BBM Yearbook 09/10

BBM Yearbook 09/10 

Flying the flag for British thoroughbreds

Think along independent lines 

ARCHIPENKO 

M R P R O S P E C T O R S I R E L I N E 

By KINGMAMBO out of a Stakes Winning ¾ sister to Champion Miler 

and sire NUREYEV and ½ sister to Champion 2yo FAIRY BRIDGE 

(dam of Champion Sires SADLER’S WELLS and FAIRY KING). 

A Gr.1 Winner and Leading International Miler 

Winner of 6 races at 2, 3, 4 & 5 years, incl. 5 Group races, 

from 7f to 10f and over £1.2m. TFR: 127 

HERNANDO 

N O R T H E R N D A N C E R S I R E L I N E 

NEW 

2010 

Classic Winner and Triple Champion, Triple Classic Sire 

Now sire of FIVE individual Gr.1 Winners including 

2009 Tattersalls Gold Cup (1m2f) winner CASUAL CONQUEST, 

2009 Goodwood Stakes (9f) winner GITANO HERNANDO, 

2008 Oaks winner LOOK HERE and Champion SULAMANI Fee: £12,000 1st Oct. S.L.F 

(6 times Gr.1 winner and first crop Classic Sire in 2009), etc. 

SELKIRK 

N A T I V E D A N C E R S I R E L I N E 

Dual European Champion Miler 

Champion and Classic Sire of TWELVE individual Gr.1 winners 

Sire of 76 individual Group/Stakes winners including, in 2009, Gr.1 winners 

DARYAKANA and SELMIS, Gr.2 winner PIPEDREAMER, 

and Gr.3 winners AKMAL and BORDER PATROL. 

Successful broodmare sire of 4 individual Gr.1 winners 

SIR PERCY 

N E V E R B E N D S I R E L I N E 

First 

yearlings 

in 2010 

Unbeaten Champion 2yo; Classic winning Champion 3yo 

The ONLY horse in the last 17 years to have had the speed to win over 6f 

as a 2yo and the class to win the Derby at 3 • TFR: 129 

Ten Classic Winners in his first Four Generations 

His first foal sold at public auction fetched $85,000 at the 

Fee: £6,000 1st Oct. S.L.F 

Fasig-Tipton November Sale (filly ex Crystal Seas) 

WITH APPROVAL 

G R E Y S O V E R E I G N S I R E L I N E 

Fee: £8,000 1st Oct. S.L.F 

Fee: £20,000 1st Oct. 

Triple Crown winner and Horse of the Year 

Multiple Group sire of the winners of over 1,700 races and 

$45 million worldwide on turf and dirt 

Sire of 126 Stakes Performers, 47 Individual Stakes Winners, 

Fee: On application 

including SILVERFOOT and MISSION APPROVED 

 

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Contents 

04 Foreword 

Kirsten Rausing, Chairman, 

Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association 

06 Chairman’s Statement 

Gavin Pritchard-Gordon, Executive 

Chairman, British Bloodstock Marketing 

08 BBM Activity 2009 

Anna Powell, British Bloodstock Marketing 

11 January 

2010 Racing Fixtures & Sales Dates 

2009 Race Highlights & Sales Review 

Feature: Midnight Legend 

by William Morgan 

17 February 



Feature: Paul Murphy 

by Carl Evans 

23 March 


2009 Race Highlights 

Feature: Million in Mind 

by Emma Berry 

29 April 



Feature: Breeze-up Bonus 

by Edward Prosser 

37 May 



Feature: Mette Campbell-Andenaes 

by Nancy Sexton 

45 June 



Feature: Michael Owen 

by Edward Prosser 

51 July 



Feature: Richard Fahey 

by Julian Muscat 

57 August 



Feature: Oasis Dream 

by Tony Morris 

63 September 



Feature: McKeever St Lawrence 

by Emma Berry 

69 October 



Feature: Newsells Park Stud 

by Tina Rau 

79 November 



Feature: NH Stallion Parade 2009 

by Clive Webb-Carter 

85 December 



Feature: 2010 New Stallions 

by John Berry 

93 Statistics & Stallion Fees 

Editor: Anna Powell Assistant Editors: Desna Tatler & Camilla Hicks Design: Tangerine, www.designbytangerine.co.uk 

Photography: Dan Abrahams, Chris Bourchier, Mark Cranham, horsephoto.com, Ian Jones, Trevor Jones/Thoroughbred 

Photography, Deborah Kral, Jim Lisa, Caroline Norris, ScoopDyga, Andrew Watkins. 

Every care has been taken in producing this publication that the information contained within it is accurate up to the date 

of print, but no responsibility is accepted for any error or omission.

04 

Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 

Executive Chairman 

gavin.pritchard-gordon@bbm.gb.com 

+44 (0)1638 675 941 

Anna Powell 

International Development Manager 

anna.powell@bbm.gb.com 

+44 (0)7824 625 090 

Desna Tatler 

Marketing Executive 

desna.tatler@bbm.gb.com 

+44 (0)1638 675 943 

BBM Locations: 

BBM Head Office 

190 High Street, Newmarket 

Suffolk, CB8 9JW 

T: +44 (0)1638 675 940 

F: +44 (0)1638 676 691 

BBM London Office 

75 High Holborn 

London, WC1V 6LS 

T: +44 (0)20 7152 0039 

F: +44 (0)20 7152 0041 

www.bbm.gb.com 

Foreword 

In its relatively short existence, British Bloodstock Marketing (BBM) 

has become a recognised brand on the international stage. 

Visits in 2009 to a number of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Russia, 

and India have further enhanced BBM’s reputation and resulted in the building 

of rewarding relationships with these new International clients, who are 

investing in British bloodstock again after a long period of inactivity. 

BBM continues to move forward and encapsulates all that is British within 

our sport. It is particularly active in its promotion of British breeding and 

British based stallions. BBM is always to the fore at our major bloodstock sales, 

working closely with our world renowned auction houses, Tattersalls, Doncaster 

Bloodstock Sales and Brightwells Cheltenham. 

British breeding has so much to offer – a richness of bloodlines that are 

astonishing in their depth and variety; studs that stand for an abundance 

of history, yet cater for every modern convenience; a highly skilled and 

experienced workforce; and expertise in the realms of veterinary health care, 

education of stud and stable staff, bloodstock shipping and insurance, on a 

worldwide scale. 

I would like to commend what BBM is doing to promote our fabulous industry, 

in difficult times – and to wish it continued success in 2010. 

Kirsten Rausing 

TBA Chairman 

Kirsten Rausing

Red 

Admirable 

FIVE SUPERB SPECIMENS AT CHEVELEY PARK STUD 

FEE: FEE: FEE: £6,000 £6,000 £6,000 

Dual Dual Dual Gr.1 Gr.1 Gr.1 winning winning winning unbeaten unbeaten unbeaten 2yo 2yo 2yo 

Also Also Gr.1 Gr.1 placed placed placed three three three times times times at at 3. 3. 

FIRST FIRST CROP CROP ARE ARE YEARLINGS YEARLINGS IN IN 2010 2010 

MEDICEAN 

MEDICEAN 

MEDICEAN 

MEDICEAN 

MEDICEAN 

MEDICEAN 

FEE: FEE: FEE: £15,000 £15,000 £15,000 

Dual Dual Dual Gr.1 Gr.1 Gr.1 winning winning winning miler miler miler 

Sire Sire of four four Gr.1 Gr.1 winners, winners, winners, 

including including including CHEVRON CHEVRON in in in 2009 2009 2009 

PIVOTAL PIVOTAL PIVOTAL PIVOTAL PIVOTAL PIVOTAL 

FEE: FEE: FEE: £65,000 £65,000 £65,000 

One One of of the the world’s world’s Leading Leading Sires Sires 

Sire Sire of of Gr.1 Gr.1 winners SARISKA (x 2), 

VIRTUAL, REGAL PARADE 

and SIYOUNI (at 2) in 2009 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

KYLLACHY 

FEE: FEE: FEE: FEE: FEE: FEE: £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 £10,000 

Champion Champion Champion Sprinter Sprinter Sprinter by by by PIVOTAL PIVOTAL PIVOTAL 

Sire Sire of of Gr.1 Gr.1 winner winner winner DIM DIM DIM SUM SUM SUM and and Gr.2 Gr.2 

winner winner winner ARABIAN ARABIAN ARABIAN ARABIAN GLEAM GLEAM GLEAM GLEAM in in 2009 2009 

VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL VIRTUAL 

FEE: FEE: FEE: £5,000 £5,000 £5,000 

Gr.1 Gr.1 Gr.1 winning winning winning miler miler miler by by by PIVOTAL PIVOTAL 

from from the the superb superb family family of of 

SARISKA SARISKA (Gr.1), LAHALEEB (Gr.1) 

and PIPEDREAMER (Gr.2) 

All fees are 1st October, LF Free Return terms 

NEW FOR 2010 

Duchess Drive, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 9DD 

Telephone: (01638) 730316 Fax: (01638) 730868 enquiries@cheveleypark.co.uk www.cheveleypark.co.uk

06 

Chairman’s Statement 

It was with a degree of trepidation, and a modicum of foreboding, 

that British breeders welcomed the first day of January 2009. The 

world had just tumbled into deep recession, business confidence 

was at an all time low and expectations for the year ahead were 

correspondingly dismal.Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 

On reflection, however, the 

bloodstock market has 

remained remarkably buoyant 

in the intervening twelve months and 

sales results have been surprisingly 

healthy, everything considered. A tribute 

to the resilience and resolve of industry 

professionals – and the expertise and 

endeavours of our three GB based 

Sales Companies, Tattersalls, Doncaster 

Bloodstock Sales, and Brightwells 

at Cheltenham. 

It has been a vintage year for British based 

stallions, both on the Flat and National 

Hunt. Pivotal, Oasis Dream and Singspiel, 

amongst others, have been permanently in 

the ascendant – and 18 Group 1 victories 

were achieved by British bred and sired 

horses. Those three redoubtable fillies 

Sariska, Midday and Dar Re Mi come 

immediately to mind. 

The annual TBA National Hunt Stallion 

Parade at Cheltenham in November 

underlined the strength and quality of 

our present British based contingent, 

spearheaded by Kayf Tara, Midnight 

Legend and Double Trigger – while, on the 

racecourse, the exploits of Punjabi, Deep 

Purple, Planet of Sound, Khyber Kim and 

Diamond Harry have kept British breds in 

this category constantly in the headlines. 

Tattersalls, DBS and Brightwells all 

finished 2009 on a high note. Trade 

at Tattersalls December sale, for 

yearlings, foals and breeding stock, was 

unbelievably strong, the overall turnover 

rising by 13%, and the average, median 

and percentage of lots sold showing 

significant improvement, despite a much 

smaller catalogue. Our BBM Marquee 

was hugely successful – industry 

representatives from 24 different 

countries dropping by in the duration. 

Amongst these international investors, 

BBM welcomed and assisted first time 

buyers from Syria, who bought 22 

horses including one stallion, for a total 

of 83,300 gns. 

The new DBS Sales complex has proved 

popular and beneficial to all concerned. 

DBS Sales held up well throughout the 

year – the average at their December 

Sale increasing by a sizeable 69%, and 

the median by 60% respectively. 

Brightwells Cheltenham, who came 

under the BBM umbrella in 2009, have 

also flagged some impressive sales results 

at their revamped venue – recording 

averages of £36,000 and £26,000 for 

lots sold at their November and 

December Sales. 

BBM have travelled extensively in 2009, 

spreading the word about the merits of 

British bloodstock and exploiting the 

possibilities of emerging markets. This 

has necessitated ten visits to countries in 

Europe and forays further afield to India, 

Russia, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain. We have 

also welcomed a number of guests from 

around the world and hosted Inward 

Trade Missions from France, Oman, 

Turkey and Korea. 

Communications from the BBM office 

during 2009 have proved popular, the 

monthly eNewsletter reaching over 60 

different countries. This is something that 

BBM will continue to build upon and the 

launch of our new website in 2010 will help 

greatly to enhance this. The Yearbook, now 

in its third publication, is always gratefully 

received, particularly by our overseas clients, 

and we hope that you enjoy this year’s 

edition, which incorporates some new 

improved features. 

Anna, Desna and I would like to thank 

you for your staunch support in 2009 – 

and look forward to providing further 

guidance and information about British 

breeding in the upcoming year. 

Gavin Pritchard-Gordon 

Executive Chairman

08 

Flying the flag for 

British Thoroughbreds 

British Bloodstock Marketing promotes British-bred and British-sold 

bloodstock at home and abroad. It is funded by the British Horseracing 

Authority, Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, Tattersalls, DBS, Brightwells 

Cheltenham, Federation of Bloodstock Agents and Weatherbys. 

In 2009 British Bloodstock Marketing: 

• Launched its monthly eNewsletter 

• Visited and promoted Britain in 14 different countries 

• Hosted a joint reception with Tattersalls in India 

• Welcomed and assisted 24 different countries to 

its Marquee at the Tattersalls December sales 

• Arranged over 35 stud farm visits and stable tours 

for international clients 

• Supported and promoted the TBA NH Stallion 

Parade at Cheltenham 

• Sponsored a Breeders’ Raceday at Newmarket’s 

Rowley Mile racecourse 

• Hosted delegations from France, Oman and Korea 

• Supported the Breeze up bonus and Racing Post 

Yearling bonus schemes 

If you would like to experience the British thoroughbred 

industry in 2010 please do not hesitate to contact British 

Bloodstock Marketing, who will make sure that your visit 

is a memorable one. 

Anna Powell 

International Development Manager 

2009 Industry Statistics 

Mares at stud 10,624 

Foals 5,595 

Stallions 347 

Horses In Training 14,859* 

Registered Owners 17,434 

Licensed Trainers 586 

Racecourses 60 

Flat NH Total 

Fixtures 921** 505 1,426 

Prize Money £73.51 m £36.95 m £110.46 m 

Group/Grade 1 32 30 62 



Source: BHA/Weatherbys 

* Monthly average 

** Flat fixtures include some mixed race meetings

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BBM December Sales Marquee 

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BBM Yearbook | www.bbm.gb.com 

BBM & Tattersalls reception in Bangalore, India 

French breeders on the gallops 

BBM Executive Chairman addresses 

Indian Breeders in Bangalore, India 

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Pitchall Farm Stud 

Stallions: Midnight Legend & 

Passing Glance 

Tel: +44 (0)1789 720327 

www.pitchallstud.co.uk 

25 miles from Cheltenham Racecourse 

(55 minutes by car) 

Racing Fixtures 2010 

1 January 

New Year’s Day Racing at Cheltenham Racecourse 

www.cheltenham.co.uk 

23 January 

Victor Chandler Day at Ascot Racecourse 

www.ascot.co.uk 

30 January 

Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham Racecourse 


Sales Dates 2010 

26-28 January 

DBS January Sale 

Flat and National Hunt Horses in Training, National Hunt Breeding Stock 

www.dbsauctions.com 

30 January 

Brightwells Cheltenham National Hunt Sale 

Three and Four-Year-Old National Hunt Breeze-up horses, 

National Hunt Form Horses and Point to Pointers 

www.brightwells.com 

Trainer: Jonjo O’Neill 

Tel: +44 (0)1386 584209 

www.jonjooneillracing.com 



Wood Farm Stud 

Stallions: Act One, Erhaab, 

Lucarno & Bollin Eric 

Tel: +44 (0)1952 541243 


(1 hour 45 minutes by car) 

A B 

C D 


Trainer: Mick Easterby 

Tel: +44 (0)1347 878368 

www.mickeasterby-racing.co.uk 

60 miles from Doncaster 


January 11

12 

January 09 Race Highlights 

Through the dark days of January, National Hunt 

racing is at full throttle and each weekend provides an 

abundance of top class races that lay the trail for the 

Cheltenham Festival in March. 

Although wet and cold weather claimed many fixtures, racing 

was able to take place at Prestbury Park towards the end of 

the month and racegoers were treated to a view of star novice 

hurdler Diamond Harry (GB) in the Grade 2 Racecourse 

of the Year Classic Novices’ Hurdle. Unbeaten in five races 

preceding this event, he was attempting to take his third Graded 

race, having previously won the Grade 1 Blue Square Challow 

Novices’ Hurdle at Newbury a month earlier. Sent off the 8/15 

favourite, the Nick Williams trained six-year-old stayed on 

strongly to keep his unbeaten record and all roads were leading 

to Cheltenham. He subsequently finished third in the Grade 1 

Baring Bingham Novices’ Hurdle and could have been closer had 

he not made two costly mistakes in the closing stages. Diamond 

Harry is by the now deceased Sir Harry Lewis, who stood at 

Bill and Di Bromley’s Wood Farm Stud in Shropshire alongside 

the likes of ERHAAB, NORSE DANCER and LUCARNO. A 

successful National Hunt stallion for many years, Sir Harry Lewis 

sired such eminent jumpers as top flight hurdler and Grade 1 

winner Mighty Man, black type winners Burntoakboy (GB), 

Harringay (GB) and Diamant Noir (GB). 

Sir Harry Lewis 

Diamond Harry 

The Grade 2 Peter Marsh Chase is very often a good form guide 

for the John Smith’s Grand National in April. Donald McCain 

Jnr, whose father Ginger is legendary for training the great Red 

Rum, was saddling Cloudy Lane (GB), by Cloudings, for this 

race with an eye on the Grand National. In what was a gutsy 

performance, the nine-year-old stayed on to win the race by 

a head. Sadly his run in the Grand National finished at the 

Chair, when he blundered and unseated his jockey. 

Other British-bred highlights during the month were 

Cape Tribulation (GB), who spreadeagled a decent field in 

the Grade 2 River Don Hurdle at Doncaster, eventually passing 

the post 17 lengths clear of his nearest rival. The five-year-old 

was bred by Taker Bloodstock and is by Lanwades Stud resident 

HERNANDO, who has sired winners of the calibre of the 

2008 Grade 2 Charlie Hall Chase and 2007 Grade 3 Hennessy 

Cognac Gold Cup winner State of Play (GB) as well as 

Sacundai, who won the 2003 Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle. On the 

flat he has been responsible for the likes of 2008 Group 1 Oaks 

heroine Look Here (GB), multiple Group 1 global trotter 

Sulamani and the 2000 Group 1 Prix du Jockey-Club winner 

Holding Court (GB). The stud is managed by Thoroughbred 

Breeders’ Association Chairman Kirsten Rausing and alongside 

HERNANDO stand such eminent equine stars as SELKIRK, 

SIR PERCY, WITH APPROVAL and ARCHIPENKO, who will 

cover his first mares in 2010. 

Further afield, Foxysox (GB), by Foxhound, who is now 

trained by Rafael Bejarano in the US, took her career tally 

to five Graded victories from 22 starts when winning the 

Grade 3 Tuzla Handicap at Santa Anita by half a length. 

Cloudy Lane

January 09 Sales review 

DBS January Sale 

2010 Date: 26-28 January | Entries close: 4 January 2010 

Offered Sold Aggregate (£) Average (£) Median (£) 

2009 191 132 717,200 5,392 2,500 

2008 432 285 1,735,650 6,090 2,100 

The DBS January Sale attracts a wide and 

varied selection of buyers for a mixed 

catalogue of National Hunt Breedingstock 

and Flat & National Hunt Horses in Training. 

In 2009, the NH Foal section of this sale 

returned a lively trade that was topped by 

a colt who realised £47,000 and graphically 

illustrated the demand for this category of 

bloodstock when compared to similar sales 

in Ireland. With top class horses emerging 

from this sale, demand is sure to continue 

Brightwells January Cheltenham 

National Hunt Sale 

2010 Date: 30 January | Entries are by selection only 

2009 was the second year that the January 

Cheltenham National Hunt Sale for National 

Hunt Horses was held under the auspices 

of Brightwells. 

and this date has proved to be an ideal 

outlet for the best National Hunt Foals that 

sell to buyers from all over England, Ireland 

and Europe. 

The Horses in Training section is another 

source of top class success for vendors 

and purchasers. The selection of breeding 

prospects was well received in 2009 and 

bought by many of the leading Agents and 

Breeders from England and Ireland. 

Offered Sold Aggregate (£) Average (£) 

2009 52 38 901,500 30,050 

2008 74 52 2,133,000 41,019 

The sale is for National Hunt Form Horses 

and National Hunt Breeze-up Horses. The 

top price was £80,000 for MASTER OF THE 

HALL purchased by Nicky Henderson. 


Venalmar 

Successful Graduate 

VENALMAR 

Sold 8,500 gns (2002) 

Grade 2 Winner 

Grade 1 Placed 

Master of the Hall 


MASTER OF THE HALL 

Sold £80,000 (2009) 

Novice Hurdle Winner 

January 13

14 

Midnight 

Legend 

By William Morgan 

Few stallions have deserved to rise to the top more than Midnight 

Legend (GB), who is now among the elite of National Hunt stallions. 

