FRIDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2018 GALE FORCE EBN TEN EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FOR MORE INFORMATION: TEL: +44 (0) 1638 666512 • FAX: +44 (0) 1638 666516 • [email protected] • WWW.BLOODSTOCKNEWS.EU RACING REVIEW | OBS SALES TALK | STAKES RESULTS | STAKES FIELDS TODAY’S HEADLINES STALLION NEWS FIRST FOALS FOR BELARDO AND ROCK The first foals by the dual Gr.1 winners Belardo and Fascinating Rock have arrived and both are fillies. The Belardo filly was born at Ferdlant Stud in Newmarket on Tuesday, and is out of the five-year-old Acclamation mare Mayberain, she was described as “a cracking stamp of a foal, very correct and with good bone” by Ferdlant Stud’s Lianne Barrett. Mayberain was lightly raced, but hails from the superb family of Rain Flower, dam of both the Gr.1 Oaks heroine Dancing Rain (Danehill Dancer; dam of the Gr.1-placed juvenile Magic Lily) Fascinating Rock’s first-born daughter with her well-related and Mayberain’s Listed-winning second dam Sumora (Danehill), dam, Serenity Dove (Harbour Watch), pictured at Ringfort who produced the Gr.1 Moyglare Stud Stakes heroine Maybe Stud. (Galileo), herself dam of Gr.1 Racing Post Trophy winner Saxon Warrior and the Gr.3 Silver Flash Stakes winner and Gr.1 Prix Marcel Boussac runner-up Promise To Be True (Galileo). At three, he finished second to the Champion Solow (Singspiel) Belardo (Lope De Vega) was an outstanding juvenile when in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, before adding another Gr.1 trained by Roger Varian, winning his maiden and following up in win to his tally in the Lockinge Stakes as an older horse. the Listed Washington Singer Stakes and Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes on In total he won five times at distances ranging from six furlongs his way to Championship honours at two. to a mile and accumulated over £900,000 in prize money. CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 1 #ClassicAwtaad A Classic Winner and the 2nd top rated European miler by Cape Cross. From the family of Seattle Slew. ★ ★ Gr.1 7-8f Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas winner He was a multiple (beating Galileo Gold Group/Stakes winner over 7-8f, and Air Force Blue). and was only out of the places in 1 of his 9 starts at 2 and 3. ★ 60% 60% of his first book covered in 2017 are Black Type winning or Black type producing dams including EZIMA dam of TAGHROODA. FIRST FOALS DERRINSTOWN STUD Tel: +353 (0)1 6286228 IN 2018 [email protected] awtaad www.derrinstown.com 2018 fee: €15,000 (1st Jan. S.L.F.) @Derrinstown STALLION NEWS – RACING REVIEW EBN: FRIDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2018 Belardo was retired to Kildangan Stud for the 2017 covering season at a fee of €15,000, which remains unchanged for the year ahead. He shuttled to the Haunui Farm in New Zealand for the 2017 southern hemisphere breeding season. FASCINATING ROCK WELCOMES HIS FIRST FOAL Fascinating Rock welcomed his first foal when a filly out of the well-related Serenity Dove (Harbour Watch) was born at Ringfort Stud. Serenity Dove is a half-sister to Stakes winners Wilki (Oasis Dream) and Madhya (Gone West) and is out of the multiple Gr.3-winning Khumba Mela (Hero’s Honor). She was bred by the highly successful consignor and breeder Derek Veitch of Ringfort Stud, who commented: “It is a lovely foal, that is, a strong bodied filly with good bone, especially for a foal out of a maiden mare.” Fascinating Rock, who was bred and raced by Newtown Anner Stud, was the joint highest-rated horse to go to stud in Ireland last year. He was a dual Gr.1 winner over 10 furlongs when winning the Tattersalls Gold Cup and the Champion Stakes, both times beating outstanding racemare Found. John O’Connor, Managing Director of Ballylinch Stud, commented: “Fascinating Rock was a top-class racehorse and he is the highest-rated horse Fastnet Rock has ever produced.” O’Connor went on to add, “This led to Maurice Regan of Newtown Anner Stud and ourselves giving him great support at stud with some real high quality mares. Here at Ballylinch we are eagerly awaiting foals by Fascinating Rock out of the top-class mares Lady Livius and Uncharted Haven, both of whom are due very shortly.” Europe’s Fascinating Rock stands for €10,000 in 2018. RACING REVIEW leading UAE second-season GODOLPHIN’S RUN LANDS HER FOURTH GROUP VICTORY sire Promising Run (Hard Spun) lived up to her name with an encouraging third on her juvenile debut in a valuable Goodwood Dawn Approach maiden and the now five-year-old collected her fourth Pattern Four winners in a week, led by fast-improving 96-rated Court House and 1,000 Guineas prospect Morning Has Broken. LOOK He also had four Group or Listed juveniles in 2017. BOOK DAWN APPROACH €20,000 Oct 1, SLF