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SATURDAY, 12 JUNE 2021 SERPENTINE SUPPLEMENTED TO GOLD CUP LORD GRIMTHORPE: Last year=s G1 Derby winner Serpentine (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) has WITNESSING GREATNESS been supplemented at a cost of ,30,000 to next week=s G1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. FROM WITHIN Serpentine has been beaten in three starts since his 25-1 upset in the blue riband last July, including a last-out seventh in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh on May 23, and he goes a full mile further in the Gold Cup than he has gone in his seven- race career to date. Serpentine=s trainer Aidan O=Brien also has last year=s Derby third Amhrann Na Bhfiann (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and last year=s G1 Irish Derby and G2 Queen=s Vase winner Santiago (Ire) (Authorized {Ire}) engaged in the Gold Cup, and chief among their rivals will be Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who looks to become just the second four-time Gold Cup winner, joining the Aidan O=Brien-trained Yeats (Ire) (Sadler=s Wells); and Subjectivist (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), the winner of his last two starts including the G2 Dubai Gold Cup on Mar. 27. Trainer John Gosden issued an update on the 7-year-old Stradivarius on Thursday, saying, AThis boy is very vociferous and an absolute riot to be around. He has always been very entertaining and has a great personality.@ Cont. p6 Click for a video interview with Lord Grimthorpe on his tenure as Juddmonte Racing Manager | Tattersalls By Emma Berry Following a year in the racing world when all has changed, if not utterly, then significantly, a further adjustment to the norm is brought about by the departure of Lord Grimthorpe as Juddmonte's racing manager. Royal Ascot 2021 will mark the end of a 22-year stint in the role which has seen him closely allied to some of the greatest names in the sport's modern history as the public face of the operation which is as admired as much as it is successful. That Serpentine | Scoop Dyga admiration extends to Grimthorpe himself, better and more informally known as Teddy. He was Teddy Beckett when he was IN TDN AMERICA TODAY first appointed to his role by Prince Khalid Abdullah in 1998, and he later succeeded his father as the 5th Baron Grimthorpe in THIS SIDE UP: WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH 2003. Chris McGrath reflects on the American 3-year-old scene as Cont. p2 Mandaloun, second across the wire in the Kentucky Derby, returns. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 12 JUNE 2021 Lord Grimthorpe: Witnessing Greatness From Within in Virginia, as well as completion of the National Stud course, cont. from p1 gave way to another decent term of 22 years with the British Racing was in the blood of this Yorkshireman. His grandfather Bloodstock Agency (BBA) before Grant Pritchard-Gordon's owned the 1947 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Fortina (Fr), while imminent departure from Juddmonte presented an opportunity his father brought him closer to to relish. the sphere which would come to He continues, "I went to meet dominate these past two the Prince in the middle Sunday decades of his working life as the of the December sales. I didn't breeder of Mrs McArdy (GB), know if he was interviewing lots winner of the 1000 Guineas in of other people. But anyway, he 1977. welcomed me into his office and Twenty-two years later that said, 'I'm just here to welcome same race would provide the you to the club'. So I thought first Classic winner overseen by that was a pretty good job Grimthorpe for Juddmonte when interview, really, but it was the Henry Cecil-trained Wince typical of Prince Khalid. Of (GB) (Selkirk) triumphed in the course he had done a little bit of season that both Guineas were research on me, or I imagine he run on Newmarket's July Course. had." Lord Grimthorpe | Tattersalls "I was brought up in a sort of When his impending departure fairly horsey fashion. I rode out--I don't think he would call it was first announced in April, Grimthorpe recalled with some that--but I did ride out for Jimmy FitzGerald, I think when I was amusement in a TV interview the time he was asked by a still at school," Grimthorpe recalls with typical modesty. racegoer if his job was merely to collect cups. Pleasingly, there Stints at Lindsay Park Stud in South Australia and Nydrie Stud have been many trophies to gather during Juddmonte's 40 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 12 JUNE 2021 Lord Grimthorpe cont. years, but Grimthorpe's responsibilities have