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The Harry Fry-trained Bitofapuzzle (Tamure) and Alan Today’s Headlines King’s The Pirate’s Queen (King’s Theatre), third and fourth respectively behind Glens Melody (King’s Theatre) RACING NEWS in the Gr.1 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle at the , head the entries for the €100,000 race and they could be joined by Desert Queen (Desert CHELTENHAM WINNERS King), another trained by Fry, and the more experienced Rons Dream (Kayf Tara), who is in the care of Peter HEAD FOR PUNCHESTOWN Bowen. Vautour (Robin Des Champs) and Don Poli (Poliglote), is well represented and has five in the two of Willie Mullins’ eight winners at last week’s race, headed by Morning Run (King’s Theatre), winner of Cheltenham Festival, head a strong entry for the inaugural the Gr.3 Solerina Hurdle at Fairyhouse in January running of the Gr.1 Ryanair Gold Cup at Fairyhouse on and who is unbeaten in six starts, along with Uranna Easter Sunday, 5th April. (Panoramic), winner of a Listed contest at Sandown Park A total of 29 entries, an increase of twelve on last year, last month, and Whiteout (Samum), a good winner on her have been made for the €100,000 contest and Willie debut at Gowran Park four weeks ago. Mullins is responsible for nine of those. Along with the Gr.1 GLEN’S MELODY RETIRED Golden Miller Novices’ Chase winner Vautour and the Gr.1 RSA Chase winner, the champion trainer has also entered Willie Mullins has announced that last week’s Cheltenham the unbeaten chasers Vroum Vroum Mag (Voix Du Nord) Gr.1 winner Glen’s Melody has been retired and has been and Gitane Du Berlais (Balko). pencilled in for a visit to Shantou at Burgage Stud. Other contenders are the Gordon Elliott-trained Clarcam (Califet), Colm Murphy’s recent Naas winner Empire Of Dirt (Westerner), the Stuart Crawford-trained Fine Rightly (Alflora) and Duke Of Navan (Presenting), trained by Nicky Richards. Appears on pages 9-10 The third running of the Gr.1 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle, won last year by Adriana Des Mottes (Network) and by Annie Power (Shirocco) in Japanese Review click HERE 2013, has attracted 19 entries, including four from the UK. ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL SPONSORED COMPETITION TO WIN A BIG BAD BOB NOMINATION

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The daughter of King’s Theatre was kept in training for had been placed in her two previous starts at Fontwell and a further season by her owner-breeder Fiona McStay Newbury last month and made all the running. especially to aim at the (OLBG) David Nicholson Mares’ A homebred of Bluehills Racing Limited, she is a half- Hurdle at The Festival, and she duly went one better than sister to the Gr.3 Hillsborough Stakes winner and Gr.1 last year, courtesy of the last-flight fall of stablemate Nassau Stakes runner-up Cassydora (Darshaan; dam of Annie Power. The seven-year-old retires with a record of the triple Gr.3 scorer Ernest Hemingway), the Listed twelve wins, which also include the 2013 Gr.1 Mares Hoppings Stakes winner Classic Remark (Dr Fong) and Hurdle at Punchestown and four Listed races, and six the Listed-placed Clarietta (Shamardal), out of the Gr.2 places from her 21 outings. (then) Premio Lydia Tesio winner Claxon (Caerleon). Her dam, Glens Music, was a Gr.2 winner over fences at Naas in the spring of 2003 and was bought by Moygannon Industry News Stud for €74,000 at that November’s Tattersalls Ireland Sale, having been covered by Presenting. That first foal she produced for Fiona McStay, though sold as a foal, was BRITAIN the Gr.2-placed hurdler and chaser Quietly Fancied, while her subsequent foals also include the Listed-winning PARAMETERS SHIFT FOR hurdler Ceol Rua (Bob Back) and last month’s Naas Gr.2 winner Lean Araig (Old Vic). JOCKEYS CHAMPIONSHIPS The official Championships for Flat jockeys and owners BRITAIN will have their start and end dates changed for the upcoming season. Traditionally both began at Doncaster’s Lincoln meeting and ended at Doncaster’s November ENTRIES CLOSE FOR Handicap meeting. However, this year, it will start at ALL-WEATHER CHAMPIONSHIPS Newmarket’s Guineas Festival (Saturday, 2nd May) and end on British Champions Day at Ascot (Saturday, 17th Entries for the seven Championship races on the £1.1- October). The Champion Trainer award will not be million All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield redefined and will be awarded to the trainer with the most Park on Good Friday, 3rd April, will close today. prize money (turf and all-weather) between Sunday, 9th To qualify, horses can either have won a ‘Fast Track November 2014 and Saturday, 7th November 2015. Qualifier’, of which there were 28, or have run a minimum Current Champion Jockey, Richard Hughes has of three times at either of Britain’s five all-weather tracks: welcomed the changes to the Jockeys’ Championships Chelmsford, Kempton Park, Lingfield Park, Southwell or and declared his intention to defend his title, in what will Wolverhampton. be his final season riding. One of the runs alternatively could have been at Meydan He said: “This is good progress and I will be all out to on the dirt surface, or at Dundalk in Ireland, or either of the win a fourth successive Championship this year under the all-weather tracks at Cagnes-Sur-Mer, Chantilly or new format before I retire. Anything which helps to raise Deauville. Entries will be revealed at noon on Wednesday. the profile of the sport and is of benefit for the Weighing SEA PRIDE Room is something that I’m all for. Over the last 30 years, the number of racedays has almost doubled and the sheer A FIRST FOR PRESCOTT volume of racing has meant that the title battle is a real Sir Mark Prescott landed his first National Hunt victory grind. It took me 20 years to win my first Championship yesterday at Southwell when the four-year-old Sea Pride and I am certainly in no mood to give up my title now! That landed the conditional and amateur mares’ National Hunt it now covers the core summer racing season means that flat race by eleven lengths. The daughter of Sea The Stars it will be less of a slog for the lads in the weighing room.” 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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The beautiful filly, bon on 31st January and photographed last Friday at Lanwades Stud, is by the Irish National Stud’s Worthadd, out of the Lanwades Stud mare Albacocca (With Approval), whose grandam is Miss Rausing’s foundation mare Alruccaba (Crystal Palace).