New Approach – Hymn Of The Dawn (Phone Trick) Stands at Kildangan Stud, Ireland +353 (0)45 527600 +44 (0)1638 730070 www.darleystallions.com Promising Run (Hard Spun) wins yesterday’s Gr.2 Cape Verdi at Meydan. © Steve Cargill Darley CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 3 NH RACING REVIEW – RACING NEWS EBN: FRIDAY, 26TH JANUARY 2018 victory in yesterday’s Gr.2 Cape Verdi, run over 1600m of the Meydan turf course. After finally consenting to go into the stalls, RACING NEWS she raced behind the Irish challenger Rehana (Dark Angel) until being asked for her move at the start of the home straight and BRITAIN she soon headed the younger filly, going on to score by an impressive four and a half lengths. Rehana just held on for second in a photo-finish with Aljuljalah (Exchange Rate). FOOTPAD AND SCEAU ROYAL HEAD The Darley homebred Promising Run has now raced six times at CHELTENHAM NOVICE ENTRIES Meydan, where she also won last year’s Gr.2 Al Rashidiya and has Entries have been announced for the three Gr.1 Championship finished placed three times. Her other Group wins have come in novices’ chases at the Cheltenham Festival, the £175,000 Arkle the Gr.2 Rockfel Stakes at two and the following year’s Gr.3 Novices’ Chase, the £175,000 Broadway Novices’ Chase and the Istanbul Trophy in Turkey. £150,000 Golden Miller Novices’ Chase. Entries have also been She is the best of the three Stakes horses produced to date by released for the £125,000 Gr.2 National Hunt Chase, an historic Aviacion (Know Heights), who was a Gr.1 winner at Gavea in her novices’ chase restricted to amateur riders, staged over four miles native Brazil. The mare is a half-sister to Gr.3 winners Cerutti on Tuesday, 13th March. (Ghadeer) and Persane (Tampero) and to the dam of the Owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede have a strong hand in Argentinian Gr.1 winner Eddington (Contested Bid). the Arkle Novices’ Chase with both the hot favourite Footpad (Creachadoir) and Sceau Royal (Doctor Dino), who top the 28 entries. Footpad has looked the real deal in two starts over fences NATIONAL HUNT RACING REVIEW this season, having latterly defeated Any Second Now (Oscar) by 11 lengths in a Gr.1 contest at Leopardstown on Boxing Day, while IRELAND Sceau Royal blitzed a strong field that included North Hill Harvey (Kayf Tara), Brain Power (Kalanisi) and Capitaine (Montmartre) PERCY PRESENTS CHELTENHAM in the Gr.1 Henry VIII Novices’ Chase at Sandown Park in December. Footpad also has the option of the Golden Miller Novices’ Chase FESTIVAL CREDENTIALS over two and a half miles. His trainer Willie Mullins accounts for Patrick Kelly’s Gr.1 Broadway Novices’ Chase entrant Presenting nine of the 13 Irish-trained entries for the Arkle, with the Gr.1- Percy landed the three-mile Gr.2 John Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle, winning hurdler Saturnas (Davidoff) also among his team. the feature race at Gowran Park yesterday. The seven-year-old son Last year’s Champion Hurdle third Petit Mouchoir (Al Namix) of Sir Percy raced in mid-division, as Lieutenant Colonel (Kayf is one of two entries for fellow Irish handler Henry de Bromhead. Tara) set a steady pace. The field began to bunch up and caught Lambourn-based Nicky Henderson, with six triumphs, is the most the leader three out. Four were in contention after the second last, successful trainer in the Arkle and has two entries in Brain Power but Presenting Percy jumped the last well and stayed on strongly and River Wylde (Oscar). Bigmartre (Montmartre) and Saint to score by five and a half lengths from Augusta Kate (Yeats), with Calvados (Saint Des Saints) have been entered by Harry Diamond Cauchois (Crillon) a further length back in third. Whittington, who trains just to the north of Henderson, and both A bumper and dual hurdles scorer at five, Presenting Percy are unbeaten in two chase starts this term. progressed through handicaps to win the Listed Pertemps Irish trainers have a strong hand in the Broadway Novices’ Network Final Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham. He got his chasing Chase, with 28 of the 62 entries. They include yesterday’s John career off to a winning start and was third in the Gr.2 Florida Pearl Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle victor Presenting Percy (Sir Percy), who Novice Chase. He also hold and entry for the National Hunt Cup has won two of his three starts over fences, and last year’s Gr.1 Spa Challenge at the Cheltenham Festival. Novices’ Hurdle runner-up Monalee (Milan). Noel Meade has Bred by Preston Lodge Stud, he is out of the point-to-point high hopes for Snow Falcon (Presenting), following his 28-length winner Hunca Munca (Presenting), who is a half-sister to the success in a beginners’ chase at Leopardstown over Christmas.