EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS New & MOVED SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT A SUPPLEMENT FEATURING EUROPEAN STALLIONS WHO ARE NEW FOR 2018 OR WHO RELOCATED DURING 2017/18 2018 Whilst every care has been taken to trace the qualifying sires, EBN takes no responsibility for errors or omissions. All material contained within (excluding supplied advertisements) is the copyright of European Bloodstock News. NEW AND MOVED STALLIONS FOR 2018 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS BARNEY ROY CHARM SPIRIT Excelebration – Alina (Galileo) Invincible Spirit – L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) DALHAM HALL STUD • Fee £10,000, 1st Oct SLF HARAS DE BONNEVAL • Fee €20,000, 1st Oct LF Winner of the Gr.1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot last Charm Spirit became the leading earner by multiple June in a new course record, with the likes of Lancaster Champion Sire Invincible Spirit after he took the Gr.1 Queen Bomber, Thunder Snow and Churchill in his wake, Barney Elizabeth II Stakes, Gr.1 Prix du Moulin and Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat, Roy was Timeform-rated 126, a mark also attained by his as well as two Gr.3s. He was also a winner and third in the Gr.1 paternal grandsire Exceed And Excel. This made him the joint- Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at two. Freddy Head described him as highest rated miler of his generation last season. Winner by a real fighter and amongst the best milers he had trained. nearly four lengths of his sole start at two, the son of the triple He is proof that Invincible Spirit is not just a sire of sprinters Gr.1-winning miler Excelebration started 2017 with an and two-year-olds, though he has been very effective as both impressive victory in the Gr.3 Greenham Stakes before running in being a Champion sire and in the leading ranks for many second in a muddling-paced Gr.1 2,000 Guineas. Following his years. His dam L’Enjoleuse (Montjeu) won and is the dam of Royal Ascot victory he was stepped up to 10 furlongs and was two winners. She is out of the Machiavellian mare Machaera, touched off by just a nose in the Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes by Ulysses, who is a half-sister to two Gr.2-winning sires by Danzig in in a time which would have won 129 of the past 130 runnings of Russian Bond and Snaadee, as well as the dam of Champion the historic contest. He was then third in the Gr.1 International and sire Ransom O’War (Red Ransom), from the family of the Stakes on his next start at York in August. leading sires L’Enjoleur (Buckpasser), Night Shift (Northern On his retirement, trainer Richard Hannon said: “Barney Roy is Dancer), Holy Roman Emperor (Danehill), etc. by far the best colt I have trained and the most athletic horse I have He has switched between Tweenhills Farm and Stud and seen. We look forward to seeing his yearlings at the sales.” Haras de Bonneval, which has proved effective in preserving Barney Roy is out of Alina, a Galileo daughter of Cheyenne the size of his books, and his first yearlings made €500,000, Star, the Gr.3 Ridgewood Pearl Stakes and Gr.3 Brownstown 210,000gns, etc., averaging over €71,000, with purchasers Stakes-winning daughter of Mujahid. Her half-sister Boa including Shadwell, Juddmonte Farms and Coolmore, as well Estrela produced the dual Champion Irish Older Male Sprinter as David Redvers, Roger Varian, Peter and Ross Doyle, Andrew Gordon Lord Byron, a Gr.1 winner in Australia, Britain and Balding, Jean-Claude Rouget and SackvilleDonald, which France. should give him every chance. He puts the Roy THE AGA KHAN STUDS into Royal Ascot Success Breeds Success CHARM SPIRIT Triple Group 1 winning miler The highest earning son of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT Highly sought after first yearlings in 2017 achieved €500,000, 210,000gns, 135,000gns, etc. BARNEY ROY The highest-rated miler of his generation. No horse has ever run Ascot’s round mile so fast. NEW £10,000 Oct 1, SLF Excelebration – Alina (Galileo) Stands at Dalham Hall Stud, Newmarket +44 (0)1638 730070 Click to enjoy his record-breaking St James’s Palace Stakes online. Darley www.AgaKhanStuds.com ii CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 NEW AND MOVED STALLIONS FOR 2018 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS DE TREVILLE DECORATED KNIGHT Oasis Dream – Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) Galileo – Pearling (Storm Cat) HARAS DU THENNEY • Fee €3,000, LF IRISH NATIONAL STUD • Fee €15,000, 1st Oct New to the stallion ranks this year is