There is to be £100,000 of prize money for the Jockeys’ Championships funded by both Great British Racing (GBR) and British Champions Series and is to be distributed as follows: G Champion Jockey £25,000* G Runner-Up £10,000* G Champion Apprentice £5,000* G Leading Jockey £15,000 (most wins through calendar year) G All-Weather Championship £10,000 G PJA Welfare Scheme £25,000** G Jockey of the Month £2,000 (in associtation with Channel 4) * GB turf and all-weather wins between 2nd May and 17th October 2015 ** available to fund a special welfare project which will benefit all PJA members, details of which will be announced at a later date.

IRELAND      TATTERSALLS EXTENDS   SPONSORSHIP OF IRISH CLASSICS       It was announced yesterday by the Curragh racecourse     that Tattersalls have extended their support at the County Kildare venue. The sales company is to sponsor the Gr.1       Irish 1,000 Guineas, Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup until 2017. The latter race will also see an increase of €40,000, bringing the total prize money to €250,000. The three races will take place over the  weekend of Saturday, 23rd and Sunday, 24th May. Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said: “The   Tattersalls Irish Guineas Festival promises to be one of the highlights of the European racing calendar. To sponsor two Classics and one of Europe’s premier ten furlong races  ! over two days demonstrates the Tattersalls commitment to Irish racing and reflects the support we receive at our sales from all sectors of the Irish racing and breeding industry.” !

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MAGIC MILLIONS GOLD COAST MARCH YE ARLING SALE – DAY ONE Lot Sex Sire – Dam Vendor Purchaser Price (A$) 153 c REAL SAGA – Classic Covet Glenlogan Park Australasian 110,000 142 c SEQUALO – Bye Bye Diamonds Lyndhurst Stud Farm Grandview 90,000 95 c I AM INVINCILBE – Zebithea JD Thoroughbreds Belmont B’stock Agency (FBAA) 80,000 165 c WRITTEN TYCOON – Courtship Kilto Park T’breds J, D & C Meagher Racing 75,000 185 f JET SPUR – Dubai Gal Glenlogan Park Trevor Bailey 70,000 123 f SEQUALO – Avenel Lyndhurst Stud Farm Darby Racing 70,000 103 c HENRYTHENAVIGATOR– Admiral’s Affair River Junction Tony Gollan Racing 70,000 63 c ZOFFANY – Tequilakoko Adour Stud Ontrack Thoroughbreds 70,000

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Grandview for A$90,000. He is the third living foal of the Sales Talk winner Bye Bye Diamonds (Regal Classic), who is a full- sister to the Gr.3 Zimbabwe Derby runner-up Mozzman MAGIC MILLIONS Park and a half-sister to the Listed winner Direct Sign (Zoffany). Belmont Bloodstock Agency secured Lot 95 for A$80,000. The JD Thoroughbreds-consigned son of I Am EBN Sales Talk Click here to Invincible is out of the triple winner Zebithea (Barathea), is brought to contact IRT, or whose six foals are all winners. you by IRT visit www.irt.com The Kilto Park -consigned Lot 165, a son of Written Tycoon out of the Danzero mare Courtship, was sold to J, D & C Meagher Racing for A$75,000. The  SON OF REAL SAGA TOPS dam is a half-sister to the South African Listed-placed Satin OPENING DAY OF MARCH SALE Silver (Commands), from the family of the Gr.3 Princess A new player in the syndication world made their presence Royal Stakes winner Love Everlasting (Pursuit Of Love). felt on day one of the Magic Millions Gold Coast March A$70,000 was the highest price paid for a pair of fillies. Yearling Sale on Monday by securing the top priced lot of Lot 123 went to Darby Racing and was sent through the the day. ring by Lyndhurst Stud. The daughter of Sequalo is a full- There were strong increases across the board with the sister to the Listed winner Caliente, out of the Scenic mare gross soaring 57% on last year’s opening day and the Avenel. average climbing 36%t. The clearance rate also grew from Lot 185, a daughter of Jet Spur, was snapped up by 64% to 75%. Trevor Bailey. She is the first live foal out of the winner Dubai Gal Dubai Destination Australasian Thoroughbreds went to A$110,000 to secure ( ), a half-sister to the Lot 153, the Real Saga half-brother to Siegfried (Jet Champion Australian Three-Year-Old and dual Gr.1 winner Regimental Gal General Nediym Spur) to top the opening days action. Siegfried had added ( ; dam of the Gr.3 winner Lilliburlero to the page, with an impressive win in a handicap on the ). She was consigned by Glenlogan Park. Gold Coast on Saturday. The colt will join the stables of “It’s been a phenomenal start to the March Yearling Sale,” said Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox. “The Siegfried with Australasian Thoroughbreds’ Director Jamie strength of the sale has been the middle market with Bourke confirming Toby Edmonds as the trainer. consistent prices for quality lots all day. “We are a brand new syndication company – in fact our “Racing in Queensland is in a really good space at the website only went live this week,” Bourke said. “We have moment which is reflective in the results. Having said that purchased some lovely horses and this colt is a welcome we are very happy with the out of state participation.” addition to the team.” Bourke said his team of around a dozen horses comprised yearlings and two and three- SHUTTLE SIRE RETURNS (A$) year-olds. The top selling colt, consigned by Glenlogan Park, is the HENRYTHENAVIGATOR seventh living foal of the 100% winner/producer Classic 103 c ex Admiral’s Admire 70,000 Covet, a dual winning daughter of St Covet. She is a half- MYBOYCHARLIE sister to the multiple Listed winner Affirmed Classic 94 f ex Zambra NS14,000 (Affirmed; dam of the dual Gr.3 winner and sire Mystery 137 f ex Book Lover 24,000 Storm). The second top priced lot was the Lyndhurst Stud Farm- ZOFFANY offered Lot 142, a Sequalo colt who was knocked down to 63 c ex Tequilakoko 70,000

