WEDNESDAY, 13 JANUARY 2021 GOFFS RELEASES FEBRUARY CATALOGUES JUDDMONTE DOYEN The catalogues for Parts 1 and 2 of the Goffs February Sale are PRINCE KHALID BIN online. Part 1 of the sale will take place as a virtual live auction on Feb. 9 and 10, with 253 lots catalogued. The first day of the ABDULLAH DEAD sale comprises 89 2-year-olds by the likes of Australia (GB), Belardo (Ire), Churchill (Ire), Dandy Man (Ire), Decorated Knight (GB), Footstepsinthesand (GB), Make Believe (GB), Mehmas (Ire), New Bay (GB), Oasis Dream (GB), Starspangledbanner (Aus), and Zoffany (Ire), followed by a draft of older horses, including entries from the Aga Khan. The second day of Part I is dedicated to breeding stock and includes several Aga Khan re-entries from the November Breeding Stock Sale. Highlights among the session include Soft Lips (GB) (Rahy) (lot 140), a two-time stakes producer and the dam of last year=s G3 Prix Francois Boutin third Unveil (Ire) (Showcasing {GB}) in foal to New Bay (GB). Cont. p10 IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, 1937 - 2021 | Horsephotos MCGRATH ON KENTUCKY STALLIONS: PART II Chris McGrath examines Kentucky stallions represented by their first sophomores in 2021. Click or tap here to go straight to By Kelsey Riley TDN America. His Highness Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, one of the most successful owner/breeders in the history of the sport through his Juddmonte Farms dynasty, died on Jan. 12 in his 84th year. Prince Khalid=s famous green, pink and white silks have been immortalized in the annals of the sport, having been carried transatlantically by 118 Grade/Group 1 winners headed by champions like Frankel (GB), Dancing Brave (GB), Enable (GB) and Arrogate among many others. He campaigned over 500 stakes winners, of which he bred over 440. Douglas Erskine Crum, chief executive officer of Juddmonte, said on Tuesday, AThe whole of Juddmonte feels a huge sense of loss. Prince Khalid will always be remembered as a quiet, dignified, benevolent family man, whose horses spoke for him. He leaves a legacy that will stand the test of time. His contribution to the development of the Thoroughbred will have long-lasting effects.@ Prince Khalid bin Abdullah was born in 1937 in Saudi Arabia and was a member of the House Of Saud, the Saudi Royal family, his father Abdullah bin Abdul-Rahman being a younger half-brother to King Abdulaziz, the founder and first monarch of Saudi Arabia. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021 Prince Khalid bin Abdullah Dead cont. from p1 Prince Khalid bought his first yearlings in 1978 and the following year, his advisors Humphrey Cottrill and James Prince Khalid studied in both Riyadh and the U.S. before going Delahooke signed for the two most expensive yearlings at the on to be an extremely successful businessman, chief among his Tattersalls Houghton Sale, including the record-priced Sand accomplishments in that realm Hawk (GB) (Grundy {GB}) at being the development of the 264,000gns. While Sand Hawk private investment company would fail to truly build on his Mawarid Holding, which has promise, an In Reality colt diverse portfolios in financial selected at Keeneland the same services, manufacturing, year certainly did not: Known construction, medical supplies, Fact would, in 1980, became telecommunications, the media Prince Khalid=s first Classic and more. winner in the G1 2000 Guineas Despite Prince Khalid=s less than a year after his silks extensive business successes, had graced a winner=s enclosure he will perhaps be best for the first time atop Charming remembered for his profound Native (Princely Native) in a contributions to the Windsor maiden race. In the Thoroughbred breed. The interim, Prince Khalid had also foundation for the quality that notched a first Royal Ascot win has reverberated unrelentingly Prince Khalid, Sir Henry Cecil and Frankel after with Abeer (Dewan) in the G3 the 2011 Greenham S. | racingfotos.com throughout the Juddmonte Queen Mary S. in addition to genes over the past 40-plus years was laid right from the outset. Known Fact=s scores at two in the Mill Reef S. and Middle Park S. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021 On the occasion of Known Fact=s Guineas victory, Prince Khalid In the meantime, the fillies recruited during Prince Khalid=s became the first Arab owner to win a British Classic, a realm in formative years as an owner were sowing the seeds of a which he went on to garner plenty of competition, with the broodmare band of nearly unprecedented proportions. Prince Maktoum family making their entrance to the sport only a short Khalid=s first homebred winner came in the form of Fine Edge time later. (GB) at Newmarket in 1982. The Known Fact went on to win prior year, Prince Khalid had the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. and privately purchased Slightly earn champion miler honors for Dangerous (Roberto) after she trainer Jeremy Tree before had won the G3 Fred Darling S. retiring as a foundation sire to at two for trainer Barry Hills, and Juddmonte=s nursery in she became the dam of Prince Wargrave-upon-Thames in Khalid=s dual Group 1 winner Berkshire. He relocated in 1987 Warning as well as Prince to Juddmonte=s American Khalid=s 1993 Derby winner division at the former Belair Commander In Chief (GB), by his Farm south of Lexington, which great G1 Prix de l=Arc de Prince Khalid had purchased in Triomphe winner Dancing Brave 1982. Known Fact=s stud career (Lyphard). Slightly Dangerous was highlighted by Gerald also left behind the Group 2 (l to r) Banks Hill, Hasili, Heat Haze and Intercontinental at Leigh=s champion miler Banstead Manor Stud | Juddmonte winner and sire Dushyantor Markofdistinction (GB) and (Sadler=s Wells) and the GI Warning (GB), a top 2-year-old who went on to win the G1 Flower Bowl scorer and multiple Classic-placed Yashmak Sussex S. and Queen Elizabeth II S. for Prince Khalid and sire five (Danzig), herself the dam of G1 Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Full Group 1 winners from Banstead Manor Stud. Mast (Mizzen Mast). TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • 13 JANUARY 2021 Other fillies accrued during this era whose names still feature in the pedigrees of Juddmonte-bred luminaries today include Monroe (Sir Ivor, out of Best In Show), whose descendants include Prince Khalid=s Logician (GB), Xaar (GB), Bated Breath (GB), Cityscape (GB) and Close Hatches; and Sookera (Roberto), who among many other notable stakes winners is the second dam of Hasili (Ire) (Kahyasi {Ire}), who produced a remarkable Senior Vice President Gary King five homebred Grade/Group 1 winners for Prince Twitter: @garykingTDN KhalidBChamps Elysees (GB), Intercontinential (GB), Banks Hill [email protected] (GB), Cacique (Ire) and Heat Haze (GB). All bar Heat Haze (Green + 1.732.320.0975 Desert) were by another Prince Khalid homebred, Danehill (Danzig). Champs Elysees and Cacique both stood at International Editor Juddmonte=s Banstead Manor Stud alongside their full-brother Kelsey Riley Dansili (GB). Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN Frankel (GB) is a great-grandson of Rockfest (Stage Door [email protected] Johnny), who was purchased from Jock Whitney, while Enable=s European Editor fourth dam Fleet Girl (Ire) (Habitat) was part of a handful of Emma Berry mares that were included in the Belair Farm deal. Prince Khalid Twitter: @collingsberry purchased Mofida (GB) (Right Tack {GB}) in foal to The Minstrel [email protected] from Robert Sangster in 1981. The resulting filly was Zaizafon, who would produce the sires Zafonic and Zamindar. The stakes- Associate International Editor winning Bahamian (Ire) (Mill Reef) was a 310,000gns yearling Heather Anderson purchase in 1986, and she went on to produce the G1 Irish Oaks Twitter: @HLAndersonTDN winner Wemyss Bight (GB) (Dancing Brave) and is the ancestress Marketing Manager of two of Juddmonte=s best sires, Oasis Dream (GB) and Kingman Alayna Cullen (GB). Twitter: @AlaynaCullen All the while as his homebred stock began to step out, Prince [email protected] Khalid continued to supplement his program with yearlings purchased at the sales. Pivotal among those was Rainbow Quest Contributing Editors (Blushing Groom {Fr}), from the family of Slightly Dangerous and Alan Carasso bought by James Delahooke for $950,000 at Fasig-Tipton=s July Christina Bossinakis Yearling Sale in 1982. Rainbow Quest was good for Jeremy Tree Cafe Racing at two and three but blossomed into a champion at four to win Sean Cronin the G1 Coronation Cup and the Arc. Rainbow Quest was Tom Frary honored by Timeform as the first horse since Mill Reef and [email protected] Brigadier Gerard (GB) to earn a rating of at least 130 at ages two, three and four. Irish Correspondent Prince Khalid had purchased Banstead Manor Stud near Daithi Harvey Newmarket in 1987, and thus Rainbow Quest was the perfect candidate to be its foundation sire. Rainbow Quest was an Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake immediate hit, siring three Group 1 winners from his first crop Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele including Quest For Fame (GB), who won the 1990 Derby for Khalid Abdullah and Roger Charlton and was the first of three winners of the blue riband for his owner, later joined by Commander In Chief (GB) (Dancing Brave) for Sir Henry Cecil in IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY 1993 and Workforce (GB) (King=s Best) in 2010 for Sir Michael $1.9M SNITZEL COLT TOPS MAGIC MILLIONS Stoute. Coolmore Stud went to $1.9 million for a son of Snitzel on Day 1 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale.