EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS New & MOVED SUPPLEMENT A SUPPLEMENT FEATURING EUROPEAN STALLIONS WHO ARE NEW FOR 2021 OR WHO RELOCATED DURING 2020/21 2021 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 2021 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS ALMANAARA ELARQAM Shamardal – Midnight Angel (Machiavellian) Frankel – Attraction (Efisio) MICKLEY STUD • Fee £3,000 SLF HARAS DE SAINT ARNOULT • Fee €6,000 LF New to the stallion ranks this spring is the grey Almanaara, The regally-bred Elarqam, an unbeaten Group-winning a half-brother to the Gr.1-winning juvenile and leading sire juvenile and a top-class Gr.1-placed four-time Stakes- Dark Angel, sire of seven Gr.1 winners to date. winning middle distance performer by Frankel, begins his Their dam, a daughter of Machiavellian (broodmare sire stallion career at Haras de Saint Arnoult this year. of Shamardal himself, plus Gr.1 winners such as Zoffany, An easy winner on debut over 7f, he followed up on his Territories, Victoire Pisa and Al Wukair), has also produced only other two-year-old outing with a decisive victory in the a Stakes-winning sprinter and is out of the Night Shift mare Gr.3 Somerville Stakes and returned at three to claim a fine Night At Sea, a 5f Listed winner. The next two dams are by fourth in an exceptional renewal of the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas, in the dual Classic and Middle Park Stakes winner Right Tack which he finished ahead of future Gr.1 winners Roaring Lion and Expert Eye. Raised in trip at four, he secured a Listed and the Lockinge Stakes and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes double over 1m2f and skipped clear to comfortably defeat winner Sovereign Path. last season’s Gr.1 Champion Stakes hero Addeybb in the Gr.2 His sire Shamardal, an unbeaten two-year-old and dual York Stakes, before beating four Gr.1 winners when a close Classic winner, is responsible for 26 Gr.1 winners to date and his third in the Gr.1 International Stakes behind the Gr.1-winning proven stallion sons are headed by Lope De Vega (already the For further information For pair Japan and Crystal Ocean. A supremely tough and further information For sire of 12 Gr.1 winners himself). He also has the likes of Pinatubo, genuine type, he raced on at five, registering the fifth Stakes Blue Point and Earthlight to follow on in the coming years. success of his career in the 1m3f Gr.3 Legacy Cup Stakes. A 370,000gns yearling, Almanaara started his racing A 1,600,000gns yearling, bred by Floors Farming, he is out career in Ireland, finishing placed at two and easily winning of the unbeaten Champion Two-Year-Old Filly Attraction a maiden over just short of a mile at three. He then transferred (Efisio), who went on to win two Classics and three other to Doug Watson in the UAE, winning two valuable handicaps Gr.1s over a mile. Elarqam is a half-brother to seven other over 6f on dirt and a 5f handicap on turf at Meydan last winners, headed by the Gr.3 winner and sire Fountain Of January, defeating the Gr.2-winning sprinter Caspian Prince Youth (Oasis Dream) and the dual Gr.3-placed Cushion in the latter. (Galileo). €6,000 L.F Al Basti Equiworld ALMANAARA ELARQAM GB • 2015 • 1m65 SHAMARDAL – MIDNIGHT ANGEL (MACHIAVELLIAN) By world class stallion and sire of sires SHAMARDAL A Classic pedigree – by undefeated champion and half-brother to Champion sprint stallion DARK ANGEL FRANKEL out of 5-time Gr1 heroine ATTRACTION Won 4 races from 3 to 7 years, 5f to 7.5f, £137,904, An outstanding individual - purchased for A Superb Cross to make a Commercial Stallion 1,600,000 gns Tattersalls Book 1 by Shadwell. Second-highest rated runner by FRANKEL with a Top Blood at Excellent Value rating of 120 - only CRACKSMAN is rated higher! A top-class performer – winner at Group 2021 fee: £3,000 Special Live Foal level from 2 to 5 years, and from distances ranging from 7 to 11 furlongs Enquiries: RICHARD KENT, Ternhill, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 3QW © Agence G Tel: 01630 638840 • Mobile: 079 73 315722 • Email: [email protected] or John Walsh Bloodstock • Mobile: 086 2558945 For nominations please contact: Email: [email protected] Larissa Kneip +33 (0) 627 602 109 [email protected] ii CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 NEW AND MOVED STALLIONS FOR 2021 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS ????????????EQUIANO ????????????FAR ABOVE Acclamation – Entente Cordiale (Ela-Mana-Mou) Farhh – Dorraar (Shamardal) IRISH NATIONAL STUD • Fee €3,000 STARFIELD STUD • Fee €6,000 After retiring