He was bred at Limestone Stud in Lincolnshire, 

from a family held since 1942, when owner 

Clifford Nicholson, a jumping stalwart, 

bought a full-sister to the great racehorse and sire 

Hyperion for 3,200 guineas. A descendant by Night 

Shift, he is out of the useful Myth (GB), by Troy, herself 

out of a three-parts sister to Group 1 Irish 2,000 

Guineas winner Wassl (GB), by Mill Reef. “This branch 

of the family,” remembers the then manager, William 

Morgan, “are great movers, so, after a hiccup as a 

yearling, we were confident a big, bold correct horse 

like him would be a decent breeze-up horse.” 

So it proved and, bought by Gillan Hay for Umm 

Qarn Racing, who mainly had Arab horses, he went 

to Luca Cumani. Trained with typical patience, he 

won a maiden at two and progressed enough by 

the following Royal Ascot to win the King George V 

Handicap. He then won the Listed March Stakes and 

became favourite for the Group 1 St. Leger. A lover 

of fast ground, for some reason he always ran poorly 

in September. The following year he repeated the 

pattern, coming second in the Group 2 Hardwicke 

Stakes, winning the Listed Glorious Stakes and failing 

in the Group 3 September Stakes. 

After another season and another Listed win and 

Group 2 placing, Liz Harrington, then of Conkwell 

Grange, was asked by Northern Racing supremo Stan 

Clarke to find him a jumper. She knew Hay from Arab 

racing and bought Midnight Legend, who was sent to 

David Nicholson. There he won four races, including 

the Group 2 Irish Champion Novices’ Hurdle and 

Group 2 Aintree Top Novice Hurdle, handling softer 

ground surprisingly well. 

He retired to stud but Liz continued to ride him, even 

taking him cub hunting. “He loved it,” she recalls,” and 

was a perfect gentleman.” He had relatively few mares 

and, when Liz decided not to stand stallions for a 

while, he was secured by Kathleen and David Holmes 

of Pitchall Stud in Warwickshire. He soon proved, from 

limited opportunities, to have a rare ability to upgrade 

mares, allied to a very high proportion of winners to 

runners. At the time of going to press, his winners to 

runners ratio was an astonishing 56%, with headline 

performers too, notably My Petra (GB), a flat winner 

and at Group 2 level over fences, stakes winning 

chaser Amygayle, Group 2 placed Itsa Legend and 

Midnight Sail, etc. 

The best is yet to come, as fame has brought bigger 

and classier books of mares, though Kathleen Holmes 

is anxious to look after her star: “I do not want 

to cover large numbers of mares; it would not be 

good for his longevity, or ours!” The fee has risen to 

£4,000, still good value compared with proven horses 

elsewhere. Pitchall stands another horse with a similar 

stud profile, Passing Glance (GB), by Polar Falcon, and 

it would be unwise to back against a repeat dose.

Midnight Legend 



My Petra 

January 15 

Frankie Dettori wins on 

Midnight Legend at Goodwood 

Further information: 

Pitchall Farm Stud 

www.pitchallstud.co.uk

February 

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Employee Training & Education: 

British Racing School 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 665103 

www.brs.org.uk 

4 miles from Newmarket High Street 



13 February 

Totesport Super Saturday at Newbury Racecourse 

www.newbury-racecourse.co.uk 

20 February 

Betfair Ascot Chase Day at Ascot Racecourse 



4-5 February 

Tattersalls February Sale including TBA 

Stallion Parade 

Breeding Stock, Fillies/Horses in Training and Yearlings 

www.tattersalls.com 

Industry Training 

1-5 February 

TRIC - The Racing Industry Course 

www.brs.org.uk 

Trainer: Alan King 


www.alankingracing.co.uk 

30 miles from Newbury Racecourse 


Kingwood Stud 

Breeding, breaking, pre-training 

and sales preparation 

Tel: +44 (0)1488 72811 

www.kingwoodstud.com 



A B 

C D 


Trainer: Charlie Mann 

Tel: +44 (0)1488 73118 

www.charliemann.com 



February 17

18 

February 09 Race Highlights 

Lord Oaksey had reason to smile when his own 

Carruthers (GB), trained by his son-in-law Mark 

Bradstock, won the Grade 2 Sodexo Reynoldstown 

Novices’ Chase at Ascot by a cool 54 lengths. 

The feature event on the card, this race is a proven trial for 

the Grade 1 RSA Novices’ Chase (ex Royal and Sun Alliance 

Chase) at Cheltenham. Past winners have included Grand 

National winner Royal Athlete (GB), Gold Cup victor Mr 

Mulligan and Albertas Run, who in 2008 was the last horse to 

win this trial and the RSA Novices Chase. This popular victory 

was a fitting reward for Lord Oaksey, who has dedicated 

much of his life to the racing world, not only as a fine amateur 

rider, journalist and TV racing presenter, but also as a tireless 

mainstay of the Injured Jockeys’ Fund for many years. As 

well as owning Carruthers (GB), Lord Oaksey also bred the 

six-year-old. He is by KAYF TARA, who is making a name for 

himself with his progeny over jumps and was leading British 

National Hunt stallion in 2008 when his eldest offspring were 

a mere six years old. He stands under the Darley banner at 

Simon Sweeting’s Overbury Stud in Gloucestershire, alongside 

BERTOLINI, PROCLAMATION and SAGAMIX. 

The previous month, KAYF TARA had reached a milestone 

when siring his first winners over fences. While a considerable 

number of stallions sire plenty of hurdlers, some even 

becoming champion sires on the back of their progeny’s 

success over timber, most National Hunt sires of lasting note 

have been those that produce chasers. KAYF TARA produced 

three such winners in January in Carruthers (GB), Planet of 

Sound (GB) and Kornati Kid (GB), who took the Grade 2 

Totepool Towton Novices’ Chase at Wetherby. 

Act One 

Viva Pataca 

While the image of sun drenched turf and green grass swaying 

gently on a warm wind was but a mirage, flat racing, although 

low profile in February, is still represented on the all-weather 

tracks. The Listed Mill Wood Winter Open Stakes over 10 

furlongs at Lingfield produced a British-bred 1-2-3, led by 

Suits Me (GB), who was bred by Bob Urquhart in Yorkshire 

and is by Overbury-Darley sire BERTOLINI. Second placed 

horse Dansant (GB), by DANSILI, later finished second in 

the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot. 

In the southern hemisphere, flat racing was at full throttle. 

Star mare Dancer’s Daughter (GB) lifted the Group 1 L 

Jaffee Empress Club Stakes at Turffontein in South Africa, 

adding to her four previous Group 1 wins. She is a daughter of 

ACT ONE, who was standing at Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s 

Nunnery Stud in Norfolk, though from 2010 he will be based 

at Bill Bromley’s Wood Farm Stud in Shropshire, where he will 

stand as a dual-purpose stallion at a fee of £2,000. 

Hong Kong star Viva Pataca (GB), by Marju, also had Group 1 

success when narrowly taking the Citi Hong Kong Gold Cup at 

Sha Tin. A previous inmate at Sir Mark Prescott’s Newmarket 

yard, Viva Pataca was landing back-to-back victories in this 

race and took his Group 1 tally to six. He further enhanced this 

record by winning the Group 1 Citi Champions and Chater Cup 

in May for the third year in a row. 

Carruthers 

Kayf Tara

February 09 Sales review 

Tattersalls February Sale 

2010 Date: 4-5 February | Entries close: 8 January 2010 

Offered Sold Aggregate (gns) Average (gns) Median (gns) 

2009 155 108 707,100 6,547 3,500 

2008 228 151 2,312,400 15,314 5,200 

The Tattersalls February Sale is Britain’s 

premier midwinter sale and attracts a wide 

cross section of buyers from throughout the 

world. On offer are a mix of weanlings, fillies 

and mares and horses in training. 2009 has 

seen the progeny of mares bought at this 

sale enjoy great success on the racecourse, 

with no less than three Group 1 winners. 

Headlining that trio is the Group 1 Prix Jean 

Prat winner LORD SHANAKILL, whose dam 

GREEN ROOM was purchased in 2005 for 

20,000 guineas, whilst DIARY, dam of the 

Group 1 Prix de l’Abbaye winner TOTAL 

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of the same sale. The Hong Kong Group 1 

Chairman’s Sprint Prize winner DIM SUM 

makes up the trio, with his dam HECKLE 

a 12,000 guineas graduate of the 2000 

renewal of the sale. The sale has thrown up 

numerous top class racecourse performers, 

including the Singapore Gold Cup winner 

TERFEL (50,000 guineas) and Listed 

winners PENCIL HILL (8,000 guineas), 

SHAMARDAR (12,000 guineas), TRISKEL 

(25,000 guineas) and TALKING HANDS 

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Sold 20,000 gns (2005) 

Dam of LORD SHANAKILL 

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February

20 

Paul 

Murphy 

By Carl Evans 

“Until someone has tried breeding they’ll never understand how difficult 

it is” says Paul Murphy of Staffordshire-based Wychnor Park Stud. 

That applies to Flat and National Hunt breeders, 

but there is an additional time factor for 

those who produce jumping horses, which is 

Murphy’s chosen form of self-flagellation. 

He says: “From the time you start researching the 

stallion to the time your foal reaches the racecourse 

could take five or six years. It’s a really long-term gain 

and the percentages are against you, but when you 

produce a winner you know what you have been 

through to reach that moment and there is no better 

feeling. Money cannot buy it.” 

Murphy has 14 horses in training and four broodmares, 

but this select band includes Carole’s Crusader, whom 

he owns jointly with Carole Skipworth, and who 

became Britain’s National Hunt Broodmare of the 

Year in 2008. She won seven races and has passed 

that talent on to her offspring, notably the Nicky 

Henderson-trained pair Carole’s Legacy and Mad Max. 

Now 19, Carole’s Crusader still enjoys a buck and kick 

in her paddock, and Murphy says: “She is in foal to 

Kayf Tara and therefore carrying a full brother or sister 

to Mad Max. We might have one more foal out of her, 

but I’m not going to run her into the ground.” 

“You can run them in handicaps against the boys or 

you can send them to stud, but as someone who 

wants to race and only buys battle-hardened mares, 

it’s a bit frustrating.”Ask him about the background to 

his racing interests and he says: “I don’t have a racing 

background. I ran a big healthcare company that was 

sold three years ago, but some 12 years before that my 

Marketing Manager owned a mare I enjoyed going to 

the races to watch. I said, ‘When she retires, I’ll have 

a half share in her foal’, and that was the start of the 

slippery slope.” 

Murphy’s interest in jump racing and the realisation he 

could buy “a decent jumping mare” for less than her 

Flat equivalent, prompted his expansion in that sport, 

but he owns Danehills Pearl, a Listed winner for Tom 

Dascombe last year, and he bought a Dutch Art filly 

foal out of a sister to Chorist at the December Sale. 

“One or two flat horses give me something to do in 

the summer,” he says. 

Murphy plans his own matings and buys his own 

mares after researching their performances – Mariah 

Rollins, a Grade 1 winner over fences, whom he 

bought for 140,000gns at Doncaster in 2006, is one 

of the most valuable and, while she is kept in Ireland 

at the Moore family’s Ballincurrig House Stud, he is 

definitely one for supporting British stallions. 

He says: “Sir Harry Lewis has been a lucky sire for me 

in the past and I will be using Midnight Legend for the 

first time in 2010. It is not easy to persuade stallion 

owners to allow good-class jumping mares to visit Flat 

stallions, but Kirsten Rausing (of Lanwades Stud) has 

been very helpful and Carole’s Crusader has three foals 

by Hernando who all look smashing.”Murphy is an 

enthusiast whose investment in breeding and racing 

make him a great asset to the sport. His ambition to 

breed a Cheltenham winner is surely attainable and he 

adds: “The Gold Cup would be even better – isn’t that 

every jumping breeder’s dream?”

Mad Max 




www.pitchallstud.co.uk 

Hernando 

www.lanwades.co.uk 

February 21 

Paul Murphy with Carole’s Crusader

March 

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In the area 

Trainer: Kim Bailey 

Tel: +44(0)1242 416859 

www.kimbaileyracing.com 

6 miles from Cheltenham racecourse 


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16-19 March 

The Cheltenham Festival at Cheltenham 

Racecourse 


27 March 

William Hill Lincoln Day at Doncaster Racecourse 

www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk 

Overbury Stud 

Stallions: Bertolini, Kayf Tara, 

Proclamation & Sagamix 

Tel: +44 (0)1386 725552 

www.ovstud.co.uk 


(10 minutes by car) 

Tweenhills Farm & Stud 

Stallions: Lucky Story, Sleeping 

Indian & Trade Fair 

Tel: +44 (0)1452 700177 

www.tweenhills.com 



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Trainer: Tim Easterby 

Tel: +44 (0)1653 668566 

www.timeasterby.co.uk 



March 23

24 

March 09 Race Highlights 

All eyes turned to Cheltenham’s unique Prestbury Park 

racecourse in March, where the National Hunt season 

reaches its pinnacle. With four days of championship 

races, the tension, emotion and excitement are palpable. 

Champion trainer Paul Nicholls had assembled a 

seemingly unbeatable team, including his two equine 

heros Kauto Star and Denman going head to head in 

the Totesport Gold Cup. 

Trainer Nicky Henderson started the week in style when Punjabi 

(GB), by Komaite, battled up the hill under stable jockey Barry 

Geraghty to land the Grade 1 Smurfit-Kappa Champion Hurdle by 

a neck from Celestial Halo and stable mate Binocular a head away 

in third. Punjabi ended his season with great credit when failing by 

a short head to take the Grade 1 Rabobank Champion Hurdle at 

Punchestown in May. The six-year-old was bred by licence-holder 

Captain Jim Wilson in Lancashire and was purchased by British 

agents David Minton and Anthony Bromley, who trade under the 

name Highflyer Bloodstock. Their expertise was seen to the fore 

as their purchases dominated the winner’s enclosure during the 

week with 10 victories. These included the winner of the Grade 

1 Gold Cup in Kauto Star, the Grade 1 Champion Chase victor 

Master Minded and Big Buck’s in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes World 

Hurdle. The last named was one of two Grade 1’s in which they 

bought the first two past the post, which was an outstanding 

achievement. Many of their purchases have wended their way 

to Paul Nicholl’s Somerset stable and he saddled a total of three 

winners over the four days, including Kauto Star in the Gold 

Cup. Having saddled the first three home in last year’s renewal 

of the Blue Riband, Nicholls astonishingly trained four of the first 

five past the post this year. Kayf Aramis (GB), by KAYF TARA, 

provided one of two winners for trainer Venetia Williams at the 

Festival when taking the highly competitive Listed Pertemps Final 

Handicap Hurdle by two lengths. 

Anthony Bromley & David Minton 

Double Trigger 

Aside from Cheltenham, British-bred horses were accumulating 

victories at home and abroad. Russian Trigger (GB), by Ascot 

Gold Cup winner DOUBLE TRIGGER, won the Listed John 

Smith’s Midlands Grand National, while on the flat British-bred 

horses won a total of 13 black type races, eight of them abroad. 

Court Canibal (GB), by Montjeu, took the Group 3 Prix Exbury 

while Battle of Hastings (GB), by ROYAL APPLAUSE, won 

the Group 3 Baldwin Stakes at Santa Anita. Now trained by 

Jeff Mullins in the US, Battle of Hastings was bred by Myriad 

Communications and Peter Stanley’s New England Stud near 

Newmarket. Now a consistent performer in Hong Kong, 

Hawkes Bay (GB), by Vettori, was bred by Hedgeholme Stud 

in Northern England. He showed a good turn of foot when 

sprinting down the straight at Sha Tin to win the Group 3 Hong 

Kong Macau Trophy. 

Closer to home, Oh Goodness Me (GB), by Galileo, took 

the Group 3 Lodge Park Stud European Breeders Fund Park 

Express Stakes at the Curragh in Ireland. She was bred by Sir Eric 

Parker’s Crimbourne Stud. Scintillo (GB), by Fantastic Light, 

won the Group 3 sportingbet.com Winter Derby at Lingfield 

for trainer Richard Hannon. A half-brother to multiple Group 

3 scorer Jumbajukiba (GB), Scintillo was bred by Woodcote 

Stud and is out of Classic and Group 1 winner Danseuse du Soir, 

who was Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Broodmare 

of the Year in 2007. 

Paul Nicholls 

Punjabi 

Venetia Williams

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Million 

in Mind 

By Emma Berry 

The Million in Mind partnership may have started out as a flat syndicate 

but it is with stars of the winter game that they have become associated. 

Anthony Bromley, who runs Million in Mind 

with his partner in Highflyer Bloodstock, David 

Minton, says “Initially there was a racehorse 

called Million In Mind, whom we bought to try to win 

the Cartier Million in its first year. He never actually 

ran as a two-year-old, but he did win later on and we 

had lots of fun with him.” 

“On the back of that, ‘Minty’ thought we should 

expand. Our first big partnership contained eight 

horses – six flat two-year-olds and two juvenile 

hurdlers to give some interest during the winter.” 

It was, however, the jumpers who covered themselves 

in glory, with the David Nicholson-trained Beauchamp 

Grace (GB) winning her first four races and starting 

favourite for the Triumph Hurdle in 1993. “David 

Nicholson was brilliant and basically got the syndicate 

off the ground with that horse,” recalls Bromley. 

Since Beauchamp Grace, names such as Mysilv (GB), 

Mister Banjo, Voy Por Ustedes, Garde Champetre, 

Royal Rosa and, most recently, Tricky Trickster have 

been added to the list of top-class jumpers to have 

raced in the partnership’s red, green and white silks. 

The number of members is set at 180, each of whom 

pays a £4,000 all-inclusive annual subscription. Where 

Million in Mind stands apart from other syndicates 

is that each horse, however talented, only races for 

the partnership for twelve months. At the end of the 

jumps season, all horses are sold off at Doncaster’s 

May sale, where their presence has created some 

sales-ring fireworks in recent years. 

“We have a great client base. Many people have been 

in it for years and years and keep rolling over,” says 

Bromley. “It’s nice to see the horses going on and 

doing well and not just winning for us. Mysilv sold 

for 155,000gns, which was a record at the time, then 

Mister Banjo broke that when selling for 240,000gns 

and we equalled that with Joly Bey, but then Royal 

Rosa was the next lot into the ring after him and 

made 340,000gns.” 

By far the biggest sales success so far was that of 

Garde Champetre, who won the Grade 2 Mersey 

Novices’ Hurdle for Million in Mind at Aintree and 

was then sold for another record-breaking sum of 

530,000gns. He now races for JP McManus, for 

whom he has won back-to-back runnings of the 

Cross-Country Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. 

Minton and Bromley also buy horses for some of the 

biggest owners in the jumping business, including the 

Stewart family, Clive Smith, John Hales and Trevor 

Hemmings, for whom success is naturally measured 

by victories at the big meetings. 

“Mysilv won the Triumph Hurdle for Million in 

Mind in its second year and we didn’t get another 

Cheltenham Festival winner until Tricky Trickster,” 

says Bromley. “I started to worry about this until one 

of the members pointed out to me why it is they are 

involved and that’s actually for the whole experience: 

it’s the involvement with leading trainers, the visits we 

organise. It’s very much a social club really – this is our 

18th year and we’ve had lots of winners. 

“My parents and my in-laws are in Million in Mind and 

I can honestly say that despite all the big winners I was 

involved with last year, nothing gave me more pleasure 

than Tricky Trickster winning at Cheltenham.”

Garde Champetre 

Mysilv 


Million in Mind Syndicate 


Highflyer Bloodstock 

mail@highflyerbloodstock.com 

March 27 

Tricky Trickster

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8-10 April 

John Smith’s Grand National 

Meeting at Aintree Racecourse 

www.aintree.co.uk 

14-15 April 

Craven Meeting at Newmarket 

Rowley Mile Racecourse 

www.newmarketracecourses.co.uk 

16-17 April 

Coral Scottish Grand National 

Meeting at Ayr Racecourse 

www.ayr-racecourse.co.uk 

23-24 April 

bet365 Gold Cup Meeting at 

Sandown Park Racecourse 

www.sandown.co.uk 

In the area 

Plantation Stud 

Stallions: Araafa 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 577341 

www.plantationstud.com 

5 miles from Newmarket 


Trainer: Ian Williams 

Tel: +44 (0)1564 822392 

www.ianwilliamsracing.com 

46 miles from Cheltenham racecourse 



7 April 

DBS Lincoln Handicap Sales 

Horses in and out of Training 


13-15 April 

Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sales 

Two-Year-Olds in Training 


14 April 

Brightwells Cheltenham National 

Hunt Sale 

Three & Four-Year-Old National Hunt Stores, 

Horses in Training and Point to Pointers 


19-21 April 

DBS Breeze-up Sales 



29-30 April 

Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up Sales 



Mickley Stud 

Stallions: Beat All, Central Park, 

Needwood Blade, Multiplex 

& Overbury 

Tel: +44 (0)1630 638840 

www.mickleystud.com 

55 miles from Aintree Racecourse 


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Shade Oak Stud 

Stallions: Alflora, Black Sam 

Bellamy, Fair Mix & Grape 

Tree Road 

Tel: +44 (0)1939 270235 

www.shadeoakstud.co.uk 

65 miles from Aintree Racecourse 


April 29

30 

April 09 Race Highlights 

The penultimate National Hunt Festival of the season 

takes place in Liverpool at Aintree, with the highlight 

being the world’s most famous steeple-chase, the John 

Smith’s Grand National. This year’s renewal was won by 

shock 100/1 outsider Mon Mome with British-bred State 

of Play (GB) by HERNANDO finishing a creditable fourth. 

Having bypassed the Cheltenham Festival, Ogee (GB) by 

Generous, arrived fresh for Aintree and recorded his first 

Grade 1 victory when taking the Citroen Sefton Novices 

Hurdle. Always prominent, the six-year-old led two flights 

from home but hit the last hard and had to battle to the line 

to win by half a length. Runner-up Comhla Ri Coig (GB), 

by Sir Harry Lewis, is trained by Donald McCain, the son of 

Aintree legend Ginger who bred the horse, and is a chaser 

in the making. Owned by Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Ogee is 

trained by his sister Renee Robeson. Previously handled on the 

flat by Sir Michael Stoute, having been bought by British agent 

John Warren from Sussex nursery Hesmonds Stud, Ogee has 

subsequently been sent novice chasing and has notched up 

two from two, on the last occasion scoring by 49 lengths. 

Bouggler (GB) was a timely winner for his sire TOBOUGG 

in the Grade 2 John Smith’s Mersey Novices’ Hurdle. Still 

under the Darley banner, 2009 was TOBOUGG’s first season 

as a dual-purpose sire alongside DOUBLE TRIGGER at John 

and Sarah Haydon’s East Burrow Farm in Devon. This race has 

produced the likes of three-time Grade 1 Gold Cup winner 

Best Mate and top novice chaser Tidal Bay in the recent past, 

so Bouggler’s battling victory augurs well for the future. 

Having finished a well beaten second in a Grade 2 event at 

Aintree, Deep Purple (GB) by HALLING, proved himself a 

tough customer when putting up a front running performance 

to take the Grade 2 Homecoming Future Champion Novices’ 

State of Play 

Chase at Ayr by nine lengths. Trained by Evan Williams, he is 

likely to stay further and will be an interesting prospect in open 

races next season. 

Flat racing moved up a gear with the onset of Classic trials, 

where the predominant races at Newmarket were a clean 

sweep for British-breds. Delegator (GB) by DANSILI, took 

the Group 3 Banshahousestables.com Craven Stakes for trainer 

Brian Meehan and was consequently made favourite for the 

Group 1 stanjames.com 2000 Guineas. 

The previous day at Racing’s Headquarters had been a pretty 

remarkable one for British breeding, as seven of the eight races 

on the card were won by horses bred in Britain. Fantasia (GB) 

by Sadler’s Wells, gave her supporters little worry when 

coasting home by seven lengths in the feature event, the 

Group 3 Leslie Harrison Memorial Nell Gwyn Stakes. Bred 

by her trainer Luca Cumani and owned by American George 

Strawbridge, Fantasia finished third in the Group 1 Poules 

d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp on her next start. 

Cumani successfully campaigned his ex-handicapper 

Presvis (GB), by SAKHEE, in Dubai over the winter and 

then sent the horse for the Group 1 Audemars Piguet QE II 

Cup in Hong Kong, where he won by a length from local hero 

Viva Pataca (GB). In Ireland, Fame and Glory (GB), by 

Montjeu, entered the Derby picture when landing the Group 

3 P.W.McGrath Memorial Ballysax Stakes at Leopardstown. 

Bouggler 

Presvis 

Ogee

April 09 Sales review 

DBS Lincoln Handicap Sale 

2010 Date: 7 April | Entries close: 15 March 2010 


2009 77 62 469,200 7,567 3,000 

2008 106 96 446,750 4,214 2,200 

The international appeal of this sale is 

highlighted by the success of DAYTONA 

in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby and the 

Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Hollywood Park. 

Sold as part of the regular Darley draft, he 

was bought for 56,000 guineas and now 

boasts earnings of over £450,000 in prize 

money from his successful career in America. 

The 2009 sale saw a top price of £92,000 

when BILLYFORD was bought by Robin 

O’Ryan on behalf of owner David Sheriff. 

The Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up Sale is 

firmly established as Europe’s premier 

breeze-up sale, 2009 proving the most 

successful year so far for the sale with 

no fewer than 19 Group/Listed winners 

throughout Europe. 

A consistent source of Group 1 winners, 

recent graduates include FLEETING SPIRIT 

(90,000 guineas), winner of the Group 

1 July Cup, RIO DE LA PLATA (170,000 

guineas), winner of the Group 1 Grand 

This sale features Horses in Training to suit 

all budgets and is a regular source of high 

class winners under both codes and on all 

surfaces. Due to the timing of the sale, it is 

an ideal outlet for horses that hold an entry 

in the John Smith’s Grand National. This 

was graphically illustrated in recent years by 

INCA TRAIL, who sold for 110,000 guineas 

before running creditably in the world’s 

greatest steeplechase. 

Tattersalls Craven Breeze-up 

2010 Date: 13-15 April | Entries close: 7 December 2009 


2009 163 115 8,561,000 74,443 60,000 

2008 158 116 11,884,000 102,448 70,000 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

Criterium, BRONZE CANNON (45,000 

guineas) winner of the Group 2 Hardwicke 

Stakes at Royal Ascot and Group 2 Jockey 

Club Stakes, and this year’s smart two-yearolds 

SAND VIXEN (130,000 guineas) and 

SILVER GRECIAN (16,000 guineas), winners 

of the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes and 

Group 2 Superlative Stakes respectively. 

Group 1 winners also include MR DINOS 

(42,000 guineas), PAITA (32,000 guineas), 

AMADEUS WOLF (50,000 guineas) and 

PALACE EPISODE. 


Daytona 


DAYTONA 

Sold 56,000 gns (2007) 

Multiple Grade 1 Winner 

Fleeting Spirit 


FLEETING SPIRIT 

Sold 90,000 gns (2007) 

Group 1 Winner 

April 31

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April 09 Sales review 

Brightwells Cheltenham 


2010 Date: 14 April | Entries are by selection only 


2009 69 45 1,829,500 42,546 

2008 89 62 3,227,600 52,058 

This sale is for National Hunt form horses 

and takes place after racing in the Centaur 

at Cheltenham Racecourse. Past graduates 

include TRICKY TRICKSTER, ACCORDING 

TO DICK and CHOMBA WOMBA. 

DBS Breeze-up Sale 

2010 Date: 19-21 April | Entries close: 9 November 2009 


2009 134 112 2,724,600 24,326 18,000 

2008 140 115 3,288,500 28,595 22,000 

This sale is a consistent source of Group 1 

winners, as highlighted by the success in 

2009 of PACO BOY (30,000 guineas) in the 

Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot 

and TOTAL GALLERY (£32,000) in the 

Group 1 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp. 

These results were not lost on purchasers, 

who travelled from many parts of the globe 

to gain part of the action that was topped by 

a son of Pastoral Pursuits, who was sold to 

Dubai based businessman Malih Al Basti for 

The top price for the 2009 sale was 

£200,000 for CANDY CREEK, winner of 

the Aintree Bumper and purchased by 

Highflyer Bloodstock. 

£190,000. The half-brother to the Group 1 

winning Dark Angel, later named ANGEL’S 

PURSUIT, has since won two races and finished 

a close second in the Group 2 Dubai Duty Free 

Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury. Premier League 

football manager Harry Redknapp was another 

who was active at this sale, buying a son of 

Exceed and Excel through trainer Bryan Smart 

for £92,000, whilst the Godolphin trained 

Group 1 placed two-year-old EMERALD 

COMMANDER (£72,000) was another that 

was purchased at this sale in 2009. 

Chomba Womba 


CHOMBA WOMBA 

Sold £160,000 (2007) 

Multiple Grade 2 Winner 

Total Gallery 


TOTAL GALLERY 

Sold £32,000 (2008) 

Group 1 Winner

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Leading First Season Gr.1 Sire 

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Breeze-up 

Bonus 

By Edward Prosser 

If 2008 will be remembered as a challenging year for the bloodstock 

business as the global recession took its toll, 2009 will go down as a 

year when the industry bounced back through self help. 

In February a group of breeze-up consignors 

announced that they would be financing a 

£500,000 bonus scheme for buyers at the 

upcoming two-year-old sales. Pretty much every 

vendor signed up to the scheme, contributing £500 

per horse sold, with the sales companies adding in 

£150 for each juvenile. On a first-come first-served 

basis, prizes of £10,000 were available to breeze-up 

graduates winning races of a certain standard, with 

£5,000 to those scoring in lower-grade company. 

British Bloodstock Marketing promoted the scheme 

jointly with Irish Thoroughbred Marketing and it was 

a concept that enticed many owners and trainers to 

the various sales, among them Ben Haslam, assistant 

to his father Patrick, a trainer at Middleham in North 

Yorkshire. Haslam paid £12,000 in April for a son of 

Noverre at Doncaster called Novay Essjay and exactly 

a month later his owners, Middleham Park Racing, 

collected £10,000 after the youngster made a winning 

debut in a Ripon maiden. “We bought three breeze-up 

horses for Middleham Park Racing of which two won 

£10,000 bonuses,” says Haslam. “We went specifically 

to the sales to buy horses because of the bonus - if 

it hadn’t been there we wouldn’t have bought the 

horses. Obviously it doesn’t affect someone buying 

one for £200,000 but it is going to make a massive 

difference to the £15,000 to £30,000 horses in the 

middle market and I know Middleham Park Racing are 

going to reinvest the bonuses they won straight back 

into the 2010 breeze-ups.” 

As well as Britain and Ireland, bonuses were paid out 

to winners trained in Denmark, France, Italy and Spain 

and it proved a golden year on the track for breeze-up 

graduates, most notably Godolphin’s purchases Vale 

Of York and Passion For Gold, who respectively won 

the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita and 

Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. 

The success of the Breeze-Up Bonus Scheme 

prompted an even more ambitious plan involving 

the yearling sales in the second half of the year. 

The Racing Post-sponsored Yearling Bonus Scheme, 

which had the support of the sales companies and all 

the main industry bodies, got a 95 per cent take up of 

eligible horses at the British and Irish sales and in 2010 

around £2.5 million in prize money will be on offer to 

eligible horses. 

No less than 4,190 yearlings were made initially 

eligible and it is expected that £10,000 bonuses will 

be awarded in at least 250 maidens, split between 

150 in England, 50 in Ireland and 50 in the rest of 

the world. The races will be split proportionately 

among two-year-old events over different distances 

and classes in 2010 and a small proportion will be 

carried over to three-year-old maidens in early 2011. 

Meanwhile, the scheme’s organisers are hoping that 

many beneficiaries of both the breeze-up and yearling 

bonuses will be back at the 2010 sales reinvesting 

their proceeds.

Breeze-up Bonus Top Earners 

Silver Grecian 

Angel’s Pursuit breezing 


Horse Prize Breeze-up Total Breeze-up Lot Trainer Owner 

Money Bonus Sale (at time of Bonus win) 

Shamandar £199,057 £10,000 £209,057 Tattersalls Guineas 76 William Haggas Mr & Mrs R Scott 

Emerald Commander £93,757 £10,000 £103,757 DBS 88 Richard Hannon Mr W. P. Drew 

Sand Vixen £72,256 £10,000 £82,256 Tattersalls Craven 166 Saeed Bin Suroor Godolphin 

Lady Darshaan £68,762 £10,000 £78,762 DBS 107 Stan Moore Coleman Bloodstock Ltd 

Silver Grecian £64,605 £10,000 £74,605 Tattersalls Craven 96 John Ryan Ocean Trailers Ltd 

Angel’s Pursuit £49,737 £10,000 £59,737 DBS 7 Richard Hannon Malih L Al Basti 

Electric Feel £36,203 £10,000 £46,203 DBS 17 Marco Botti Mr Joseph Barton 

Puff £32,049 £10,000 £42,049 Tattersalls Guineas 138 Ralph Beckett Mrs David Aykroyd 

Yurituni £31,469 £5,000 £36,469 Tattersalls Craven 44 Eve Johnson Houghton Mrs M Findlay 

Bould Mover £30,608 £10,000 £40,608 Goffs Kempton 65 Roger Curtis H Downs & D Looney 

Prize Money figures to 1 December 09 

April 35 

Emerald Commander

May 

2 

B 

5 

3 

6 7 

C 

A 

4 

D 

1

1 

2 

3 

4 


1-2 May 

Stan James Guineas Festival at 

Newmarket Rowley Mile Racecourse 


5-7 May 

May Meeting at Chester Racecourse 

www.chester-races.co.uk 

12-14 May 

Dante Festival at York Racecourse 

www.yorkracecourse.co.uk 

14-15 May 

Juddmonte Lockinge Meeting at 

Newbury Racecourse 


In the area 

Trainer: Richard Hannon 

Tel: +44 (0)1264 850254 

www.richardhannonracing.tv 



Bearstone Stud 

Stallions: Firebreak, Indesatchel, 

Major Cadeaux & Mind Games 

Tel: +44 (0)1630 647197 

www.bearstonestud.co.uk 

30 miles from Chester Racecourse 



Templeton Stud 

Tel: +44 (0)1488 681781 

www.templetonstud.net 

10 miles from Newbury Racecourse 



12 May 


Hunt Sale 


18-20 May 

DBS Spring Horses in Training Sales 

National Hunt horses 


26-27 May 

DBS Spring Stores Sale 

National Hunt horses 


A B 

C D 

5 

6 

7 

Juddmonte Farms 

Stallions: Beat Hollow, Champs 

Elysees, Dansili, Oasis Dream, 

Observatory, Rail Link, 

Three Valleys & Zamindar 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 731115 

www.juddmonte.com 

5 miles from Newmarket Racecourse 


May 37

38 

May 09 Race Highlights 

The Flat season was in full swing by the time the 

Guineas Meeting arrived on the first weekend of 

May. The British racing public were treated to their 

first glimpse of a certain Sea The Stars, by Cape Cross, 

when he started his path to glory winning the Group 1 

stanjames.com 2000 Guineas, while the Sheikh Hamdan 

Al Maktoum owned, Barry Hills trained Ghanaati by 

Giant’s Causeway, took the fillies equivalent, 

the stanjames.com 1000 Guineas. 

On the same weekend, Amour Propre (GB), by PARIS HOUSE 

beat his elders to take the Group 3 stanjames.com Palace 

House Stakes to extend his winning sequence to four wins over 

the minimum distance and he pioneered a successful month 

for British bred sprinters. Mood Music (GB), by KYLLACHY 

won the Group 3 Prix de Saint-Georges at Longchamp, while 

Utmost Respect (GB), by Danetime, took the Group 2 Duke 

of York Blue Square Stakes and then led a British-bred 1-2-3 

in the Group 3 Weatherbys Ireland Greenlands Stakes over 

six furlongs at the Curragh. Over a furlong further, the OASIS 

DREAM and Juddmonte Farms produced four-year-old Main 

Aim (GB) took the Group 3 John of Gaunt Stakes at Haydock. 

PIVOTAL has had another outstanding year as a sire and his 

progeny have earned over £2 million in prize money this 

season. Amongst his top earners was Lady Bamford’s homebred 

Sariska (GB), who took the Group 3 Tattersalls Musidora 

Stakes, initiating her ascent to stardom. The ultra consistent 

Heaven Sent (GB) made her seasonal debut a winning one 

when taking the Group 3 stanjames.com Dahlia Stakes, while 

Virtual (GB), trained by John Gosden, provided his sire with 

another victory at the highest level when taking the Group 1 

Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury. Both the last named 

Amour Propre 

horses are owned by their breeder Cheveley Park Stud, who are 

standing VIRTUAL in 2010, alongside his sire PIVOTAL, another 

successful son KYLLACHY, MEDICEAN and his son DUTCH ART. 

The Derby puzzle was beginning to come together, most 

notably when the unbeaten Fame and Glory (GB), by 

Montjeu, cemented his place at the head of the betting with 

a smooth dismissal of his rivals in the Group 2 Derrinstown 

Stud Classic Trial at Leopardstown. He was bred by Ptarmigan 

Bloodstock and Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud. Ptarmigan 

is run by British agent Richard Frisby under the Enterprise 

Investment Scheme, operating for three years minimum for tax 

relief. The dam was bought in the second scheme and Fame and 

Glory yielded 30,000 guineas more as a foal than the mare cost. 

Another Aidan O’Brien inmate Golden Sword (GB), by High 

Chaparral, who was bred by the Pocock family’s Stringston Farm 

and Morton Bloodstock, won the Group 3 Chester Vase. 

Older middle distance performers kept the British Flag flying 

at home. Ask (GB), by Sadler’s Wells and bred by Side Hill 

Stud, won the Group 2 Emirates Airline Yorkshire Cup on his 

seasonal debut, while Juddmonte Farms’ homebred Doctor 

Fremantle (GB), by Sadler’s Wells, took the Group 3 extrabet. 

com Huxley Stakes at Chester. The Andrew Balding trained exhandicapper 

Buccellati (GB), by Soviet Star made all to win 

the Group 3 betchronicle.com Ormonde Stakes. 

Further afield Darley homebred Mastery (GB), by Sulamani, 

ran on well to take the Group 2 Derby Italiano on his path to 

Group 1 Ladbrokes St Leger Stakes glory later in the season. 

Further British-bred success was achieved in Italy when 

Selmis (GB), by SELKIRK, ran out the winner of the Group 1 

Premio Presidente della Repubblica At The Races. 

Heaven Sent 

Virtual

May 09 Sales review 

Brightwells Cheltenham 


2010 Date: 12 May | Entries are by selection only 


2009 68 38 589,400 15,510 

This sale marked the first to be staged in 

Brightwells’ new arena at Cheltenham. It is 

located in the racecourse enclosure and has 

been purpose built to hold sales. 

DBS Spring Horses in Training Sale 

2010 Date: 18-20 May | Entries close: 12 April 2010 


2009 362 271 3,882,850 14,327 7,000 

2008 485 382 6,141,225 16,076 7,500 

For the ninth consecutive year, DBS sold 

the world’s highest priced Horse in Training 

for £320,000. The wide and varied client 

base also helped to return a solid trade at all 

levels of the market for a sale that has seen 

the Grade 1 success of SNOOPY LOOPY 

(120,000 guineas), VOY POR USTEDES 

(106,000 guineas) and KALAHARI KING 

(50,000 guineas) during the 2008/2009 

National Hunt season. 

The top price was £75,000 for CHARTREUX, 

a winning point to pointer purchased by 

Roger Blackhouse. 

The world’s premier National Hunt Sale 

attracts purchasers from all of the major 

European racing nations, as well as buyers 

from America who are looking for runners 

in races such as the Maryland Hunt Cup, 

which is the target for a number of horses 

bought by Maryland based trainer George 

P. Mahoney Jnr. Greek agent Olga Karavida 

was also active at this sale alongside Elias 

Kritikos, who purchased a number of horses 

that he has trained to win in his native 

Cyprus since the sale. 


Chartreux 


CHARTREUX 


Point to Point Winner 

Kalahari King 


KALAHARI KING 

Sold 50,000 gns (2007) 

Grade 1 Chase Winner 

May 39

40 

May 09 Sales review 

DBS Spring Store Sale 

2010 Date: 26-27 May | Entries close: 12 April 2010 


2009 249 171 2,469,000 14,438 10,000 

2008 286 207 3,745,650 18,094 14,000 

Two, three and four-year-old National Hunt 

prospects are sold during this two-day sale 

that attracts a huge presence of owners and 

trainers from throughout England, Ireland 

and further afield. 

The 2009 sale returned a solid trade, thanks 

to buyers such as champion trainer Paul 

Nicholls and leading trainers David Pipe 

and Alan King, who bought 14 horses for 

new owners. These were enhanced by many 

leading Irish owners, trainers and agents, 

including Gigginstown House Stud, Dessie 

Hughes, Aiden Murphy and Gerry Hogan. 

The international appeal of this sale was 

heightened by Haras De Faydeau, who had 

a worthwhile trip from France when selling 

all of their horses and, due to the success 

and attraction of French-bred horses at 

this sale, they hope to be a regular feature 

among vendors. 

Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up 

2010 Date: 29-30 April | Entries close: 7 December 2009 


2009 138 74 2,819,200 38,097 25,000 

2008 132 80 3,833,000 47,931 30,000 

The Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up Sale 

is only three years old but has quickly 

established itself as a top class source of 

Group and Listed performers at affordable 

prices. Taking place before the prestigious 

Guineas weekend in Newmarket, the 

Tattersalls Guineas Breeze-up sees the twoyear-olds 

‘breeze’ on the Thursday before 

being offered for sale the following day. 

The sale has immediately made a name for 

itself as a source of top class international 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

performers, with graduates including the 

2009 Group 3 winners OUR JONATHAN 

and OIL MAN, winners of the Cornwallis 

Stakes at Ascot and Cinema Handicap at 

Hollywood Park respectively. 

Other Group/Listed winners include 

YANKEE BRAVO (16,500 guineas), 

SPORTING ART (45,000 guineas) and 

CHANGE THE WORLD (35,000 guineas). 

Herecomesthetruth 


HERECOMESTHETRUTH 

Sold 24,000 gns (2005) 

Grade 1 & Multiple 

Grade 2 Winner 

Our Jonathan 


OUR JONATHAN 

Sold 25,000 gns (2009) 

Group 2 & 3 Winner

AQLAAM 

NEW FOR 2010 

Good looking, Group1winning son of Oasis Dream. 

AQLAAM is the winner of: Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (G.1), 

Summer Mile Stakes (G.2), Jersey Stakes (G.3), 

2nd Prix Jacques Le Marois (G.1). 

Stud fee for 2010: £7,000/€7,500 (1st Jan SLF) Stud fee for 2010: £15,000/€16,000 (1st Jan SLF) 

Contact: RICHARD LANCASTER, 

JOHNNY PETER-HOBLYN or 

AUDREY LEYVAL 

on +44(0)1842 755913 

e-mail: nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk 

www.shadwellstud.co.uk 

NAYEF 

Bay, 2005, by OASIS DREAM - BOURBONELLA, by RAINBOW QUEST Bay, 1998, by GULCH - HEIGHT OF FASHION, by BUSTINO 

SAKHEE 

Bay, 1997, by BAHRI - THAWAKIB, by SADLER’S WELLS 

Best Middle Distance 

Horse 2001. 

Sire of Top Rated sprinter SAKHEE’S SECRET, 

PRESVIS (G.1), ROYAL ROCK (G.3) and 

Group 1placed PERMESSO and REGAL FLUSH. 

Stud fee for 2010: £6,000/€6,400 (1st Jan SLF) 

The Ultimate Racehorse. 

Sire of G.1 winners TAMAYUZ and LADY MARIAN, 

Group winning 2-y-o TABASSUM (G.3), 

SPACIOUS (G.2) and CONFRONT(G.3). 

HAAFHD 

Chestnut, 2001, by ALHAARTH - AL BAHATHRI, by BLUSHING GROOM 

2000 Guineas and 

Champion Stakes winner. 

Sire of Superlative St. (G.2) winner SILVER GRECIAN 

plus winning 2-y-os AZIZI, PROFESSOR JOHN, 

SUNNANDAEG and JUPITER FIDIUS. 

Stud fee for 2010: £6,000/€6,400 (1st Jan SLF) 

SHADWELL 

S T A N D I N G F O R S U C C E S S

42 

Mette Campbell- 

Andenaes 

By Nancy Sexton 

Mette Campbell-Andenaes was advised to sell Forest Fire alongside 

her Sakhee foal in 2004. 

Her decision to retain the multiple-winning 

daughter of Never So Bold struck gold this 

season, however, when Presvis, the Sakhee 

gelding in question, landed the Group 1 QE II Cup 

at Sha Tin in April. As a result, Forest Fire is now the 

jewel in Campbell-Andenaes’ 15-strong broodmare 

band, the majority of which are based at her Andbell 

Stud in East Sussex. 

Remarkably for a small operation, that number also 

includes Fur Will Fly, whose daughter Sand Vixen 

captured the Group 2 Flying Childers’ Stakes and Listed 

Rose Bowl Stakes this season. Although former model 

Campbell-Andenaes has been involved with horses for 

most of her life – she rode in the first of approximately 

20 races in her native Norway at the age of 13 – it 

wasn’t until 1992 that Andbell officially became a stud. 

Today it boasts facilities such as a walker, indoor school, 

treadmill and 70 acres of paddocks, although the 

stud’s interests at auction are handled by Ted Voute 

and Caroline Green’s Templeton Stud. “I had bought 

a few horses cheaply in Norway with success but as 

my daughter Monica was showjumping in Britain, I 

decided to have horses over here and bought Andbell,” 

says Campbell-Andenaes of her entry into the industry. 

“I knew Con Horgan, as I used to ride out for Ryan 

Price when Con was his assistant, so I sent some horses 

to him, with the initial plan being that I would breed 

from the fillies when they retired.” She adds: “I used 

stallions which I had admired as racehorses. I didn’t 

know much about bloodlines but because I’ve been 

with horses all my life, I understood conformation. 

I’ve learnt as I’ve gone along.” 

One of Campbell-Andenaes’ first purchases was 

a mare named Bumpkin, who was sent to Petong 

following two visits to Midyan. The resulting produce 

was Fur Will Fly, who was sold for 24,000gns as a 

yearling before re-entering the Andbell fold as a 

broodmare prospect. 12 years on and she is the dam of 

Sand Vixen, a 30,000gns yearling purchase by Emma 

O’Gorman, as well as Listed winner So Will I. 

Fur Will Fly is booked for a return visit to Dubawi, 

while Sakhee’s Secret is the selected mate for Forest 

Fire. “I bred and raced Forest Fire and I knew that 

what she might lack in family, she made up for in 

guts and soundness,” she recalls. “I was advised to 

sell her but leased her instead. I sold Presvis as a foal 

for 15,000gns, which was the covering fee. Luca told 

me when he was a two-year-old that he thought he 

had something, but the horse was always getting into 

trouble, which was one of the reasons why he didn’t 

race until he was four.” 

Campbell-Andenaes also owns a half-share in dual 

2,000 Guineas winner Cockney Rebel, whose first 

foals are “very correct, strong and good-walking,” as 

well as six horses in training. They include the exciting 

hurdler Pepe Simo and an unraced coloured twoyear-old 

named That’s Showbiz, who is a son of her 

own I Was Framed, the only coloured Thoroughbred 

stallion in Britain. The son of Racey Remarque stands 

at Rectory Farm Stud and has been well-supported 

by Campbell-Andenaes, making her equine assets as 

diverse as they are successful.

I Was Framed 

Presvis 


Mette Campbell-Andenaes 


Rectory Farm Stallions 

www.rectory-farm.co.uk 

May 43 

Sand Vixen

June 

3 

D 

C 

A 

B 

2 1

In the area 

Trainer: Barry Hills 

Tel: +44 (0)1488 71548 

www.barryhills.com 

45 miles from Ascot Racecourse 


1 

2 

3 


4-5 June 

Investec Derby Meeting at Epsom 

Downs Racecourse 

www.epsomdowns.co.uk 

15-19 June 

Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse 


24-26 June 

John Smith’s Northumberland Plate 

Meeting at Newcastle Racecourse 

www.newcastleracecourse.co.uk 

Highclere Stud 

Tel: +44 (0)1635 253212 

www.highclerestud.co.uk 


(1 hour by car) 

Trainer: Mick Channon 

Tel: +44 (0)1635 281166 

www.mickchannon.tv 


(55 minutes drive) 

A B 

C D 


Hedgeholme Stud 

Stallions: Josr Algarhoud, Milk It 

Mick, Misu Bond & Rob Roy 


www.hedgeholmestud.co.uk 

50 miles from Newcastle Racecourse 

(1 hour 10 minutes by car) 

June 45

46 

June 09 Race Highlights 

The famous Group 1 Investec Derby at Epsom annually 

provides a unique platform from which thoroughbred 

royalty often emerges. This year was no exception as 

the public witnessed a phenomenal horse in Sea The 

Stars, by Cape Cross, gallop into the history books. 

Fame and Glory (GB), by Montjeu, finished a gallant 

second, beaten one and three-quarters lengths. 

The two other Group 1 winners at the meeting went to Britishbreds. 

Ask (GB), by Sadler’s Wells and bred by Side Hill Stud, won 

the Investec Coronation Cup, with Julian Richmond-Watson’s 

homebred Group 1 2008 Oaks winner Look Here (GB), by 

HERNANDO, two noses away in third. 

Spacious 

Trained by Michael Bell, Sariska (GB), by PIVOTAL, hit the 

front two furlongs out in the Group 1 Investec Oaks and 

held on courageously for Classic glory from Midday (GB), 

by OASIS DREAM. Both were homebred by Lady Bamford 

and Juddmonte Farms respectively. On the same day, old 

campaigner Mac Love (GB), by Cape Cross and bred by 

Kingwood Stud, took the Group 3 Investec Diomed Stakes. 

Fame And Glory (GB), by Montjeu, comprehensively franked 

the Derby form later in the month by sauntering to a five 

length victory over stable mate Golden Sword (GB), by High 

Chaparral, in the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby. Lord 

Lloyd-Webber’s homebred Dar Re Mi (GB), by Darley sire 

SINGSPIEL, landed the other Group 1 at the two-day meeting, 

the Pretty Polly Stakes, most gamely. 

Ask 

Mac Love

The Oaks was not the end of British-bred classic success for 

fillies, as Penny’s Gift (GB), by TOBOUGG, made all to win 

the Group 2 German 1,000 Guineas, from Fabiana (GB), 

by Ashkalani. Later in the month, another daughter of 

TOBOUGG, Lady Alida (GB), won the Group 3 Premio 

Mario Incisa della Rochetta in Milan. 

The people’s meeting at Epsom is closely followed by the 

classiest week of racing and fashion in the world, Royal Ascot. 

Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum started a successful week by 

winning the Group 3 Jersey Stakes with Ouqba (GB), by Red 

Ransom. The Group 2 Windsor Forest Stakes for fillies and 

mares, a Group 1 in all but name, had six of the nine runners 

bred in Britain and Cheveley Park Stud achieved a one-two 

with home-breds, Spacious (GB), by Shadwell Stud’s NAYEF, 

making almost all determinedly from Heaven Sent (GB), by 

their own stallion PIVOTAL. 

Sariska 


Bred and raised at Tweenhills Stud, Radiohead (GB), by 

Johannesburg, led a British-bred first four in the Group 

2 Norfolk Stakes for two-year-olds and Sheikh Hamdan’s 

Habaayib (GB), by the Royal Studs’ ROYAL APPLAUSE, took 

another juvenile race, the Group 3 Albany Stakes for fillies. 

Trainer Henry Cecil then produced Father Time (GB) for 

Juddmonte Farms, by their DANSILI, to win the Group 2 King 

Edward VII Stakes. Tweenhills ended Ascot in style, when their 

LUCKY STORY sired British-trained Art Connoisseur, won 

the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes. 

In the USA, Diamondrella (GB), by Rock Of Gibraltar, won 

the Group 1 Just A Game Stakes at Belmont Park on their big 

day for ex-ambassador to Britain, William Farish, of Lane’s End 

Farm, and Battle Of Hastings (GB), by ROYAL APPLAUSE, 

subsequently won the Group 2 Colonial Turf Cup. In France 

meanwhile, Stotsfold (GB), by Barathea, won the Group 3 La 

Coupe at Longchamp, his third win at that level. 

Penny’s Gift 

June 47

48 

Michael 

Owen 

By Edward Prosser 

Michael Owen’s life has changed massively since, as a 14-year-old, 

he helped his father pick out winners on Saturday afternoon racing. 

Having just turned 30, he is now one of 

England’s best known footballers but has 

never abandoned that early interest. Indeed 

his success on the soccer field has enabled him to grow 

his passion for racing to such an extent that he is now 

co-owner of what he hopes will become one of the 

country’s top training centres. 

Owen shot to national prominence when playing 

for England in the 1998 World Cup and was voted 

BBC Sports Personality of the Year that December. 

Then only 18, he also bought his first racehorse when 

returning from the tournament but his investment 

in the sport has now gone to a whole new level. Last 

summer he went into partnership with Betfair founder 

Andrew Black at Manor House Stables in Cheshire, 

recruited rising training talent Tom Dascombe and the 

three have big plans for the future. 

“Football is where my income comes from and what 

I’m best at, but racing is my future life in many ways,” 

says Owen, who initially had horses with John Gosden, 

first in Newmarket and then at the magnificent 

Manton Estate in Wiltshire. “From when I was 19 or 

20, I always said to my parents and wife that one day 

I’d love to have my own mini Manton. Myself and (his 

former trainer) Nicky Vaughan went out and looked 

at a lot of different places that we could develop and 

settled on where we are now. We started with 20 

horses and it’s just got bigger and better from there. 

Tom taking over is the next stage. 

“Obviously, when you start, people don’t take you too 

seriously and just think that you’re a stupid footballer 

with more money than you know what to do with. 

But I’m totally serious about this. We want Tom to be 

the best he can be and try to take it to as high a level 

as possible.” 

There are currently 87 boxes at Manor House 

Stables with around 100 horses in total on the books 

(those out of training can rest at nearby yards), with 

planning permission sought for a further 46, as well 

as an equine swimming pool and veterinary centre. 

Dascombe bought 50 yearlings at the 2009 sales 

and, with other owners also sending youngsters, he 

promises to have a formidable team of two-year-olds 

in 2010 for some high-profile owners, including many 

of Owen’s footballing colleagues. 

“I’ve been round Ballydoyle, Jackdaws (Castle), Manton 

and many big yards in Newmarket, but I know for a fact 

that by the time we finish ours it will be right up there 

with the best places in Britain to train horses,” adds 

Owen, who joined Manchester United this season. 

Owen - who hopes eventually to have broodmares at 

Black’s fledgling stud farm in Surrey - tries to spend as 

much time at the stable as possible and is fascinated by 

the correlation between human and equine athletes. 

“I wouldn’t profess to be an expert in any part of it but 

I just take things on board as I go on, whether it’s to do 

with the racing, breeding or injuries horses pick up. I 

know from my experiences how an athlete works and 

feels, how muscles work and recover, so it’s intriguing 

how the horse world works.”

Manor House Stables 



Manor House Stables 

www.manorhousestables.com 

June 49 

Ed Sackville (Bloodstock Agent), 

Tom Dascombe (Trainer) and Michael Owen

July 

A 

3 1 

4 

B 

D 

2 5 

C

In the area 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

Whitsbury Manor Stud 

Stallions: Avonbridge, Cadeaux 

Genereux, Compton Place, Refuse 

To Bend, Sakhee’s Secret 

Tel: +44 (0)1725 518254 

www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk 

65 miles from Goodwood Racecourse 



2-3 July 

Coral Eclipse Meeting at Sandown Park 

Racecourse 


7-9 July 

July Meeting at Newmarket July Racecourse 


23-25 July 

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Meeting at 

Ascot Racecourse 


27-31 July 

Glorious Goodwood at Goodwood Racecourse 

www.goodwood.co.uk 


6-9 July 

Tattersalls July Sale 

Horses/Fillies in Training, Broodmares etc. 


Trainer: William Knight 

Tel: +44(0)1903 871 188 

www.wknightracing.co.uk 

14 miles from Goodwood racecourse 


Lanwades Stud 

Stallions: Archipenko, Hernando, 

Selkirk, Sir Percy & With Approval 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 750222 

www.lanwades.com 



A B 

C D 


Trainer: Chris Wall 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 661999 

www.chriswallracing.co.uk 



July 51

52 

July 09 Race Highlights 

British-breds shone at the highest level in July, with two 

Group 1 victories. 

Sariska (GB), owned and bred by Lady Bamford’s Daylesford 

Stud, and by Cheveley Park Stud’s PIVOTAL, was impervious to 

the prevailing heavy ground in Ireland. Toying with her rivals, 

she sauntered away with the Group 1 Irish Oaks to land the 

English/Irish double. The meeting was again a triumph for 

British breeding, as another Juddmonte homebred Famous 

Name (GB), by DANSILI, won the Group 3 Keeneland 

International Stakes. She’s Our Mark (GB), by Tweenhills 

Stud’s Ishiguru, then won the Listed Kilboy Estates Stakes and 

followed up in the Group 3 Meld Stakes later in the month. 

British breeding celebrated further Group 1 success in France 

when Cavalryman (GB), by HALLING and homebred by 

Darley, took the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris in Sheikh 

Mohammed’s colours, with his Godolphin’s Mastery (GB), 

by Sulamani, third. 

Battle Of Hastings (GB) continued his good form in 

America this year by taking the Group 2 Virginia Derby, the 

seventh individual black-type winner of 2009 thus far (three 

Group winners in the last month) for ROYAL APPLAUSE. 

British-bred two-year-olds carried their fine run of success across 

the Channel. Juddmonte’s homebred Special Duty (GB), 

by Hennessy, drew clear from her rivals to win the Group 2 Prix 

Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte and Paradise Rain (GB), 

by COMPTON PLACE, won the Listed Oppenheim-Rennen 

at Cologne. 

Haafhd 

Sariska 

OASIS DREAM continued to have Group winners, four at 

Group 2 level in a week, but supplanted that by a Group 1 

victory at the end of the month. Both long-established races 

for two-year-olds at the Newmarket July Meeting, the Group 

2 ITM Cherry Hinton Stakes and the Group 2 TNT July Stakes, 

went to his produce, Saeed Manana’s Misheer (GB) and a 

partnership’s Arcano, and Sheikh Hamdan had another great 

success with the sire, when Aqlaam (GB) took the Group 2 

Summer Mile at Ascot. The quartet was completed with the 

victory of Tuscan Evening in the Group 2 Royal Heroine Mile in 

the USA. Juddmonte Farms had their own winner in July week, 

Doctor Fremantle (GB), by Sadler’s Wells, taking the Group 

2 WBX.com Princess of Wales’s Stakes in battling style. 

The other Group 2 race for two-year-olds at the July Meeting, 

the Superlative Stakes, went to the British-bred Silver Grecian 

(GB), by Shadwell’s stallion HAAFHD. 

The Goodwood Festival opened with the winners of the 

first two Group races having the GB suffix. One of the most 

successful syndicates, Highclere Thoroughbred Racing, 

celebrated Harbinger (GB), by DANSILI, winning the Group 

3 Betfair Gordon Stakes on only his third start. Straight 

afterwards, Finjaan (GB), another by ROYAL APPLAUSE, took 

a very competitive Group 2 Betfair Lennox Stakes to continue 

the great run of his owner/ breeder Sheikh Hamdan. 

By contrast, Illustrious Blue (GB) gave local trainer William 

Knight his first Group race in the Group 3 Coutts Glorious 

Stakes. He is by Juddmonte’s DANSILI and their Midday (GB), 

by OASIS DREAM, topped the week by recovering from her 

third placing in the Group 1 Darley Irish Oaks and grittily 

landed the Group 1 Blue Square Nassau Stakes. 

Royal Applause 

Midday

July 09 Sales review 

Tattersalls July Sale 

2010 Date: 6-9 July | Entries close: 25 May 2010 


2009 503 438 5,546,700 12,664 6,500 

2008 629 507 7,515,200 14,823 7,900 

The Tattersalls July Sale is Europe’s 

premier midsummer sale and offers buyers 

a mix of breeding stock, as well as fillies 

and horses in training. Coinciding with 

Newmarket’s July Meeting, the sale has 

grown dramatically in size in recent years 

and attracts buyers from throughout 

Europe, the Middle East and further 

afield - and provides great diversity in 

all categories. 

There have been no fewer than 10 Group/ 

Listed winning July Sale graduates in 2008- 

9 headed by MONZANTE, winner of the 

Grade 1 Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar 

and a 100,000 guineas purchase in 2007 

by Jamie Lloyd and Gordian Troeller. 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

To say that the July Sale is proving a 

great source of breeding stock is an 

understatement if 2009 is anything to 

go by. The current 2010 Derby ante-post 

favourite ST NICHOLAS ABBEY and 

second favourite JAN VERMEER are both 

out of mares purchased at the Tattersalls 

July Sale. ST NICHOLAS ABBEY, who 

created a huge impression when winning 

the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy in 

dominant style, is out of LEAPING WATER, 

a 3,200 guineas graduate of the July Sale 

back in 1993, whilst JAN VERMEER, who 

ran out an easy winner of the Group 1 

Criterium International at Saint-Cloud, is 

out of SHADOW SONG, a 74,000 guineas 

graduate of the 2005 Tattersalls July Sale. 


Jan Vermeer 


SHADOW SONG 

Sold 74,000 gns (2005) 

Dam of JAN VERMEER 


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54 

Richard 

Fahey 

By Julian Muscat 

Just how far can he go? It’s an intriguing question to ask of Richard 

Fahey, who matches Mark Johnston and Richard Hannon in the 

winner-factory stakes. 

Unlike those two, however, Fahey takes other 

trainers’ cast-offs and turns them around. 

He makes princes of equine paupers, in the 

process attracting a loyal band of owners who would 

back him against anyone. 

By early December the Malton trainer had sent out 

165 winners for prize-money in excess of £1.65 million. 

Those totals secured him a place inside the top ten of 

his profession for the first time. Delve a little deeper, 

however, and the stats are more impressive still. 

Fahey’s 2009 totals were not inflated by a major 

earner; nor did he saddle the winners of any salesrelated 

races. But the most salient detail is that 40 

individual horses earned prize-money in excess of 

£10,000. That’s 40 happy owners whose horses more 

or less paid their way. How does he do it? “I don’t 

really know,” Fahey, 43, maintains. “At the start of 

every year I wonder how we are going to match the 

previous year. It feels like we are making a rod for our 

own backs, but as long as it keeps happening I’m not 

stopping to ask why.” 

Fahey arrived in Britain to pursue life as a jockey, but 

there was no prospect of him returning to Ireland 

when his mind turned to training. “I cut my ties with 

Ireland when I arrived in Britain the day before my 

18th birthday,” he reflects. “I was brought up with 

English racing and Malton is very close to my heart. 

I’ll be surprised if I’m not there for life.” 

Fahey announced his arrival at racing’s top table at 

Royal Ascot in 2000, when Superior Premium won the 

Group 2 Cork & Orrery Stakes. Typically, the son of 

Forzando, who was bred by Giles Pritchard-Gordon, 

cost Fahey just 2,800 guineas as a yearling. As well as 

he has fared in the bargain basement, Fahey, who has 

51 staff and 120 horses on his books, wants to work 

with a better class of horse. “They are far easier to 

train,” he says, “but my clients don’t have big money. 

Having said that, we bought our most expensive 

yearling in October when we gave 175,000 guineas for 

a Medicean colt. He is my first Derby entry.” 

The Derby dream is thus ignited, although Fahey insists 

he would prefer to train a fourth winner of the Magnet 

Cup at his beloved York. The sentiment is indicative 

of his feet-on-the-ground approach - as is his personal 

highlight from 2009, when Utmost Respect’s two 

Group-race triumphs played second fiddle to the stable’s 

exploits at the Ayr Western meeting in September. 

“We won eight of the 24 races over three days,” 

Fahey recalls with obvious pleasure. “It’s a competitive 

meeting and the whole experience made us proud of 

what we do.” 

As for 2010, Fahey has his sights on topping £2 million 

in earnings and saddling 200 winners. “If we do it,” he 

muses, “God only knows where we’ll go from there.” 

Onwards and upwards, no doubt.

Magnet 

Cup 

Utmost Respect 


Richard Fahey 


Richard Fahey 

www.richardfahey.com 

July 55 

Superior Premium

August 

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In the area 

Trainer: Mark Johnston 

Tel: +44 (0)1969 622237 

www.markjohnstonracing.com 

50 miles from York Racecourse 


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17-20 August 

The Ebor Meeting at York Racecourse 

www.yorkracecourse.co.uk 


3-5 August 

DBS August Sales 

Flat and National Hunt Horses in Training and store horses 


24-26 August 

DBS St Leger Yearling Sales 


Sales Consignor: Mark Dwyer 

Tel: +44 (0)1944 758841 



Trainer: Richard Fahey 

Tel: +44 (0)1653 698915 

www.richardfahey.com 



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Beechwood Grange Stud 

Stallions: Desideratum & 

Paris House 

Tel: +44 (0)1904 424 573 

www.beechwoodgrangestud.com 



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August 09 Race Highlights 

There was considerable success for Britain in France once 

again this month. Kalla (GB), by Monsun, won the Group 

3 Prix Minerve-Shadwell at Deauville. She comes from 

Lord Halifax’s Garrowby Stud family of Derby winner 

Shirley Heights, with his high class three-quarter-sister 

Gull Nook (GB), by Mill Reef, as her grandam. 

One of Deauville’s big weekends was dominated by winners 

from this side of the channel. The late Gerald Leigh had great 

success in France and his children bred Armure (GB), by 

Dalakhani, to win the Group 2 Prix de Pomone Haras d’Etreham, 

to be followed by Juddmonte Farms’ Crossharbour (GB), by 

ZAMINDAR, landing the Group 3 Prix Gontaut-Biron on his 

first run for ten months. Sri Putra (GB), by OASIS DREAM, 

purchased by British agent Charlie Gordon-Watson, then took 

the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano the following day. 

In Ireland, Famous Name (GB), by DANSILI, won the Group 3 

Desmond Stakes easily for Juddmonte Farms, Lanwades Stud’s 

HERNANDO sired the winner of the Group 2 Royal Whip 

Stakes in Casual Conquest and Cheveley Park Stud’s PIVOTAL 

sired Group 3 Phoenix Sprint victor Girouette. Later in the 

month, Gary and Lesley Middlebrook’s homebred veteran, 

eight-year-old Reverence (GB), by Mark Of Esteem, took the 

Group 3 Flying Five at the Curragh. 

OASIS DREAM was not to be denied a Group 1 prize at 

Deauville, as Arcano, now owned by Sheikh Hamdan Al 

Maktoum but purchased as a yearling by Newmarket agents 

McKeever St. Lawrence, won the Darley Prix Morny in great 

style and his daughter Lady Jane Digby (GB) won the Group 

3 Walther J. Jacobs Stutenpreis at Bremen on the same day for 

Lanwades Stud owner and TBA Chairman Kirsten Rausing. 

Borderlescott 

Watership Down Stud’s Dar Re Mi (GB), by SINGSPIEL, 

won her second Group 1 of the year, the Yorkshire Oaks. As 

consignors, they also produced Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes 

winner Monitor Closely, another by OASIS DREAM and bred 

by former TBA Chairman Philip Freedman’s Cliveden Stud. 

Indeed, OASIS DREAM keeps having Group winners and his 

son Showcasing (GB) won the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes for 

powerful Juddmonte Farms, but the winner of the Group 

1 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes, Borderlescott (GB), by 

Whitsbury Manor Stud’s COMPTON PLACE, is trained locally 

by Robin Bastiman. Bred by James Clark, he was a cheap 

yearling but has now won back-to-back runnings of the Group 

1 race, and a few days later, trainer Steff Liddiard, who often 

leads up her own horses, saw her old warrior, Mac Love (GB), 

by Cape Cross, win the Group 3 Sovereign Stakes. 

Delegator (GB), placed in both the Group 1 2,000 Guineas 

and Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes, led a one-two on 

the day for sire DANSILI in the Group 2 Celebration Mile 

at Goodwood, as Zacinto (GB) finished second. This was a 

triumph for Cheshire’s Poilin Good, who bred not only the 

winner, but also owned and bred the third, Ordnance Row (GB), 

by Mark Of Esteem, who turned out the following day and 

showed himself as tough as teak to take the Group 3 

Supreme Stakes. 

Sri Putra 

Dar Re Mi

August 09 Sales review 

DBS August Sale 

2010 Date: 3-5 August | Entries close: 28 June 2010 


2009 386 282 2,183,200 7,742 4,000 

2008 482 316 2,366,450 7,489 3,800 

This is one of the longest standing dates 

in the DBS calendar and was the source of 

the three time Grand National winner RED 

RUM, who sold to trainer Ginger McCain for 

just 6,000 guineas before making history at 

Aintree. In recent years, STATE OF PLAY has 

been a flag bearer for this sale after winning 

the Grade 2 Charlie Hall Chase, whilst LITTLE 

SHILLING is another success story after he 

was purchased as a maiden for £4,800 by 

trainer Tim Vaughan before winning seven 

races and over £35,000 in prize money. 

DBS St Leger Yearling Sale 

2010 Date: 24-26 August | Entries close: 1 April 2010 

M. V. Magnier, son of Coolmore supremo 

John Magnier, topped the bidding at the 

2009 renewal of this ‘Premier League Sale’ 

when seeing off the efforts of Angus Gold, 

acting on behalf of Hamdan Al Maktoum’s 

Shadwell Stud, to buy a Dansili colt from 

Newsells Park Stud for £200,000. The twoday 

sale attracted clients from many parts 

of Europe, including Italy, Greece, France 

and Germany, whilst the associates of the 

Darley operation were extremely active 

from start to finish. 

This sale attracts a strong international 

client base and a substantial Middle Eastern 

presence helped to produce a lively trade, 

with names such as Al Abraq Stable, Asaad 

Albanwan Stable and Al Areen Stable 

purchasing a wide variety of horses to race 

in Kuwait. German trainer Christian Von der 

Recke is another regular visitor to this sale 

and spent nearly £40,000 on six horses to 

race in his home country. 


2009 465 369 9,609,500 26,042 20,000 

2008 474 401 13,493,500 33,649 26,000 

This sale was the first chance to buy 

yearlings eligible for the Racing Post 

Yearling Bonus and is recognized as a 

constant source of top class success, with a 

Roll of Honour that includes one of the best 

European two-year-olds of 2009, the Group 

2 Coventry Stakes winner CANFORD 

CLIFFS (£50,000), alongside the Group 1 

Gran Criterium winner HEARTS OF FIRE 

(£13,000), Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint 

victor DIM SUM (50,000 guineas) and 

TAX FREE (12,000 guineas), winner of the 

Group 2 Prix du Gros-Chene. 


State of Play 


STATE OF PLAY 

Sold 18,000 gns (2005) 

Grade 2 & 3 Chase 

Winner 

Hearts of Fire 


HEARTS OF FIRE 

Sold £13,000 (2008) 


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60 

Oasis 

Dream 

By Tony Morris 

Sometimes one high-class performer will make a stallion’s season, 

enabling him to reach an exalted position on the sires’ table. 

More often than not, it turns out to be a oneoff, 

that single star remaining an exception, 

ranking far above the sire’s more typical 

products. However this is not the case with Europe’s 

sire sensation of 2009. What Banstead Manor Stud’s 

Oasis Dream (GB) has achieved this season has proved 

conclusively that he belongs among the world’s elite, in 

the company of horses who have become established 

leaders over long periods at stud. 

In 2009 Oasis Dream was represented on the 

racecourse by only his first three foal crops; his twoyear-olds 

were conceived before any of his sons and 

daughters had reached the racecourse, and therefore 

had provided no evidence that he could get runners 

of any distinction. Those who had faith in this 

British-bred dual champion racehorse have been 

handsomely rewarded, as he has shot to prominence 

in a season delivering scarcely credible results. Oasis 

Dream is not just the top-ranking British-based sire 

on the Anglo-Irish list; he stands in fourth place 

overall, with significantly fewer representatives 

than those above him. He has been responsible for 

ten individual winners of twelve European Pattern 

races, and there was a Group 1 scorer from each of 

his racing-age crops – a fantastic feat that can only 

ensure his continued success in the years to come. 

Of course, Oasis Dream was always entitled to do 

well. As Europe’s champion two-year-old of 2002 

and Europe’s number one sprinter in 2003, his 

record advertised him as a special talent on the 

racecourse. His excellent pedigree also stood him 

in good stead. By Green Desert, a leading sprinter, 

sire and sire of sires, half-brother to Classic-winning 

filly Zenda (GB), and out of a sister to Classic 

winner Wemyss Bight (GB), who was herself 

the dam of a champion son in Beat Hollow, he 

flaunted an exceptional breeding background. 

But the history of thoroughbred racing and 

breeding provides countless examples of horses 

with top-class credentials who failed to make the 

grade as sires. There was never a guarantee that 

Oasis Dream’s progeny would inherit his own 

outstanding merit. But what he was trusted to do 

he has done impressively, to the benefit of private 

and commercial breeders. Even in the difficult 

circumstances of 2009, his 57 auctioned yearlings 

averaged 100,815gns, more than four times the fee 

at which they were conceived. 

Not the least admirable of Oasis Dream’s successes 

as a sire is the range of aptitudes displayed by his 

progeny. While it came as no surprise that he got 

precocious stock and sprinters in his own image, 

there were also products capable of carrying their 

speed over a distance, with high-class winners over 

a mile like Aqlaam (GB), and over longer trips, such 

as Great Voltigeur hero Monitor Closely and his 

exceptional daughter Midday (GB), who failed by 

only a whisker in the Oaks before her great top-level 

triumphs in the Nassau Stakes and the Breeders’ 

Cup Filly & Mare Turf. The best of British runners 

has rapidly become the best of British sires, and his 

international reputation can only rise further after his 

monumental achievements in 2009.

Oasis Dream 

Banstead Manor Stud (Juddmonte) 


Midday 


Juddmonte Farms 

www.juddmonte.co.uk 

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Oasis Dream

September 

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In the area 

Trainer: Tom Dascombe 

Tel: +44(0)1948 820485 

www.manorhousestables.com 

45 miles from Haydock Racecourse 


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4 

5 

6 


4 September 

Betfred Sprint Cup Meeting at Haydock Park 

Racecourse 

www.haydock-park.co.uk 

8-11 September 

Ladbrokes St Leger Festival at Doncaster 

Racecourse 



William Hill Gold Cup Festival at Ayr Racecourse 

www.ayr-racecourse.co.uk 


Ascot Festival at Ascot Racecourse 


30 September -2 October 

Cambridgeshire Festival at Newmarket Rowley 

Mile Racecourse 



8-9 September 

DBS St Leger Festival Sale 

Yearlings 


Darley Stud 

Stallions: Authorized, Byron, 

Dubawi, Exceed And Excel, Halling, 

New Approach, Shirocco, Singspiel 

& Tiger Hill 

Tel: +44(0)1638 730070 

www.darley.co.uk 



Newsells Park Stud 

Stallion: Mount Nelson 

Tel: +44(0)1763 846000 

www.newsells-park.com 



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C D 


The National Stud 

Stallions: Bahamian Bounty, 

Cockney Rebel, Myboycharlie, 

Pastoral Pursuits & Phoenix Reach 

Tel: +44(0)1638 663464 

www.nationalstud.co.uk 


(3 minute drive) 

September 

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September 09 Race Highlights 

The Group 1 St. Leger Festival at Doncaster staged top 

class racing, with British breeding to the fore. Darley 

Stud and Godolphin had particular reason to celebrate, 

as their homebred Mastery (GB), by Sulamani, took 

the world’s oldest classic in a battling finish with their 

other representative Kite Wood, by Galileo. 

This was not their only success however, as their first season 

sire DUBAWI took two races for two-year-olds in their colours. 

Homebred Poet’s Voice (GB) won the Group 2 Champagne 

Stakes, while Sand Vixen (GB), bred by Mette Campbell- 

Andenaes, took the Group 2 Flying Childers Stakes. 

The other Group race for two-year-olds, the Group 2 May 

Hill Stakes, went to another British first season sire, the Royal 

Stud’s MOTIVATOR. He ran in the colours of the Royal Ascot 

Racing Club, managed by British agent John Warren and Harry 

Herbert, and it was in the same colours that Pollenator took 

the prize in the gamest fashion. 

Herbert enjoyed yet greater success when Regal Parade 

(GB), by PIVOTAL, bred by him and Highclere Stud, doughtily 

won the Group 1Betfred Haydock Sprint. 

Three more juvenile Pattern races stayed in Britain. Hibaayeb 

(GB), by SINGSPIEL, showed great determination to land 

the Group 1 Meon Valley Stud Ascot Fillies’ Mile, Gary and 

Lesley Middlebrook’s Distinctive (GB), by TOBOUGG, won 

the Laundry Cottage Stud Group 3 Firth of Clyde Stakes, and 

Sheikh Hamdan’s Awzaan (GB), by Alhaarth, blitzed the 

Group 2 Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes. By contrast, veteran 

Mac Love (GB), by Cape Cross, took his third Group 3 this 

year in the Racing UK Select Stakes at Goodwood and fouryear-old 

Doctor Fremantle (GB), by Sadler’s Wells, took 

the Group 3 Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial. 

Cavalryman 

In Ireland, Border Patrol (GB), by SELKIRK, won the Group 3 

Solonoway Stakes and Plantation Stud’s homebred Ave (GB), 

by Danehill Dancer, took the Group 3 Denny Cordell Lavarack 

and Lanwades Stud Stakes. Poet (GB) won the Group 3 

Kilternan Stakes for PIVOTAL, whose progeny also landed 

a 1-2 in the Group 3 Prix de la Rochette the next day when 

Darley’s homebred Buzzword (GB) beat Godolphin’s Siyouni. 

The centrepiece of the Longchamp fixture, the Group 1 Prix 

du Moulin de Longchamp, produced no less than a British 

one-two-three. Aqlaam (GB), by OASIS DREAM and bred 

by Granham Farm, crossed the line one and a half lengths 

in front of Juddmonte’s Famous Name (GB), by DANSILI, 

with Cheveley Park Stud’s Virtual (GB), by PIVOTAL, in third. 

Earlier, Juddmonte’s Proviso (GB), also by DANSILI, landed 

the Group 3 Prix du Pin. 

Darley homebred Cavalryman (GB), by HALLING, then 

took one of the definitive Arc trials, the Group 2 Prix Niel for 

Godolphin and Middle Club (GB), by Fantastic Light, won the 

Group 3 Prix d’Aumale for veteran breeder Bob McCreery’s 

Stowell Hill Stud. 

In Germany, Toughness Dano (GB), by TIGER HILL, won 

the Group 3 Furstenberg-Rennen and homebred Hearts Of 

Fire (GB), by Bearstone Stud’s first season sire FIREBREAK, 

followed up his Deauville Listed win with a convincing victory 

in the Group 3 Zukunfts-Rennen. 

Grand Couturier (GB), by Grand Lodge and bred by Tom 

Wilson, took the Group 2 Bowling Green Handicap in USA. 

He had won three Group 1’s previously and £700,000, after 

costing 3,500 gns as a yearling! 

Aqlaam 

Mastery

September 09 Sales review 

DBS St Leger Festival Sale 

2010 Date: 8-9 September | Entries close: 1 April 2010 


2009 146 102 836,200 8,198 10,000 

2008 143 104 1,244,60 11,967 10,000 

Classic success is what many owners aspire 

to and can take years to achieve, but the 

DBS St Leger Festival Sales realised this 

dream in the first year when PENNY’S GIFT 

(10,000 guineas) won this year’s running 

of the Group 2 German 1,000 Guineas 

in Dusseldorf. Combined with the twoyear-old 

success of DON’T TELL MARY 

(£32,000) in the Listed Hilary Needler 

Trophy and the opportunity of success in 

the DBS £300,000 St Leger Yearling Stakes, 

this sale offers purchasers a chance to buy 

a select bunch of yearlings at a time when 

some major buyers are inspecting the Book 

1 yearlings in America. 

A solid trade was returned in 2009, which 

was aided by the presence of European 

buyers, as well as a large selection of trainers 

from Northern England, one of whom was 

responsible for the top price of £36,000 

paid by Kevin Ryan for a Haafhd colt 

consigned by Mocklershill Stables. 


Penny’s Gift 


PENNYS GIFT 

Sold 10,000 gns (2007) 


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McKeever 

St Lawrence 

By Emma Berry 

With a tenth anniversary in store, 2009 was always going to be a 

banner year for McKeever St Lawrence. 

The Prix Morny winner Arcano has certainly 

helped to make it a year to remember, even in 

the face of recession. In August, the unbeaten 

two-year-old became the 27th Group One winner to 

have been bought by the Newmarket-based agency, 

joining a list that includes Vinnie Roe, Red Rocks, 

Crowded House, Donna Blini and the Cheveley Park 

Stakes-winning duo of Carry On Katie and Magical 

Romance. As the list implies, Brian Meehan is a regular 

client of McKeever St Lawrence, whose other trainers 

include Gerard Butler, Bryan Smart and Marcus 

Tregoning. The team also bought this year’s Norfolk 

Stakes winner Radiohead privately as a foal, while two 

other juveniles to have given McKeever St Lawrence 

cause for cheer this season are Debutante Stakes 

winner Lillie Langtry and Lowther Stakes runner-up 

Beyond Desire. 

Johnny McKeever and Oliver St Lawrence established 

McKeever St Lawrence in September 2000 and have 

just completed their tenth sales season in partnership. 

They are aided by Johnny’s wife Susie and Henrietta 

Michael, a recent addition to the team. 

“Henry joined us last year and she does lots of 

nominations work,” says St Lawrence. “It’s an area 

we’d like to expand on as time goes on, it brings 

another dimension to our business.” 

This time last year, an air of pessimism pervaded much 

of the bloodstock world following the global financial 

crisis but with the sales season having held up better 

than previously feared, McKeever St Lawrence can 

reflect on a reasonable year. 

“It hasn’t been a vintage year but it’s been solid and, 

given the climate, we’re very happy. I think everyone 

has been surprised how well the sales have held up, 

particularly given the gloom that followed Doncaster 

and Keeneland but it got going after that,” says Oliver. 

“The St Leger sale has traditionally been a good sale 

for us but it struggled a bit this year because people 

weren’t prepared to buy on spec so early in the year. I 

think trainers knew that they were going to be owning 

the yearlings for longer.” 

The agency does not restrict itself to the European 

market but has a strong client base in the Middle East, 

America and Hong Kong. They bought 20 horses at 

this year’s horses-in-training sale, of which only one 

was to stay in this country. 

“Johnny and I have always been fairly international. 

I make an annual trip to the Middle East and Johnny 

does an American trip, so we’ve always tried to get 

out and about. We try to work together with the 

BBM on this and I have a chat with Anna if I’m off to 

somewhere new,” says St Lawrence. 

Having first been co-opted to the CBA by McKeever 

as “a sidekick” after the departure of Paul Webber, St 

Lawrence insists the closeness of the partners is the 

key to their success. 

He says: “We seem to get on very well together. 

Strangely enough, being rather cramped in this office 

and insisting on sitting opposite each other as we do, we 

know exactly what’s going on. It just seems to work.”

Crowded House 

(Left) Oliver St Lawrence 

(Right) Johnnie Peter-Hoblyn 

(Left) Johnny McKeever 

(Right) Brian Meehan 



Mckeever St Lawrence 

www.mslbloodstock.co.uk 

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15-16 October 

Champions Meeting at Newmarket 

Rowley Mile Racecourse 


22-23 October 

Racing Post Trophy Meeting at 

Doncaster Racecourse 


In the area 

Trainer: James Given 

Tel: +44 (0)1427 667618 

www.jamesgivenracing.com 

30 miles from Doncaster Racecourse 


The Royal Studs 

Stallions: Motivator & 

Royal Applause 

Tel: +44 (0)1485 540588 




5-8 October 

Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 


11-13 October 



14-15 October 



19 October 

DBS October Yearling Sale 


20-21 October 

DBS October Horses in Training Sale 

Flat and National Hunt Horses in Training 



25-28 October 

Tattersalls Autumn Horses in 

Training Sale 


Trainer: Henry Cecil 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 662192 

www.henrycecil.co.uk 



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Shadwell Stud 

Stallions: Aqlaam, Green Desert, 

Haafhd, Nayef & Sakhee 

Tel: +44 (0)1842 755913 

www.shadwellstud.co.uk 



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October 09 Race Highlights 

October’s highlight was undoubtedly Sea The Stars, 

by Cape Cross, winning the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de 

Triomphe in such impressive style. Horses remain 

the heroes and how fortunate it is the Tsui family are 

standing the horse in Europe; we can look forward to 

seeing many of his foals born in Britain, where most of 

his glory days took place. 

Arc weekend contained British successes, as Cheveley Park Stud’s 

homebred Pipedreamer (GB), by SELKIRK, won the Group 

2 Prix Dollar and their world class resident stallion PIVOTAL 

(GB) sired the winner of the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere 

in Siyouni. SELKIRK achieved a double of his own, siring also 

Daryakana, who took the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu at a fixture 

which the British make their own, providing an atmosphere that 

France’s principal track never generates otherwise. 

British-bred two-year-olds again did superbly in Europe. 

Circumvent (GB), by TOBOUGG, won the Group 3 Prix 

Thomas Bryon, and SINGSPIEL sired two juvenile winners 

on the same day; Godolphin’s Zeitoper (GB) in the Group 

3 Prix de Conde and Glad Tiger in the Group 3 Preis der 

Winterfavoriten. All were surpassed, however, by Hearts Of 

Fire (GB), by Bearstone Stud’s first season sire FIREBREAK and 

bred by them, winning a humdinger of a duel in the Group 1 

Gran Criterium in Milan. 

At home too, British two-year-olds excelled, taking both 

Group 1 races for juveniles on 2 October, with Juddmonte’s 

homebred Special Duty (GB), by Hennessy, looking out 

of the ordinary when taking the Cheveley Park Stakes and 

Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s Awzaan (GB), by Alhaarth, 

maintaining his unbeaten record in the Middle Park Stakes. 

Special Duty 

Older horses produced some special performances as well. 

The Champions Meeting at Newmarket saw Twice Over 

(GB), by OBSERVATORY, land a deserved Group 1 in the 

Champion Stakes itself for his breeder Juddmonte Farms, 

though the loudest cheers were reserved for long-standing 

trainer Henry Cecil, who flies his family standard at Warren 

Place after a Group 1 victory. 

Three British Group 1 winners on the other side of the Atlantic 

flowed in quick succession. Gitano Hernando (GB), bred 

by the Jacobs family’s Newsells Park Stud, became the fifth 

Group 1 winner for Lanwades Stud resident HERNANDO 

when winning the Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita, the same 

day as Diamondrella (GB), by Rock Of Gibraltar, took the 

Group 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland. A week later, Champs 

Elysees (GB), by Danehill and a full-brother to Juddmonte’s 

leading sire DANSILI, took the Group 1 Canadian International 

at Woodbine, his last run before taking up residence beside his 

brother at Banstead Manor Stud, near Newmarket. 

British breeding even celebrated a Group 1 win in Australia, 

when Speed Gifted (GB), by Montjeu, took the important 

Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick and one of the last Group 

1’s in Europe for three-years-old and above, the Prix Royal 

Oak, went to Ask (GB), by Sadler’s Wells, making him three 

from four for the year, including the Group 1 Coronation Cup, 

the only “failure” this season for the Side Hill-bred six-year-old 

being his third in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen 

Elizabeth Stakes. 

Awzaan 

Twice Over 

Pipedreamer

October 09 Sales review 


2010 Date: 5-8 October | Entries close: 23 April 2010 


2009 609 474 53,735,000 113,365 78,000 

2008 532 410 49,821,000 121,515 85,000 

Tattersalls October Yearling Sale attracts 

the cream of the European yearling crop 

annually. The sale features the only yearlings 

eligible for the Tattersalls Timeform Millions, 

a sales race series featuring eight races worth 

£1,750,000 and including the Tattersalls 

Timeform Million and Tattersalls Timeform 

Fillies 800’, the richest races for two-yearolds 

in Europe. October 1 is Europe’s most 

prolific source of Classic winners, with recent 

Derby winners AUTHORIZED (400,000 

gns) and MOTIVATOR (75,000 gns) both 

graduates of the sale, as were the outstanding 

ALEXANDROVA (420,000 gns) and 

GEORGE WASHINGTON (1,150,000 gns). 

The sale has provided many Group 1 winners 

sold for under 100,000 guineas, including 

Hong Kong superstar VIVA PATACA 

(26,000 gns), South Africa’s Champion filly 

DANCER’S DAUGHTER (52,000 gns), dual 

Group 1 winner and triple Arc runner-up 

YOUMZAIN (30,000 gns) and four-time 

Grade 1 winner MAGICAL FANTASY 

(20,000 gns). A consistent source of top 

class two-year-olds, Book 1 has this year seen 

Group 1 victories by two Classic prospects 

in ST NICHOLAS ABBEY (200,000 gns) and 

ARCANO (90,000 gns). 




2009 733 606 20,545,500 33,936 25,000 

2008 719 509 19,672,700 38,650 29,000 

Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling 

Sale follows Book 1 and in 2009 took place 

over three days, with a total of 733 yearlings 

offered. The sale always throws up a host 

of top class winners, and attracts buyers 

from throughout Europe and from further 

afield. The 2006 Derby winner SIR PERCY is 

a recent top class Book 2 graduate, costing 

only 16,000 guineas when sold at the 2004 

renewal, and Group 1 winners in 2009 have 

included the Golden Jubilee winner ART 

CONNOISSEUR (55,000 guineas), the EP 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

Taylor winner LAHALEEB (70,000 guineas) 

and the Hong Kong Queen Elizabeth II 

winner PRESVIS. 

Other graduates of the sale to have hit the 

heights in 2009 have included the Group 

2 Doncaster Cup winner ASKAR TAU 

(145,000 guineas), the US Grade 2 winners 

BATTLE OF HASTINGS (62,000 guineas) 

and TUSCAN EVENING (4,500 guineas) 

and the Group 2 Cherry Hinton winner 

MISHEER (70,000 guineas). 


St Nicholas Abbey 


ST NICHOLAS ABBEY 

Sold 200,000 gns (2008) 

Group 1 and 2 Winner 

Misheer 


MISHEER 

Sold 70,000 guineas (2008) 

Group 2 Winner, Group 

1 Placed 

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2009 412 294 2,442,500 8,308 5,850 

2008 414 271 2,815,300 10,389 7,000 

Book 3 of the October Yearling Sale follows 

on immediately after Book 2, with around 

500 yearlings catalogued over two days. 

The sale attracts buyers from throughout 

the world looking for the combination of 

quality and great value for money. There are 

few finer advertisements for Book 3 of the 

October Yearling Sale than the MTOTO filly 

SERIOUS ATTITUDE, who after being sold 

for a mere 7,500 guineas in 2007 went on to 

win the following year’s Group 1 Cheveley 

Park Stakes at Newmarket. 

In 2009, this sale attracted purchasers 

from many different countries, including 

America, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, 

Kuwait, Italy, Sweden etc. and posted 

improved figures when compared to the 

same sale in 2008. Alongside those 

looking to race their new acquisitions 

overseas, the National Hunt trainers 

were out in force and Donald McCain, 

son of Red Rum’s trainer Ginger McCain, 

topped the sale when buying the scopey 

OVERTURN for £75,000 from the 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

2009 has also seen the Group 3 winner 

ARCTIC (9,000 guineas) develop into a 

Classic prospect for 2010, as well as the 

Group 3 Molecomb winner MONSIEUR 

CHEVALIER (17,000 guineas) and the Listed 

winning bargain buy IVER BRIDGE LAD 

(1,000 guineas). 

DBS October Sale 

2010 Date: 19-21 October | Yearling entries close: 13 September 2010 

Horses in Training entries close: 20 September 2010 


2009 602 423 1,996,550 4,720 2,500 

2008 618 387 1,831,400 4,775 2,500 

Walter Swinburn stable to embark on a 

new career over obstacles. 

The sale also saw the Group 3 winning 

PHILARIO purchased for £50,000 by BBA 

Ireland to race at the Dubai Carnival for 

his new owners and the son of Captain 

Rio is sure to make his mark at the richest 

race meeting in the world. The two-yearold 

SEJANUS is another destined to race 

overseas after he was bought by the Kuwaiti 

based Al Banwan Stables for £22,000. 

Serious Attitude 


SERIOUS ATTITUDE 

Sold 7,500gns (2007) 

Group 1 and 3 Winner 

Borderlescott 


BORDERLESCOTT 

Sold 13,000 gns (2003) 

Multiple Group 1 Winner

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Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale 

2010 Date: 25-28 October | Entries close: 3 September 2010 


2009 1063 903 17,457,800 19,333 9,000 

2008 1186 935 19,690,300 21,059 8,000 

The Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training 

Sale is the largest sale of its type in the world 

with a unique appeal to buyers from every 

continent. Not a year goes by without the 

sale producing winners at the highest level, 

both Flat and National Hunt, and there is 

genuinely something to fit all requirements. 

In recent years the Dubai International 

Racing Carnival has also added a new 

dimension to the sale with numerous horses 

with the required BHA rating for buyers 

targeting Dubai. The 2009 renewal of the 

sale saw buyers from 32 different countries 

converge on Tattersalls in Newmarket. 

Graduates of the sale in recent years 

include ALKAASED, the 42,000 guineas 

purchase who went on win the Group 1 

Japan Cup and £1,672,130 in prize money. 

Other graduates in recent times include this 

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Newsells 

Park Stud 

By Tina Rau 

“Newsells Park Stud is a wonderful place. I love the stud, the way it is set 

up, its rolling hills and the amazing number and size of bushes and trees.” 

Andreas Jacobs continues, “The location near 

Newmarket allows us to have close access 

to great stallions. And being based in the UK 

means that we can benefit from the most original 

and professional way to breed horses.” 

Newsells Park is a relatively young operation. Bought in 

2000 by the late German-born Klaus Jacobs, the stud 

today stretches over 1,200 acres of land and is home to 

nearly 100 broodmares and their offspring. It is Andreas 

Jacobs, the founder’s son and also the principal of 

Gestüt Fährhof in Germany and Maine Chance Farm in 

South Africa who is at the helm of the operation, while 

Julian Dollar and his team ensure a smooth running of 

the stud on a day to day basis. 

Having caused ripples in the bloodstock industry in the 

early years of its existence when appearing as the buyer 

of a substantial number of highly rated broodmares and 

top performed breeding prospects at public auction, the 

stud has come full circle almost 10 years after its creation. 

In 2009 Newsells Park as vendor, has left a serious imprint 

on the landscape of European yearling sales. 

In a sales season that was going to prove challenging for 

most, Newsells Park were the sales topping vendors at 

both Deauville’s Arqana August sales - where their 9 

Lots averaged a remarkable €250,778 - and at the DBS 

St Leger sale, where a handsome son of Dansili (GB) 

and the stud’s Listed winning Cayman Sunset changed 

hands for £200,000. 

Ammunition was by no means depleted though and at 

Tatts October 1 the stud sold 15 lots for an aggregate of 

2,704,000gns and an impressive average of 180,270gns, 

sending Newsells Park into the runner-up spot on the 

vendor’s list. Trying to explain the stud’s sales-success 

after a number of difficult early years, Andreas Jacobs 

explains, “First, we have a very good team. Second, we 

had to go through a long learning curve. We had to 

learn about our mares which came from all over the 

world. We did not know if they produce small foals, 

big foals, correct foals, small feet...” 

But 2009 marked a significant step on more than 

just the sales front for Newsells Park. It also saw 

the stud tasting success at the races with a number 

of stakes performers, and most importantly the 

first Newsells bred, raised and sold Grade 1 winner 

in Gitano Hernando (GB) (winner of the Grade 1 

Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita). For Julian Dollar 

that is what it is all about. “We’re trying to tread a 

very fine line between being a commercial breeder 

and just a good breeder. Success in the sales ring 

is a compliment to the team that have produced 

the horse, but unless it goes on to be a successful 

racehorse it is meaningless. The first homebred 

Group 1winner this year was a huge achievement 

and that’s what the ultimate aim is.” 

This year also saw the arrival of Mount Nelson (GB) 

at Newsells Park Stud. He was extremely well received 

by breeders and ushers a new era in the Newsells Park 

programme, Jacobs elaborates, “First, we want to 

become a serious partner for commercial breeders on 

the stallion side. We want to prove that we can ‘make’ 

a stallion by supporting him and by giving him great 

chances with a good book of mares. The second phase 

will be to add another stallion in order to increase the 

choice for those who believe in our capabilities.” 

So watch this space!

Julian Dollar 

(General Manager) 

Mount Nelson 

Mount Nelson winning the 

2008 Group 1 Coral-Eclipse 



Newsells Park Stud 

Tel: +44 (0)1763 846 000 

www.newsells-park.com 

October 77

November 

2 4 

A 

1 

B 

3 

C 

7 

5 6 

D

1 

2 

3 


6 November 

Totesport November Handicap 

at Doncaster Racecourse 


12-14 November 

The Open Meeting at 

Cheltenham Racecourse 



Hennessy Winter Festival at 

Newbury Racecourse 


In the area 

Trainer: Tom George 

Tel: +44 (0)1452 814267 

www.tomgeorgeracing.co.uk 



Trainer: Nicky Henderson 

Tel: +44 (0)1488 72259 




Cheveley Park Stud 

Stallions: Dutch Art, Kyllachy, 

Medicean, Pivotal & Virtual 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 730316 

www.cheveleypark.co.uk 




12 November 


Hunt Sale 

National Hunt and Flat Horses in Training and 

Point to Pointers 


22 November 

Tattersalls December Yearling Sale 



Tattersalls December Foal Sale 


29 November – 3 December 

Tattersalls December Breeding 

Stock Sale 

Broodmares, Fillies/Horses in Training etc. 


A B 

C D 

4 

5 

6 

7 

Trainer: Marco Botti 

Tel: +44 (0)1638 662416 

www.marcobotti.co.uk 



November 79

80 

November 09 Race Highlights 

After the successful European assault on the Breeders’ 

Cup in 2008 that reaped five wins, European horses 

went one better this year by taking six of the 14 races 

over the two day championship meeting at Santa Anita 

in California. 

Four of the horses were trained in Britain, including Midday 

(GB), by OASIS DREAM (GB), who won the Group 1 Breeders 

Cup Fillies’ and Mares’ Turf; a remarkable achievement for the 

Juddmonte Farms homebred three-year-old, not least to still be at 

the top of her game in November, having started the season back 

in April. Seven races in eight months, incorporating five Group 

1 events in four different countries, she proved herself a tough 

customer and was never out of the first three. Excitingly, this filly 

will stay in training next year, where she will, no doubt, exploit 

the excellent programme for fillies in Britain. Many British cheers 

went out to trainer Henry Cecil, one of the greatest European 

handlers in the last fifty years, who was celebrating his first victory 

in the Breeders’ Cup. 

This was not the only British-bred winner in the USA this 

month, as Darley homebred Criticism (GB), by Machiavellian, 

took her fourth Graded race of the year in the Group 3 Long 

Island Handicap on 1 November. 

British-bred two-year-olds have had a wonderful season, 

especially in France, and it continued right to the end, with 

Tattersalls graduate Our Jonathan (GB), by Invincible Spirit, 

taking the Group 2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte without any 

recourse to the whip. Trained by Kevin Ryan in Yorkshire, he 

has won four of his last five starts and is still improving, making 

him an exciting prospect for 2010. 

Planet Of Sound 

Diamond Harry 

Four-year-old Tattersalls graduate Fourpenny Lane (GB) by 

Efisio and bred by Barry Taylor, topped the second day of Goffs 

November Sales at €100,000, but not before she had won the 

Listed ISF EBF Cooley Stakes at Dundalk, which was doubtless 

vital in her making that price. 

As the flat season draws to a close, so the racing fraternity 

focus their attention towards the jumps and the name 

‘Cheltenham’ is once again banded on everyone’s lips. 

As October turned to November, British-breds won two 

feature races at Wetherby in Yorkshire. Deep Purple (GB), by 

HALLING, came late to land the Grade 2 Charlie Hall Chase, 

after previous winner Ollie Magern (GB), by Alderbrook, 

had gallantly tried to make all in his customary way. The mares 

programme over obstacles has improved markedly and Santia 

(GB), by Kahyasi, took the Listed Mares Hurdle at the track. 

She was having her ninth run of 2009, having raced through 

the summer, and stayed on well to win by three and a 

quarter lengths. 

Planet Of Sound (GB), by KAYF TARA (GB), a top novice last 

season, smoothly completed the sometimes difficult transition 

from novice to second season chaser, by winning the Grade 2 

Haldon Gold Cup and coming second in the Grade 2 Amlin 

1965 Chase later in the month. 

The first big festival of the season, the Paddy Power at 

Cheltenham, saw Khyber Kim (GB), by Mujahid, achieve a 

gutsy victory in Sunday’s feature, the Grade 3 Greatwood Hurdle, 

from Harry Tricker (GB), by HERNANDO, while Doncaster 

Sales graduate Diamond Harry (GB), by Sir Harry Lewis, a 

top novice hurdler last season, exuded class when routing his 

opponents in the Listed Fixed Brush Hurdle at Haydock. 

Midday 

Our Jonathan

November 09 Sales review 

Brightwells Cheltenham Stars 

of the Future Sale 

2010 Date: 12 November | Entries are by selection only 


2009 32 23 £906,500 £36,000 

2008 22 14 £867,250 £63,714 

The top lot of the sale was Sherwani Wolf, 

a winner of two National Hunt Flat races at 

Chepstow and Plumpton. 

The five-year-old was bought for £135,000 

by Charles Davies, who is an owner with 

Nigel Twiston-Davies. 


Sherwani Wolf 


SHERWANI WOLF 


Multiple Winner 

November 81

82 

The TBA NH 

Stallion Parade 

By Clive Webb-Carter 

This year’s TBA National Hunt Stallion parade highlighted that 

British breeding currently has a strong roster of National Hunt sires. 

Henry Beeby, Chief Executive of the 

Goffs Group, and Stephen Hadley, the 

international equestrian commentator, 

gave superb commentaries on each sire as it entered 

the winner’s enclosure, leaving breeders full of 

praise for what was on offer. 

The parade opened with ACT ONE, who joins Wood 

Farm Stud for his first season. He will be popular with 

National Hunt breeders, as he proved an excellent 

sire on the Flat, having produced a strong group 

of stakes horses, including the five times Group 1 

winner Dancer’s Daughter. 

One of the younger sires to have made an immediate 

impression on the National Hunt circuit is BEAT 

ALL. A stakes winning miler, his oldest foals are only 

six-years-olds and he is already producing useful 

performers which include the smart stakes hurdler 

Dani California. 

