EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS THURSDAY, 26TH MARCH 2015 – 12 PAGES

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STALLION NEWS ARQANA EBN Sales Talk Click here to PUT DOWN AT 23 is brought to contact IRT, or you by IRT visit www.irt.com Lane’s End stalwart Smart Strke was put down yesterday at the age of 23 after his laminitis took a turn for the worse. A Sam Son Farm homebred, the son of Mr Prospector CLASSY JUVENILES out of the Canadian Oaks winner Classy’n Smart won the     Gr.1 Philip Iselin Handicap at four, capping a six-race AT BREEZE-UP SALE winning streak, before finishing fourth behind Cigar in the On Saturday, 9th May from 2pm, the Boussac ring at Gr.1 Woodward Stakes. Saint-Cloud racecourse will be the venue for the 2015 He retired to stud in 1997 and has been responsible for Arqana Breeze-Up Sale. 113 Stakes winners, 14 Gr.1 winners, 12 Champions, four The breezes themselves will take place on the eve of the Breeders’ Cup winners and two Classic winners. Among sale on Friday, 8th May from 10am on the racecourse’s turf his progeny are the dual Horse of the Year , the dual track. The catalogue, which is available at Champion Lookin At Lucky, Champion Turf Horse www.arqana.com, offers a quality selection of 134 two- , and Canadian Horses of the Year year-olds, including 91 which carry the ‘Fr’ suffix or are Soaring Free and Never Retreat. His daughters have assimilated as such. produced at least eleven Stakes winners, including last Organised on the eve of the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des October’s Gr.1 Alcibiades Stakes victrix Peace And War. Poulains and Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches, this sale is “We are very saddened by the loss of Smart Strike,” said the only one in Europe to have produced two Classic William S Farish, owner of Lane’s End Farm. “He has been winners in the last three years. The sale was responsible one of our flagship stallions for many years. He was an for the exceptional The Grey Gatsby (Mastercraftsman), exceptional sire and his influence on the breed will be felt who turned the Gr.1 Prix du -Club into a procession for a long time. I want to thank Sam Son Farm for entrusting us with his stallion career, as well as the other shareholders and breeders that have supported him.” POINTS 0f VIEW Today’s New Zealand Racing and Bloodstock News is on page 10 with Carl Evans

Another individual winner for MAWATHEEQ Sire of MERCY ME Winner of the 32red.Com Median Auction Maiden Fillies’ Stakes at Lingfield yesterday. Breeder: Aston Mullins Stud

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1 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 SALES TALK when winning it by three lengths last June, and then QUALITY LOTS FROM QUALITY CONSIGNORS Australia (Galileo) in the Gr.1 later The catalogue is made up of 134 well-bred two-year-olds last season. Following a very successful year, The Grey which have been prepared by the best consignors in Gatsby was rated the joint-highest three-year-old in the Europe. world in the Longines World Rankings of 2014. The Channel Consignment will offer a draft of 16, This sale has also produced the Classic winner Lucayan including Lot 126, a son of Sea The Stars out of (Turtle Bowl), who won the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Stunning, who was placed in the Gr.2 Critérium de Poulains in 2012. Amongst the numerous other winning Maisons-Laffitte; Lot 79, an Invincible Spirit half-brother graduates is Mshawish, who won the Gr.1 Gulfstream to triple Listed winner Prince Fasliyev, as well as Lot 23, Park Turf Handicap last month as well as the Gr.2 Fort a Kitten’s Joy half-sister to Bold Union, a Gr.3 winner in Lauderdale Stakes, thereby becoming a first US Gr.1 the US. winner for the Al Shaqab Racing operation. This son of Jamie Railton and Alban Chevalier du Fau will offer Lot Medaglia D’Oro could line up for the Gr.1 Dubai Turf on 15, one of the last offspring by the great Monsun to go 28th March this year. Another successful horse to have through the ring, and Lot 98, a son of Siyouni, who was emerged from the sale is Palang, a son of Hat Trick, who bought at the 2014 October Yearling Sale when consigned finished second in the Gr.1 Critérium de Saint-Cloud in by the Haras de Colleville. The leading consignor at the 2014 sale, Irishman Willie 2014. Brown (Mocklershill), will make the trip with 14 two-year- The sale also numbers numerous Classic hopes for the olds. Standouts among these include Lot 124, a Siyouni 2015 season, such as Zvarkhova (Makfi) and half-brother to the dual Group winner Myasun; Lot 86, a Kencharova (Kendargent), who are both entered in the half-brother by Giant’s Causeway to Poupée Flash, who Gr.1 Prix de Diane, as well as High Dynamite (Kentucky was placed several times at Group level, as well as Lot 2, Dynamite), who has recently finished second in the Listed a son of Canford Cliffs and the first foal out of a daughter Prix Maurice Caillault. High Dynamite is entered in the Gr.1 of a Montjeu half-sister to Ice Queen, who finished Prix du Jockey-Club and the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris. second in the Gr.1 Irish Oaks. Other graduates of the 2014 sale include Yeenaan (Rip Brendan Holland (Grove Stud), who most notably Van Winkle) trained by Marco Botti, who is entered in the consigned The Grey Gatsby at last year’s sale, will go to Chantilly Classic and made a strong impression when Saint-Cloud with 13 of his best two-year-olds. Among them running out the classy winner of his last two starts, as well are Lot 59, a son of Galileo out of Gr.3 winner as Karar (Invincible Spirit), who totally dominated his Kamarinskaya and Lot 132, an Oasis Dream half-brother maiden on 19th March this year at Saint-Cloud. to the Gr.1 victrix Maids Causeway.

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Ecurie Philip Prévost-Baratte, who prepped and consigned Classic winner Lucayan, will send out a contingent of eleven two-year-olds, including Lot 7, a    Diktat half-brother to the promising Listed winner Wag’n Tail, who is entered in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains; Lot 8, a Myboycharlie half-brother to Group winners  ! Stellar Path and Weary (ex Sir Patrick Moore), and Lot 19, a Rip Van Winkle half-sister to the Gr.3 Prix Penelope     winner Don’t Hurry Me. Among the two-year-olds presented by Paul Basquin, at   the helm of Haras du Saubouas, are Lot 30 and Lot 134. The first is a daughter of Siyouni, who was bought at the v.2 Yearling Sale and is from the family of US Gr.1 winner Sarafan. The second is a son of the French stallion Kendargent out of Vital Body, who finished placed three times at Listed level. Con Marnane (Bansha House Stables) will travel over with eleven two-year-olds, including Lot 123, a Dream Ahead half-brother to the Champion racemare Sahpresa, who won the Gr.1 three times, and Lot 6, a daughter of Le Havre from the high-class family of Angelina Ballerina. Others with eyecatching pedigrees include Lot 9 (presented by Gaybrook Lodge Stud), a result of the mating between New Approach and Anabaa’s Creation, who was placed several times at Gr.1 level; Lot 27 (presented by Meadowview Stables), a son of Smart Strike out of Cable, who was placed three times in Gr.3 races in the US, and Lot 54 (presented by Yeomanstown

       Reliable Man, the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club and Gr.1       Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner, has had his first Northern Hemisphere foals.     He stands at Gestut Rottgen near Cologne in Germany,       at a fee of €6,000, with travel allowances available for mares coming from outside Germany, and already has 70 mares booked for 2015. The 57 mares he covered in his first season include  several of Rottgen’s better mares, including Gr.2 winner Wild Side, pictured above with her filly foal born on 11th March. Wild Side is already the dam of four Stakes   horses, including the triple Group winner Wild Coco, the five-times Group-placed Wilddrossel, last season’s Gr.2  ! runner-up Weltmacht and the Listed-placed Wild Silva. Others mares covered by Reliable Man in 2014 included the Gr.1 winners Pride and Enora. !