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double his tally to four wins at the highest level aged four, taking the Lockinge Stakes and then the Prix de la Foret. He is set to stand at Arrowfield at a fee of A$19,500 inc GST, and is set to make his first appearance in Australia at the stud’s Stallion Open House in August. STATISTICS (A$) 2015 % 2014 Catalogued 197 200 Racing Round-Up Offered 187 190 Sold 140 (79%) 121 (64%) Aggregate 4,016,000 +57 2,554,000 Average 28,686 +36 21,107 Japanese Click here to contact IRT, or visit www.irt.com Racing Review

  Stallion News  TENDERLY VOICE (Jpn), 3f, Deep Impact – Miss Encore (King Kamehameha) AUSTRALIA O/B: Kaneko Makoto Holdings, T: K Hagiwara Tenderly Voice (Deep Impact) booked her ticket for the OLYMPIC GLORY TO SHUTTLE Gr.1 with a dominating performance on Saturday TO ARROWFIELD FOR 2015 at Nakayama in the Listed Anemone Stakes over 1600 metres. The obvious form choice, despite a high draw, she Arrowfield Stud in Australia has announced that Olympic had a clean outside trip, moving four wide around the last Glory Choisir ( ), who is currently standing his first season turn. Her win was never in doubt, even when the second at Al Shaqab’s Haras de Bouquetot, will join the stud’s choice Meisho Meigetsu found a gap in the last 200 roster for 2015. metres. Tenderly Voice crossed the line three quarters of a Arrowfield Chairman John Messara said, “Olympic Glory length in front of Meisho Meigetsu for a Deep Impact 1-2. is a first class stallion prospect and as such is a major Placed in the Gr.3 Fairy Stakes, Tenderly Voice could be asset for Australian breeders and also a significant first an exposed filly but will head to the Oka Sho with a lively step in Australia’s relationship with H.E. Sheikh Joaan. We each-way claim. She had opened her account landing a look forward to launching Olympic Glory’s southern newcomers’ race over 1600 metres and has been unplaced hemisphere career with a strong book of mares.” once in six starts, in the Gr.3 Artemis Stakes, where she John Warren, an advisor to Al Shaqab, says, “H.E. paid a huge price from an impossible draw of 18. Sheikh Joaan is delighted that Olympic Glory will be Tenderly Voice, a light-framed but solid filly, is the first standing at Arrowfield. John Messara’s team have a foal out of Miss Encore (King Kamehameha), an wealth of experience standing top class stallions and are expensive purchase (¥112 million) by Kaneko Makoto at committed to making Al Shaqab’s first venture into the the 2006 JRHA Select Foal Sale. She won just a maiden on Australian thoroughbred industry a success.” dirt at three but has started her broodmare career well. Olympic Glory won eight of his 15 starts, winning Gr.1 The second dam Broad Appeal (Broad Brush), a contests in each of his three seasons’ racing for Richard $280,000 purchase by Katsumi Yoshida at the 1996 Hannon. At two he landed the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Barretts Breeze-Up Sale, was a versatile sprinter and won Lagadere, while at three he scored in the Gr.1 Queen six Gr.3s (five of them on dirt) and ran second in the Gr.1 Elizabeth II Stakes. He ended 2013 as the world’s co- JBC Sprint. Broad Appeal earned more than ¥504 million highest-rated three-year-old turf miler. He went on to and delivered eight winners.

