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TUESDAY, 29 JANUARY 2019 DUBAI WORLD CUP NIGHT NOMS RELEASED MATING PLANS: A total of 1440 nominations--divided across 739 horses--were MANISTER HOUSE STUD received for the $35-million nine-race card at Meydan on Dubai World Cup night, announced the Dubai Racing Club on Monday. Among the eight Thoroughbred races on Mar. 30, the highlight is the $12-million G1 Dubai World Cup, which sees 139 horses nominated, among them last year=s winner Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) for Godolphin and fellow Meydan Group 1 winner North America (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). The US contingent is headed by Grade I winners McKinzie (Street Sense), Leofric (Candy Ride {Arg}), Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}), Audible (Into Mischief), Yoshida (Jpn) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}), and Elate (Medaglia d=Oro), while Japanese hopes Gold Dream (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) and Westerlund (Jpn) (Neo Universe {Jpn}) and Hong Kong star Pakistan Star (Ger) (Shamardal) also feature. Cont. p5 Luke Barry | Amy Lynam IN TDN AMERICA TODAY by Amy Lynam SPENDTHRIFT ADDING DEPTH TO ROSTER Despite being quiet on the racing front, winter can still be an Lucas Marquardt speaks with Spendthrift’s Mark Toothaker exciting time for those in the flat business. Racing fixtures may about new recruits Cloud Computing, Free Drop Billy and Mor be limited to the all-weather, but in the background, hopes Spirit. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. remain high for the newly turned 2-year-olds learning their trade. The ever-optimistic Luke Barry of Manister House Stud expressed such excitement on a recent January morning while driving a well-bred filly to her new home with trainer Kevin Prendergast on The Curragh. This particular Zoffany (Ire) filly is very dear to the Barry family, with Luke and his mother Liz hoping that she can in some way emulate her half-sister, dual Group 1 winner La Collina (Ire) (Strategic Prince {GB}). "She's a very good-looking filly," explains Barry. "From the day she was born, the plan has been to set her aside and send her to Kevin. It was something my late father, Frank, who was a great pal of Kevin's, was very much looking forward to and now, we get to live his dream." Frank Barry, who passed away in 2018, was a popular figure in the Irish bloodstock world and is remembered as a regular figure at Irish bloodstock sales, most often in company with his great friend Kevin Prendergast. It was therefore apt that Kevin bought La Collina as a yearling for ,42,000, and was responsible for her victories in the G1 Phoenix S. and G1 Matron S. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 29 JANUARY 2019 Mating Plans: Manister House Stud Cont. from p1 who also delivers on the track; it's magic, really." Another mare who has earned much respect at Manister is Her dam Starfish (Ire), an unraced daughter of Galileo (Ire), is Regency Girl (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}), shrewdly bought by Barry for due to foal down to Caravaggio in April, and will next visit 6,000gns, and is now the dam of Wesley Ward's stakes Starspangledbanner (Aus), whom Manister has been a keen performer Elizabeth Darcy (Ire) (Camacho {GB}). After her 2- and supporter of. 3-year-olds by War Command "We have a lot of faith in each sold for over i90,000, Starspangledbanner," says Barry. Regency Girl is now destined for "Tom Gaffney and the team in her most prestigious mating to Castle Hyde have done a great date, with Sea The Stars (Ire). job at improving his fertility and "She comes from a lovely he will have a lot more soldiers Oppenheimer pedigree, with a on the ground in the coming lot of potential to improve," says seasons. His stats so far are Barry. "We enquired about Sea phenomenal and he offers very The Stars and we're delighted to good value for money." have a mare good enough to be La Collina is the pinnacle of accepted." Starfish's success as a The story does not end there, broodmare, having produced six as Barry reveals, "We even winners from six runners, and is Ryan McElligott & Luke Barry | Amy Lynam bought her half sister, Pure considered the >blue hen' of the Manister House broodmare Vanity (GB) (New Approach {Ire}), in partnership with Grange band. Stud a while back, and her first two covers were to No Nay "Every small farm dreams of owning a mare like her," muses Never and she visits Zoffany this year." Barry. "Where every one of her progeny is a proper sales horse, Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 