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Stud), a Medaglia D’Oro half-brother to Morning Line, who lifted the Gr.1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct. Lot 92 BRITAIN (presented by Sherbourne Lodge Stables) is a Lope De Vega half-brother to the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin winner ENTRIES UNVEILED FOR New Girlfriend, and Lot 111 (presented by Brown Island TOPHAM AND FOX HUNTERS’ Stables) is a daughter of Street Cry out of Real Fancy Runner, who was placed in the Gr.3 La Habra Stakes at Entries were revealed yesterday for the races over the Santa Anita. Mick Murphy (Longways Stables) will consign fences on the first two days of the Grand Lot 80, a daughter of Champs Elysées with a fine National Festival, namely the £40,000 Fox Hunters’ Chase pedigree, her grandam having produced Kind, dam of (4.05pm on Thursday, 9th April) and the £120,000 Gr.3 superstar Frankel. Larissa Kneip, who is at the head of Topham Chase (4.05pm on Friday 10th April). Both the Haras de Saint-Arnoult, will send out a draft of four contests take place over an extended two miles and five horses, including the full-brother to Gr.3 Solario Stakes furlongs. winner Talwar. He will go through the ring as Lot 87. There are 67 entries for the Topham Chase, with last year’s winning trainer responsible for HORSES BY TALENTED STALLIONS three horses, including the high-class Rajdhani Express The catalogue includes numerous horses by proven (Presenting), who was third in the 2014 Gr.1 Ryanair stallions such as Acclamation, Arch, Diktat, Distorted Chase. His Hunt Ball (Winged Love) ran well for a long Humor, Dutch Art, Elusive City, Elusive Quality, way in last year’s renewal and Golden Hoof (Oscar) was Exceed And Excel, Galileo, Giant’s Causeway, High successful in a novices’ chase at Aintree in October. Chaparral, Invincible Spirit, Kodiac, Lawman, Medaglia Henderson boasts a formidable Topham Chase record, D’Oro, Monsun, Motivator, New Approach, Oasis Dream, having landed the prize four times with Wont Be Gone Pivotal, Rock Of Gibraltar, Sea The Stars, Smart Strike Long (1990), Liberthine (2006), Triolo D’Alene (2013) and and Street Cry. Ma Filleule (2014). The sale also includes stock by promising young Champion trainer Paul Nicholls has a quartet of entries, stallions such as Canford Cliffs, Dark Angel, Dream comprising dual Gr.2 scorer Wonderful Charm Ahead, Equiano, Makfi, Mastercraftsman, Lope De Vega, (Poliglote), Rebel Rebellion (Lord Americo), successful Pour Moi, Rip Van Winkle and Teofilo, along with two- in handicap chases at Ascot and Newbury this season, the year-olds by three particularly popular French stallions Gr.3 Greatwood Gold Cup scorer Sound Investment (Dr Kendargent (five), Le Havre (four) and Siyouni (twelve). Massini) and Ruben Cotter (Beneficial), who scooped a The catalogue is available online at www.arqana.com. valuable handicap chase at Kempton Park on 14th March. Nicholls landed the Topham Chase in 2008 with Gwanako. Racing News Also entered is the Jonjo O’Neill-trained Eastlake (Beneficial), who was third last season behind Ma Filleule and second in the AP McCoy Grand Annual Handicap UAE Chase at the last time out. David Pipe’s Monetaire (Anabaa) has shaped well on his three starts in Britain, including when second last time out at FAITHFUL CREEK Cheltenham. READY FOR UAE DERBY The last Irish-trained winner of the Topham Chase was Decadent Racing’s three-year-old Bushranger colt, Cregg House in 2005 and there are 17 entries from across Faithful Creek, is ready to run in Saturday’s $2m Gr.2 the Irish Sea this time. Ireland’s champion trainer Willie UAE Derby. Trained at Manton by Brian Meehan, Mullins, successful in 2002 with Its Time For A Win, has connections are delighted by his preparation and are two entries, Turban (Dom Alco) and Ballycasey looking forward to another big run from the colt who ran (Presenting), the latter a Gr.1 winner last season and a fifth, beaten just three lengths, in the 2014 Gr.1 Breeders’ Grand National entry. Tony Martin has entered Savello Cup Juvenile Turf. (Anshan), a good sixth in the Gr.1 Queen Mother Champion Flown to Dubai last Saturday, the colt has settled well Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. and several of the syndicate owners will be joining him at Maggio (Trempolino), trained in County Dublin by Meydan. With the racing world’s attention on Dubai this Patrick Griffin, holds entries in both the Topham Chase Saturday, it is no surprise he faces stiff competition, and the Grand National. The ten-year-old was recently purchased by Douglas Pryde and Jim Beaumont, owners particularly from UAE 2,000 Guineas winner Maftool (Hard of 2013 Grand National hero and big Spun) and impressive trial winner Mubtaahij (). supporters of the Grand National Festival, and a trip to Syndicate Manager Sam Sangster said: “Kieren did a Aintree in April is now very much on the agenda. Last great job for us in Santa Anita last year and the horse has season he was the impressive winner of a Listed chase improved for a winter on his back. They are a great team over just short of three miles at Kelso and was most and, with a very good draw from stall five, hopefully we recently staying on well under a big weight to finish third will have a big run this weekend.” in an extended three-mile handicap chase at Carlisle. Griffin said: “We are focusing on Aintree with Maggio. If he gets in, he would go for the National but, if he doesn’t, SUBSCRIPTIONS he would go for the Topham instead. 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FRELIA (Ire), 4f, Oscar – Hannabelle (Rudimentary) STAR POINTER OF THE WEEK O: D Gibbs and G Fortt, (Ire), 5g, B: Valerie Dalgetty, T: David Gibbs ARTICULUM Definite Article – Lugante (Luso) €600 2011 Ireland November Sale O: McDonagh, Murphy, Nixon, by Peel Bloodstock, consigned by Ashgrove Stud B: John Harrington, £1,600 2014 Ascot July Sale T: Terence O’Brien by Glen Fortt, consigned by Peel Bloodstock €800 2010 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale This filly was noted running a fine race on debut at by Michael Murphy Buckfastleigh in Devon last month when second to Miss consigned by John Harrington Gotaway, and the winner franked the form when scoring from Knockarigg Hill Stud again next time out. Those who noted the update will have €9,000 2013 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale followed Frelia on Sunday when she lined up at Hereford by Terence O’Brien consigned by Redbridge Stables This youngster showed a very likeable attitude when scoring at the first time of asking on Sunday, landing a maiden at Liscarroll. Runner-up Minella Treasure had the advantage of the inside on the sharp final turn, but this horse quickened nicely on the short run to the last fence and then asserted authority on the run-in. Third- placed Gardiner’s Hill and fifth-home Mick The Jiver give the form depth having shown promise in other maidens this season. Twice a visitor to Tattersalls Ireland’s sales venue, and considered good enough for the company’s flagship Derby Sale, he was bred by the late John Harrington. His dam, who won a chase over 2m 1f, was produced by an unraced sister to Mouse Frelia (Oscar) finishing second on debut at Buckfastleigh. Morris’s high-class chaser Cahervillahow.

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It was impossible not to be impressed by this good- looking horse’s St Patrick’s Day debut at Ballynoe last POINTS 0f VIEW week, when he led for much of the way in a four-year-old maiden, coped with dead ground and the uphill climb to with Carl Evans the final bend, yet still had reserves to hold off some nice prospects. His sire has long been one of Ireland’s leading jumps stallions, while his dam won on the Flat and over (closed for racing under Rules, but the scene of two point- jumps in France, and her half-brother, Usuelo, won the to-points this year), and duly scored by 30 lengths in a 15- runner maiden, despite carrying 8lb overweight (10st is Gr.3 Prix de Barbeville at Longchamp. ridiculously low for point-to-points). The owners have JUST IMAGINE IT (GB), 6g, been approached by several interested parties, but if not Kayf Tara – Hunca Munca (Presenting) sold privately she will run in Aintree’s new point-to-point O: Graham Roach, B: Preston Lodge Stud, bumper, and, if finishing in the first three, take up a DBS T: Jack Barber Spring Sale entry. A first foal, her dam was unraced but €55,000 2010 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale was produced by a half-sister to dual Velka Pardubicka by Aiden Murphy, consigned by Stow Stud winner Registana, whose rider famously took the wrong It took this gelding two runs before scoring at the third course when clear with three to jump on her sole time of asking on Sunday at Ston Easton, but his previous appearance over Cheltenham’s cross-country course. second place was franked when the winner went in again GOLDEN INVESTMENT (Ire), 6g, an hour after this horse landed a maiden. He dropped in Gold Well – Mangan Pet (Over The River) trip to 2m4f to achieve the victory. This is the family of the O: Monbeg Syndicate, B: Michael Doyle, useful chaser King Harald – the best horse Mark T: Donnchadh Doyle Bradstock trained until Plaid Maid’s stock began This late starter – who failed to sell when offered as a flourishing – and also of Gold Cup winner War Of yearling – made his debut at Borris House on Sunday and Attrition. Just Imagine It’s dam was a point-to-point set the card’s fastest time with a smooth victory. Runner- winner and half-sister to multiple winner, Gr.1-placed up All Fired Up (beaten 12l) brought course form to the hurdler and Irish National runner-up, Western Charmer. equation, and while still a maiden had shown enough WHAT HAPPENS NOW (Ire), 6g, promise when placed in handicap chases to suggest his Dr Massini – Euro Burden (Good Thyne) latest conqueror has a bright future. A son of unraced O/B: John O’Riordan, parents, his sire gained a place at stud by virtue of being T: Patrick O’Connor a full-brother to Montjeu. The genes proved strong, for Gold Well sired Holywell and Johns Spirit in his first Good ground seems to be the key to this horse, who won crop, but, after a transfer from Arctic Tack Stud to at Kinsale in late May, and, after a couple of lesser efforts Coolmore’s Beeches Stud, he died of colic in late 2013. on easy ground in midwinter, showed a return to his best when second at Cragmore recently. On Sunday, when INVITATION ONLY (Ire), 4g, back on a decent surface at Rathmorrisey, he scored in a Flemensfirth – Norabelle (Alamo Bay) quick time from a useful runner-up (a winner on his O: Monbeg Syndicate, B: Seamus McKeogh, previous start). His unraced dam was closely related to T: Sean Doyle Irish Lincolnshire Handicap winner Crooked Throw, and €17,500 2011 Tattersalls Ireland November Sale he was sired by Dr Massini when standing at Beeches by Scott Mernagh, consigned by Mountain View Stud Stud. Now 22, the old stallion is still popular at David €40,000 Tattersalls Ireland Derby Sale Brace’s Dunraven Stud and has a big Grand National by Patrick McCormack, consigned by Rathyork Stud chance next month with Rocky Creek. LambertstownLambertstownLambertstown StudStudStud Boarding / Foaling / Sales Preparation for all Sales. Friendly family-owned farm located 40 mins from Dublin Port, Emily MacMahon 15 minutes from Tattersalls, 45 minutes from Go(s Lambertstown Stud, and 1 hr 45 minutes from Coolmore. Kilmessan, Co. Meath 25 boxes, 75 acres of grassland, 2 1/2 furlong round sand gallop, Tel: 00353 (0) 87 7194812 Email: [email protected] plus arena with 20 natural cross-country fences. Twitter: @emilymacm