De Treville, a son of Campaigned by his breeders Saleh Al Homaizi and Imad Al Oasis Dream and the European Champion Older Mare Dar Sagar, Decorated Knight, who hails from one of the best Re Mi. Trained by Andre Fabre, he was in the first three on international and stallion-making pedigrees around, was a each of his first seven starts. In his debut season, he won his triple winner at the top-level. By the all-conquering Galileo, he maiden on his second outing and was runner-up in the Gr.3 is out of Pearling, a Storm Cat full-sister to the ‘Iron Horse’ Prix des Chenes. At three, he won a conditions race over Giant’s Causeway, a six-time Gr.1 winner on the track who 2000m before coming second in the Gr.3 Prix de Guiche, became a Champion sire, the Gr.2-winning juvenile third in the Gr.3 Prix Paul de Moussac, a head and a short You’resothrilling, dam of three Gr.1 winners, including the neck behind Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere winner Full Mast dual Classic scorer Gleneagles, and Freud, a Gr.2-placed and subsequent Gr.1 winner Almanaar, and second again at sprinter in Europe, who has been a mainstay amongst New Gr.3 level in the Prix de la Porte Maillot. He was unplaced for York’s best stallions for the past decade. Three other Stakes- the first time in the Listed Prix de Tourgeville before switching placed full-brothers had promising stallion careers, while a to John Shirreffs’ yard in the US and returning to Europe with Sadler’s Wells half-sister produced the Gr.2 scorer and three- Andreas Wohler. times Gr.1-placed Storm The Stars. Superbly bred, he is a half-brother to the Gr.3 Musidora The chesnut, who was at his best on a decent surface, won Stakes winner and Gr.1 Prix de l’Opera third So Mi Dar, out of eight races, defeating a total of 14 individual Gr.1 winners. the triple Gr.1 winner Dar Re Mi (Singspiel). She was Although beaten by a subsequent Gr.3 winner on his sole successful in the Yorkshire Oaks, Pretty Polly Stakes and juvenile start, he progressed at three to land a pair of races and Dubai Sheema Classic, and is a half-sister to the Gr.1 winners finished third at Gr.2 level in the Joel Stakes. Campaigned at Diaghilev (also known as River Dancer), Rewilding and Stakes level thereafter, he won at both Listed and Gr.3 level at Darazari. Their dam, the Gr.1 Prix Vermeille winner Darara four. However, it was last season he shone, winning the Jebel (Top Ville), is a half-sister to the Classic winner and leading Hatta, Tattersalls Gold Cup and Irish Champion Stakes, all Gr.1s. sire Darshaan and the dam of dual Gr.1 winner and sire He was also runner-up to the admirable Highland Reel in the Daliapour. Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and was rated 125 by Timeform. FIRST SEASON SIRE De Treville Bay 2012, 1.63m, Oasis Dream - Dar Re Mi (Singspiel) DECORATED KNIGHT OF NOBLE LINEAGE CONSISTENT GROUP FORM AT 2 & 3 Won 2 races at 2 and 3 years (1400m to 2000m), and was placed 5 times, 4 of which were in Black Type races, from only 10 starts. Sire: OASIS DREAM – won Gr.1 July Cup, Gr.1 Middle Park S., Gr.1 Nunthorpe S., etc. Dam: DAR RE MI; won at 6 races, incl. Gr.1 Yorkshire Oaks, Gr.1 Pretty Polly S., Gr.1 Sheema Classic, Gr.3 Prix Minerve, etc. Out of a multiple Gr.1 winner from an outstanding Gr.1 family. PERFORMANCE, EXCELLENT CONFORMATION AND TOP-CLASS PEDIGREE AT REAL VALUE. 2018 fee: €3,000 (LF) HARAS DU THENNEY & EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK MANAGEMENT Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 Fee: €15,000 14950 Saint-Pierre-Azif, France • Tel: (33) 2 31 79 22 65 • Mobile: (33) 6 20 91 36 59 Email: [email protected] • Web: www.thenney.com CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 iii NEW AND MOVED STALLIONS FOR 2018 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS DIVINE PROPHET EL KABEIR Choisir – Prophet Jewel (Encosta De Lago) Scat Daddy – Great Venue (Unbridled’s Song) TARA STUD • Fee €7,500 Free Return YEOMANSTOWN STUD • Fee €8,000, 1st Oct Crack Australian sprinter-miler Divine Prophet (Choisir) will Joining Dark Angel, Camacho and Gutaifan at shuttle to Ireland for the first time this year. He was a winner Yeomanstown Stud this spring is El Kabeir, the best two- of the Gr.1 Caulfield Guineas at three, as well as the Gr.3 Up year-old son of the sadly deceased Scat Daddy to have and Coming Stakes, which has previously been won by such raced in North America. At that age, the grey won a Saratoga outstanding sires as Exceed And Excel, Snitzel and Fastnet maiden by 11 lengths and the Gr.2 Jockey Club Stakes over Rock. Timeform allocated him a rating of 121.