SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2020 ADVERTISE LEADS NATIONAL STUD ROSTER AUDARYA ENHANCES Three-time Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise (GB) leads the FANSHAWE=S PORTFOLIO 2021 stallion roster at the National Stud, where he will once again stand for ,25,000. The son of Showcasing, who won the G1 Phoenix S. at two and the G1 Commonwealth Cup (in race record time) and the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest at three for trainer Martyn Meade, is out of the Pivotal (GB) mare Furbelow. He is the first six-furlong Group 1 winner at two and three to retire to stud in the UK since his grandsire Oasis Dream (GB). Advertise was supported by 67 black-type producers or performers in his first book last year including the dams of Group 1 winners Aclaim (Ire), Dick Whittington (Ire) and Maarek (GB). The aforementioned Aclaim, the winner of the G1 Prix de la Foret and G2 Park S. also for Meade, will be available at the National Stud next year for ,9,500. The son of Acclamation (GB) from the family of Montjeu (Ire) and the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas winner Again (Ire) (Danehill Dancer {Ire}) had his first yearlings this year, and they sold for up to 145,000gns to Shadwell. Audarya winning the Breeders= Cup Filly & Mare Turf Breeders= Cup/Eclipse Sportswire Also with his first yearlings this year was Time Test (GB), and they made up to 150,000gns. The Juddmonte bred and raced By Emma Berry four-time group-winning son of Dubawi (Ire) will stand for Last Saturday at Keeneland was a banner day for the European ,8,500 in 2021. Breeders' Cup raiders, who won all four of the races on turf. The National Stud roster is rounded out by Rajasinghe (Ire) While Aidan O'Brien, who trained the first three home in the and Flag Of Honour (Ire), who will each stand for ,3,000. GI Breeders' Cup Mile, has enjoyed his fair share of success at the meeting over the years, there were first-time victories for Dermot Weld, James Fanshawe and Kevin Ryan. Fanshawe's Pegasus Stables welcomed home Alison IN TDN AMERICA TODAY Swinburn's Filly & Mare Turf winner Audarya (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) on Thursday and, while she will soon be off on her GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN winter holiday, she will return to training next year following a Bill Finley takes a trip down memory lane, recounting the season which also included victory in the G1 Prix Jean Romanet numerous now-defunct U.S. racetracks he has visited. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN America. in August. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE • PAGE 2 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 15 NOVEMBER 2020 Audarya Enhances Fanshawe=s Portfolio cont. from p1 The Breeders' Cup victory was a major addition to a tally of "She got back safely and she's been out in the playpen," big-race wins of significant breadth. While some trainers can reported Fanshawe from quarantine in Newmarket on Friday. easily be categorised, it would be hard to put Fanshawe in a "She will be turned out on Monday at Fittocks Stud with The Tin pigeonhole, except to say that a hallmark of his fine record, both Man." on the Flat and over jumps, is a commodity that is all too rare in The trip to Kentucky was the first experience of the Breeders' today's racing world: patience. Cup for Fanshawe and his wife Jacko, whose wild cheering as From Group 1-winning sprinters Frizzante (GB) (Efisio {GB}), Audarya hit the front in the home stretch was captured on Society Rock (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) and The Tin Man (GB) television and splashed across social media. (Equiano {Fr}) to crack miler Soviet Song (Ire) (Marju {Ire}), "I could have killed the cameraman who caught us during the top-class stayers Invermark (GB) (Machiavellian) and Arctic Owl last few furlongs but I do think it shows just what it means to (GB) (Most Welcome {GB}) and two Champion hurdlers in Royal us," he said. "The way Audarya stuck her head down and was so Gait (GB) (Gunner B {GB}) and Hors La Loi (Fr) (Cyborg {FR}), tenacious, she wanted to win. I've never had so many texts, Fanshawe has masterminded the careers of horses across all emails and letters after a race. It has been really great and I'm distances and codes. He has had a decent share of smart fillies very grateful for that because this year, with Covid, everything among them. has been very different. But at