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Cole Harden (), who was second in the Gr.2 continued from page 4 Long Distance Hurdle, and the Gr.3 Grand Annual Chase winner Next Sensation (Brian Boru). of ground that Aintree will provide. As regards the fences, The Mark Bradstock-trained Gold Cup hero the hustle and bustle is an unknown quantity. I feel that the (Karinga Bay) made a winning debut over fences at the horse would jump round and am optimistic that whatever Hennessy Festival and returned on Super Saturday to run race he gets in, he will deliver. experienced rivals ragged in the Gr.2 Denman Chase. Super “The run at Carlisle last time was his first beyond three Saturday produced two other Cheltenham Festival winners miles and he really proved that he could stay. Then again, if in Uxizandre (Fragrant Mix) and Wicklow Brave (Beat he gets in the National, it would be going up again in trip Hollow), but the action on the track was eclipsed by A P and it is anybody’s guess if he will stay four and a half miles. McCoy’s announcement that he would be retiring towards “He is quite a pacey horse and it wouldn’t worry me if he or at the end of the season. had to drop down in trip again for the Topham Chase. It could be right up his street.” The highlight of Sri Lankan Raceday is the £10,000 Win Other contenders include the Kim Bailey-trained Darna A Holiday To Sri Lanka Handicap Chase over two and a (Alflora), successful at the Cheltenham Festival, and the half miles. A field of nine includes lightly-raced nine-year- Pipe-trained The Package (Kayf Tara), winner at the old Kadalkin (Robin Des Champs), who impressed when same meeting of the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Handicap scoring by eight lengths on his chase debut at Doncaster Chase and also entered in the Grand National. on 27th February. Other notables include the Fergal Nigel Twiston-Davies’s Splash Of Ginge (Oscar) was O’Brien-trained Owen Na View (Presenting), who will second in Gr.1 company over hurdles at the 2014 Grand shoulder a 7lb penalty for winning at the course last National Festival and is a Gr.3 winner over fences at Saturday, and the consistent Philip Hobbs-trained Cheltenham this season, while Peter Bowen, who saddled Trickaway (Stowaway). the only triple winner of the race in Always Waining (2010 to 2012), has two entries, including the progressive Industry News Letbeso (Vinnie Roe). Weights for the Crabbie's Topham Chase will be announced on Wednesday, 1st April. BRITAIN PREVIOUS WINNERS IN FOX HUNTERS’ CHASE There are 39 entries for the Fox Hunters’ Chase. The two WIR EVENTS CALENDAR SPRINGS latest winners of the contest both hold entries again – INTO ACTION THIS APRIL 2013 scorer Tartan Snow (Valseur) and Warne (Bob The events calendar for Women in Racing (WiR) gets into Back) who took the spoils last year. full swing this April. The first Grand Women’s Summit will The Enda Bolger-trained On The Fringe (Exit To take place at the Grand National Festival on Ladies Day, Nowhere) looks likely to go off favourite, following his Friday, 10th and, during the following week, there will be a impressive 17-length victory over Alastair Ralph’s visit to leading flat trainer Andrew Balding’s stables and an Following Dream (Beneficial) in the Foxhunter Chase at afternoon’s racing at Newbury on Friday, 17th. Cheltenham two weeks ago. Bolger saddled the 1999 The Grand Women’s Summit will be held at the Grand victor Elegant Lord. National Festival, providing a global sporting forum to bring FINAL NEWBURY NH MEETING together and celebrate women in horseracing, sport and business. A panel discussion, chaired by OF THIS SEASON Racing’s Tanya Stevenson, will kick off the event, focussing The inaugural Sri Lankan Raceday brings the curtain down on gender balance in sport and horseracing. The four on another top-class season of at panellists are confirmed as Britain’s greatest ever gymnast Newbury today. Highlights on the track in 2014/15 and now businesswoman Beth Tweddle MBE, the Chairman included the three-day Hennessy Festival in November of Rose Paterson, CEO of Everton and Super Saturday in February, which both provided key Football Club (EFC) in the Community and Deputy CEO of pointers to the Cheltenham Festival. EFC Dr Denise Barrett-Baxendale MBE, and the British The Gr.3 Hennessy Gold Cup saw Many Clouds Horseracing Authority (BHA) Chairman Steve Harman. The (Cloudings) register an emotional success for Lambourn event will be held in an exclusive private facility at Aintree trainer Oliver Sherwood, who has endured a turbulent racecourse, the Garden, that will be available to period since capturing his first Hennessy Gold Cup with delegates in the morning. The summit will run from 8.30am Arctic Call in 1990, and the triumph of Many Clouds was until 10.15am and will be followed by a course walk by met with jubilant celebrations in the winner’s enclosure. Ladies Day Ambassador . The private facility The Hennessy Gold Cup is one of the most competitive will also be available to delegates as a base from which to handicaps of the year and this season’s race proved no enjoy the afternoon’s racing. exception with the beaten favourite (Saint Des On Friday, 17th April, Andrew Balding will open the Saints) taking second in the Gr.1 gates to his historic Park House Stables in Kingsclere, and The Druids Nephew (King’s Theatre), who finished near Newbury, to WiR members and guests. Over its 150- seventh, storming to victory in the three-mile handicap year history, the yard has seen equine legends Mill Reef, chase on the opening of the Cheltenham Festival. Other Tagula and Selkirk graduate through its stables. Since Cheltenham victors to have run at the prestigious 2003, Balding has enjoyed Gr.1 success in England, November meeting include the Gr.1 World Hurdle victor Dubai, Hong Kong and Canada and, in 2005, he was

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The awards trophy and judging committee (L-R): Michael Grassick, Shane Dwyer, Michael O’Rourke, Shane Lyons, Carol Nolan, Ger Flynn, Bernard Caldwell and Ray Bergin. Photos courtesy of Jennifer O’Sullivan. awarded the International Trainer of the Year at the HWPA Derby awards. This year, his Elm Park is a leading IRELAND contender for the 2015 spring Classics. Following a tour of the yard, guests will enjoy an afternoon at Newbury 216 NOMINATIONS RECEIVED FOR racecourse’s Dubai Duty Free Spring Trials fixture in a -SPONSORED AWARDS private box with afternoon tea. Members of WiR, guests, men and women are welcome The newly-established Irish Stud and Stable Staff Awards to both events. Places are limited to both events and must Nominations Committee met for the first time this week to be booked in advance. To book and for more information begin evaluating the 216 nominations received. The visit www.womeninracing.co.uk/events/. committee comprises people with experience across wide sectors of the industry: #CATCHAP AND CONEYGREE Irish Stablestaff Association AT LAMBOURN OPEN DAY Bernard Caldwell, Shane Lyons, Ger Flynn The village of Lambourn is busy preparing for the 24th Irish Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association running of its Open Day on Good Friday, 3rd April, when Shane Dwyer more than 10,000 visitors are expected to attend. This Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association annual charity event provides visitors with an opportunity to Michael Grassick go behind the scenes at more than 30 racing yards in the Irish Turf Club ‘Valley of the Racehorse’, giving attendees an historic insight Ray Bergin into the lifeblood of Lambourn since the mid-18th century. Ireland This year, the winner of the Gr.1 Cheltenham Gold Cup, Michael O’Rourke, Carol Nolan Coneygree, one of only ten horses trained at Mark and Sara Bradstock’s small yard, will be on parade, and will be The Chairman of the Judging Committee, Michael joined by his half-brother and stablemate Carruthers, a O’Rourke said: “The committee is very pleased with the winner at Newbury last Saturday. The Gr.1 World Hurdle quantity and quality of entries, especially as this is the winner Cole Harden, trained by Warren Greatrex, and the inaugural year of Godolphin’s sponsorship of the awards. record-breaking steeplechaser Kauto Star will also be in Evaluation of the nominations will be completed this week. what is a stellar line-up for the Parade of Champions. So far we have seen some very impressive entries, which AP McCoy, 19-times Champion Jockey and 2010 BBC reveal the range of talents and the dedication and Sports Personality of the Year, will be attending the Open commitment of the people who make this industry work.” Day for the afternoon’s activities. Fans both young and old In association with The Racing Post, the Irish Stud and will be able to get a glimpse at one of racings’ biggest Stable Staff Awards recognise and reward the hard work heroes. There may also be a chance to #CatchAP racing and dedication of stud and stable staff, and acknowledge his rivals in the popular Camel Racing, participating in the the huge contribution they make to the racing industry in exhilarating Osborne Refrigerators scurry driving or lining both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. up for the Puissance show jumping competition with a Bernard Caldwell commented: “216 nominations is a host of other top jockeys. terrific response and there is a wide spread across all categories. It’s not an easy job to evaluate the nominations as the quality is extremely high, so it’s good that the committee has representatives from so many sectors.” www.stallionguide.com Continued on page 11

