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On the value trail in

the search for winners
T
HE term budget does not necessarily Danehill Line fellow freshman sires Bated Breath (standing is responsible for seven sires from the line
mean low-cost, as every breeder has By far most prevalent in these parameters is the at Banstead Manor for £8,000) Foxwedge available under £10,000/€12,000, including
his or her own budget to which they Danehill sire line, featuring both sons of the (Whitsbury Manor, £7,500), Delegator studmate Rail Link (Banstead Manor, £5,000),
adhere. Some may be fortunate to great sire and those of the next generation, by (Overbury Stud, £5,000), Requinto (Coolmore, Thousand Words (Rathasker Stud, €2,500)
have finances that allow for the the likes of Dansili, Danehill Dancer and €5,000), Famous Name (Irish National Stud, and Zoffany (Coolmore, €7,500), who will see
Galileos, Frankels and Oasis Dreams of the Danetime. €4,000) and Elzaam (Ballyhane Stud, €4,000), his first foals arrive in 2013.
world, but for most a slightly more modest Championships in both hemispheres and a all Danehill descendents. The first crop of yearlings by Fast Company
figure will determine the parentage of next leading broodmare sire title have ensured a This year will also see the first offerings by a (Rathasker Stud, €5,000), Alfred Nobel
year’s produce. slice of the Danehill line is easy to come by, number of new recruits belonging to this (Coolmore, €4,000), Stimulation (Llety
Whether aiming for the upper echelons of and such is the versatility of Coolmore’s illustrious line, both on and off the track. Farms, £3,000) and Le Cadre Noir (Sweep
Epsom glory, or simply hoping to land a cornerstone stallion that a match for all budgets The highly regarded Bushranger (standing Lane Stud, €2,500) will be seen this year,
Hamilton handicap, for owner-breeders the aim is available. at Tally-Ho Stud for €7,500) will see his first offering breeders another opportunity to gauge
is the same – to produce a winner. The thrill of Helmet, a son of Exceed And Excel standing crop running in 2013, as will Palace House the ongoing commercial popularity of
seeing a horse created by hours of study, nick for €10,000, equals Dylan Thomas in the Stakes winner Dandy Man (Ballyhane Stud, descendants more removed from the sire
research, stallion viewings, racing replays and Danehill line price league and heads the list of €4,000) and Champs Elysees (Banstead himself.
conformation analysis parading in the winner’s next-generation representatives. Manor, £5,000). Those looking for more tried and tested
enclosure is part of what makes the process so The Kildangan Stud resident is joined by Champs Elysees’s brother, leading sire Dansili, members of the line will not be disappointed.
magical and keeps owners coming back time Another Coolmore resident tops the price list
and again. £10,000/€12,000 DANEHILL LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013 in the form of Choisir, available this year for
For commercial breeders the highs are found €10,000. Boasting a cv that includes a Royal
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
not on the track but in the trade. A different tack Ascot sprinting double of his own and offspring
may be needed but the whole operation requires Alfred Nobel 6 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €4,000 who have landed Group 1 races up to a mile, this
just as much effort, and in turn can offer just as Aussie Rules 10 Danehill Danzig Lanwades £5,000 year he will be represented by Guineas hopeful
much reward. Baltic King 13 Danetime Danehill Tally-Ho €3,000 Olympic Glory. The Richard Hannon-trained
It all starts with a meeting, however. Not the Bated Breath 6 Dansili Danehill Banstead Manor £8,000 colt is currently third in the ante-post market,
briefcase, suit and tie kind, but one that could and has already earned Choisir’s 2009 covering
Bushranger 7 Danetime Danehill Tally-Ho €7,500
result in the ‘next big thing’ on the racecourse. fee of €8,000 40 times over.
This particular meeting can be a pricey one, Camacho 11 Danehill Danzig Mickley £2,750 At the other end of the scale, Girsonfield Stud
but fortunately Britain and Ireland have long Champs Elysees 10 Danehill Danzig Banstead Manor £5,000 offers Ferrule, a five-time winning son of
boasted an enviable host of stallions available to Choisir 13 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €10,000 Danehill from the family of Haafhd, for just
suit a range of pockets, and this year there are Clodovil 13 Danehill Danzig Rathasker €7,500 £800.
more than 160 sires standing for Of course budget is only half of the matter
Dandy Man 10 Mozart Danehill Ballyhane €4,000
£10,000/€12,000 or less. when selecting a sire, but just as there is a
Concentrating on those under the age of 18, Delegator 7 Dansili Danehill Overbury £5,000 Danehill for every pocket, stallions from the line
ten stallions are found at the upper limits of this Dylan Thomas 10 Danehill Danzig Coolmore €10,000 offer a variety of attributes depending on the
figure, largely hailing from the prolific Northern Elzaam 5 Redoute’s Choice Danehill Ballyhane €4,000 breeder’s desired outcome.
Dancer and Mr Prospector lines. Famous Name 8 Dansili Danehill Irish National €4,000 From the potential staying powers of Jeremy
Surprisingly, only one of three stallions by (Garryrichard Stud, €3,000), the speedy
Fast Company 8 Danehill Dancer Danehill Rathasker €5,000
champion sire Galileo available for under offspring thrown by Monsieur Bond (Norton
£10,000/€12,000 sits in the five-figure bracket Ferrule 15 Danehill Danzig Girsonfield £800 Grove Stud, £5,000) and the promise shown by
– good news for those hoping to nick some of Foxwedge 4 Fastnet Rock Danehill Whitsbury Manor £7,500 Mount Nelson juveniles
those illustrious bloodlines at a lower price-tag. Helmet 4 Exceed And Excel Danehill Kildangan €10,000 (Newsells Park, £6,000),
The sire in question, Roderic O’Connor, is a Indesatchel 11 Danehill Dancer Danehill Bearstone £2,500 the Danehill line is
Classic-winning example of the ultra successful seemingly still as versatile
Jeremy 10 Danehill Dancer Danehill Garryrichard €3,000
Galileo-Danehill cross to which Frankel, Teofilo as the sire himself.
and Cima De Triomphe all belong. Only the Kodiac 12 Danehill Danzig Tally-Ho €7,500
French-based Cima De Triomphe is available Le Cadre Noir 9 Danetime Danehill Sweep Lane €2,500
under the £10,000/€12,000 threshold, keeping Misu Bond 10 Danehill Dancer Danehill Norton Grove £1,500
budget-priced sons of Galileo a rare commodity. Monsieur Bond 13 Danehill Dancer Danehill Norton Grove £5,000
Ballyhane’s second-season sire is one of three
Mount Nelson 9 Rock Of Gibraltar Danehill Newsells Park £6,000
from the top bracket to have landed a Classic.
Irish Derby hero Dylan Thomas and 2,000 Mr Dinos 14 Desert King Danehill Whytemount €1,000
Guineas winner Footstepsinthesand are also at Multiplex 10 Danehill Danzig Mickley £3,000
the €10,000 mark. Rail Link 10 Dansili Danehill Banstead Manor £5,000
All three share Northern Dancer as a common Requinto 4 Dansili Danehill Coolmore €5,000 Olympic Glory:
ancestor, but have descended through distinctly the son of
Stimulation 8 Choisir Danehill Dancer Llety Farms £3,000
different lines. This offers several options for Choisir is
mares whose pedigrees are already populated Thousand Words 9 Dansili Danehill Rathasker €2,500
a leading
by the legendary sire. Westerner 14 Danehill Danzig Castle Hyde €4,000 fancy for the
Katherine Fidler Zoffany 5 Dansili Danehill Coolmore €7,500 2,000 Guineas

