EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS THURSDAY, 19TH MARCH 2015 – THIRTEEN PAGES For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu at Haras des Faunes for this year only, before being Today’s Headlines exported to Qatar where he will stand from 2016. He will stand at €3,000, with special conditions if breeders send STALLION NEWS multiple mares. This is a real opportunity for French breeders to use this horse this year.” KHELEYF JOINS AUSTRALIA HARAS DES FAUNES It has been announced that the Qatar Racing and LYNWOOD BUY OUT COOLMORE Equestrian Club have recently purchased Kheleyf (Green SHARE OF ALFRED NOBEL Desert) with a view to the stallion standing in Qatar from Lynward Park Stud has purchased Coolmore Stud’s 50 per 2016, writes Sally Ann Grassick. cent interest in Alfred Nobel and the promising young sire The 14-year-old won the Gr.3 Jersey Stakes, when will be based permanently in Western Australia. trained by Saeed bin Suroor for Godolphin, before being Alfred Nobel was a star two-year-old in 2009, when he retired to stand at Dalham Hall Stud. He has since sired 45 won the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes and the Gr.2 Railway Stakes Stakes performers, five Group winners and twelve Listed for Mrs Sue Magnier, the wife of Coolmore owner John winners, including Gr.2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte Magnier, and leading European owners Derrick Smith and winner Penny’s Picnic, who stands at Haras du Michael Tabor. WA bloodstock agent John Chalmers then Hoguenet, and Sayif, who won the Gr.2 Diadem Stakes at attempted to purchase the son of Danehill Dancer, but Ascot, was second in the Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes and Coolmore would not sell and added him to their Irish now stands at Llety Farms. stallion roster. After several months of negotiations, He is also the sire of Kheleyf’s Silver, the dam of last Chalmers was able to secure a 50 per cent interest in the year’s Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Tiggy Wiggy, and horse for Lynward Park Stud, owned by Perth Racing was the leading sire of two-year-old winners in Europe in chairman Ted van Heemst. 2012, when he equalled Invincible Spirit’s 42 winners in a season, as well as being in the top three British stallions in Today’s New Zealand Racing and 2014 on number of winners, behind Dubawi and Oasis Bloodstock News is on page 9 Dream. The deal was brokered by Nicolas de Watrigant of Mandore International Agency, who was also responsible for purchasing stallions such as Redback, Namid and POINTS 0f VIEW Desert Style. “The QREC are looking for proven sires”, explained de with Carl Evans Watrigant, “and Kheleyf has the right profile. He will stand 1 EBN Thursday, 19th March 2015 STALLION NEWS He sub se quently shut tled to WA in 2011 (serv ing 65 The third dam, Park Express, was the joint Cham pion mares), 2012 (62 mares) and 2013 (56 mares). His first Irish Two-Year-Old filly in 1985 and the Cham pion Irish North ern Hemi sphere crop hit the tracks last year and he Three-Year-Old filly in 1986 when she was also top filly on sired ten indi vid ual win ners and eight indi vid ual the Eng lish Three-Year-Old Free Handicap. She produced placegetters in Eng land, Ire land, France and Italy. He has the Champion and sire New Approach, the Japanese Gr.1 had three to race from his first WA crop – Dickey (third in winner and sire Shinko Forest and the Stakes-placed the Listed Magic Mil lions Perth 2YO Clas sic), Showy dam of the Classic-winning filly Was. Chloe (debut third in the Listed Supremacy Stakes then third in last Saturday’s Listed Gim crack Stakes, record ing the fastest final 600m in both races) and Danerip’s Girl NORTH AMERICA (debut sec ond in the West peed Plate). “Alfred Nobel did not han dle the travel from Ire land to WISEMAN’S FERRY WA via Eng land and Syd ney,” said Chalmers. “So he did DIES AGED 16 not shut tle last year and it was sub se quently decided he should remain based in one hemisphere. Wiseman’s Ferry (Hennessy), sire of dual Horse of the “A recent sur vey indi cated more of Alfred Nobel’s first Year Wise Dan – an eleven-time Gr.1 winner – died aged local crop will race over the com ing three or four months 16 on Tuesday at Dana Point Farm, Pennsylvania. and there was no neg a tiv ity sur round ing his future An autopsy is due to be carried out to find the cause of prospects. His aver age of $35,250 at the recent Magic death. It was announced that he had covered five of the 38 Millions Perth Year ling Sale is about eight times what his mares that were booked to him this season. 2015 ser vice fee of $4,500, plus GST, has been set at, Purchased as a yearling by Hugo Merry Bloodstock at giving breed ers the real oppor tu nity for a healthy return”. the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, he was trained at His sire has sired 158 Stakes win ners, includ ing the two by Aidan O’Brien, for whom he was second in the Gr.3 Cham pion Aus tralian two-year-old colt and Cham pion Anglesey Stakes and third in the Listed Marble Hill Stakes. Eng lish sprinter Choisir; sire of Cham pion Aus tralian and He was purchased from Mrs John Magnier by Swifty Farm, European sprinter and hot young sire Morton Fink and Lee Sacks and sent to Niall O’Callaghan, Starspangledbanner. for whom he landed the Gr.3 West Virginia Derby and Gr.3 Bred by Lodge Park Stud and a 220,000gns Tattersalls Lone Star Derby. yearling graduate, he is out of the juvenile winner Glint ing He retired to Empire Farm in New York, but transferred Desert (Desert Prince), who is a daughter of Dazzling to Castleton Lyons Stud, Kentucky in 2006, before moving Park, the 1999 Cham pion Euro pean Three-Year-Old filly. to Dana Point Farm in 2009. 2 EBN Thursday, 19th March 2015 STALLION NEWS • MATING PLANS Other performers include the three-time Gr.2 winner at half-brother to top sprinters Swiss Dream, Swiss Diva Woodbine and Canadian Champion Riding The River, the and Swiss Franc are: Stakes winners Fort Drum, Kick On and Listen In, as GILT LINKED (Compton Place) well as the Gr.2 winner in Panama Wisemans Cure. Half-sister to Pastoral Player and Chil The Kite. BUBBLY BALLERINA (Footstepsinthesand) Listed-placed half-sister to Sister Bluebird. Mating Plans HARRYANA TO (Compton Place) Half-sister to Temple Meads. HOT SECRET (Sakhee’s Secret) BRITAIN Half-sister to Temple Meads. BLING BLING (Indian Ridge) Full-sister to Watching. TWELVE WHITSBURY MARES MALELANE (Prince Sabo) VISIT SWISS SPIRIT Half-sister to Bishops Court and Astonished. NELLIE ELLIS (Compton Place) Whitsbury Manor Stud have been so impressed with the Ex half-sister to Gilt Edge Girl and Godfrey Street. first offspring of resident sire Swiss Spirit, who covered a QUEENSGATE (Compton Place) book of 105 mares last year, that they have confirmed Half-sister to Mister Genepi and Kahlua Kiss. twelve high-class mares to support the son of Invincible ONE NIGHT IN MAY (Choisir) Spirit again this year. Ex full-sister to Mind Games. Ed Harper, stud director, said: “We have been delighted JOLLIFICATION (Acclamation) with the eight Swiss Spirit foals that we have on the stud Gr 3-placed half-sister to Big Issue. already and so are pleased to keep up the momentum this GOOD ENOUGH (Mukaddamah) year. Having sent twelve mares from Whitsbury to him in Gr.1-placed dam of Oasis Dancer and Smart Enough. his first season we will end up with the same this year. I SUGAR BEET (Beat Hollow) would say he might even be covering a slightly better Listed-placed half-sister to Star Tulip. bunch from Whitsbury this season, which is the true sign of our confidence in him, such as ‘Gilt Linked’, out of whom we sold a foal at Tattersalls last year for FOAL NEWS? 120,000gns.” E-mail: [email protected] The mares confirmed to the Group-winning sprinter and 3 EBN Thursday, 19th March 2015 RACING NEWS Racing News VARIAN AND OLDROYD TARGET ALL-WEATHER CHAMPIONSHIPS Entries were revealed yesterday for the £1.1-million All- IRELAND Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield Park in Surrey on Good Friday, 3rd April. CLASSIC WINNERS SET FOR Tryster (Shamardal) headlines 14 entries for the most TATTERSALLS GOLD CUP valuable race, the £200,000 Easter Classic over ten furlongs. The Charlie Appleby-trained four-year-old is the Classic race winners The Grey Gatsby, Kingston Hill evens favourite after completing a magnificent four-timer (both by Mastercraftsman) and Just The Judge on the All-Weather in the Gr.3 Winter Derby over the same (Lawman) are among the impressive list of 28 entries for the course and distance on 14th March. Tattersalls Gold Cup following yesterday’s first entry stage. Godolphin trainer Appleby has entered another on the The Gr.1 contest will take place at the Curragh on Sunday upgrade in Dream Child (Pivotal), while fellow 24th May, as part of the Tattersalls Irish Guineas Festival. Newmarket trainer Marco Botti is represented by Adelaide (Galileo), winner of the Gr.1 Cox Plate in Grendisar (Invincible Spirit), second in the Winter Australia last year, the Aidan O’Brien-trained Tapestry Derby and a three-time Listed winner during the All- (Galileo), winner of the Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks and Al Weather Championships, and Solar Deity (Exceed And Kazeem (Dubawi), winner of the race in 2013 are other Excel).