naturally run far deeper. After all, this is an operation where no detail is overlooked--from planning a mating, through to conception, foaling, nurturing, training, racing, and often back to stud. An in-depth knowledge of the Juddmonte families is a pre-requisite, and an understanding of the traits and foibles associated with Senior Vice President Gary King certain bloodlines essential when helping in the decision-making Twitter: @garykingTDN of assigning horses to trainers. [email protected] "Of course, the racing is the end product and a vital one," he + 1.732.320.0975 says. "I think from an enjoyment point of view [what I have enjoyed most] is the development. It's knowing the stallions, International Editor knowing the mares--generations of mares. I mean when Lucid Kelsey Riley Dreamer (GB) won her maiden, she was a sixth generation Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Juddmonte-bred. [email protected] European Editor Emma Berry Twitter: @collingsberry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen Twitter: @AlaynaCullen [email protected] Contributing Editors Alan Carasso Christina Bossinakis Prince Khalid Abdullah | Horsephotos Cafe Racing Sean Cronin ASo those sorts of things--knowing the families, and growing up Tom Frary with the families, and seeing what they produce and what sort [email protected] of horses, and what sort of temperaments, what sort of types. They then would go to France and Ireland to be broken in there. Irish Correspondent You just sort of saw them on a regular basis throughout summer Daithi Harvey and autumn, to see how they develop and then really you're in a good position to advise, in my case, Prince Khalid and, of course, Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake latterly the family where they might be best suited. That was a Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele decision on the whole that Prince Khalid always took. He took a huge amount of trouble in trying to allocate his horses to where he wanted them to go. So it was my job to give him the background and the facts to help him make these decisions." As important as knowing the bloodstock was forming good relationships with trainers, and in Grimthorpe's tenure he has worked with some of the legendary names in world racing. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 13 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • 12 JUNE 2021 Lord Grimthorpe cont. length clear practically. So it was always frustrating. Prince And as the eighth anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Cecil Khalid said, 'We're going to treat him like a Group 1 winner', so has passed this week, he is remembered still with fondness and he came back to the stud." admiration. He adds, "I went through a barren period when I started the "Henry was not what I'd call a 'stand by your beds' man," job. We had no winners at all. Wince, when she won the Fred Grimthorpe says. "But he slightly pretended to be a bit more Darling, was the first winner in England that I'd managed. She of informal than he actually was. Originally [head lad] Paddy course went on to win a Classic. Rudkin told me that they thought that he was sort of "I always loved Twice Over (GB) because he was such a gent. daydreaming around the yard. Actually they soon realised that He was the most mild-mannered, honest, straightforward, he wasn't daydreaming, he was just taking in all the rhythms. He wonderful horse. He really was. And of course, Famous Name had an extraordinary eye." (GB), that Dermot [Weld] trained, won 21 Pattern races." He continues, "So he was very different to John Gosden, who He reflects on 2003 as a particularly special year for the is utterly brilliant. Andre [Fabre], his CV is second to none. On organisation worldwide. the American side, Bobby "Prince Khalid had Nebraska Frankel, he was a unique man Tornado, who won the Prix De and had a great depth of thought Diane, Oasis Dream (GB), who about the game, and how it was was a champion sprinter, and run and what the horses wanted. [Belmont S. winner] Empire He had quite a gruff outside, but Maker, all in three different he had a very soft inside, Bobby. jurisdictions, almost outstanding "Prince Khalid chose his horses of their particular trainers very, very carefully. generation. So that was Really it was slotting the right exciting," he says. "Then there's horses to the right person. I think the likes of Midday (GB) winning good horses on the whole are a Breeders' Cup and Kingman going to be good horses with (GB)--we still can't work out how good trainers. I think if you get to he got beaten in the 2000 the likes of Frankel, it's hard to Guineas.