Ghaiyyath Crowned Horse of the Year
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SATURDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2020 MEHMAS UP TO €25,000 GHAIYYATH CROWNED Record-breaking first-season sire Mehmas (Ire) will see a fee increase to €25,000 at Tally Ho Stud in 2021. The son of HORSE OF THE YEAR Acclamation (GB) stood for €7,500 this year. Mehmas is the clear leader of the European first-season sires standings by earnings and winners, the latter tally of 47 as of Nov. 20 representing a record for a first-season sire. Iffraaj (GB) previously held the record at 38. Mehmas’s four stakes winners include the G1 Middle Park S. winner Supremacy (Ire) and G2 Gimcrack S. scorer Minzaal (Ire). The standardbearer of the Tally Ho roster, however, remains Kodiac (GB), who is available in 2021 for €65,000, the same fee at which he has stood the past two years. His representatives this year have included the G1 Prix Morny winner Campanelle (Ire), G1 Sprint Cup and G1 Diamond Jubilee S. winner Hello Youmzain (Fr) and group-winning juveniles Nando Parrado (Ire), Ubettabelieveit (Ire) and Umm Kulthum (Ire). Cotai Glory (GB) and Galileo Gold (GB) both have their first runners next year and will stand for €5,000, the same fee as Vadamos (Fr), who has had nine first-crop winners this year; Ghaiyyath | George Selwyn Kessaar (Ire), who will have his first yearlings in 2021, and Inns Of Court (Ire), whose first foals arrive next year. Godolphin's four-time Group 1 winner Ghaiyyath (Ire) has scooped the top honours at the 30th annual Cartier Awards. The 5-year-old son of Dubawi is the third Cartier Horse of the Year for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation following Daylami (Ire) in 1999 and Fantastic Light in 2001. Trained by Charlie Appleby, Ghaiyyath also claimed the Cartier Older Horse category ahead of Addeybb (Ire), Enable (GB) and Magical (Ire). There was further success for the Maktoum family when Palace Pier (GB) (Kingman {GB}), owned by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum and trained by John Gosden, was named Cartier 3-Year-Old Colt ahead of Kameko, Pinatubo (Ire) and Siskin. In an outstanding 2020 season, he won the G1 St James's Palace S. at Royal Ascot before defeating his elders in the G1 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois at Deauville. Mehmas | Tally Ho Stud Love (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) remained undefeated in her three starts this year, winning the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks for Aidan O'Brien and the Coolmore partners. She took Cartier Three-Year-Old Filly in a division which included fellow IN TDN AMERICA TODAY nominees Alpine Star (Ire), Fancy Blue (Ire) and Wonderful MCGRATH’S THIS SIDE UP: STALLION VIABILITY Tonight (Fr). This week, Chris McGrath offers a closer look at the ebb and flow Cont. p2 in the stallion market. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 21 NOVEMBER 2020 Owned and bred by Bjorn Nielsen and trained by John Gosden, the 6-year-old captured the G1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot for a third time as well as winning his fourth G1 Qatar Goodwood Cup. Also shortlisted in this category were Galileo Chrome (Ire), Princess Zoe (Ger) and Wonderful Tonight (Fr). The Aidan Ghaiyyath Named Horse of the Year cont. from p1 O’Brien-trained G1 Criterium International winner Van Gogh, Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's 6-year-old Battaash (Ire) (Dark who became the first European Group 1 winner for his sire Angel {Ire}) was awarded the American Pharoah, has been Cartier Sprinter honours named Cartier Two-Year-Old following a season which Colt of 2020. Van Gogh is yet included victory in the G1 King's another feather in the cap of Stand S., G2 King George Qatar S. David and Diana Nagle’s at Goodwood for the fourth Barronstown Stud, whose long time, and the G1 Coolmore list of Group 1-winning Nunthorpe S. for the second year graduates includes Irish Derby running. The Charlie Hills-trained winner Sovereign (Ire), gelding clinched the award G1 St Leger winner Kew Gardens ahead of fellow nominees Dream (Ire) and the four-time G1 Ascot Of Dreams (Ire), Glass Slippers Gold Cup winner Yeats (Ire). The (GB) and Glen Shiel (GB). operation’s record of breeding For the third consecutive year, top-class horses over four one of the most popular horses Stradivarius winning the Gold Cup | Scoop Dyga decades was recognised at the in training, Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea ITBA breeding and racing awards The Stars {Ire}) was named Cartier Stayer. last January as they were inducted in to the Hall of Fame. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 21 NOVEMBER 2020 In total, the Nagles have bred 29 individual Group 1 winners of 44 Classic or Group 1 races. Also nominated in the juvenile colts’ category were Battleground, Mac Swiney (Ire) and St Mark’s Basilica (Ire). The Cartier 2-Year-Old Filly fell to one from the Joseph O'Brien stable, Pretty Gorgeous (Fr) (Lawman {Fr}). Owned by John Oxley, she finished the year in style by winning the G1 bet365 Senior Vice President Fillies' Mile at Newmarket. Her fellow nominees were Alcohol Gary King Free (GB), Campanelle (Ire) and Tiger Tanaka (Ire). Twitter: @garykingTDN With two horses from his stable having picked up awards, John [email protected] Gosden OBE was the recipient of the Cartier/Daily Telegraph + 1.732.320.0975 Award of Merit in 2020. Champion trainer in Britain for the past three seasons, he has saddled over 3,500 winners during a International Editor 41-year career and has been responsible for a record five Cartier Kelsey Riley Horse of the Year recipients: Kingman (2014), Golden Horn Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN (2015), Enable (2017 & 2019) and Roaring Lion (2018). [email protected] Harry Herbert, Cartier's Racing Consultant, said, "Back in the European Editor spring, nobody knew if we would even have a European Flat Emma Berry season in 2020 but with the hard work of everyone in the racing Twitter: @collingsberry industry we were ultimately rewarded with a season to savour. [email protected] "Racing cannot continue without the ongoing support of owners and I would like to extend my congratulations to Associate International Editor tonight's winners--Godolphin, Coolmore, Sheikh Hamdan bin Heather Anderson Mohammed Al Maktoum, Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, Bjorn Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Nielsen and John Oxley." Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Cartier 2-year-old champion Van Gogh | Scoop Dyga He added, "John Gosden has truly reached the summit of his Regular Columnists profession and is the perfect recipient for the Cartier/Daily Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Telegraph Award of Merit in 2020. With his supreme eloquence and communication skills, racing is very lucky to have such a fabulous ambassador. I would like to end by extending special thanks to Cartier, Sky Sports Racing, The Daily Telegraph and Racing Post. Cartier's support of these prestigious awards stretches right back to 1991 and is ongoing, even in today's troubled times. We are truly blessed to be able to enjoy such tremendous support." TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 21 NOVEMBER 2020 Laurent Feniou, Managing Director of Cartier UK, commented: Ebendi will be offered with a reserve of €60,000 and online "In what has proved to be a year in which so many people have bidding will open at 10am on Tuesday for two hours, until faced exceptional challenges, I am delighted for the Cartier midday. Prospective purchasers should register to bid online Racing Awards to be broadcast on Sky Sports Racing allowing the with Goffs by 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 23. racing public to join us in watching the presentation this year. It is an honour to celebrate the very best of horseracing, especially this year as we honour the 30th anniversary of the Cartier Racing Awards. My heartfelt congratulations go out to this ARQANA DECEMBER ADDS SIX WILDCARDS exceptional year's winners." Arqana on Friday added six wildcards to its December Breeding The Cartier Awards, which are usually presented during a Stock Sale, to be offered on Saturday, Dec. 5. glittering ceremony in London, were this year broadcast live on Newton’s Night (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 110) is a full-sister to Sky Sports Racing. Grade III winner and multiple stakes producer Dress Rehearsal, as well as to the dams of group winners Muthmir (Ire) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}), My Titania (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Majestic Queen (Ire) (Kheleyf). The 9-year-old Newton’s Night is in foal to GOFFS TO AUCTION AGA KHAN’S EBENDI Advertise (GB). ONLINE Also added to the Monceaux draft are Lions Den (Animal Kingdom), an unraced daughter of dual Grade I winner Arravale (Arch) currently in training with Alain de Royer Dupre (lot 120); Zaur’s Heart (GB) (No Nay Never), a 3-year-old half-sister to Group 3 winners Fas (Ire) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) and Silva (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) in training with Pia Brandt (lot 130); and a Kingman (GB) filly foal out of G3 Prix de Flore winner Lil’Wing (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) (lot 140). The first round of Arqana December wildcards are completed by this year’s G2 Oaks d’Italia winner Auyantepui (GB) (Night Of Thunder {Ire}) (lot 160) and Directa (Fr) (Anodin) (lot 170), who has won four of her seven starts this year at three including the Listed Prix Vulcain and G3 Prix Fille de l’Air in her last two appearances.