WORLD’S BEST RACEHORSE RANKINGS RESULTS 10/03/15 – 16/03/15

NAME DATE RACE AND POSITION WR

ABLE FRIEND (Aus) 15/03 1st Gr1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup 124 GOLD-FUN (Ire) ex Strada Colorato 15/03 3rd Gr1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup 119

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Albert Dock (Deep Impact) recorded his first triumph STAR PERFORMER OF THE WEEK against winners in the Yukinagi Sho, a well contested conditions race over 2400 metres on Saturday at Hanshin. QUEENS RING (Jpn), 3f, The progressive colt, who opened his account on his third Manhattan Cafe – Aqua Ring (Anabaa) start in November at Kyoto, was a brave second in the O: Tetsuya Yoshida, B: Shadai Farm, Cyclamen Sho at Hanshin behind the Group-placed Porte T: K Yoshimura D’Auteuil (Deep Impact). He came back from a 97-day lay-off and was all business. Jockey Kota Fujioka was not The Gr.2 Hochi Hai Fillies’ Revue is labelled as Gr.1 hurried and asked the colt to move entering the home 1,000 Guineas Trial but the last winner to double up in straight. He outstayed Cryptogram (King Kamehameha) the Classic was Rhein Raft (End Sweep) in 2005. to win by three quarters of a length. Since then I’m Yours (Falbrav), who landed the prep He is the second foal and first winner out of Golden Doc race in 2012, was the only Revue winner to finish in A (Unusual Heat). Trained by the colourful Barry Abrams, the first three in the Oka Sho. Queens Ring like the large majority of the offspring by the Californian (Manhattan Cafe) will try to reverse this unlucky leading sire Unusual Heat (Nureyev), Golden Doc A streak in four weeks’ time following a solid win in topped her career winning the Gr.1 Las Virgenes Stakes Hanshin’s trial. Mirco Demuro dropped the favourite and ran second in the Gr.1 Santa Anita Oaks. She is out of to the back of the pack, while Wish Happiness (Gold the New Zealand-bred Penpont (Crested Wave), who Allure) set a sizzling pace (58.4 the first 1000 metres). won once in Southern California but turned into a very The Italian jockey moved wide outside around the last good broodmare. She delivered seven winners, all by turn and Queens Ring ran on strongly to score by Unusual Heat, topped by Unusual Suspect, who won the three quarters of a lengths from Perfica (Zenno Rob Gr.1 Hollywood Turf Cup over 2400 metres and the Gr.3 Roy), while Moon Express (Admire Moon) stayed on Hollywood Turf Express over 1200 metres. The millionaire for third, having pressed the pace. Unusual Suspect, bought at seven by an Australian Queens Ring, who scored on her debut over 1800 metres in late December at Nakayama, recorded a partnership, had two seasons in his new country where he second win four weeks later over 1600 metres at the won the Werribee Cup. same venue, and is unbeaten in three starts. The Golden Doc A has since foaled a two-year-old full- 1400-metre trip was a bit short for her and the extra brother to Albert Dock and a filly, born 24th January, by furlong in the Oka Sho will play to the strengths of the Orfevre. filly, who was 20 kilos lighter than in her previous start. MATENRO HAPPINESS (Jpn), 3c, She is the first foal out of Aqua Ring (Anabaa), who Daiwa Major – Lady Happiness (Montjeu) won on her debut over 1200 metres on dirt but O: C Terada, B: K I Farm, T: M Kon handled just a couple of minor placings in her eight subsequent starts. She is the first Japanese foal out Matenro Happiness (Daiwa Major), who ran second two of Sea Ring (Bering), who was purchased by the weeks ago in the Gr.3 Arlington Cup, looked a penalty kick Yoshidas after her daughter Torrestrella (Orpen) in the Florawalk Sho on Saturday over 1600 metres at landed the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches. Sea Ring Chukyo. He set an honest pace and was three lengths has delivered just two other foals from six matings in clear at the 200-metre pole when Dashing Blaze (Kitten’s Japan, a filly by Heart’s Cry who failed to collect a Joy) and Black Moon (Admire Moon) flashed outside. single yen and Terra Cotta (Agnes Tachyon), the Matenro Happiness was crying out for the finish line, winner of five races in eight starts on the NRA circuit. which came just in time, as he gained his second win by a Aqua Ring has a yearling colt by Victoire Pisa and nose over the US-bred Dashing Blaze, with Black Moon visited Black Tide last season. third by the same margin. Queens Ring’s sire Manhattan Cafe (Sunday Matenro Happiness is the first foal out of Lady Silence) is excellent value in Japan. He has covered Happiness (Montjeu), a disappointing racemare. The a book of 200 or more mares in seven of his twelve second dam Lady Pastel (Tony Bin) won the 2001 Gr.1 seasons and has sired 1,177 horses of racing age, Japanese Oaks and, at the end of her career in 2004, was with 586 winners. His progeny include 19 Group sent to Ireland. She was mated twice to Rock Of winners, topped by Hiruno d’Amour and Red Gibraltar, returning the Group-placed Lord Rock Star Desire. Manhattan Cafe’s fee rocketed to ¥6 million in and the useful Lord Baroque. The mare flew back to 2010 and has been reduced to a reasonable ¥3.5 Japan carring Lady Happiness, who has since produced a million this season – a fair price for a horse who was two-year-old filly by King Kamehameha and a yearling Champion Sire in 2009 and has finished in the top ten filly by Daiwa Major. She visited Heart’s Cry in 2014. each season since 2008. Lady Pastel had four foals of racing age born in Japan, the best of them the Gr.2-placed Lord Acclaim (Deep Miss Encore has produced two fillies after Tenderly Impact). Voice, a two-year-old by Kurofune and a yearling by Deep NEO VACHERIN (Jpn), 3f, Impact. She again visited the Champion sire in 2014. Empire Maker – Pisa No Canyon (Sunday Silence) ALBERT DOCK (Jpn), 3c, O: K Kobayashi, B: Shimokobe Farm, T: N Sugai Deep Impact – Golden Doc A (Usual Heat) The first crop sired in Japan by Empire Maker is doing O: G1 Racing Co Ltd, better and better after a start that was below expectations. B: Shadai Corporation, On Saturday at Hanshin the stallion notched up a hat-trick T: H Matsuda and his number of individual winners is now up to 21. His

