EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FRIDAY, 27TH MARCH 2015 – EIGHTEEN PAGES For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu Named in recognition of the history of the hometown of Today’s Headlines the syndicate, First Bombardment will race in the colours of the local football side and Allison said he was hopeful RACING NEWS the town would get behind the horse as the season progressed: “Most of the lads who are involved in the horse are from Hartlepool, which was the first place in FIRST PLUS 10 BONUS mainland Britain to be bombed by the Germans in World War I. Last year was the centenary of the bombardment so RACE ON SATURDAY we named him in recognition of the significant impact this More than half of the field in Saturday’s Brocklesby event had on our community. Conditions Stakes at Doncaster will be chasing the first- “Winning a bonus is an exciting prospect and a real ever Plus 10 bonus when the historic race raises the incentive to owners of a two-year-old; Plus 10 is a good curtain on the 2015 Flat season. Six of nine runners are scheme to be in.” qualified to win connections a £10,000 bonus on top of race prize money. There are a further three Plus 10 races NEW COURSE LAYOUT to be held over the weekend, at Kempton Park and FOR GUINEAS FESTIVAL Chelmsford City on Saturday and The Curragh on Sunday. Plus 10 is a £5.5 million bonus scheme which will see Newmarket Racecourses has announced a change to the qualified two-year-olds (and three-year-olds from 2016) course layout at the Rowley Mile for the Guineas Festival race for cash bonuses of £10,000 across several hundred on Saturday, 2nd and Sunday, 3rd May. The stalls, races in Britain and Ireland. previously positioned in the centre of the course, will now The Plus 10 runners at Doncaster hail from a number of be moved to the stand side rail. A false rail will also be stables familiar with the Brocklesby, including trainer Bill introduced three metres off the permanent stand side rail Turner who has won the race four times in the past nine and will cut in at the three-furlong pole. years and will saddle the Avonbridge colt Just That To accommodate the narrowing of the course through Lord. the introduction of the false rail, the maximum field size Another to feature in the contingent is a Pastoral Pursuits colt related to trainer David O’Meara’s Gr.1 FIRST SEASON SIRE FOCUS winner, G Force. First Bombardment, for O’Meara and jockey Daniel Tudhope, will start in stall six, a position with LILBOURNE LAD which syndicate member, Stuart Allison of Northern Hart Our 2015 series starts with Rathbarry Stud’s Gr.2-winning Racing, said the ownership group was pleased. juvenile Lilbourne Lad, whose first runner has been declared for tomorrow. He is featured on pages 2-4 and 17-18. Other sires will be featured over the coming weeks. Funded by contributions from European stallion farms, the EBF has allocated €100,000,000 EBFSTALLIONS to the European racing industry. The European Breeders’ Fund T +44 1638 667960 F: +44 1638 667270 W: ebfstallions.com 1 EBN Friday, 27th March 2015 RACING NEWS • FIRST SEASON SIRE FOCUS limit at the Guineas Festival will now be 25, in comparison “Stalls on the stand side rail and opening up the field at to 30 last year. Over the last five years, there has not been the three-furlong mark may be the solution to these on- a race at the Festival which has featured over 25 declared going issues.” runners. Michael Prosser, Head of Racing, Jockey Club First Season Sire Focus Racecourses East Region, said: “Following consultation with certain horsemen, it was agreed that the stalls would be positioned in the centre of the course for the 2004 IRELAND Classics, which has remained the same ever since. This has been a successful move and the best horse in the race has invariably won. However, tactics can lead to the field LILBOURNE LAD splitting, which was the case in the 2014 2,000 Guineas, Acclamation – Sogno Verde (Green Desert) and this is unsatisfactory. By positioning the stalls against Stands at Rathbarry Stud: 2015 fee €7,500 the stand side rail and introducing a false rail at the three- furlong pole, we are encouraging the field to stay together, Lilbourne Lad, a graduate of the Goffs and DBS sales with the false rail helping to eliminate any hard luck rings, won three times at two, including the Listed stories.” Rochestown Stakes by six lengths and then the Gr.2 Trainer Roger Varian added: “I think it’s a good thing that Railway Stakes. He was also second three times, Michael Prosser and his team are thinking of ways that the including in the Gr.2 Gimcrack Stakes and Gr.2 Middle showcase event gets run as fairly as possible, as nobody Park Stakes. likes seeing the race split. He is by the Group-winning sprinter Acclamation, “There is a strong argument for having the stalls against whose first stallion son, Dark Angel, also retired at two the stand side rail to encourage the field to race as one. and has already sired the dual Gr.1-winning sprinter The false rail at the three-furlong marker should eliminate Lethal Force. There is more stamina on the distaff side of any hard luck stories which are inevitable when large Lilbourne Lad’s pedigree; his dam won over nine furlongs fields race against one rail. The truth will be in the running and has also produced the Gr.3-placed Bobbyscot, and but I think it’s certainly a positive development.” his grandam was placed in the Gr.1 Irish Oaks and is also John Gosden commented: “With big fields over a the dam of two Listed winners, including the Gr.1 Irish St straight mile, you are always going to come across two Leger runner-up Pugin. His third dam won the Gr.1 Irish St possible problems; the field splitting or being boxed in, as Leger and his Gr.3-winning fourth dam was placed in three was the case with Six Perfections in the 1,000 Guineas. Classics. BREEZE UP SALE 8-9 MAY SAINT-CLOUD CATALOGUE ONLINE The Breeze Up Sale is the only sale in Europe to have produced two Classic winners in the last three years. Following Lucayan in 2012, this sale produced the exceptional The Grey Gatsby, winner of the Prix du Jockey-Club (Gr.1) and Irish Champion Stakes (Gr.1). The 2015 catalogue offers a fi ne selection of 134 two year olds by both proven and exciting young stallions. Contact Freddy Powell: +44 (0)7 507 832 582 ©Healy Racing [email protected] THE GREAT BREEZE UP 2 First class first crop c yearlings sold for... I was very impressed with Pour Moi’s Derby win €435,000 and decided there and then to use him. I have €335,000 three of his two-year-old’s €280,000 which I am very happy with and therefore I’m using €215,000 him again this season. d Jim Bolger, who is sending 4 mares to €205,000 Pour Moi this year. €200,000 etc. … and are now in training with: Jim Bolger x3 Andre Fabre x3 Aidan O’Brien x2 Mikel Delzangles x2 Mark Johnston x2 Sir Michael Stoute John Oxx Brian Meehan H-A Pantall Nicolas Clement Sir Mark Prescott Ed Dunlop Peter Schiergen John Gosden Marco Botti Ralph Beckett Brilliant winner of the EPSOM DERBY. By sire of sires MONTJEU. Bred on a similar cross to HIGH CHAPARRAL. Fee: €12,500/£9,250 Contact: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. Tel: 353-52-6131298. Fax: 353-52-6131382. Christy Grassick, David O’Loughlin, Eddie Fitzpatrick, Tim Corballis, Maurice Moloney, Gerry Aherne, Mathieu Legars or Jason Walsh. Tom Gaffney, David Magnier, Joe Hernon or Cathal Murphy: 353-25-31966/31689. Kevin Buckley (UK Rep.) 44-7827-795156. E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.coolmore.com All stallions nominated to EBF. EBN Friday, 27th March 2015 FIRST SEASON SIRE FOCUS • RACING NEWS CANFORD CLIFFS THE EARLY FAVOURITE LILBOURNE LAD (Ire) b.h 7.3.2009 Coolmore’s Canford Cliffs has been installed as the Waajib (Try My Best) early-season favourite for top honours with his first crop of Royal Applause runners, according to RaceBets. Flying Melody (Auction Ring) Acclamation Joseph Burke of RaceBets commented, “It is always Ahonoora (Lorenzaccio) difficult to know what to expect from first-season stallions Princess Athena but it is reasonable to assume they might throw horses Shopping Wise (Floribunda) similar in type to themselves, and it is for that reason that Canford Cliffs heads the betting. The five-time Gr.1 winner was the highest rated of the 2012 intake and his offspring Danzig (Northern Dancer) are well distributed amongst a wide variety of trainers, so Green Desert he has everything going for him. Foreign Courier (Sir Ivor) Sogno Verde “Dream Ahead was the second highest rated, courtesy Nashwan (Blushing Groom) of Gr.1 wins at two and three, and he is next at 5/2. The Gothic Dream Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes winner Zoffany, who also chased Dark Lomond (Lomond) home Frankel in the Gr.1 St James's Palace Stakes at B: Swordlestown Little three, is the joint-third favourite at 7/2 with Poet's Voice. It is quite obvious the judges have high expectations for TOP-PRICED SALES PROGENY the son of Dubawi, given that his yearling averages and Taskeen b.c (Ire) ex Lola Rosa (Peintre Celebre) medians surpassed any of his opposition here.