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Masterton bloodstock agent Bruce Perry, who was at RACING NEWS Rosehill in his role as bloodstock manager for Lucia Valentina’s owner Lib Petagna, said the results again VOLKSTOK’N’BARRELL RECORDS highlighted New Zealand’s ability to overcome the odds, TAVISTOCK’S FIRST GR.1 AS SIRE commenting, “We haven’t got huge numbers in Australia and to be competitive against such international The NZ-bred Volkstok'n'barrell (NZ) (Tavistock) beat a opposition was outstanding. Regardless of the level of quality field of three-year-olds in the Gr.1 A$500,000 investment here, we still breed a great product. Rosehill Guineas (2000m) in Sydney on Saturday. “We produced the first two Australasians home in the Second to Mongolian Khan (Holy Roman Emperor) in Ranvet, the first two Australasians home in the George the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby earlier this month, Ryder, the quinella in the Rosehill Guineas, second in the Volkstok’n’barrell and fellow NZ-bred Preferment (NZ) Galaxy and two placings in the Epona – it was amazing.” (Zabeel) put a good margin between themselves and the third-placed Hallowed Crown (Street Sense), who was FEE RISE FOR TAVISTOCK sent off favourite. Coolmore’s former shuttle sire Montjeu continues to “To see this horse win after he was beaten in the New make his mark in the southern hemisphere through his sire Zealand Derby is great,” said trainer Donna Logan. “I sons, and Volkstok’n’barrell provided Tavistock with his didn’t know what to expect, but he travelled over here so well and is so laid back I hoped he would run well.” first Gr.1 winner. Jockey Craig Williams was adamant the gelding should A dual top-flight winner over 1400m and a Champion press on to the Gr.1 Australian Derby, despite his defeat by sprinter, Tavistock currently leads the New Zealand Mongolian Khan in the New Zealand equivalent. second season sires’ premiership, sits second on the The spring’s Gr.1 VRC Derby winner Preferment pleased Three-Year-Old stallion premiership and has had eight trainer Chris Waller with his effort and the colt was Stakes performers from his first crop of runners. He is the immediately elevated to Derby favouritism with sire of 9.4% Stakes performers to first crop foals. Volkstok'n'barrell firming to second elect. On the same card, Lucia Valentina (NZ) (Savabeel) and Silent Achiever (NZ) (O’Reilly) were placed in the Gr.1 Ranvet Stakes, while Kuro (NZ) (Denman) was runner-up in the Gr.1 The Galaxy and Criterion (NZ) (Sebring) and Kermadec (NZ) (Teofilo) carried the NZ suffix into the frame in the Gr.1 George Ryder Stakes. The Kiwi-bred Music Magnate (NZ) (Written Tycoon) was also second at Listed level in The Sebring.

Cambridge Stud’s Tavistock, by Montjeu and a great-grandson of Bloomsbury Stud’s Mrs Moss.

Cambridge Stud principal Sir Patrick Hogan announced this week that Tavistock will stand at an increased 2015 service fee of NZ$15,000 + GST in the spring. “The interest in nominations is already heavy and we’re expecting even more interest off the back of this announcement,” Sir Patrick said. Tavistock will stand alongside fellow Cambridge Stud Volkstok'n'barrell (Tavistock; right) beating Preferment stallions Keeper, Burgundy and Power this breeding (Zabeel) in Saturday’s Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas. season.

10 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 INDUSTRY NEWS • RACING REVIEW

continued from page 9 Green on his debut over this course and distance earlier in the month, The Nab (Lookin At Lucky) raced wide, The Awards will be held at the Keadeen Hotel, challenged over a furlong from home and stayed on to lead Newbridge on Tuesday, 14th April. There are ten close home and win by a neck on his second start. He is a categories, which carry total prize-money of €70,000. half-brother to winners by Maria’s Mon and The winner of each of the five main categories will Henrythenavigator and is the sixth named foal out of the receive a cash prize of €5,000 each and a trophy. The two three-year-old winner Moon’s Tune (Dixieland Band). She runners-up in each of these categories will receive €500 is a half-sister to the Gr.2 Demoiselle Stakes winner La each. An additional €4,000 will also be awarded to the Rosa (Wild Again; dam of the Gr.3 Sabin Handicap winner winner’s yard or stud. The winners of the five main Taittinger Rose and the Gr.3 Pegasus Stakes winner Le categories will also be nominated for the Irish Racing Bernardin), Stakes winner Daylight Ridge (Dayjur; dam Excellence Award and win an additional €5,000 and of the dual Listed winner Independent George and €5,000 for their yard or stud. grandam of the Stakes-placed Daylight Storm) and the The winner of the Dedication to Racing, Lifelong Gr.3 Louisiana Derby runner-up Game Coin (Chief’s Learning, Ancillary Services and the Racecourse Award Crown). The second dam, Twilight Ridge (Cox’s Ridge), will each receive €2,500 and a trophy. won the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and was placed in the Gr.1 Santa Anita Oaks and the Gr.1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes. She is also the second dam of the Listed-placed GERMANY duo Sapphire Coast (Sunday Silence) and Askara (Private Terms) and is the best of six winners from eight VETERINARY CONFERENCE runners out of her unraced dam Waving Sky (Quibu). AT BADEN-BADEN IN AUGUST 2.30 LINGFIELD, 3YO F MED AUCT MDN, 1M4FAW A conference entitled “Business and Ethics of Racing and 1. MERCY ME (GB), 3f, the Role of the Veterinarian” will take place from 28th to Mawatheeq – Fantastic Santanyi (Fantastic Light) 30th August at Baden-Baden. The conference will be in O: G Smith-Bernal and A Dee, English. Owners, breeders and trainers will also be B: Aston Mullins Stud, welcome at a separate meeting on 28th August, starting at T: John Ryan 10:00am and due to last about four hours, which will allow 8,500gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale sufficient time for those present to get to the big race by Julian Feilden meeting at Iffezheim racecourse. Distances: 1¼l, 15l. 4 ran. The veterinary conference will start the same morning, Stepping up in trip from her debut, where she was well with the first session of twelve lectures from 9:00am, beaten over a mile at Nottingham last October, Mercy Me followed by a choice of eight different seminars, each (Mawatheeq) was an easy winner on her second start, lasting 90 minutes. The scientific programme will finish at beating the favourite Triple Dip (Three Valleys) by an 7:00pm and will be followed at 8:30pm by a reception in eased-down length and a quarter, with the pair 15 lengths the gardens of the Palais Biron and the congress dinner. clear of the remainder. She is the fourth foal and third On Saturday, 29th August, the scientific session of winner out of the Listed Prix Melisande runner-up Fantastic lectures will again start at 9:00am and those present will Santanyi (Fantastic Light), a half-sister to the Gr.3-placed be guests of the Baden Racing Champions Club at the Zuleika Dobson (Cadeaux Genereux). They are out of the afternoon race meeting. There will then be a visit to a dual winner Fresher (Fabulous Dancer), who was second Klaus Philipp exhibition at Brenners Park Hotel before in the Gr.2 (then) Prix d’Astarte and third in the Gr.3 Prix dinner at the Casino of Baden-Baden. The scientific Chloe. The third dam, Aborigine (Riverman), won the meeting on Sunday 30th will start at 10:00am with free Listed Grand Prix de Clairefontaine and was placed five lectures and will end with a 1:00pm lunch, after a round- times at Group level. She produced the Gr.2 Prix Niel winner table discussion. and sire Songlines (High Top), the Listed winner and Gr.2 For further information and details of the full itinerary, Prix de Royallieu runner-up Dame Kiri (Old Vic) and the please visit www.racing.care five-time winner Settler (Darshaan; dam of the flat and hurdles Listed winner and sire Great Pretender, the Listed Yesterday’s Racing Review winner and Gr.1 Prix du Cadran runner-up Winter Dream and the Listed-placed Ange Gardien). BRITAIN Fantastic Santanyi has a yearling filly by Harbour Watch. 3.30 LINGFIELD, 3YO AUCTION MAIDEN, 7FAW 2.20 SOUTHWELL, 3YO+ MAIDEN, 7FAW 1. ONE LIFE LIVE IT (GB), 3c, 1. THE NAB (USA), 3c, Holy Roman Emperor – Lacandona (Septieme Ciel) Lookin At Lucky – Moon’s Tune (Dixieland Band) O: Franconson Partners, O: The Attwater Partnership, B: Biddestone Stud Ltd, B: Crosshaven Bloodstock et al, T: Michael Attwater T: Nick Littmoden $70,000 September Yearling Sale 17,000gns Tattersalls December Foal Sale by Margaret O’Toole by Gazeley Stud 42,000gns Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale 20,000gns Tattersalls December Yearling Sale by Nigel Spreadbury consigned by Gazeley Stud Distances: nk, 3½l. 9 ran. Distances: 3½l, 1¼l. 10 ran.