It is hard to forget how tough DOUBLE TRIGGER 

was on the racecourse, and the East Burrow Farm 

inmate looks to be transferring this toughness to his 

off-spring as proved by Russian Trigger, the Midlands 

Grand National winner, Faltering Fullback and 

Double Dizzy. 

The second resident from East Burrow Farm was 

Barathea’s son TOBOUGG. This Group 1 Dewhurst 

Stakes winner, who enjoyed a successful career under 

the Darley banner, siring two Classic winners in 

Penny’s Gift and The Pooka, joined his Devon base 

in 2009. With Bouggler (GB) winning the Grade 2 

Mersey Novices’ Hurdle, Tobougg is sure 

to have advertised his qualities as a potential 

leading National Hunt sire. 

The standout in the parade was unquestionably 

KAYF TARA (GB). The dual winner of the Group 

1 Ascot Gold Cup is one of the leading NH sires 

in Europe. Having sired 10 National Hunt stakes 

winners over hurdles and fences, as well as the 

Cheltenham Festival winner Kayf Aramis, 

Kayf Tara looks a future champion. 

LUCARNO has recently joined the Shropshirebased 

Wood Farm Stud. Having won the Group 1 

St Leger Stakes, his first foals are awaited with great 

interest in 2010. 

Making a real impact on the National Hunt circuit is 

MIDNIGHT LEGEND (GB). This son of Night Shift, 

who was himself a stakes winner under both codes, 

has had a staggering 56% winners to runners ratio. 

REVOQUE, formerly a successful flat sire, is now 

making a strong impression on the National 

Hunt world. He is proving to be a major source 

of hurdlers, having sired the smart performers 

Voyourovitch, De Blanc and Waterlilly and he is 

also the maternal grandsire of Denman. VICTORY 

NOTE has also proved to be a successful source of 

speed with his flat runners, having sired the Group 1 

winning sprinter Peace Offering. He has also proved 

a prolific sire of hurdlers, having produced City 

Note, Swiss Note and Victram to win Listed races 

in France, where he stood for seven seasons. Now 

standing at Dairy House Stud, he is bound to have 

the same impact in Britain.

NH Stallion Stud and Fee 2010 

Victory Note 

Stallion Standing at Fee (£) 

Act One (GB) Wood Farm Stud 2,000 

Beat All (USA) Mickley Stud 2,000 

Double Trigger (IRE) East Burrow Farm 1,750 

Grape Tree Road (GB) Shade Oak Stud 2,000 

Helissio (FR) Larkinglass Farm 2,500 

Indian Danehill (IRE) Yorton Farm 2,000 

Kayf Tara (GB) Overbury Stud 4,500 

Lucarno (USA) Wood Farm Stud 2,000 

Midnight Legend (GB) Pitchall Farm Stud 4,000 

Revoque (IRE) Yorton Farm 2,000 

Tobougg (IRE) East Burrow Farm 2,500 

Victory Note (USA) Dairy House Stud 1,750 


Beat All 

Helissio 

November 83 

Act One

December 

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3-4 December 

Tingle Creek Meeting at Sandown 

Park Racecourse 


10-11 December 

Boylesports International Meeting 

at Cheltenham Racecourse 


26-27 December 

William Hill King George VI Meeting 

at Kempton Park Racecourse 

www.kempton.co.uk 

27 December 

Coral Welsh National Meeting 

at Chepstow Racecourse 

www.chepstow-racecourse.co.uk 

In the area 

Trainer: Tim Vaughan 

Tel: +44 (0)1446 771626 

www.timvaughanracing.com 

45 miles from Chepstow Racecourse 


Trainer: Venetia Williams 

Tel: +44 (0)1432 840646 

www.venetiawilliams.com 




Usk Valley Stud 

Tel: +44 (0)1873 853969 

www.uskvalleystud.co.uk 

35 miles from Chepstow Racecourse 



3 December 

DBS National Hunt Breeze-up 

Sale at Kempton 


6-7 December 

DBS December Sale 

Flat Breeding Stock, Flat and National Hunt 

Horses in Training 


10 December 


Hunt Breeze-up Sale 


A B 

C D 

5 

6 

7 

Trainer: James Boyle 

Tel: +44 (0)1372 748800 

www.jamesboyle.co.uk 

15 miles from Kempton Racecourse 


December 85

86 

December 09 Race Highlights 

December is, for flat aficionados, a time for reflection 

on a magnificent season and looking forward to the 

next. A result this month prompted the happy thought 

that SELKIRK will cover again in 2010, as the Lanwades 

Stud stallion reminded everyone of his proficiency 

when his daughter Daryakana won the Group 1 Cathay 

Pacific Hong Kong Vase. 

Nowadays, racing on the level does continue, with Britain 

leading in Europe with a variety of all-weather tracks. There 

is the odd Stakes race Europe-wide and Sky Crusader (GB), 

by Mujahid, three times a Tattersalls graduate, added to the 

very sizeable British haul in France this year in the Listed Prix 

Lyphard at Deauville. 

The focus of British racing, however, is on National Hunt and the 

home team of breeders had a number of successes. The friendly 

rivalry between Britain and Ireland usually sees the Emerald Isle 

try to take British money home, but increasingly, raiders cross in 

mid-channel and What A Friend (GB) took the Grade 1 Lexus 

Chase at Leopardstown in battling fashion. He is by ALFLORA 

(GB), so long the flag-bearing sire in Britain of National Hunt 

horses from his home at Shade Oak Stud in Shropshire. 

Khyber Kim (GB) stepped up on his performance in taking 

the Grade 3 Greatwood Hurdle and established himself as 

a real contender for the Grade 1 Smurfit Kappa Champion 

Hurdle by beating Celestial Halo, Medermit and Punjabi (GB), 

by Komaite, on the latter’s first start of the year, in the Grade 2 

Boylesports.com International Hurdle at Cheltenham. 

Khyber Kim 

Deep Purple 

This was not the only Grade 2 successes for British-bred 

jumpers this month, as Deep Purple (GB), by HALLING, was 

a runaway winner of the totesport.com Peterborough Chase 

and Riverside Theatre (GB), by King’s Theatre, pitched 

himself among the best by taking the Wayward Lad Novices’ 

Chase at the Kempton Christmas Meeting. 

Khyber Kim was not the only British-bred winner at 

Cheltenham either, as The Package (GB), by KAYF TARA, 

was a convincing winner of the Listed Neptune Investment 

Management Chase, a race won by several future John Smith’s 

Grand National winners in the past. Two more Listed races 

over hurdles fell to British-breds in the month. Torpichen 

(GB), by Alhaarth, was another to win in Ireland, landing 

the Fishery Hurdle at Naas, while Tasheba (GB), by Dubai 

Destination, took the Best Odds Guaranteed at betinternet. 

com Handicap Hurdle 

KAYF TARA is really making himself a name as a sire of chasers 

as his crops become old enough in numbers and his son 

Carruthers (GB), owned and bred by the much-admired Lord 

Oaksey, and trained by his son-in-law Mark Bradstock, won the 

historic Bathwick Tyres Mandarin Chase at Newbury with ease, 

showing that this Grade 2 winner over hurdles is a force to be 

reckoned with over the larger obstacles. 

One Grand National has been decided already this season. 

Dream Alliance (GB), by Bien Bien, marked himself as a 

contender for the big one when he slogged through the 

holding ground at undulating Chepstow to take the Grade 3 

Coral Welsh National in a thrilling finish. 

What A Friend 

DreamAlliance

December 09 Sales review 

Tattersalls December Yearling Sale 

2010 Date: 22 November | Entries close: 23 April 2010 


2009 195 153 3,486,700 22,789 11,000 

2008 187 103 1,977,000 19,388 8,500 

The Tattersalls December Sale, arguably the 

world’s most international sale, opens with 

a day of yearlings. In 2009, graduates of the 

sale include no fewer than 11 Group/Listed 

winners including the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup 

Juvenile winner VALE OF YORK who was 

purchased at the 2008 renewal of the sale 

for a mere 23,000 guineas. The 2008 Irish 

Oaks winner MOONSTONE and the Group 

1 Falmouth Stakes winner NAHOODH are 

also both graduates of the sale, the latter at 

the bargain price of 19,000 guineas. 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

But few bargains come better than that of 

the superstar sprinter OVERDOSE, who was 

purchased at the 2006 Tattersalls December 

Yearling Sale for 2,000 guineas. The Group 

2 winning son of STARBOROUGH has 

never been headed in eleven wins and 

was arguably denied his finest hour having 

‘won’ the void running of the 2008 Group 

1 Qatar Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp. 

Racing enthusiasts worldwide will be eagerly 

awaiting his return to the track in 2010. 

Tattersalls December Foal Sale 

2010 Date: 23-27 November | Entries close: 27 August 2010 


2009 793 618 20,218,700 32,716 16,000 

2008 933 562 14,549,100 25,888 10,500 

In 1974 the legendary BLUSHING GROOM 

went through the ring at Tattersalls at the 

December Foal Sale and was sold for 16,500 

guineas and ever since the sale has attracted 

a variety of buyers, from owners to agents 

to those looking to buy a foal to re-sell as 

a yearling. 2009 has been a stellar year for 

the Tattersalls December Foal Sale, with six 

Group 1 winning graduates and the winners 

of no less than 71 Group/Listed races. 

Headlining the Group 1 winning sextet are 

the Irish Derby winner FAME AND GLORY 

and the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp 

winner AQLAAM who cost 190,000 guineas 

and 260,000 guineas respectively. 

The Hong Kong Group 1 winning pair of 

PRESVIS and DIM SUM illustrated the great 

value found at the December Foal Sale 

when winning the Queen Elizabeth II Cup 

and The Chairman’s Sprint Prize, with the 

pair knocked down for 15,000 guineas and 

41,000 guineas respectively. 

The same could be said for the late season 

victories of TOTAL GALLERY and HEARTS 

OF FIRE, the former, a 45,000 guineas 

graduate of the sale, winning the Group 

1 Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp and the 

latter, a bargain 6,000 guineas at the 2008 

December Foal Sale, winning the Group 1 

Gran Criterium at San Siro. 


Vale of York 


VALE OF YORK 

Sold 23,000 gns (2008) 

Grade 1 winner 

Fame and Glory 


FAME AND GLORY 

Sold 190,000 gns (2006) 

Group 1 winner 

December 87

88 

December 09 Sales review 

Tattersalls December Mares 

2010 Date: 29-3 December | Entries close: 31 August 2010 


2009 792 628 33,197,700 52,863 14,500 

2008 894 610 33,355,150 54,681 12,500 

Widely regarded as the most influential 

thoroughbred sale in the world, the Tattersalls 

December Sale has long been the source of 

legends. The outstanding VAGUELY NOBLE, 

who was the winner of the Group 1 Observer 

Gold Cup at the time, was offered at the 1967 

December Sales, selling for a record price 

before going on to win the Prix de l’Arc de 

Triomphe the following year. The legendary 

French 2,000 Guineas winner and successful 

sire BLUSHING GROOM was sold as a foal 

at the 1974 December Sales for only 16,500 

guineas and perhaps most famously of all, 

LADY ANGELA, the dam of the breed-shaping 

NEARCTIC, sire of arguably the greatest 

stallion of all time, NORTHERN DANCER, was 

sold at the 1952 December Sales for the sale 

topping price of 10,500 guineas. 

Buyers from more than 50 countries have 

been coming to the Tattersalls December 

Sale for more than 100 years, searching for 

the filly or mare to form the foundation for 

future generations of success as well as the 

chance to catch up with old friends and to 

make new acquaintances. 

(1 guinea = £1.05) 

The key to any sale is the success of its 

graduates and the December Sale certainly 

measures up on all fronts. In 2009 the 

progeny of graduates of the Tattersalls 

December Sale have won a remarkable 

27 Group 1 races across all parts of the 

globe including England, Ireland, France, 

USA, Hong Kong, Italy, Germany, Canada, 

Australia, New Zealand, India and Uruguay. 

They include the Classic winning quartet of 

the Irish Derby winner FAME AND GLORY, 

the Oaks winner SARISKA, the Irish 1,000 

Guineas winner AGAIN and the Poule d’Essai 

des Pouliches winner ELUSIVE WAVE. 

Other Group 1 winning progeny include the 

two-year-olds KINGSFORT, TERMAGANT 

and HEARTS OF FIRE, the remarkable 

YEATS, winner of the Gold Cup an 

unprecedented four times, and LAHALEEB, 

winner of the EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine 

and subsequently sold for 1,000,000 guineas 

at the 2009 Tattersalls December Mare Sale. 

Sariska 

Successful Graduates 

MAYCOCKS BAY 

Sold 130,000 gns (2006) 

Dam of SARISKA 

Multiple Group 1 Winner

The DBS Future Stars NH 

Breeze-up Sale (Kempton) 

2010 Date: 3 December | Entries close: 9 August 2010 


2009 52 21 568,500 27,071 22,000 

2008 64 30 857,500 28,583 20,500 

This sale is the only one of its kind to have 

sold winners at the highest level with the 

roll call including the Grade 1 Cheltenham 

Festival performers WEAPON’S AMNESTY, 

NOLAND and DE SOTO alongside 

the highly promising MERIDIAN CITY, 

FRASCATI PARK, SHADOW DANCER 

and MISTER WALL STREET. 

Brightwells Cheltenham December 

Premier Breeze-up Sale 

2010 Date: 10 December | Entries are by selection only 


2009 71 43 1,147,200 26,679 

2008 87 57 1,617,000 28,368 

This sale was confined to National Hunt 

Breeze-up horses and it was only the 

second sale for Breeze-up horses under 

the auspices of Brightwells. 

Originally at Cheltenham Racecourse, this 

sale was moved to Kempton in 2008 to take 

advantage of the highly acclaimed Polytrack 

surface at the West London venue, and the 

sale posted a set of results that included the 

World Record for a National Hunt Breezer, 

when a three-year-old son of Flemensfirth 

sold to Howard Johnson for £170,000. 

DBS December Sale 

2010 Date: 6-7 December | Entries close: 15 November 2010 


2009 206 129 1,147,250 8,893 3,200 

2008 347 213 1,124,150 5,277 2,000 

DIM SUM (formerly Algol) highlighted the 

international appeal of this sale in 2009 

when winning the Group 1 Chairman’s 

Prize at Sha Tin. 

The son of Kyllachy was sold by White Lea 

Stables to Alastair Donald from the Kern/ 

Lillingston Association before he was placed 

in the care of John Moore to win at the 

highest level. 

Three of the top four lots were by Milan, 

Presenting and Nayef, with the Milan colt, 

who was consigned by Whitehall Stud, 

selling to Bobby O’Ryan for £100,000. 

Weapon’s Amnesty 


WEAPON’S AMNESTY 

Sold 74,000 gns (2006) 

Grade 1 Hurdle Winner 

Grade 1 Chase Placed 


DIM SUM 

Sold 100,000 gns (2006) 



Unnamed 3-year-old 

2009 (Milan ex Light 

and Airy) 

Sold £100,000 (2009) 

December 89

90 

New 

Stallions 2010 

By John Berry 

Few new stallions anywhere in the world can boast as strong 

a pedigree as that possessed by Archipenko, whose stud career 

begins in 2010 at Lanwades Stud, Newmarket. 

The six-year-old son of Kingmambo was 

produced by the Stakes-winning Nijinsky 

mare Bound; and Bound, as a daughter of 

Thatch’s full-sister Special, is a half-sister not only to 

Nureyev but also to Fairy Bridge, the dam of Sadler’s 

Wells and Fairy King. With this pedigree, Archipenko 

clearly would rate as an interesting stallion prospect 

even if unraced. As it is, he was a top-class racehorse, 

winning at Group 1 level in Hong Kong and at Group 

2 level in England, Ireland and the UAE, so Lanwades 

can be regarded as having yet another exciting 

stallion on its hands. 

The same remark could be made about Banstead 

Manor Stud, where Champs Elysees takes up covering 

duties. It will feel familiar to this Juddmonte homebred, 

not least because he will be standing alongside 

his brothers Dansili, Cacique, and his relative Three 

Valleys. Displaying the toughness which has become 

synonymous with the progeny of his dam Hasili, 

Champs Elysees finished in the frame in Group/ 

Grade 1 races nine times both sides of the Atlantic, 

winning Grade 1 races in America and Canada. 

Two other British-bred top-level winners starting 

at stud in 2010 are Aqlaam and Virtual. Each won 

one Group 1 race last year, Virtual winning the 

Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes and Aqlaam taking the 

Prix du Moulin de Longchamp. Virtual, who will stand 

alongside his father Pivotal at Cheveley Park Stud, 

showed courage galore to land his Group 1 and later 

in the season confirmed his merit with two placings 

in the highest grade. Aqlaam was similarly consistent, 

maintaining the high-class form which he had shown 

in 2008 (when he won the Group 3 Jersey Stakes at 

Royal Ascot) throughout 2009, his Prix du Moulin 

victory being complemented by a Group 2 success at 

Ascot and by Group 1 placings in the Queen Anne 

Stakes and the Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard 

Jacques le Marois. A member of the first crop of 

Oasis Dream, Aqlaam looks sure to make his mark 

as a stallion at Shadwell and in the process further 

enhance the reputation of his up-and-coming sire. 

Another high-class British-bred miler embarking on a 

stud career this year is the admirable Major Cadeaux. 

The attractive son of Cadeaux Genereux showed 

consistently good form at two, when he was placed 

in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes, at three, when he 

won the Group 3 Lane’s End Greenham Stakes, and 

at four, when he was twice Group 1-placed. He looks 

sure to be the latest good sire for Bearstone Stud, 

which enjoyed such a memorable 2009, courtesy of 

the first crop of Firebreak. 

Breeders looking for young stallions likely to sire 

high-class two-year-olds are particularly well served 

this year, with Myboycharlie taking up duties at the 

National Stud and Winker Watson retiring to Norman 

Court Stud. Each was very good at two; Myboycharlie 

beat Natagora in the Group 1 Darley Prix Morny and 

Winker Watson followed up a win in the Group 2 

Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot with a hugely impressive 

victory in the Group 2 TNT July Stakes. Each looks 

sure to figure in the first-season sires’ table in 2013.