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2012 crop included just eleven juvenile winners and that means that in two and a half months he has returned ten new winners. Our choice of the trio is the filly Neo Grad Vacherin, who set the pace and battled gamely to hold the sustained run of Denko Shuku (Meisho Bowler) in a newcomers’ event over 1800 metres. She is a half-sister to the minor Stakes winner Canyon Valley (). 2. Madefromlucky (USA), 3. Bold Conquest (USA) Her dam Pisa No Canyon (Sunday Silence) won a minor Distances: 6¼l, 2½l, 1¼l. 7 ran. Stakes race over 1200 metres and has a yearling filly by

Harbinger and visited Novellist last season. 1 Gr.2 STAKES, Oaklwan Park, 1m ⁄2fD, 4yof&m, Saturday’s other new winners by Empire Maker were the 1st $180,000, 2nd $60,000, 3rd $30,000, Mar 14 fillies Valois (out of Born Tobouggie, a Listed winner for 1. GOLD MEDAL DANCER (USA), 5m, Sir Henry Cecil), who sprinted home in a maiden over 1200 Medaglia D’Oro – Bachata (Kingmambo) metres on dirt, and Namura Anne (out of Irish Peace, a 2nd dam Meadow Vista (Meadowlake) disappointing full-sister to Heart’s Cry) who found her day 3rd dam Parsifal (L’Enjoleur) after a couple of places in a maiden over 1800 metres on O: Pin Oak Stable, B: Pin Oak Stud, turf. T: Donnie Von Hemel 2. (USA), 3. Mufajaah (USA) Stakes Results Distances: ½l, 2½l, 4¼l. 5 ran.

1 Gr.3 RAZORBACK HANDICAP, Oaklwan Park, 1m ⁄2fD, Going Fi y Years 4yo+, 1st $150,000, 2nd $50,000, 3rd $25,000, Mar 14 Places? Flying Horses 1. RACE DAY (USA), 4c, Tapit – Rebalite (More Than Ready) [email protected] ~ www.bba-ireland.ie 2nd dam Printing Press (In Reality) 3rd dam Wealth Of Nations (Key To The Mint) NORTH AMERICA O: Matthew Schera, B: James Miller, T: Gr.2 SANTA ANA STAKES, Santa Anita, 1m1fT, 4yo f&m, $285,000 2014 Keeneland November Sale 1st $120,000, 2nd $40,000, 3rd $24,000, Mar 15 by Ghost Bloodstock, 1. HOOP OF COLOUR (USA), 4f, consigned by WinStar Racing Distorted Humor – Surya (Unbridled) 2. Midnight Hawk (USA), 3. Golden Ticket (USA) 2nd dam Wild Planet (Nureyev) Distances: nk, 7l, ¾l. 6 ran. 3rd dam Ivory Wings (Sir Ivor) O/B: Flaxman Holdings Limited, JAPAN T: Graham Motion 2. THREE HEARTS (USA), 5m, Gr.2 HOCHI HAI FILLIES’ REVENUE, Hanshin, 1400mT, Hat Trick – Secret Heart (Fort Wood) 3yof, 1st ¥50,000,000, 2nd ¥20,000,000, 3rd ¥13,000,000, O/B: Team Valor International, Mar 15 T: Neil Drysdale 1. QUEENS RING (Jpn), 3f, 3. WINNING RHYTHM (USA), 5m, Manhattan Cafe – Aqua Ring (Anabaa) Giant’s Causeway – Relaxing Rhythm () 2nd dam Sea Ring (Bering) O: Stronach Stables, B: Adena Springs, 3rd dam Blue River (Riverman) T: Patrick Gallagher O: Tetsuya Yoshida, B: Shadai Farm, Also ran: Testa Rossi (Fr), Rosalind, Diversy Harbor, T: Keiji Yoshimura Rusty Slipper, Queen Of The Sand (Ire), Lady Of Gold 2. Perfica (Jpn), 3. Moon Express (Jpn) 3 1 1 Non runners: Elektrum (Ire), Indecise Distances: ⁄4l, ⁄2l, ⁄2l. 18 ran. 3 1 1 1 3 Distances: ⁄4l, 1l, ⁄2l, nk, nk, 1 ⁄2l, 1 ⁄4l, 3 ⁄4l

