Japanese Sires Looking to Make European Impact
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SATURDAY, 6 JANUARY, 2018 offspring including the globe-trotting Group 2 winners Noble JAPANESE SIRES LOOKING Protector (GB) and Junoob (GB), while the ill-fated dual Grade 1-winning hurdler Countrywide Flame (GB) and Gigginstown TO MAKE EUROPEAN Stud=s Cheltenham Festival winner Carlito Brigante attest to his versatility. It is also worth noting that Haafhd is the broodmare IMPACT sire of Group 1 winners Quiet Reflection (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) and Ventura Storm (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}). Passing Glance (GB) (Polar Falcon), formerly the pride of Emma Balding=s Kingsclere Stud and who provided her son Andrew and Pearl Bloodstock with the classy international campaigner Side Glance (GB), is also now in residence at Batsford, along with Sixties Icon=s half-brother Native Ruler (GB) (Cape Cross {Ire}), a son of Lordship Stud=s Oaks winner Love Divine (GB) (Diesis {GB})). All four heads of the stallions mentioned are out over their doors and looking on with interest as an exotic newcomer to their gang is paraded for visitors. Cont. p2 Danon Ballade is the first son of Deep Impact to stand in Britain Emma Berry By Emma Berry Despite the gloomy midwinter depths of January there=s much to enjoy about a trip to Batsford Stud just outside Moreton-in-Marsh in the heart of England=s Cotswolds. Even the honeyed stone of the attractive market town on the approach to the estate doesn=t prepare you for the splendour of the stud itself, built almost 150 years ago as the stable block of Batsford Park, once the country residence of the Mitford family. For the last 17 years, the stud has been home to Alan and Anna Varey Deep Impact | Kelsey Riley and their son Tim, who between them manage a small stallion roster as well as catering for the usual needs of a number of breeder-clients. Arguably the most famous resident of the beautiful arched IN TDN AMERICA TODAY stallion yard is Sheikh Hamdan=s 1994 Derby winner Erhaab ECLIPSE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED (Chief=s Crown), now 27, and living in luxurious retirement in his Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}), Arrogate (Unbridled’s Song) and adopted home in Gloucestershire for the last four years. Among World Approval (Northern Afleet) were the top three vote- his stablemates is a fellow Shadwell-bred Classic winner Haafhd getters for the American Horse of the Year award. Click or tap (GB) (Alhaarth {Ire}), who has proved to be a useful sire, his Flat here to go straight to TDN America. DUBAI WORLD CUP 2018 The Dubai World Cup headlines a programme worth US$30 million, FREE NOMINATIONS making it the world’s richest raceday CLOSE THURSDAY JANUARY 11, 2018 and an event you don’t want to miss. 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Over the years, European breeders have dabbled with the Sunday Silence line with varying degrees of success. His sons to have stood in Britain and France include Vita Rosa (JPN), Layman, Great Journey (Jpn) and Divine Light (Jpn), the latter siring the G1 1,000 Guineas winner Natagora (Fr) before moving to Turkey. Major breeders able to ship mares to Japan have tapped into Sunday Silence=s most prolific son, the six-time champion sire Deep Impact, with notable results. The G1 Poule d=Essai des Pouliches victrix Beauty Parlour (GB) was a result of the Wildenstein family dispatching the well-bred Listed winner Bastet (Ire) (Giant=s Causeway) to Shadai Stallion Station, where Deep Impact=s other visitors from overseas have included Coolmore=s Peeping Fawn (Danehill), the dam of September (Ire), and Maybe (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who has produced another European Classic contender for Deep Impact in 2018 in her G1 Racing Post Trophy winner Saxon Warrior (Jpn). Almost seven years ago, the European juvenile scene was lit up by a statuesque colt by Sunday Silence=s former Gainesway-based son, the Japanese champion miler Hat Trick (Jpn). Named Dabirsim (Fr), he propelled Christophe Ferland, The Deep Impact connection aside, both horses have plenty to then a relatively unknown trainer in the French provinces, to the recommend them at stud as they each trace back to Ballade big time, and impressed enough breeders by winning the (Herbager), whose sons Saint Ballado and Devil=s