Archipenko 

Major Cadeaux 

Winker Watson 

Virtual 



Aqlaam: www.shadwellstud.com 

Archipenko: www.lanwades.com 

Champs Elysees: www.juddmonte.co.uk 

Major Cadeaux: www.bearstonestud.co.uk 

Myboycharlie: www.nationalstud.co.uk 

Winker Watson: www.normancourtstud.co.uk 

Virtual: www.cheveleypark.co.uk 

December 91 

Myboycharlie

2009 Leading GB Flat Breeders 


Breeder Starts Wins Runners Winners Total Leading 

Money Earner 

Juddmonte Farms Ltd 709 105 160 65 £2,477,660 Twice Over 

Darley 1367 184 275 117 £2,365,455 Mastery 

Shadwell Estate Company Limited 756 103 165 64 £1,518,352 Awzaan 

Ptarmigan Bloodstock and Miss Kirsten Rausing 6 3 1 1 £1,392,835 Fame And Glory 

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd 892 115 145 77 £1,365,976 Virtual 

Rabbah Bloodstock Limited 888 115 159 74 £1,287,690 Hibaayeb 

Whitsbury Manor Stud and Mrs M. E. Slade 29 5 3 3 £758,781 Oasis Dancer 

Lady Bamford 43 5 14 2 £632,763 Sariska 

Newsells Park Stud 273 35 67 24 £396,118 Strawberrydaiquiri 

Watership Down Stud 52 14 13 5 £393,247 Dar Re Mi 

T. E. Pocock and Morton Bloodstock 4 1 1 1 £379,876 Golden Sword 

Meon Valley Stud 160 16 38 14 £355,840 Poet 

Side Hill Stud 24 4 5 2 £341,730 Ask 

Mrs Poilin Good 37 5 6 4 £320,379 Delegator 

The Queen 137 21 30 13 £314,887 Kingdom of Fife 

Cliveden Stud Ltd 39 2 14 2 £313,761 Monitor Closely 

Miss Kirsten Rausing 193 23 43 15 £312,837 Lady Jane Digby 

Pollards Stables 35 4 9 4 £257,088 Nehaam 

Bearstone Stud 333 32 59 20 £256,310 Electric Feel 

Mr & Mrs Gary Middlebrook 193 24 42 15 £252,004 Reverence 

Source: Weatherbys 

Statistics 93

94 

08-09 Season Leading GB National Hunt Breeders 

Breeder Starts Wins Runners Winners Total Leading 

Money Earner 

Juddmonte Farms Ltd 370 36 86 25 £341,949 Hills of Aran 

Captain Jim Wilson 9 2 2 1 £290,865 Punjabi 

Darley 230 26 67 17 £190,268 Chrysander 

Shadwell Estate Company Limited 195 18 50 13 £178,325 Alfie Flits 

Cheveley Park Stud Ltd 125 11 30 8 £145,045 Font 

Mill House Stud 27 7 4 3 £125,055 I’msingingtheblues 

Miss K. Rausing 85 10 20 6 £107,794 Spanish Conquest 

R. and Mrs S. Edwards 18 4 6 2 £107,410 Trafford Lad 

Goldford Stud 50 10 12 5 £90,904 Ring The Boss 

Hesmonds Stud Ltd 36 6 9 3 £89,248 Ogee 

Peter Nelson 8 4 2 1 £88,859 According To Pete 

John Haydon 18 3 3 2 £87,499 Russian Trigger 

J. K. M. Oliver 10 2 3 1 £84,449 Rambling Minster 

Pendley Farm 28 4 5 2 £84,062 Fisher Bridge 

Bricklow Ltd 10 4 2 1 £79,857 Deep Purple 

Mrs H. Charlet and D. Charlesworth 4 1 1 1 £77,648 Crack Away Jack 

R. J. Wilding 7 1 1 1 £77,236 Big Fella Thanks 

Mrs A. L. Wood 10 4 4 1 £77,173 Diamond Harry 

Gleadhill House Stud Ltd 35 5 8 4 £75,638 Cloudy Lane 

Dr J. Hollowood 7 1 1 1 £73,648 Blue Bajan 

Blackdown Stud 8 1 1 1 £72,041 Oodachee 

Source: Weatherbys

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2009 Leading active British-based Flat Stallions 

Stallion Winners– Wins Runs Win Prize Total Prize Leading 

Runners Earner 

Oasis Dream 54–137 76 526 £1,581,098 £2,677,594 Midday 

Pivotal 63–140 98 611 £1,690,778 £2,520,994 Sariska 

Dansili 37–121 48 479 £761,923 £1,349,436 Famous Name 

Exceed And Excel 35–112 48 422 £475,389 £988,368 Reward For Effort 

Singspiel 22–70 29 241 £612,648 £825,970 Eastern Anthem 

Bahamian Bounty 45–133 64 554 £464,194 £789,422 Take Ten 

Nayef 19–64 26 224 £516,915 £741,341 Nehaam 

Selkirk 27–98 43 360 £453,085 £723,136 Daryakana 

Royal Applause 39–159 56 664 £448,313 £694,359 Battle of Hastings 

Kyllachy 47–159 62 709 £363,679 £678,303 Dim Sum 

Hernando 16–44 20 185 £349,300 £559,727 Casual Conquest 

Dubawi 18–47 21 173 £214,492 £542,435 Dubawi Heights 

Compton Place 29–119 42 615 £321,186 £489,753 Borderlescott 

Lucky Story 9–49 12 186 £412,690 £481,416 Art Connoisseur 

Observatory 16–46 19 188 £320,068 £465,351 Twice Over 

Refuse To Bend 21–91 28 338 £294,255 £457,576 Grace O’Malley 

Halling 22–66 34 286 £288,010 £432,386 Cavalryman 

Medicean 34–92 45 346 £212,343 £413,705 Mr Medici 

Cadeaux Genereux 23–53 32 241 £280,549 £410,907 Swift Gift 

Source: Racing Post

UK Stallions 2010 

Beat Hollow £6,000 slf 

1997 b h Sadler’s Wells ex Wemyss Bight (Dancing Brave) 

Maximum potential 

Champs Elysees £10,000 slf 

2003 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi) 

Tour de Force 

Dansili £65,000 slf 

1996 b h Danehill ex Hasili (Kahyasi) 

The Protagonist 

Oasis Dream £65,000 slf 

2000 b h Green Desert ex Hope (Dancing Brave) 

Living the Dream 

FULL 

FULL 

Observatory £4,000 slf 

1997 ch h Distant View ex Stellaria (Roberto) 

Group 1 Sire 

Rail Link £7,500 slf 

2003 b h Dansili ex Docklands (Theatrical) 

The Eurostar 

Three Valleys £5,000 slf 

2001 ch h Diesis ex Skiable (Niniski) 

A 2yo of rare brilliance 

Zamindar £15,000 slf 

1994 b h Gone West ex Zaizafon (The Minstrel) 

A Resurgent Force 

Juddmonte 

Oasis Dream 

Leading British Based Sire in Europe in 2009 

by prize money earned and leading sire 

by number of group winners 

(Hyperion 10/11/09) 

Contact Simon Mockridge, Kevin Sommerville or Pat Rule 

tel +44 (0)1638 731115 fax +44 (0)1638 731117 

email nominations@juddmonte.co.uk 

www.juddmonte.co.uk 

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2009 Leading British-based 1st Crop Flat Stallions 

Stallion Winners–Runners Wins Runs Win Prize Total Prize 

Dubawi 26–55 32 229 £251,910 £593,369 

Pastoral Pursuits 16–39 22 173 £97,392 £165,445 

Avonbridge 19–57 23 263 £96,603 £161,529 

Motivator 7–29 9 80 £80,366 £113,678 

Trade Fair 10–36 11 159 £57,888 £98,545 

Firebreak 3–18 4 78 £36,459 £71,741 

Source: Racing Post 

08-09 Season Leading active British-based Sires of NH Horses 

Stallion Winners– Wins Runs Win Prize Total Prize Leading 

Runners Earner 

Kayf Tara 41–151 63 511 £436,624 £646,764 Planet of Sound 

Overbury 39–137 62 525 £279,518 £443,959 Ballyfitz 

Hernando 17–48 23 177 £215,222 £376,660 State of Play 

Midnight Legend 25–44 41 216 £254,806 £354,211 Aimigayle 

Alflora 25–169 32 497 £143,801 £272,558 Isn’t That Lucky 

Double Trigger 17–71 22 231 £174,322 £232,924 Russian Trigger 

Selkirk 12–41 22 159 £167,087 £228,137 Sublimity 

Halling 13–41 20 130 £140,127 £221,188 Deep Purple 

Singspiel 8–30 12 103 £120,290 £160,440 Fisher Bridge 

Source: Racing Post/Weatherbys NH Annual

08-09 Season Leading British-based Jumps Trainers 


Trainer Wins–Runs Strike Rate Win Prize Total Prize 

Paul Nicholls 155–614 25% £2,338,821 £3,473,329 

Nicky Henderson 115–499 23% £1,548,584 £2,122,857 

Alan King 136–781 17% £1,159,476 £1,888,035 

Miss Venetia Williams 65–424 15% £1,126,218 £1,409,141 

Philip Hobbs 103–576 18% £725,183 £1,371,896 

Nigel Twiston-Davies 83–568 15% £907,587 £1,354,003 

David Pipe 76–662 11% £687,964 £1,293,981 

Jonjo O’Neill 97–623 16% £662,799 £1,084,837 

Howard Johnson 83–495 17% £404,263 £717,102 

Peter Bowen 44–392 11% £460,369 £680,805 

Charlie Mann 63–299 21% £384,990 £640,960 

Evan Williams 72–497 14% £381,872 £625,689 

Donald McCain Jnr 62–483 13% £317,962 £569,275 

Ferdy Murphy 45–428 11% £303,295 £524,919 

Tom George 37–228 16% £304,545 £473,383 

Gary Moore 47–416 11% £319,514 £446,986 

Henry Daly 31–282 11% £192,927 £411,919 

Mrs Sue Smith 48–433 11% £217,014 £390,452 

Nicky Richards 38–270 14% £265,781 £367,718 

Miss Emma Lavelle 29–194 15% £238,087 £362,144 

Source: Racing Post 

Statistics 99


2009 Leading British-based Flat Trainers 

Trainer Wins–Runs Strike Rate Win Prize Total Prize 

Sir Michael Stoute 99–429 23% £2,077,609 £3,421,892 

Mark Johnston 216–1227 18% £1,747,014 £2,843,943 

Richard Hannon 188–1371 14% £1,751,642 £2,814,384 

Saeed Bin Suroor 148–530 28% £1,743,062 £2,758,262 

John Gosden 88–516 17% £1,447,841 £2,308,709 

Barry Hills 88–566 16% £1,359,885 £1,951,093 

Richard Fahey 165–1106 15% £1,123,057 £1,657,129 

Henry Cecil 63–324 19% £953,559 £1,411,068 

William Haggas 69–346 20% £793,312 £1,320,567 

Mick Channon 108–1119 10% £655,057 £1,258,623 

Brian Meehan 62–505 12% £628,378 £1,232,331 

Michael Bell 47–369 13% £793,607 £1,180,870 

David Nicholls 84–687 12% £742,938 £1,168,438 

Jeremy Noseda 61–334 18% £710,380 £1,157,685 

Ralph Beckett 58–394 15% £845,577 £1,061,282 

Kevin Ryan 96–867 11% £603,356 £1,024,523 

Michael Jarvis 71–379 19% £634,768 £939,952 

Clive Brittain 44–361 12% £592,748 £888,175 

Clive Cox 52–356 15% £571,270 £868,211 

Andrew Balding 68–498 14% £460,056 £783,173 

Source: Racing Post

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Stallion fees 2010 

Stallion Sire Dam Damsire Stud 2010 

Fee 

Act One In The Wings Summer Sonnet Baillamont Wood Farm Stud £2,000 

Alflora Niniski Adrana Bold Lad Shade Oak Stud £3,000 

Aqlaam Oasis Dream Bourbonella Rainbow Quest Shadwell (Nunnery Stud) £7,000 

Apple Tree Biklal Pomme Rose Carvin Beech Tree Stud £1,500 

Araafa Mull Of Kintyre Resurgence Polar Falcon Plantation Stud O/A 

Archipenko Kingmambo Bound Nijinsky Lanwades Stud £8,000 

Arkadian Hero Trempolino Careless Kitten Caro Colmer Stud £1,250 

Assertive Bold Edge Tart And A Half Distant Relative Throckmorton Court Stud £4,000 

Auction House Exbourne Fast Flow Riverman Llety Stud O/A 

Authorized Montjeu Funsie Saumarez Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £20,000 

Avonbridge Averti Alessia Caerleon Whitsbury Manor Stud £3,500 

Babodana Bahamian Bounty Daanat Nawal Machiavellian East Lynch Stud £1,000 

Bahamian Bounty Cadeaux Genereux Clarentia Ballad Rock National Stud £10,000 

Baryshnikov Kenmare Lady Giselle Nureyev Dairy House Stud £1,750 

Beat All Dynaformer Spirited Missus Distinctive Mickley Stud £2,000 

Beat Hollow Sadler’s Wells Wemyss Bight Dancing Brave Juddmonte Farms £6,000 

Bertolini Danzig Aquilegia Alydar Overbury Stud £4,000 

Black Sam Bellamy Sadler’s Wells Urban Sea Miswaki Shade Oak Stud £4,500 

Blueprint Generous Highbrow Shirley Heights Yorton Farm £1,250 

Bollin Eric Shaamit Bollin Zola Alzao Norton Grove Stud £1,500 

Byron Green Desert Gay Gallanta Woodman Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £4,000 

Cacique Danehill Hasili Kahyasi Juddmonte Farms Private 

Cadeaux Genereux Young Generation Smarten Up Sharpen Up Whitsbury Manor Stud O/A 

Cape Town Desert Style Rossaldene Mummy’s Pet Westfields Barns £1,500 

Captain Gerard Oasis Dream Delphinus Soviet Star Mickley Stud £3,000 

Central Park In The Wings Park Special Relkino Mickley Stud O/A 

Champs Elysees Danehill Hasili Kahyasi Juddmonte Farms £10,000 

Cockney Rebel Val Royal Factice Known Fact National Stud £4,500 

Common World Spinning World Spenderella Common Grounds Water Hall Stud £2,000 

Please note stallion fees can be subject to change.




Fee 

Compton Place Indian Ridge Nosey Nebbiolo Whitsbury Manor Stud £6,000 

Crosspeace Cape Cross Announcing Peace Danehill Dairy House Stud £1,000 

Dansili Danehill Hasili Kahyasi Juddmonte Farms £65,000 

Desideratum Darshaan Desired Rainbow Quest Beechwood Grange Stud £2,000 

Double Trigger Ela-Mana-Mou Solac Gay Lussac East Burrow Farm £1,750 

Dubawi Dubai Millenium Zomaradah Deploy Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £20,000 

Dutch Art Medicean Halland Park Lass Spectrum Cheveley Park Stud £6,000 

Erhaab Chief’s Crown Histoire Riverman Wood Farm Stud £1,500 

Exceed and Excel Danehill Patrona Lomond Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £12,000 

Fair Mix Linamix Fairlee Wild Wild Again Shade Oak Stud £2,000 

Fantastic View Distant View Promptly Lead On Time Throckmorton Court Stud £2,000 

Ferrule Danehill Gorgeoso Damascus Girsonfield Stud £1,200 

Firebreak Charnwood Forest Breakaway Song Bearstone Stud £3,000 

First Trump Primo Dominie Valika Valiyar Walton Fields Stud £1,500 

Franklin’s Gardens Halling Woodbeck Terimon East Lynch Stud £1,250 

Grape Tree Road Caerleon One Way Street Habitat Shade Oak Stud £2,000 

Green Desert Danzig Foreign Courier Sir Ivor Shadwell (Nunnery Stud) Private 

Haafhd Alhaarth Al Bahathri Blushing Groom Shadwell (Nunnery Stud) £6,000 

Halling Diesis Dance Machine Green Dancer Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £10,000 

Helissio Fairy King Helice Slewpy Larkinglass Farm £2,500 

Hernando Niniski Whakilyric Miswaki Lanwades Stud £12,000 

Iktibas Sadler’s Wells Bint Shadayid Nashwan Sycamore Farm Stud £1,500 

Imperial Dancer Primo Dominie Gorgeous Dancer Nordico Norman Court Stud £2,000 

Indesatchel Danehill Dancer Floria Petorius Bearstone Stud £3,000 

Indian Danehill Danehill Dance Indienne Green Dancer Yorton Farm £2,000 

I Was Framed Racey Remarque Dance Spot Dancebel Rectory Farm Cottage £1,000 

Josr Algarhoud Darshaan Pont-Aven Try My Best Hedgeholme Stud £1,000 

Kadastrof Port Etienne Kadastra Stradavinsky Batsford Stud £1,250 

Kayf Tara Sadler’s Wells Colorspin High Top Overbury Stud £4,500 

Please note stallion fees can be subject to change. 

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Fee 

Killer Instinct Zafonic Rappa Tap Tap Tap on Wood Astley Grange Stud £1,000 

Kirkwall Selkirk Colorspin Northern Dancer Conduit Farm Stud £1,500 

Kyllachy Pivotal Pretty Poppy Song Cheveley Park Stud 10,000 

Lucarno Dynaformer Vignette Diesis Wood Farm Stud £2,000 

Lucky Story Kris S Spring Flight Miswaki Tweenhills Farm and Stud £3,000 

Major Cadeaux Cadeaux Genereux Maine Lobster Woodman Bearstone Stud £3,500 

Manipulator Danehill Misallah Shirley Heights Equicool Stud £1,500 

Medicean Machiavellian Mystic Goddess Storm Bird Cheveley Park Stud £15,000 

Midnight Legend Night Shift Myth Troy Pitchall Farm Stud £4,000 

Milk It Mick Millkom Lunar Music Komaite Hedgeholme Stud £2,500 

Millkom Cyrano De Bergerac Good Game Mummy’s Game Girsonfield Stud £1,000 

Mind Games Puissance Aryaf Vice Regent Bearstone Stud £1,500 

Misu Bond Danehill Dancer Hawala Warning Hedgeholme Stud £1,750 

Monsieur Bond Danehill Dancer Musical Essence Song Norton Grove Stud £2,000 

Mount Nelson Rock Of Gibraltar Independence Selkirk Newsells Park Stud £8,000 

Multiplex Danehill Shirley Valentine Shirley Heights Mickley Stud £3,000 

Myboycharlie Danetime Dulceata Rousillon National Stud £5,500 

Nayef Gulch Height Of Fashion Bustino Shadwell (Nunnery Stud) £15,000 

New Approach Galileo Park Express Ahonoora Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £30,000 

Norse Dancer Halling River Patrol Rousillon Littleton Stud £2,500 

Notnowcato Inchinor Rambling Rose Cadeaux Genereux Stanley House Stud £6,000 

Oasis Dream Green Desert Hope Dancing Brave Juddmonte Farms £65,000 

Observatory Distant View Stellaria Roberto Juddmonte Farms £4,000 

Orientor Inchinor Orient Bay Express Pastures Barn Stud £2,000 

Overbury Caerleon Overcall Bustino Mickley Stud O/A 

Paris House Petong Foudroyer Artaius Beechwood Grange Stud £2,000 

Passing Glance Polar Falcon Spurned Robellino Pitchall Farm Stud £2,000 

Pasternak Soviet Star Princess Pati Top Ville Larkinglass Farm £1,200 

Pastoral Pursuits Bahamian Bounty Star Most Welcome National Stud £5,000 





Fee 

Phoenix Reach Alhaarth Carroll’s Canyon Hatim National Stud £2,500 

Piccolo Warning Woodwind Whistling Wind Throckmorton Court Stud £3,000 

Pivotal Polar Falcon Fearless Revival Cozzene Cheveley Park Stud £65,000 

Poseidon Adventure Sadler’s Wells Fanny Cerrito Gulch Great Bradley Oak Stud £6,000 

Primo Valentino Primo Dominie Dorothea Brooke Dancing Brave Yorton Farm £1,500 

Prince Arch Arch Princess Kris Kris Walton Fields Stud £2,000 

Proclamation King’s Best Shamarra Zayyani Overbury Stud £3,000 

Rail Link Dansili Docklands Theatrical Juddmonte Farms £7,500 

Refuse To Bend Sadler’s Wells Market Side Gulch Whitsbury Manor Stud £5,000 

Resplendent Glory Namid Aoife Thatching Walton Fields Stud £2,000 

Revoque Fairy King La Bella Fontana Lafontaine Yorton Farm £2,000 

Rob Roy Lear Fan Camanoe Gone West Hedgeholme Stud £2,000 

Rocamadour Celtic Swing Watch Me Green Desert Vauterhill Stud £1,500 

Royal Applause Waajib Flying Melody Auction Ring The Royal Studs £9,000 

Sagamix Linamix Saganeca Sagace Overbury Stud £2,500 

Sakhee Bahri Thawakib Sadler’s Wells Shadwell (Nunnery Stud) £6,000 

Sakhee’s Secret Sakhee Palace Street Secreto Whitsbury Manor Stud £5,500 

Samraan Green Dancer Sedra Nebbiolo Walton Fields Stud £1,200 

Selkirk Sharpen Up Annie Edge Nebbiolo Lanwades Stud 20,000 

Septieme Ciel Seattle Slew Maximova Green Dancer Dairy House Stud £1,950 

Shahrastani Nijinsky Shademah Thatch Walton Fields Stud £1,250 

Shirocco Monsun So Sedulous The Minstrel Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £10,000 

Singspiel In The Wings Glorious Song Halo Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £15,000 

Sir Percy Mark Of Esteem Percy’s Lass Blakeney Lanwades Stud £6,000 

Sixties Icon Galileo Love Divine Diesis Norman Court Stud £6,000 

Sleeping Indian Indian Ridge Las Flores Sadler’s Wells Tweenhills Farm and Stud £4,000 

Spendent Generous Cattermole Roberto Kilbrannan Stud Farm £1,000 

Striking Ambition Makbul Lady Roxanne Cyrano de Bergerac Longdon Stud £2,500 

Superior Premium Forzando Devils Dirge Song Manor Farm Stud £1,250 

Please note stallion fees can be subject to change. 

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Fee 

Tamure Sadler’s Wells Three Tails Blakeney Beech Tree Stud £1,500 

Three Valleys Diesis Skiable Niniski Juddmonte Farms £5,000 

Tiger Hill Danehill The Filly Appiani II Darley (Dalham Hall Stud) £8,000 

Tobougg Barathea Lacovia Majestic Light East Burrow Farm £2,500 

Tomba Efisio Indian Love Song Be My Guest Fox Farm £2,000 

Umistim Inchinor Simply Sooty Absalom Batsford Stud £1,500 

Victory Note Fairy King Three Piece Jaazeiro Dairy House Stud £1,750 

Virtual Pivotal Virtuous Exit to Nowhere Cheveley Park Stud £5,000 

Whittingham Fayruz Bohemian Rhapsody On Your Mark Oakdene Stud £1,500 

Winker Watson Piccolo Bonica Rousillon Norman Court Stud £3,500 

With Approval Caro Passing Mood Buckpasser Lanwades Stud O/A 

Zamindar Gone West Zaizafon The Minstrel Juddmonte Farms £15,000 

Ziggy’s Dancer Ziggy’s Boy My Shy Dancer Northjet Springfield Stud £1,250 


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