and Excel named Buratino. Buratino landed the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot for Godolphin and Kingsley Park, and went on to chase home Meet the youngsters Shalaa in the , confirming himself the best two-year-old son of Exceed and Excel. He is now standing, like Slade Power, at Kildangan. As excitement mounts towards the start of the A half-brother to Buratino? Now there’s a prospect to savour! Flat later this month, JOHN SCANLON looks at Also set to thrill us this season is Hamdan al Maktoum’s Mithmaar . This some of the youngsters set to make their mark on bay/brown colt, foaled on May 30, is the the juvenile scene for Kingsley Park this summer latest model off the Nufoos production line! The mare Nufoos won the Eternal Stakes (Listed) for Sheikh Hamdan and Mark in 2005, and with two S winter finally begins to beat a week later. Sent to Australia to contest a Group 1 races, while Australia landed the other wins, and second places in Group reluctant retreat, our focus is trio of Grade 1 events last Autumn, he was Epsom/Curragh Derby double and the and Listed company, her own career was now firmly on the start of the placed in all three, culminating in finishing International Stakes at York in the summer more than satisfactory. FlatA season. In recent seasons, Kingsley second in the Melbourne Cup, earning of 2014. Lady Eclair’s 2014 foal, The Last However, it has been in the paddocks Park’s juveniles have performed with huge over half a million pounds in doing so. Debutante, by Henrythenavigator, won a that she has really come into her own, Kirsten Rausing’s Dame Freya Stark under Aiden Redpath credit, with horses of the stature of Elizabeth Browning was a Group 2 three-year-old handicap over a mile and a producing Awzaan, Tasfeya, Hajras, Lumiere, Buratino, Elarqam and The Last winner, landing the Kilboy Estates Stakes half last year at Doncaster. Muteela, Muraaqaba and Khamaary, Lion leading the way. at the Curragh. She was placed nine times, Although this is a colt which will surely winners all for connections. Awzaan’s Rausing’s Group1 winner, Lady Jane Lady Jane Digby’s Group 1 win came One filly whose pedigree suggests she and at this autumn’s Tattersalls Autumn require time and distance, Lord Lamington Middle Park Stakes (Group 1) still takes Digby. in the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches may live up to the exploits of those horses Horse-In-Training Sales, she sold for is an interesting addition to the team. pride of place in the family display Leroidesanimeaux was a fantastic miler Zuchtrennen at Munich in July 2010; since is a filly, as yet unnamed, by the mighty 700,000gns. While on a Galileo theme, Mr cabinet, but Muraaqaba’s Sweet Solera and an impressive physical specimen. then, her progeny Galapiat, Poniatowski Galileo out of the Holy Roman Emperor Such high-class siblings suggest the Mohammed Obaida’s Nayef Road looks a Stakes (Group 3) was a decent prize and Born in Brazil, he was Group 1-placed and La Vie En Rose have all run, and won, mare, Inca Princess . Inca Princess won Kingsley Park filly, owned by China useful recruit to the Kingsley Park juvenile the family have all won good races. there as a juvenile before joining Bobby for Kingsley Park. It would be fantastic if on one of her three starts for Aidan Horse Club, looks set for great things. ranks. This is a chestnut colt by Galileo So there is a deal of expectation Frankel in the United States. A winner of this filly were to follow her dam into O’Brien, landing a Fairyhouse maiden Another youngster at the yard with a out of the Danehill Dancer mare, Rose surrounding Mithmaar’s career, albeit his three Grade 1 races over a mile or success at Group level. over six furlongs. Our ex Inca Princess top-notch pedigree is Lord Lamington , a Bonheur, purchased for 100,000gns by fairly late foaling date should mean that thereabouts, he sired the Kentucky Derby Incidentally, the filly is named after filly, a January foal, is the mare’s third bay colt foaled in March, by Australia out Rabbah Bloodstock as part of Book 1 of we won’t see him out until the latter part and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Dame Freya Stark, the British-Italian foal, all by Galileo, the first two being of Lady Éclair. The colt has been sent to the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. of the year. Kingdom before joining the Lanwades explorer and travel writer who was famous Johannes Vermeer and Elizabeth Mark by Netherfield House Stud, which Rose Bonheur, a double Listed winner Another youngster with the potential to Stud roster in 2014. Sadly, he died as a for her travels in the Middle East and Browning. owned Lady Éclair, who in 2010 raced to who won four races in Ireland in all and make a mark on the juvenile scene is result of injuries sustained in a freak Afghanistan. Johannes Vermeer chased home Marcel seven wins under Mark’s guidance. was second in Ascot’s John Guest Kirsten Rausing’s Dame Freya Stark . paddock accident in May 2016, robbing Lastly, I’m also looking forward to in the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy in Australia was bred in the purple, being Bengough Stakes (Group 3), has already This chestnut filly, foaled on February 28, European breeders of a superb outcross for seeing a grey colt by Mastercraftsman 2015 before landing the Criterium by Galileo out of the great Ouija Board. produced Middle East, a Frankel filly who is by Leroidesanimeaux out of Ms mares in the line. out of Chinese White , owned by Mr Ali International, Saint-Cloud (Group 1) a Ouija Board won no fewer than seven won twice in France for Jean-Claude Saeed foaled on February 21. Rouget last year. She was also Listed- Mastercraftsman won the Irish 2,000 placed at Dusseldorf in August. Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes in This colt, foaled in May, is a full- 2009. He has enjoyed great success at brother to Apres Midi, who has won twice stud, with the likes of classic winners The and been placed five times in 10 runs. Great Gatsby and Kingston Hill among his Although unlikely to be an early type, he most successful progeny. Thanks largely may prove useful as the season progresses. to the exploits of Alexander M, who won Slade Power is an interesting addition five times last term, the Danehill Dancer to the stallion ranks. The July Cup and stallion was responsible for 10 Kingsley Golden Jubilee Stakes winner is now part Park winners in 2017. of Darley’s team at Kildangan Stud, so it’s not surprising that he is represented by a HINESE WHITE was trained handful of horses within Sheikh Hamdan by Dermot Weld for Lady bin Mohammed’s contingent in the string. Chryss O’Reilly and won seven On breeding, the pick of the bunch would Cof her 14 starts, the highlight being her appear to be a colt out of Bergamask . Group 1 win in the Pretty Polly Stakes at This is a chesnut colt, foaled in April. the Curragh in 2010. Her dam, Chiang Bergamask, a Kingmambo filly, raced in Mai, won the Group 3 Blandford Stakes at France for Sheikh Mohammed in 2008, the Curragh for Lady O’Reilly, and also landing a mile event at Craon, in North produced Pumblechook, a triple winner Western France. Her career highlight was for Mark last year. a narrow reverse, by just a head and a At stud, Chinese White produced Best short neck, in the Listed Prix Petite Etoile Mr Ali Saeed’s Mastercraftsman colt out of Chinese White Effort, a three-time winner for Sir Mark at Deauville. In the paddocks, however, Netherfield House Stud’s Lord Lamington ridden by Chloe Nock with Danielle Mooney up Prescott now racing in Hong Kong. she produced, in 2013, a colt by Exceed 8 9