11 EBN Thursday, 26th March 2015 RACING REVIEW • STAKES FIELDS

Prominent throughout, One Life Live It (Holy Roman Emperor) ran on well to win on his debut. He is a half- Stakes Fields brother to winners by Encosta De Lago, Sadler’s Wells and Caerleon, as well as the unraced Open Stage AUSTRALIA – FRIDAY (Sadler’s Wells; dam of the Listed-placed hurdler Stage Acclaim). They are out of the placed Septieme Ciel mare Gr.1 WILLIAM REID STAKES, Moonee Valley, 1200m, Lacandona, who is a half-sister to the Stakes winner and 3yo+, 1st A$240,000, 2nd A$72,000, 3rd A$36,000, sire Smackover Creek and the Gr.2-placed sire Lode 10.45am (GMT) (both by Mr Prospector). The second dam, Grand Luxe REBEL DANE (Aus), 5h, (Sir Ivor), was a multiple Stakes winner of ten races and is California Dane – Texarcana (More Than Ready) also the second dam of multiple Gr.1 winner and leading FAMOUS SEAMUS (NZ), 6g, Australian sire Flying Spur, US Gr.1 winner Aube Elusive City – Clinique (Dance Floor) Indienne, US Gr.2 winner Fit To Lead, French Gr.3 winner BEL SPRINTER (Aus), 7g, Mare Nostrum, Australian Gr.3 winner Musidora and Bel Esprit – Gavroche (Snippets) French Listed victrix Raisonnable (grandam of Gr.1 FONTELINA (Aus), 6g, winner Pear Tart), and is the third dam of Gr.1 winner and Testa Rossa – Decipher (Timber Country) Champion Australian Sire Encosta De Lago. The third LUCKY HUSSLER (Aus), 5g, dam, the Canadian Champion Fanfreluche (Northern Husson – Talaq Dancer (Black Hawk) Dancer), also the third dam of Holy Roman Emperor, IT IS WRITTEN (Aus), 3g, produced the Gr.1 winners and Canadian Champions Written Tycoon – Winning Team ( Dancer) L’Enjoleur (Buckpasser), Medaille D’Or () ANGELIC LIGHT (Aus), 5m, and La Voyageuse (Tentam). Holy Roman Emperor – Flashed (Fuji Kiseki) 7.15 KEMPTON PARK, 3YO+ MAIDEN, 1M3FAW VAIN QUEEN (Aus), 5m, Artie Schiller – Our Teneriffe (Kenvain) 1. PROCESS (GB), 3c, GRIANTE (Aus), 4m, Nayef – Intense (Dansili) Good Journey – Grand Strategy (Strategic) O: K Abdullah, B: Juddmonte Farms, GIRL GUIDE (Aus), 5m, T: Amanda Perrett Churchill Downs – Satnav (Canny Lad) 3 Distances: 1 ⁄4l, shd. 9 ran. PERON (Aus), 5m, This was a winning debut for Process (Nayef), who Husson – Faster Pussycat (Flying Spur) started relatively unfancied but won well. He is the second GALAXY PEGASUS (Aus), 3c, foal out of Intense (Dansili), who won twice up to a mile War Pass – Medician Star (Galileo) and is a full-sister to the winner Archive and a half-sister EARTHQUAKE (Aus), 3f, to the twice Gr.3-placed Model Pupil (Sinndar). The Exceed And Excel – Cataclysm (Marauding) grandam, Modesta (Sadler’s Wells), is a Listed-winning VEZALAY (Aus), 3f, full-sister to Listed winner Novellara (dam of Listed scorer – Tactfully (Flying Spur) Disclaimer), while her six Stakes-winning half-siblings are headed by the dual Gr.1 winner and sire Elmaamul EUROPEAN INTEREST RUNNER (Diesis), Gr.1 Oaks and Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile victrix Reams Of Gr.2 SUNLINE STAKES, Moonee Valley, 1600m, Verse (; dam of Gr.3 winner Eagle Poise and 3yo+ f&m, 1st A$120,000, 2nd A$36,000, 3rd A$18,000, Listed scorer Many Volumes, and second dam of Gr.2 10.15am (GMT) winner Zacinto), the Gr.2-winning stayer Manifest NOBLE PROTECTOR (GB), 5m, (Rainbow Quest), and Gr.3 winners and sires Modern Haafhd – All Glory (Alzao) Day (Dayjur) and Modernise (Known Fact). Another half- sister, the Listed-placed Midsummer (), is the dam of multiple Gr.1 victrix Midday and Gr.3 winner Hot Snap, and her unraced half-sister Contiguous OFFICIAL EXCHANGE RATES TO THE £ (Danzig) is the dam of Gr.3 winner Confront. The third Argentine Peso (13.19), A$ (1.91), Bahrain Dinar (0.59), Brz dam, Modena (), is an unraced half-sister to Gr.3 Real (4.14), C$ (1.81), Chilean Peso (944.01), Chinese Yuan winner Zaizafon, dam of Zafonic and Zamindar. (9.69), CzK (35.62), DKr (9.59), € (1.29), HK$ (12.08), Hungarian Intense has a two-year-old Sinndar colt named Forint (407.45), Indian Rupee (407.45), ¥ (186.58), Kazakhstan Combative and produced a colt by Medicean in Saudi Tenge (284.02), Malaysian Ringgit (5.45), Moroccan Dirham Arabia last year, following her 30,000gns purchase at the (14.14), NZ$ (2.00), NKr (11.61), PZl (5.52), Qatar Riyal (5.67), 2013 Tattersalls December Sale. Russian Ruble (94.27), Saudi Arabian Riyal (5.85), Serbian Dinar (156.29), S$ (2.07), R (18.03), South Korean Won (1704.48), SKr (12.17), SwFr (1.55), Tunisian Dinar (2.91), Tur L (3.64), UAE Dhs (5.72), $ (1.56). EBN on Twitter Source: British Horseracing Authority NOTE: All race results and cards referred to in the European Bloodstock News are designated Group/Graded Follow us status according to their own domestic Jockey Clubs. @bloodstocknews Copyright European Bloodstock News

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