the Breeders' Cup, with Kevin Indeed, when Audarya leapt from winning a Newcastle [Ryan] winning the Sprint, and maybe because of the handicap to landing the Jean Romanet at Deauville, it was the circumstances of the lockdown and lots of people watching on third time in seven years that the Group 1 contest had fallen to a TV, they really got behind us. The whole week there was real horse from his stable. Elite Racing Club's Ribbons (GB) (Manduro camaraderie among the Europeans. We were all away from {Ger}) got the ball rolling in 2014, followed two years later by home together and we won four of the turf races. It was Meon Valley Stud's Speedy Boarding (GB) (Shamardal). brilliant." Three-time Group 1-winning sprinter Advertise will stand for ,25,000 in 2021 | Melanie Sauer TDN EUROPE • PAGE 3 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 15 NOVEMBER 2020 Audarya Enhances Fanshawe=s Portfolio cont. "In the past when we've had a good filly, I've always tried to get the first race of the season right, or go somewhere not too ambitious to start with," Fanshawe said. "I'd be lying if I said at the beginning of the season that I thought this would be where we'd end up. But we started Soviet Song in the same Kempton listed race as Audarya, the Snowdrop S., and Soviet Song was Senior Vice President Gary King second and then she ended up winning three Group 1 races that Twitter: @garykingTDN year. So that's always been a race that I like to start the season [email protected] with for an older filly, but it was a very hot race this year, won + 1.732.320.0975 by Nazeef (GB)." He continued, "Because it was a late start to the season International Editor everyone was short of somewhere to have their first run and it Kelsey Riley was quite close to Ascot. Audarya was eighth, she got no run but Twitter: @kelseynrileyTDN ran a very good race, much better than the final result [email protected] suggested. 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 James Fanshawe watching his string from his hack | Emma Berry Cafe Racing Sean Cronin "She was showing me all the signs at home but I never asked Tom Frary her too many questions because I'm trying to keep her relaxed [email protected] all the time, rather than finding out how good she is. We knew she was good, and she has told us exactly how good in the end. Irish Correspondent It has been a gradual progression." Daithi Harvey Few horses experience completely unhindered progression, however, and following the Snowdrop, a sixth-place finish in a Regular Columnists Chris McGrath | John Berry | Kevin Blake listed contest at Pontefract required a step back out of stakes Amy Lynam | Melissa Steele company as Fanshawe and his team regrouped. "I don't know what happened at Pontefract but it rained and the race got away from her, she just never got into it and it was just a disaster," the trainer recalled. "We felt we just needed to IN TDN AUS/NZ TODAY get her back on track and forget about any group or listed races. KAHMA LASS TAKES NZ 1000 GUINEAS She was rated 99 and there was an attractive race at Newcastle. The Classic success was one of five wins on the card for trainer We wanted to get her back up to a mile and a quarter on a nice Jamie Richards. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN galloping track. Aus/NZ. TDN EUROPE • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • 15 NOVEMBER 2020 Audarya Enhances Fanshawe=s Portfolio cont. AI spoke to Ioritz afterwards and he said he felt fine even AAfter she won that the only two next potential group races though he had tested positive. It's a terrible shame but it's great were the Atalanta S., which was back to a mile again, or the Jean news that Audarya is coming back into training next year. She Romanet, which was a mile and a quarter and for 4-year-olds has improved all year this year and she has plenty of scope, so and upwards. They were both on the same day so we went to it's really good that Alison has decided to keep her in training." France." The year has also marked a changing of the guard at Pegasus In hindsight, there were plenty of Breeders' Cup clues on offer Stables. Fanshawe's former assistant trainer Kevin Philippart de from Audarya's second French trip this year when she was third Foy has left after a four-year stint to start his own training in the G1 Prix de l'Opera, won by subsequent Longines Breeders' operation on the opposite side of Newmarket, leaving that role Cup Turf winner Tarnawa (Ire) (Shamardal).