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EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS WEDNESDAY, 13TH MAY 2015 – FOURTEEN PAGES £{ÓÈÊ- */ , For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu Today’s Headlines STALLIONS NEWS THE WOW SIGNAL RETIRED Juvenile Gr.1 winner The Wow Signal is set to stand his first season alongside Toronado at Swettenham Stud, Australia, before joining the roster at the Normandy stud Haras de Bouquetot for the upcoming 2016 Northern Hemisphere season, having been retired by owners Al The Wow Signal landing the Gr.1 Prix Morny at Shaqab. He is the first son of Starspangledbanner to Deauville last season. take up stud duties. heart of a lion,” said jockey Frankie Dettori said after the The Wow Signal, a Tattersalls Ireland September Prix Morny, before adding, “We know we’ve got a good Yearling Sale and Brightwells Ascot Breeze Up Sale horse with a lot of class, it was no fluke in the Coventry.” graduate, was undefeated in his first three starts at two. He ended the season with a below-par run in the Gr.1 Prix Following a debut nine lengths victory, the bay colt was Jean-Luc Lagadere. then sent to the Gr.2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, He was being prepared for a Gr.1 2,000 Guineas where he scored a decisive length and three-quarters campaign by John Quinn, but suffered an injury and was victory. He was emulating his sire Starspangledbanner retired to Al Shaqab's French stud Haras de Bouquetot. and his grandsire Choisir by scoring at the Royal meeting. Harry Herbert, Racing Advisor to Al Shaqab, said; “We are From here he went on to land the Gr.1 Prix Morny at very sad that The Wow Signal has had to be retired. It is Deauville, defeating the Royal Ascot winner and always disappointing when a horse like this is prevented subsequent Gr.1 Breeders Cup Juvenile Turf hero from reaching his full potential. His two-year-old form has Hootenanny (Quality Road), as well as last weekend’s emerged as some of the best in the world and I have no Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Ervedya doubt that he would have gone on to be an exceptional (Siyouni). “He's so tough and determined, he has the three-year-old.” THOROUGHBRED WINNER onthly on-line publication about international racing Mand bloodstock issues, written by Doug Rawnsley and Lucy Clare. Issue 14 includes Anabolic steroids; Who was the best stallion? Equine intelligence; Dams of Champion 2yo’s; Baffling BHA; Epsom Derby’s falling reputation and how to increase runners; How to increase racecourse attendances. Read on-line at www.thoroughbredwinner.com 1 EBN Wednesday, 13th May 2015 STALLION NEWS • RACING REVIEW His trainer John Quinn commented: “He is a very tough includes the Gr.2 King Edward Breeders’ Cup Handicap horse with a great constitution and tremendous winner and dual Gr.3 Niagara Breeders’ Cup Handicap acceleration, who ran well on all types of ground. He put scorer Desert Waves. in an outstanding performance to win the Prix Morny. He is a very special horse and I am sure that he will make a great stallion. We will miss him very much but I look FRANCE forward to training his offspring in the future.” He is the first foal out of the unraced High Chaparral MOT DE PASSE UNLOCKS THE mare Muravka. She is a half-sister to the dual Listed KEY TO MARSEILLE FEATURE winner and dual Gr.3-placed Tolpuddle (College Chapel) Marseille specialist Mot De Passe (Slickly) was sent off and the Gr.3-placed Prevalence (Cadeaux Genereux), out of the dual Listed winner Tabdea (Topsider). She is a favourite in the Listed Georges Trabaud yesterday at half-sister to the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner Marseille Borely and did not disappoint. Ta Rib (Mr Prospector). Octoking (Kingsala) set the pace in this 2000m contest, His stud fee has been set at AUS $15,000 inc. GST. with the winner settled in third against the rail. It was on the turn for home that Franck Blondel asked Mot De Passe to assert and quickly went away from his rivals. Iceberg Racing Review (Shamardal) finished strongly, but was defeated by three- quarters of a length, with the same distance back to Octoking. SWEDEN Mot De Passe runs in the familiar orange and grey colours of his breeder Jean-Claude Seroul and has only PETERSEN’S OCEAN BROTHERS made one start, on debut, away from either of the two LAND JAGERSRO FEATURES Marseille tracks, Borely or Par Vivaux. He has progressed through the ranks this season, winning his maiden at this The Niels Petersen-trained half-brothers Silver Ocean course in late February, before landing