BagBboth, like G1 Darley Prix Morny and G1 Prix Jan-Luc Lagardere to ensure Sunday Silence, sons of HaloBhad successful careers in America, that he was the busiest new stallion in Germany in 2014. while their full-sister Glorious Song produced the high-class duo Dabirism continued to make headlines last year once his first of Singspiel (Ire) (In The Wings {Ire}) and Rahy (Blushing Groom runners started to appear on {Fr}), while another of her sons, racecourses, and he was the Rakeen (Northern Dancer), leading first-season sire in ended up at stud in South France, where he now stands, Africa. following his move from Gestut Danon Ballade is a grandson Karlshof to Haras de of yet another full-sibling to the Grandcamp in 2016. above-mentioned trio in the Eric L=hermite=s unraced Angelic Song, whose Normandy-based stallion farm daughter Lady Ballade (Ire) also broke new ground in 2017 (Unbridled) was bred by the when increasing its Sunday Coolmore-affiliated Orpendale Silence grandsons to two and and sold to Japan, where she standing the first son of Deep won five races and has thus far Impact in France, the dual The impressive Batsford Stud | Emma Berry produced 13 foals for KI Farm. Grade 3 winner Martinborough Lady Ballade=s half-brother, the (Jpn). That year, two sons of Deep Impact came to Europe, the GI Hollywood Turf Cup winner and former Aidan O=Brien-trained second being Martinborough=s relation, Danon Ballade, who, Sligo Bay (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells), still stands at Adena Springs= having stood two seasons in Japan, was recruited to stand at Canadian division at the age of 20, having originally retired to Allevamento SAB a Besnate in Italy. stud in Kentucky. Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 6 JANUARY, 2018 Japanese Sires cont. The 10-year-old Danon Ballade, winner of the G3 Hai Nisai S. at two and later third in the G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese 2,000 Guineas) won by Orfevre (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}), added Nakayama=s G2 American Jockey Club Cup to his CV before splitting Gold Ship (Jpn) (Stay Gold {Jpn}) and Gentildonna (Jpn) (Deep Impact Jpn}) in the G1 Takarazuka Kinen. Now owned by Turkish Bloodstock, he has 25 registered foals in his first Japanese crop, which are now 2-year-olds, and another five were born in 2017, the year he stood his first season in Italy, Vice President, International Operations where he covered 61 mares. Gary King AHe=s only recently joined us but he has settled in really well Twitter: @garykingTDN and we=ve already had interest in him,@ says Alan Varey. AWe=ll [email protected] be watching his Japanese runners with interest this year and his + 1.732.320.0975 owners will continue to support him. They will be sending 20 International Editor mares to Danon Ballade at Batsford, mostly arriving from Kelsey Riley France.@ Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Martinborough, who covered 71 mares in France last season, [email protected] is yet another generation removed in the Ballade family. The 9-year-old is out of Halwa Song, an unraced Nureyev daughter of European Editor Rahy=s sister Morn Of Song, the dam of G1 Prix Vermeille winner Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry Mezzo Soprano (GB) (Darshaan {GB}). Halwa Song has [email protected] established her own significant branch of the family in Japan, as the dam of Martinborough, his fellow Grade 3-winning brother Associate International Editor Frere Jacques (Jpn) and the five-time winner Halwa Sweet (Jpn) Heather Anderson (Machiavellian), whose own trysts with Deep Impact have Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN resulted in the Grade 1 winning-fillies Verxina (Jpn) and Vivlos (Jpn), winner of the G1 Dubai Turf at Meydan last year. To give Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen the family even more currency, Halwa Sweet=s most recent Twitter: @AlaynaCullen triumph as a broodmare is the G1 Japan Cup victory of her son [email protected] Cheval Grand (JPN) (Heart=s Cry {Jpn}). Cont. p4 Contributing Editor Alan Carasso Twitter: @EquinealTDN Cafe Racing Sean Cronin Tom Frary [email protected] Irish Correspondent Daithi Harvey Regular Columnists Andrew Caulfield John Berry Kevin Blake Tom Peacock Martinborough | Haras de Grandcamp TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 6 JANUARY, 2018 Japanese Sires cont.