Gr.3 NAKAYAMA HIMBA STAKES, Nakayama, 1800mT,

1 Gr.2 REBEL STAKES, Oaklawn Park, 1m ⁄2fD, 3yo, 4yo+f&m hcap, 1st ¥35,000,000, 2nd ¥14,000,000, 1st $450,000, 2nd $150,000, 3rd $75,000, Mar 14 3rd ¥8,800,000, Mar 15 1. AMERICAN PHAROAH (USA), 3r, 1. BOUNCE SHASSE (Jpn), 4f, Pioneerof The Nile – Littleprincessemma – Rich Dancer (Halling) (Yankee Gentleman) 2nd dam Fairy Flight (Fairy King) 2nd dam Exclusive Rosette (Ecliptical) 3rd dam Rising Tide (Red Alert) 3rd dam Zetta Jet (Tri Jet) O: U Carrot Farm, B: Northern Racing, O/B: Zayat Stables, T: Kazuo Fujisawa T: 2. Ice Follies (Jpn), 3. Power Spot (Jpn) 3 $300,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Yearling Sale Distances: nk, 1l, ⁄4l. 14 ran. by Ingordo Bloodstock,

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FASHION FUND (GB), 4f, Oasis Dream – So Silk (Rainbow Quest) PORTER’S PERFORMER O: Andrew Rosen, B: Fittocks Stud & Arrow Farm Stud, OF THE WEEK T: Claude R McGaughey III LIVING THE LIFE (Ire), 5m, 155,000gns Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 Footstepsinthesand – Colour And Spice by Hugo Merry Bloodstock, (Machiavellian) consigned by Highclere Stud O: HnR Nothhaft , B: Michael Begley, Fashion Fund (Oasis Dream) had three thirds to show T: Gary Mandella from four starts made while racing in England at two. €9,000 Goffs Orby Sale by Simon Christian Switching Stateside, she got off the mark in a Keeneland consigned by Thomastown Castle maiden on her US debut which came last May. Following Living the Life made a bright start to her US career, two thirds in her next three starts, all in allowance taking an allowance/optional claiming event on 7th company, she made an important step forward to earn her August, then adding the Gr.2 Presque Isle Downs first black-type with a fast-finishing second in the Masters Stakes a month later. Last of ten in the Gr.1 Riskaverse Stakes at Saratoga at the end of August. Breeders’ Cup Sprint when trying the dirt on her final Ending her first US campaign in the Gr.3 Pin Oak Valley outing of 2014, she was not seen in action until last View Stakes at Keeneland, she again finished with a will, weekend. Sent of favourite for the six-furlong Camilla missing third by three-quarters of a length. She made her Urso Stakes over Golden Gate’s all-weather surface, first start of 2015 in an allowance/optional claiming event the bay swooped from the rear of the seven-horse over nine furlongs at Gulfstream Park on Sunday and, after field to hit the front in the straight and drew away to running closer to the pace than usual, took command at win by two and a quarter lengths. She had a busy the head of the straight, going on to score by a length and career in England, making 19 starts for seven wins, a quarter. four seconds and two thirds. She is a half-sister to last year’s Gr.2 Park Hill Stakes She is out of Colour And Spice, a three-quarters- winner Silk Sari. The dam So Silk, is a three-quarters- sister to US Stakes winner Step With Style and a sister to French Listed winner Affirmative Action and is a half-sister to the Gr.3-placed Absolute Glee, half-sister to Ibn Khaldun, who took the Gr.1 Racing Post grandam of Kool Kompany, one of the top European Trophy, and to the Stakes-placed Calico Cat and Memory two-year-olds of 2014. Colour And Spice is also a Cloth. The second dam, Gossamer, won the Gr.1 Irish half-sister to On the Razz, dam of Heuston 1,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile, and is a full-sister to (Acclamation), who won the Prairie Bayou Stakes at the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile and Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas Turfway Park last year. The third dam is the speedy winner Barathea. This is the famous Gerald Leigh family Group winner Glancing, also ancestress of stemming from the Gr.1 Prix de la Foret victress Brocade Group/Graded winners Awzaan, Muraaqaba, Media that also produced Free At Last, Coretta, Saamidd, Mogul and Dixie Belle. Seta and Armure.

EMPRESS MAKER (USA), 4f, She is the first winner for Ticker Tape, a mare whose Empire Maker – Ticker Tape (Royal Applause) eight victories included the Gr.1 American Oaks, Gr.1 O: Regis Racing, Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes and Gr.3 Pucker B: Forging Oaks, Up Stakes. Ticker Tape is a half-sister to the Stakes- T: H Graham Motion placed Sant Elana, the dam of Reckless Abandon, the $400,000 2012 Keeneland February Sale joint-top-weighted two-year-old in France in 2012, and by T Hyde, consigned by Eaton Sales top-weighted three-year-old sprinter in Europe in 2013. RNA $350,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale Her second dam is a half-sister to the Gr.1 Racing Post consigned by Eaton Sales Trophy victor Crowded House, Stakes winner On Runner-up to Fashion Fund was Empress Maker, a Reflection, the Stakes-placed Riotous Applause (dam of daughter of the top-class English-bred mare Ticker Tape. Stakes winner Invincible Warrior) and the Stakes-placed The filly had broken her maiden at the fourth time of Forest Crown. She is also a half-sister to Vienna Affair, asking when scoring at Keeneland in October last year, dam of the Gr.2 Lake George Stakes and Gr.3 Appalachian and ended the year with a second and a third in allowance Stakes winner Daring Dancer (by Empress Maker’s sire, company. Fifth on her 2015 debut, she closed from mid- Empire Maker) and of the Stakes winner and Graded- pack to finish two and a half lengths clear of the third. placed Hamp.