conditions (Silver Train) and Over The Ocean (Rockport Harbor) contests in mid-March and mid-April. His winning run now landed both features on the Jagersro card yesterday, extends to four. Endless Sea Mt Livermore providing broodmare ( ) and He is a half-brother to the three-time winner Charay breeder Sun Valley Farm with a Stakes double on the day. (Footstepsinthesand), whose victories were also all Sent straight to the front by Elione Chaves in the Gr.3 attained at either of the two tracks at Marseille, and was Pramms Memorial, Silver Ocean was tracked by Kashbom (Refuse To Bend) and Berling (Montjeu). Entering the final bend, Hurricane Red (Hurricane Run) mounted a challenge on the rails and Giftorm (War Pass) came around the leaders, but neither could land a blow as Gregorian Silver Ocean was too strong and he ran on to record a three-quarter length victory from Giftorm, with the GREY COLT 2009 16.1 H.H., CLODOVIL THREE DAYS IN MAY (CADEAUX GENEREUX) favourite Hurricane Red a further length back in third. Earlier on the same card, Over The Ocean got one up on his old rival Let’sgoforit (Verglas) in the Listed Lanwades Stud Jagersro Sprint, in the colours of 360 North Horse Racing Ab. The judge was unable to split the pair in this race last year and the two greys had to share the honours, but there was no denying the Niels Petersen-trained five- year-old this year as he ran out the two length winner. Let’sgoforit, who is trained by Bodil Hallencreutz and got the better of Over The Ocean in the Gr.3 Zawawi Cup last July, had to settle for second, but was five lengths clear of the Fredrik Reuterskiold-trained four-year-old Dr Schultz (Quiet American). Winner of the Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes, 7f, Bred in Kentucky, Over The Ocean was sold at the DBS and placed in the Gr.1 July Cup, 6f. Breeze-Up Sale for £42,000 to Lars Kelp and Silver Ocean Magnifi cent individual with a wonderful walk. has been through the ring on four occassions at Keeneland, Goffs and twice at Tattersalls, selling on the 95% fertility from 110 mares covered so far last occassion for 120,000gns to Meridian International in 2011. The latter, who runs in the colours of Autoindustri A great young stallion for your late foaling mares! AB, landed the 2012 Gr.3 Polar Cup and he has been Fee: £4,500 (1St October SLF) successful in five Listed contests. Endless Sea, who has a STANDING AT: yearling colt by Claiborne Farm’s Flatter, was unraced and is a full-sister to the juvenile winner and Listed-placed +44 (0)1638 675 929 Madeline Burns +353 86 377 430 Terra Nova and a half-sister to the Listed Cup and Saucer [email protected] [email protected] Stakes winner Atlantic Fury (Wild Again). The next two dams were both Stakes winner and the family also TINA DAWSON +44 (0) 7776 165854 • [email protected] 2 EBN Wednesday, 13th May 2015 RACING REVIEW • RACING NEWS ! Siyouni [left] and Makfi [right], taken at Haras de Bonneval on Monday following the impressive wins of Ervedya and Make Believe in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains respectively the previous day. sold to Hong Kong at the end of last season. They are out of the four-time winner Colca (Desert Style), whose victories were also all achieved on the South coast of France. She is a half-sister to the multiple winners Spirit Of France (Anabaa) and Feeling Fab (Refuse To Bend), out of the winner Les Planches (Tropular). She is a half- sister to the French Gr.3 winners Mousse Glacee (Mtoto) and Majoune (Take Risks; dam of the German Gr.3 winner Majounes Song), and the Gr.2-placed hurdler Singapore Belle (Sagacity). Racing News BRITAIN ABLE FRIEND CONFIRMED FOR ROYAL ASCOT Star Hong Kong gelding Able Friend (Shamardal), who has simply blown away his domestic rivals, has been confirmed by trainer John Moore for the Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes, the first race at Royal Ascot. He has sauntered to victory under Brazillian jockey Joao Moreira in three Gr.1 contests already this year and a domestic Gr.2. He had defeated international rivals in December’s Gr.1 Hong Kong Mile, where he coasted to a four and a quarter length win. It is reported that the Australian-bred will need to come through a trial at Sha Tin in early June. If all goes well and he makes the journey to Britain, he will be accompanied by Not Listenin’tome (Dylan Thomas), who is being targetted at the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes. He has finished second in two Gr.1 contests, when trained formerly in Australia and was third in a domestic Gr.3 handicap last time.