EUROPEAN BLOODSTOCK NEWS TUESDAY, 17TH MARCH 2015 – ELEVEN PAGES For more information • T: +44 (0)1638 666512 • F:+44 (0)1638 666516 • [email protected] • www.bloodstocknews.eu The Harry Fry-trained Bitofapuzzle (Tamure) and Alan Today’s Headlines King’s The Pirate’s Queen (King’s Theatre), third and fourth respectively behind Glens Melody (King’s Theatre) RACING NEWS in the Gr.1 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, head the entries for the €100,000 race and they could be joined by Desert Queen (Desert CHELTENHAM WINNERS King), another trained by Fry, and the more experienced Rons Dream (Kayf Tara), who is in the care of Peter HEAD FOR PUNCHESTOWN Bowen. Vautour (Robin Des Champs) and Don Poli (Poliglote), Willie Mullins is well represented and has five in the two of Willie Mullins’ eight winners at last week’s race, headed by Morning Run (King’s Theatre), winner of Cheltenham Festival, head a strong entry for the inaugural the Gr.3 Solerina Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse in January running of the Gr.1 Ryanair Gold Cup at Fairyhouse on and who is unbeaten in six starts, along with Uranna Easter Sunday, 5th April. (Panoramic), winner of a Listed contest at Sandown Park A total of 29 entries, an increase of twelve on last year, last month, and Whiteout (Samum), a good winner on her have been made for the €100,000 contest and Willie debut at Gowran Park four weeks ago. Mullins is responsible for nine of those. Along with the Gr.1 GLEN’S MELODY RETIRED Golden Miller Novices’ Chase winner Vautour and the Gr.1 RSA Chase winner, the champion trainer has also entered Willie Mullins has announced that last week’s Cheltenham the unbeaten chasers Vroum Vroum Mag (Voix Du Nord) Gr.1 winner Glen’s Melody has been retired and has been and Gitane Du Berlais (Balko). pencilled in for a visit to Shantou at Burgage Stud. Other contenders are the Gordon Elliott-trained Clarcam (Califet), Colm Murphy’s recent Naas winner Empire Of Dirt (Westerner), the Stuart Crawford-trained Fine Rightly (Alflora) and Duke Of Navan (Presenting), trained by Nicky Richards. Appears on pages 9-10 The third running of the Gr.1 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice Hurdle, won last year by Adriana Des Mottes (Network) and by Annie Power (Shirocco) in Japanese Review click HERE 2013, has attracted 19 entries, including four from the UK. ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL SPONSORED COMPETITION TO WIN A BIG BAD BOB NOMINATION Week 8 winner: M. Enright FOR FULL DETAILS: WWW.IRISHNATIONALSTUD.IE 1 EBN Tuesday, 17th March 2015 RACING NEWS • INDUSTRY NEWS The daughter of King’s Theatre was kept in training for had been placed in her two previous starts at Fontwell and a further season by her owner-breeder Fiona McStay Newbury last month and made all the running. especially to aim at the (OLBG) David Nicholson Mares’ A homebred of Bluehills Racing Limited, she is a half- Hurdle at The Festival, and she duly went one better than sister to the Gr.3 Hillsborough Stakes winner and Gr.1 last year, courtesy of the last-flight fall of stablemate Nassau Stakes runner-up Cassydora (Darshaan; dam of Annie Power. The seven-year-old retires with a record of the triple Gr.3 scorer Ernest Hemingway), the Listed twelve wins, which also include the 2013 Gr.1 Mares Hoppings Stakes winner Classic Remark (Dr Fong) and Hurdle at Punchestown and four Listed races, and six the Listed-placed Clarietta (Shamardal), out of the Gr.2 places from her 21 outings. (then) Premio Lydia Tesio winner Claxon (Caerleon). Her dam, Glens Music, was a Gr.2 winner over fences at Naas in the spring of 2003 and was bought by Moygannon Industry News Stud for €74,000 at that November’s Tattersalls Ireland Sale, having been covered by Presenting. That first foal she produced for Fiona McStay, though sold as a foal, was BRITAIN the Gr.2-placed hurdler and chaser Quietly Fancied, while her subsequent foals also include the Listed-winning PARAMETERS SHIFT FOR hurdler Ceol Rua (Bob Back) and last month’s Naas Gr.2 winner Lean Araig (Old Vic). JOCKEYS CHAMPIONSHIPS The official Championships for Flat jockeys and owners BRITAIN will have their start and end dates changed for the upcoming season. Traditionally both began at Doncaster’s Lincoln meeting and ended at Doncaster’s November ENTRIES CLOSE FOR Handicap meeting. However, this year, it will start at ALL-WEATHER CHAMPIONSHIPS Newmarket’s Guineas Festival (Saturday, 2nd May) and end on British Champions Day at Ascot (Saturday, 17th Entries for the seven Championship races on the £1.1- October). The Champion Trainer award will not be million All-Weather Championships Finals Day at Lingfield redefined and will be awarded to the trainer with the most Park on Good Friday, 3rd April, will close today. prize money (turf and all-weather) between Sunday, 9th To qualify, horses can either have won a ‘Fast Track November 2014 and Saturday, 7th November 2015. Qualifier’, of which there were 28, or have run a minimum Current Champion Jockey, Richard Hughes has of three times at either of Britain’s five all-weather tracks: welcomed the changes to the Jockeys’ Championships Chelmsford, Kempton Park, Lingfield Park, Southwell or and declared his intention to defend his title, in what will Wolverhampton. be his final season riding. One of the runs alternatively could have been at Meydan He said: “This is good progress and I will be all out to on the dirt surface, or at Dundalk in Ireland, or either of the win a fourth successive Championship this year under the all-weather tracks at Cagnes-Sur-Mer, Chantilly or new format before I retire. Anything which helps to raise Deauville. Entries will be revealed at noon on Wednesday. the profile of the sport and is of benefit for the Weighing SEA PRIDE Room is something that I’m all for. Over the last 30 years, the number of racedays has almost doubled and the sheer A FIRST FOR PRESCOTT volume of racing has meant that the title battle is a real Sir Mark Prescott landed his first National Hunt victory grind. It took me 20 years to win my first Championship yesterday at Southwell when the four-year-old Sea Pride and I am certainly in no mood to give up my title now! That landed the conditional and amateur mares’ National Hunt it now covers the core summer racing season means that flat race by eleven lengths. The daughter of Sea The Stars it will be less of a slog for the lads in the weighing room.” LambertstownLambertstownLambertstown StudStudStud Boarding / Foaling / Sales Preparation for all Sales. Friendly family-owned farm located 40 mins from Dublin Port, Emily MacMahon 15 minutes from Tattersalls, 45 minutes from Go(s Lambertstown Stud, and 1 hr 45 minutes from Coolmore. Kilmessan, Co. 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There is to be £100,000 of prize money for the Jockeys’ Championships funded by both Great British Racing (GBR) and British Champions Series and is to be distributed as follows: G Champion Jockey £25,000* G Runner-Up £10,000* G Champion Apprentice £5,000* G Leading Jockey £15,000 (most wins through calendar year) G All-Weather Championship £10,000 G PJA Welfare Scheme £25,000** G Jockey of the Month £2,000 (in associtation with Channel 4) * GB turf and all-weather wins between 2nd May and 17th October 2015 ** available to fund a special welfare project which will benefit all PJA members, details of which will be announced at a later date. IRELAND TATTERSALLS EXTENDS SPONSORSHIP OF IRISH CLASSICS It was announced yesterday by the Curragh racecourse that Tattersalls have extended their support at the County Kildare venue. The sales company is to sponsor the Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas, Gr.1 Irish 2,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Tattersalls Gold Cup until 2017. The latter race will also see an increase of €40,000, bringing the total prize money to €250,000. The three races will take place over the weekend of Saturday, 23rd and Sunday, 24th May. Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said: “The Tattersalls Irish Guineas Festival promises to be one of the highlights of the European racing calendar. 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