9 EBN Tuesday, 17th March 2015 ACROSS THE POND • STAKES RESULTS

€145,000 Arqana August Yearling Sale by Nicolas Clement consigned by Saint Isidro Talco has speing most of his time in the US against some very tough opposition but benefitted from some class relief in a Santa Anita allowance/optional claimer on 12th PINE NEEDLES (USA), 3f, March, when he produced an impressive turn of foot to Giant’s Causeway – Meridiana (Lomitas) score by a very comfortable length and a quarter. He had O/B: Jon & Sarah Kelly, T: Christophe Clement made a promising US debut last year. finishing fast to take A debut winner at Gulfstream Park on New Year’s Day, third, just a neck behind the second, in the Gr.2 Del Mar Pine Needles reappeared in an allowance/optional Derby. The Gr.2 Twilight Derby, on the Breeders’ Cup claiming event at the same venue on Saturday and, after Friday, saw him finish fifth, but beaten just a length and taking charge in the straight, dug in to get the best of a two necks. Facing the Gr.1 Kentucky Derby and Gr.1 three-way photo. Preakness Stakes hero California Chrome – subsequently She is out of the much-travelled German-bred mare, the 2014 Hores Of The Year and Champion Three-Year-Old Meridiana, heroine of the Gr.1 Italian Oaks and the Gr.2 – in the Gr.1 Hollywood Derby, he never looked likely to Orchid Handicap and Gr.3 Bewitch Stakes in the US, as challenge that rival but did finish well for third. He well as a pair of Listed races in native country. Pine completed the year with a troubled fifth, beaten less than Needles is a sister to a smart performer in Center Divide, two lengths, in the Gr.2 Mathis Brothers Miles Stakes. On who was placed in several Stakes events, including when his only other outing, he kicked off 2015 with a second in second in the Gr.1 Man O’ War Stakes. She is also a half- another Santa Anita allowance/optional claimer. Racing in sister to the dual Stakes winner and Graded-placed his native France, Talco had proved a progressive type, Chamois (Smart Strike). Meridiana is a half-sister to taking a maiden at Moulins in April on his third outing Monami, the Champion German Two-Year-Old Filly of before winning a Longchamp allowance on his fifth start. 2011, and is out of the Stakes placed Dashing Blade His only other outing saw him take second in the Listed mare Monbijou, a half-sister to dual Listed winner Maitre Prix de Saint-Patrick at Deauville early in July. Levy. Bred by Sarl Darpat France, Talco is half-brother to the Listed-winning Street Cry filly Limonar. His dam, Trylko, TALCO (Fr), 4c, is a half-sister to the Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas victor Pivotal – Trylko (Diesis) Bachelor Duke and Stakes winner Translucid. The O: Hronis Racing, B: Sarl Darpat France, second dam, Gossamer, is out of Lisaleen, a sister to T: John W Sadler Nureyev, who is the grandsire of Talco’s sire Pivotal.

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ARGENTINA Bloodstock Peace of Gr.2 CLASICO SATURNINO J UNZUE, Insurance - Mind? Hipódromo Argentino de Palermo, 1200m, 2yof, Get Covered 1st AP$200,000, 2nd AP$70,000, 3rd AP$40,000, Mar 14 [email protected] ~ www.bba-ireland.ie 1. STAY CALM (Arg), 2f, Dynamix – Stay Close (Southern Halo) 2nd dam Sostenida (Political Ambition) 2nd dam Shy Puritana (Shy Tom) 3rd dam Souris Grise (General) 3rd dam Pura Toss (Egg Toss) O: Stud Fejiparema, B: Haras Vacación, O: Stud La Biznaga, B: Haras La Biznaga, T: Federico Martucci T: Carlos D Etchechoury 2. WAY OF LIVING (Arg), 2f, 2. SUBTLETY (Arg), 4f, Hurricane Cat – Wonder Glory (Roy) Easing Along – Suffrage (Horse Chestnut) O: Stud La Aguada, B: Haras Vacación, O: Stud Haras Futuro, B: Haras Futuro SRL, T: Germán Feliciani T: Alfredo Gaitán Dassié 3. SALSA BRAVA KEY (Arg), 2f, 3. PURA MAGIA (Arg), 5f, Key Deputy – Pura Salsa Cat (Easing Along) Catcher In The Rye – Sorrel Sings (Sings) O: Stud El Alfalfar, B: Haras El Alfalfar, T: Diego Peña O: Stud El 30, Also ran: Chocoloca, Oldest Dear, Madame Holiday, B: Estación de Montas La Mission and Somers Town, Doña Copada Ricardo Rodríguez Salto, T: Juan S Maldotti Distances: 3l, snk Also ran: Art Emotive, Salvaguardia 1 Distances: 2 ⁄2l, 1l

Gr.2 CLASICO RICARDO EZEQUIEL Y EZEQUIEL M EBN on Twitter FERNÁNDEZ GUERRICO, Hipódromo de San Isidro, 1600m, 3yo+f&m, 1st AP$184,000, 2nd AP$64,400, Follow us 3rd AP$36,800, Mar 15 1. SAND PUCE (Arg), 5f, @bloodstocknews Footstepsinthesand – Forty Purist (Roar)