29 JANUARY 2019 Mating Plans: Manister House Stud Cont. The Barry family own three mares in partnership with Grange Stud, as Luke tells, "Grange Stud are very successful breeders and you couldn't dream of easier partners to be involved with. My late father Frank always owned a couple of mares with David Magnier." Miss Margarita (GB) (Scat Daddy) is another owned in partnership with Grange Stud and was partly chosen for her sire, as Barry tells me, "The Scat Daddy broodmares were getting nice stock judging by what was offered in Keeneland; they really Vice President, International Operations catch and fill the eye." Gary King Her maiden voyage will be to Lanwades Stud to young sire Sea Twitter: @garykingTDN The Moon (Ger) (Sea The Stars). "We've enjoyed some success [email protected] with Sea The Moon through our pinhooks," says Barry. "It was + 1.732.320.0975 actually Ryan McElligott who noticed him first as a racehorse International Editor and brought him to our attention, and we've watched him very Kelsey Riley closely since. It's not until now that we're taking a leap of faith." Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Manister House are also using sons of Scat Daddy this season [email protected] and will be sending two mares to his son, Sioux Nation. "We all want a piece of Scat Daddy at the moment," confesses Barry. European Editor "Sioux Nation provides a very reasonable, commercial Emma Berry opportunity to breeders. He's an impressive individual and was a Twitter: @collingsberry very good 2-year-old, so he ticks a lot of boxes." [email protected] The two Manister mares being sent to the G1 Phoenix S. Associate International Editor winner are Novantae (GB) (Pivotal), a daughter of a listed Heather Anderson winner, and Liberty Sky (Ire) (Rip Van Winkle {Ire}), a half-sister Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN to G2 Providencia S. winner Missit (Ire) (Orpen). Cont. p4 Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock La Collina after winning the G1 Matron S. | Racing Post TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 6 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 29 JANUARY 2019 Mating Plans: Manister House Stud Cont. we're constantly trying to improve our band of mares. She has a smashing back pedigree too. Camacho offers an excellent Having used Caravaggio in his first year, Manister House are opportunity to use a proven stallion at a very acceptable fee." also displaying confidence in Coolmore's young gun by sending The Tally-Ho branch of the O'Callaghan family will also Bright Glow (GB) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}) to him in his second welcome a Manister mare in 2019, in the shape of Rahaala (Ire) season at stud. (Indian Ridge {Ire}), a half-sister to listed winner and Group 2 "We underbid Bright Glow's second and third foals, so we third Mythical Magic (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). Bought for a bargain knew her stock well before we bought her,@ he says. AHer ,4,200 in 2013, she will visit G1 2000 Guineas victor Galileo 3-year-old Aldana (GB) (Slade Power {Ire}) shaped very nicely as Gold (GB). a 2-year-old and we're hopeful that she will improve this year. "She's a nice Indian Ridge mare, with a lovely pedigree," says We're sending her to Caravaggio, which is a very similar cross to Barry. "Galileo Gold was a very, very good racehorse and Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never)." Tally-Ho is a farm that gets behind their stallions, so he will have Another second-season sire receiving Manister's support is a very good chance of making it as a sire. He's an impressive Churchill (Ire), who will cover Jessie Jane (Ire) (Dylan Thomas individual too." {Ire}), a half-sister to the dam of La Collina, and herself the dam In this current market, choosing stallions in a season as of listed-winning 2-year-old I'll Have Another (Ire) (Dragon Pulse unpredictable as their second or third, looks a brave move by {Ire}). the Manister House Stud team. When quizzed on the 2018 On the mating, Barry yearling market, Barry is, as commented, "Jessie Jane is a bit ever, optimistic. "There's been tall and narrow, and so we try to much negativity surrounding the send her to a strong horse with market," comments Barry. "Our plenty of hip. We believe in view is that if you have faith in mating our mares physically-- your mare, cover her. If not, that's very important for us." don't cover her--move on and And as for the argument of replace her. All Thoroughbred proven versus unproven sires, breeders, whether big or small, Barry has a logical answer, "She are smart.