureyev. The French- trained colt had caused interference and 1985 was disqualified. Though the Prince would A first Arc have preferred a first Classic success in Rainbow Quest’s victory in the 1985 Arc different circumstances, it was obvious that was testimony to some kind of justice in Known Fact was a high-class miler with a horseracing. Sagace was the favourite and pedigree that assured him of a career at when he accelerated at the two-furlong stud. 1980 marker, only Rainbow Quest could go after Juddmonte begins 1982 Rainbow Quest him. The two horses came close together. With the operation set to expand further, Sagace sensed Rainbow Quest was about By 1982, Prince Khalid at the Fasig-Tipton two farms were bought in Berkshire, Cayton to pass him and veered marginally left to July Sale identified a son of Blushing Park Stud and Pudders Farm. They would 1982 stop him, continually bumping him. From Groom out of I Will Follow that seemed become known as Juddmonte Farms, First stallion the side-on camera it didn’t look that Wargrave, for by now Juddmonte had interesting. That $950,000 yearling would Known Fact stood his first season as a grievous. The head-on camera told a very become the name for the Prince’s entire be called Rainbow Quest. He would go on stallion at Wargrave at a private fee. He different story. In his matter-of-fact way operation. While continuing to invest in to provide Prince Khalid with his first of six later spent two seasons at Whitsbury Rainbow Quest’s rider, the late and great yearlings, Prince Khalid had also been wins in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Manor Stud before relocating to Juddmonte Pat Eddery, told the stewards he’d got acquiring broodmares, without whom no and play a pivotal part in the story of 1978 Farms in Kentucky in 1988. There is no “three bumps” from his rival. The French breeder can aspire to producing homebred Juddmonte. He was a fine racehorse, and Known Fact purchased Godolphin-line sire at stud in Europe today stewards disqualified Sagace, Juddmonte champions. an even better stallion. At the Keeneland Sales Prince Khalid who does not descend in the male line had its first Arc and a future stallion. Here was taken by a son of US sire In Reality. through Known Fact. was a well-bred colt with a brilliant racing He paid $225,000 to bring him back to career who also had that special quality of the UK, where he was called Known Fact always wanting to do his best. and put into training with Jeremy Tree at Beckhampton. Read more about our history 4 5 BY DAVID WALSH Now we no longer ask, What is good for them? We may also ask, if we wish to, What do they have to tell us about themselves, once we start listening to them? Jane Smiley A YEAR AT THE RACES ow and again Rob Bowley will leave his house someday,” his dad George said, “that’s what you ought to do.” at Banstead Manor Stud and walk to the nearby woods.

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