10 EBN Tuesday, 17th March 2015 NH STAKES RESULT • RACING REVIEW • STALLION ROUND-UP

National Hunt Stakes Result Bloodstock Peace of Insurance - Mind? JAPAN Get Covered [email protected] ~ www.bba-ireland.ie Gr.2 HANSHIN SPRING JUMP, Hanshin, 3900mT, 4yo+, 1st ¥40,000,000, 2nd ¥16,000,000, 3rd ¥10,000,000, Mar 14 Paix (Tur), 3c, ex Miss Lopez (Key Of Luck) 1. SANREI DUKE (Jpn), 7h, Kocaeli, Turkey, Mar 13, mdn, 1200mD, £6,731 Durandal – San Lake Queen (Cozzene) B: C Artam 2nd dam Lake Worth (Cure The Blues) 3rd dam Lake Champlain (Kings Lake) RAVEN’S PASS O/B: Keiji Nagai, T: Yoshitada Takahashi Retire Fifty Five (USA), 4g, ex Sly Butterfly (Pulpit) 2. Sunrise Royal (Jpn), 3. Sombrero (Jpn) Aqueduct, USA, Mar 14, 3yo+ mdn clm, 1mD, $21,000 1 Distances: nse, 1l, 2 ⁄2l. 13 ran. B: Elkstone Group TAGULA Yesterday’s Racing Review Ihtiyar (Tur), 3c, ex Haf (Iron Mask) Istanbul, Turkey, Mar 14, mdn, 1500mAW, £6,731 B: S B Karabagli FRANCE WINNER BY DANISH SIRE 4.10 (GMT) MARS-VIVAUX, 3YO MAIDEN, 2600MAW 1. MIRSANDRO (Fr), 3c, MINGUN Sinndar – Alice Town (Darshaan) Gamblin Jack (USA), 5h, Miss Lady Luck (King Of Kings) 1 O: A Bardini & G Mecili, B: Mrs J Salvat, Hawthorne, USA, Mar 15, 4yo+ clm, 6 ⁄2fD, $5,400 T: Christophe Escuder B: Cindy Olsen & Greg Partain €6,000 Arqana October Yearling Sale by C Escuder SHUTTLE WINNER IN BRAZIL Distances: 1l, 1½l. 10 ran. Mirsandro (Sinndar) stayed on very well to win here. He SULAMANI has three winning half-siblings by Montjeu, Dansili and Mathematics (Brz), 5f, ex Matiara (Payant) Galileo, and they are the only four foals out of the Listed- Hipódromo da Gávea, Mar 15, cond, 1300m, BRL$6,300 placed winner Alice Town (Darshaan). The second dam B: Haras Tango is the Listed Dahlia Stakes victrix Cape Grace (Priolo) who is out of the winning Fabulous Dancer mare Saffron, whose other winners were Roman Gold (Petorius) and the smart Hamas filly Saffron Lane. The fourth dam, Syrona (Salvo), won the Gr.3 (then) Oaks Trial and her eight winners from 11 foals include the French Listed scorer Publicity (Mill Reef), the Listed-placed Honeybun (Kenmare) and the dam of the Gr.1 Prix Morny winner First Waltz. BR OFFICIAL EXCHANGE RATES TO THE £ Stallion Round-Up Argentine Peso (13.19), A$ (1.91), Bahrain Dinar (0.59), Brz Real (4.14), C$ (1.81), Chilean Peso (944.01), Chinese Yuan (9.69), CzK (35.62), DKr (9.59), € (1.29), HK$ (12.08), Hungarian WINNERS BY IRISH SIRES Forint (407.45), Indian Rupee (407.45), ¥ (186.58), Kazakhstan Tenge (284.02), Malaysian Ringgit (5.45), Moroccan Dirham HENRYTHENAVIGATOR (14.14), NZ$ (2.00), NKr (11.61), PZl (5.52), Qatar Riyal (5.67), Renombre (USA), 3c, ex Ladymedaglia D’Oro Russian Ruble (94.27), Saudi Arabian Riyal (5.85), Serbian (Medaglia D’Oro) Dinar (156.29), S$ (2.07), R (18.03), South Korean Won Gulfstream Park, USA, Mar 12, 3yo cond, 7fD, $14,400 (1704.48), SKr (12.17), SwFr (1.55), Tunisian Dinar (2.91), Tur L B: Michael Sucher (3.64), UAE Dhs (5.72), $ (1.56). Welcome Speech (USA), 3f, ex Welcome Addition Source: British Horseracing Authority

(Theatrical) NOTE: All race results and cards referred to in the 1 Gulfstream Park, USA, Mar 13, 3yo f mdn clm, 1m ⁄2fT, European Bloodstock News are designated Group/Graded $16,800 status according to their own domestic Jockey Clubs. B: Mr & Mrs Bertram R Firestone Copyright European Bloodstock News ORATORIO This news sheet may not be reproduced in any form or by any Ottone (Tur), 4c, ex Madam Homberg (Distant Music) means, electronically or mechanical, without the prior consent Kocaeli, Turkey, Mar 13, mdn, 1200mD, £6,731 of the copyright owner, Thoroughbred Advertising B: O H Aydin

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