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TUESDAY, 9 MARCH 2021 JOHN AND THADY GOSDEN TO SHARE LICENCE FRANKEL=S DAM KIND DIES Champion trainer John Gosden will train with his son Thady AFTER FOALING under a shared licence as soon as the younger Gosden=s papers are approved by the British Horseracing Authority. Thady completed his training modules at the British Racing school and the duo=s joint tenure is set to begin at Clarehaven this season. The news was confirmed to the Racing Post and was suggested on the TDN Writers= Room podcast on Feb 23. AI=m lucky I have a son, Thaddeus who=s very interested,@ Gosden, who will be 70 this month, said on the podcast. AI have a great team working around me. I=m just very keen over the next two or three years to see the baton passed over, if you like. We=re allowed now in this country to train two people on a licence like they do in Australia...Then hopefully by the time two or three years down the road, they simply won=t need me around anymore.@ Kind and her 2021 colt by Kingman | Juddmonte IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Kind (Ire) (DanehillBRainbow Lake {GB}, by Rainbow Quest), THE TDN DERBY TOP 12 FOR MAR. 9 the dam of the undefeated champion Frankel (GB) (Galileo T. D. Thornton’s TDN Derby Top 12 for Mar. 9 is on tap for {Ire}), passed away from foaling complications on Monday, Tuesday’s paper. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Juddmonte announced. Also the dam of fellow Group 1 winner America. Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), the second generation Juddmonte homebred and listed winner was 20. Her final foal, a colt by Kingman (GB), was foaled on Mar. 2. Stud Director UK Simon Mockridge commented, AI cannot thank the Rossdales and Juddmonte team enough for the tireless care they have given Kind. To many she will rightfully always be best remembered as the dam of Frankel and Noble Mission, to us at Juddmonte she will always be Kind by name and Kind by nature.@ Foaled Apr. 21, 2001, Kind was sent to the yard of Roger Charlton and won a brace of listed races during three seasons on the racecourse. Her best showing was a third in the G3 Ballyogan S. in 2005 and she was retired with a mark of 13-6-0-4 and $132,320 in earnings. However, it was as a broodmare that she truly flourished. Overall, she produced eight foals, six runners and five winners. Bullet Train (GB) (Sadler=s Wells), a winner of the G3 Derby Trial, was Kind=s first foal. She visited the court of Galileo (Ire) in 2007 and her best performer, the outstanding European Horse of the Year Frankel was the result. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 9 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 09 MARCH 2021 Kind Dies at 20 Cont. from p1 Besides that G1 2000 Guineas hero, Kind also produced three- time Group 1 winner Noble Mission (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and the multiple stakes winner and dual group-placed Joyeuse (GB). The latter is already the dam of the G1 Coronation S. third Jubiloso (GB) (Shamardal) and the MSP Jovial (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}). Her 3- year-old Galileo filly is named Chiasma (Ire) and is in training with John Gosden. Kind=s name is also on the IFHA=s International List of Protected Names. Barring her latest foal, the other five colts out of Kind have all found their way to stallion barns, with Frankel showing the way at Banstead Manor Stud for Juddmonte with great success. Bullet Train stands at Woodfield Farm Stud and Proconsul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) is at Annshoon Stud, both in Ireland. Noble Mission, after spending several seasons at Lane=s End Farm in Kentucky, is standing his first season in Japan, while the winning Morpheus (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) is at Haras de Toury in France. Kind=s second dam, the group-placed Rockfest (Stage Door Johnny), joined the Juddmonte broodmare band as a private purchase out of the John >Jock= Hay Whitney dispersal and subsequently threw the G3 Lancashire Oaks heroine Rainbow Lake (GB) to the cover of Rainbow Quest. In addition to Kind, Rainbow Lake foaled Irish champion and GI Arlington Million scorer Powerscourt (GB) (Sadler=s Wells), three-time Group 2 winner Riposte (GB) (Dansili {GB}) and Group 3 winner Last Train (GB) (Rail Link {GB}), second in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris. MOURNING A KIND OF IMMORTALITY by Chris McGrath Thanks to advances in obstetrics, our own species is blessed to no longer confront quite so frequently the awful paradox that routinely confronted our ancestors: the death of a mother, as the cost of new life. And, of course, even a Thoroughbred as precious and cherished as Kind (Ire) (Danehill) is ultimately always livestock, prone to the kind of mishaps that tend to school the stockman in understatement whether facing triumph or disaster. But the consolation that we can seek, on their behalf, is the same: legacy. Undoubtedly there will have been Victorian scientists who owed their own existence to the loss of a mother. But sometimes that cruel trade-off might be redressed by another: having survived, the infant could be raised to contribute to the sum of human knowledge; could even improve our understanding of why these things happen, and how to make them happen less often. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 09 MARCH 2021 Mourning a Kind of Immortality Cont. from p1 A similar calculation applies to our quest for greatness in Thoroughbreds. We know that these animals are fragile, that their very existenceCbeing predicated on exercise, competition and breedingCwill inevitably expose them to a degree of risk. But we also know that we can proceed with a clear conscience, when our management of the breed can yield a champion as Senior Vice President Gary King glorious as Frankel (GB). So while there will doubtless be grief Twitter: @garykingTDN among those who have tended this venerable mare for many [email protected] years, they must console themselves that her service to the + 1.732.320.0975 breed amply redeems the relatively marginal risk it entailed. That comfort, moreover, will be shared by all those who lavish International Editor no less careCin all weathers, 365 days a yearCon Kelsey Riley Thoroughbreds that contribute nothing to the breed, other than Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN a hint as to the kind of breeding formula to avoid in future. [email protected] Because all these endeavours share the same purpose; and we European Editor all need the example of a freak like Frankel to make sense of the Emma Berry collective enterprise. Twitter: @collingsberry Many of us will have shared the same immediate reaction, on [email protected] hearing that Kind had succumbed to complications arising from the delivery of a Kingman (GB) colt last week: how poignant, Associate International Editor that one of the pillars of this extraordinary breeding empire Heather Anderson should have crumbled so soon after the loss of its founder. And Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN not only how poignant but also, on some inexpressible level, Marketing Manager how apt. But you can be sure that Prince Khalid Abdullah himself Alayna Cullen would be anxious to share the credit, for Kind, with those who Twitter: @AlaynaCullen had cultivated her family with the same far-sighted principles [email protected] that characterised his own intervention. The Prince welcomed his first homebred winner in 1982, a Contributing Editors thrill that sustained a period of around 15 years during Alan Carasso whichCwith the particular assistance of James DelahookeChe Christina Bossinakis targeted well-bred, well-shaped females from various sources: Cafe Racing at auction, both as yearlings and broodmares; in private deals Sean Cronin with other breeders; and absorbing such carefully curated herds Tom Frary as came with Belair Farm and Ferrans Stud. Cont. p4 [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele Kind | Juddmonte TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • 09 MARCH 2021 Mourning a Kind of Immortality Cont. enough in Frankel's pedigree to be credited with some role in Then, in 1983, came the mares kept by John Hay >Jock' the hard-running style we often see in his stock. He's a Whitney at Mount Coote Stud in Ireland. These famously tremendously wholesome influence, for sure: his sire Prince included Rockfest, the granddam of Kind. But the line had John was by Princequillo and proved a particularly effective passed relatively briefly through Whitney's hands, Jeremy Tree broodmare sire; and his dam was by Ballymoss (GB), that deep having bought him Rockfest's dam Rock Garden as a yearling in well of stamina. 1971. (Tree had meanwhile become The Prince's first trainer Rock Garden was a fairly mediocre producer, Rockfest proving and was instrumental in securing the Whitney herd.) Kind's the most distinguished of her foals as runner-up in the G3 family had much deeper roots in the Oxfordshire stud of Lady Lingfield Oaks Trial. In turn, Rockfest produced her only really Wyfold, whose father-in-law had bought a pregnant mare at a worthwhile dividend as a broodmare in Rainbow Lake (GB). dispersal sale in Berkshire, in the last weeks of peace before Being by a staying influence as thorough as Rainbow Quest (GB), World War I. The filly she delivered in the spring of 1915 was the unsurprisingly Rainbow Lake's keynote performance came with first in a chain of half a dozen Sarsden graduates extending to an emphasis on stamina, winning the G3 Lancashire Oaks by Rock Garden.

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