to Newsells Park Stud, Equiano moved last Far Above may have raced only five times, but that was all it autumn to the Irish National Stud, where he will cover for the took to show himself as a sprinter right out of the top drawer. first time this coming spring. The son of Farhh was a six-figure breeze-up purchase but The son of Acclamation was a winner up to 7f, but his made his winning debut as a three-year-old, successful in biggest victories came over the minimum trip when he won the well-regarded Alex Scott Maiden Stakes over 7f at two editions of Royal Ascot’s 5f Gr.1 King’s Stand Stakes, as Newmarket. He was stepped up into Listed company next well as the 5f Gr.3 Palace House Stakes, and his eight places time out but met with his only defeat, before bouncing back included a second in the Gr.1 July Cup over a furlong further. to winning form in style at Windsor, cruising home five He is a half-brother to Stakes winners by Pivotal and Oasis lengths in front in a 6f novice contest. The time was ripe for a Dream, and he shares his grandam with the Gr.2 winner and return to Stakes company and he was pitched into the Listed Gr.1-placed Va Bank. Prix Kistena over 1200m at Deauville, showing plenty of early Equiano has already sired 29 Stakes horses, headed by the speed before staying on well to claim victory. That was the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint victrix Belvoir Bay and the colt’s final start at three and he would race only once more, high-class sprinter The Tin Man, whose nine victories, all returning at four to defeat a field of classy sprinters and For further information For over 6f, include the Gr.1 British Champions Sprint, Gr.1 triumph in the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes, a race with a good Diamond Jubilee Stakes and Gr.1 Sprint Cup. Medicine Jack reputation as a proving ground for sires. In his only start over won the Gr.2 Railway Stakes and was third in the Gr.1 Phoenix 5f, Far Above hit the front with three furlongs to go and Stakes at two, while Equilateral has scored twice at Listed stayed on well to win. level and beat all bar Battaash in last year’s Gr.1 King’s Stand He is out of the 7f-winning Shamardal mare Dorraar, a Stakes. Of Equiano’s nine Gr.3 winners, Strath Burn, beaten half-sister to five winners and out of Dorrati, an unraced a short head in the Gr.1 Sprint Cup, has sired winners himself daughter of Dubai Millennium. She is a half-sister to the from limited opportunities, and Dakota Gold has won 13 dual Gr.1 winner Nahrain (Selkirk), who went on to produce times to date, also including five Listed races, and was the outstanding Benbatl (Dubawi), as well as the dual Listed successful on his last three starts of 2020. winner Baharah (Elusive Quality). FOR NEW2021 EQuiaNo Fee €3,000 #FarAboveTheSpeedLimit NEW€6 FOR 2021Fee THE NEED FOR SPEED ,000 Dual Royal Ascot winning Sprinter by Acclamation rated 127. Sire of 29 stakes horses including Group 1 winners The Tin Man and Belvoir Bay MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER BY FARHH Palace House winner and undefeated over 5f and 6f TR: 122 - highest rated new 5f/6f sire Micheál Orlandi, Compas Stallions + 353 (0)83 809 2299 compasstallions.com Contact: Cathal Beale, Gary Swift +353 (0)86 6031979 or Patrick Diamond +353 (0)85 1299236 Tel: +353 (0)45 521251 www.irishnationalstud.ie Standing at Starfield Stud, Ballynagall, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland N91 K8Y9 CALL: +44 (0) 1638 66 65 12 iii NEW AND MOVED STALLIONS FOR 2021 EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS FIGHTING IRISH GOLDEN HORDE Camelot – Quixotic (Pivotal) Lethal Force – Entreat (Pivotal) HARAS D’ANNEBAULT • Fee €3,000 LF SUMBE, MONTFORT ET PREAUX • Fee €10,000 A new addition to the Haras d’Annebault stallion roster is the The stallion roster at Sumbe, Montfort et Preaux gains Classic-placed Gr.2 juvenile winner Fighting Irish, the only an exciting new recruit this year in the top-class sprinter 6f Group winner by top young sire Camelot. Golden Horde. At two, after breaking his maiden over 6f in July, he easily The son of the dual Gr.1-winning sprinter Lethal Force was made all to land a nursery before quickening up smartly to quick off the mark at two, winning his second start by four and win the Gr.2 Critérium de Maisons-Laffitte, in which he beat a half lengths over 6f at Windsor. Not beaten far in a close finish the triple Gr.2-placed juvenile Nebo, who won the Gr.3 to the Gr.2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, Golden Horde Horris Hill Stakes on his next start.