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Montjeu’s son Authorized (left) at Dalham Hall, (right) Norman Court resident Sixties Icon, by Galileo, in his racecourse pomp and (inset) his Group 3-winning son Chilworth Icon

under £10,000/€12,000 on six counts via his

Sadler’s Wells Line
From a former champion sire to the current,
Galileo provides three stallions available for
under £10,000/€12,000 hailing from the
Sadler’s Wells branch of Northern Dancer’s
breeding dynasty.
The Coolmore resident’s private stud fee is
likely out of reach for many breeders, but in this
trio, led by the aforementioned Roderic
O’Connor, a piece of the champion sire can be
purchased for as little as €4,000 through his son
Finsceal Fior.
Standing at Green Hills Stud, the unraced son
of dual 1,000 Guineas winner Finsceal Beo
provides an exciting opportunity for breeders
looking to exploit the Galileo cross. Owners of
Danehill mares could also be pleased to know
that Finsceal Beo is by Mr Greeley out of a Royal
Academy mare, allowing for a next-generation
take on the illustrious Galileo-Danehill nick.
Norman Court Stud resident Sixties Icon
(£8,500) completes the trio, having enjoyed a
promising first season last year, topped by
Group 3 winner Chilworth Icon. The St Leger
winner may be the only sire from the group to
have produced runners, but fellow sophomore
New Approach and the older Teofilo have done
much to suggest sons of Galileo can thrive at
stud.
Galileo’s paternal sibling and Coolmore
stablemate Montjeu is responsible for four on
the list, and following his premature death last
year, his progeny are an even more valued
commodity.
Like Galileo, stallion sons of Montjeu are still
in the infancy of their careers, and as such Doyen (Sunnyhill Stud, €3,000) are just three
most expensive sire son, Oasis Dream.
cannot be guaranteed to remain on the market more sons of Sadler’s Wells available under
at such value indefinitely. £10,000/€12,000, and all boasted an average The Juddmonte resident has sired nine
Ranging from €3,000 for Frozen Fire and 2012 yearling sales price greater than that of Group 1 winners, two of whom are available at
Papal Bull, both standing at Coolagown Stud, their 2010 fee. stud this year for under the budget threshold.
to Derby winner Authorized, standing at Prix du Moulin winner Aqlaam (Nunnery
Dalham Hall for £7,000, breeders this year are Green Desert Line Stud, £7,000) will see his first two-year-olds this
presented with several opportunities to help Green Desert has established himself as a year, having retired to stud a year earlier than
extend the legacy of Montjeu. leading sire of sires and his line is available for Continues page 4
St Leger winner Scorpion completes the
quartet, standing at Castle Hyde for €5,000, and
from limited produce to run due to his
dual-purpose billing, he has unsurprisingly
produced runners gifted with stamina. This
quality has also been frequently displayed in
Authorized’s offspring, and looks to be mirrored
in the first crop of Papal Bull, many of whom
contested a mile at two.
Kildangan Stud’s late sire In The Wings did
much to propagate the Sadler’s Wells line
under both codes. Singspiel, a son of In The
Wings, has produced many notable runners; two
of these, Moon Ballad and Eastern
Anthem, stand for €2,500 and £2,000 at
Woodlands Stud and Withyslade Farm.
Offering the Sadler’s Wells line at less than
two per cent of his legendary ancestor’s last
advertised fee, In The Wings’s son Kutub has
produced winners under both codes and stands
this season for just £2,000. A winner of three
Group 1s, the Batsford Stud resident has also
sired black-type performers in Superstition,
Terre Du Vent and Topclas, a Group 3 winner.
Beat Hollow (Ballylinch, €6,500),
Sholokhov (Glenview Stud, €5,000) and

£10,000/€12,000 SADLER’S WELLS LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
Atlantic Waves 10 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Woodlands €1,500
Authorized 9 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Dalham Hall £7,000
Beat Hollow 16 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Ballylinch €6,500
Doyen 13 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Sunnyhill €3,000
Eastern Anthem 9 Singspiel In The Wings Withyslade Farm £2,000
Finsceal Fior 3 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Green Hills €4,000
Frozen Fire 8 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Coolagown €3,000
Geordieland 12 Johann Quatz Sadler’s Wells Beech Tree £1,500
Kutub 16 In The Wings Sadler’s Wells Batsford £2,000
Let The Lion Roar 12 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Bridge House €500
Masterofthehorse 7 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Annshoon €2,000
Moon Ballad 14 Singspiel In The Wings Woodlands €2,500
Papal Bull 10 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Coolagown €3,000
Robert Emmet 13 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Woodlands €1,000
Roderic O’Connor 4 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Ballyhane €10,000
Scorpion 11 Montjeu Sadler’s Wells Castle Hyde €5,000
Sholokhov 14 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Glenview €5,000
Sixties Icon 10 Galileo Sadler’s Wells Norman Court £8,500
Tamure 21 Sadler’s Wells Northern Dancer Beech Tree £1,500
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Born To Sea (left), a regally bred son of Invincible Spirit, (top right) Paco Boy, whose foals sold well last year, and (bottom right) Casamento, who hails from the Storm Cat line

vvFrom page 3
£10,000/€12,000 green desert line BritisH- And irisH-BAsed stAlliOns FOr 2013 Storm Cat Line
Prix Morny winner Arcano (Derrinstown Stud, As Canada’s most famous export, it is only right
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
€6,000). that the majority of Northern Dancer blood
Given that their sire has only just turned 13, Approve 5 Oasis Dream Green Desert Morristown Lattin €5,000
should be continued by bona fide North
none of Oasis Dream’s sons have yet to see any Aqlaam 8 Oasis Dream Green Desert Nunnery £7,000 American families. Through his fellow
runners. Captain Gerrard (Mickley Stud, Arcano 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Derrinstown €6,000 Canadian-bred son Storm Bird, and his son
£3,500) joins Aqlaam in the freshman sire race Storm Cat, Northern Dancer proliferates the
Born To Sea 4 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Rathasker €10,000
this year, while Approve (Morristown Lattin pedigree of several sires on our list via Giant’s
Stud, €5,000) and Showcasing (Whitsbury Captain Gerrard 8 Oasis Dream Green Desert Mickley £3,500
Causeway.
Manor Stud, £4,500) both welcome their first Crosspeace 11 Cape Cross Green Desert Dairy House £1,000
Conceived during Storm Cat’s own ‘budget’
yearlings in 2013. The first foals by Frozen Frozen Power 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Ballyhane €4,000 years, when the Overbrook Stud resident was
Power (Ballyhane Stud, €4,000) arrive this Kheleyf 12 Green Desert Danzig Dalham Hall £6,000 available for $125,000, Giant’s Causeway
season. launched into his own stud career with two
Mayson 5 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Cheveley Park £8,000
Green Desert’s son Invincible Spirit enters the Classic winners from his first crop, Shamardal
list with a quartet of stallion sons, but like those Paco Boy 8 Desert Style Green Desert Highclere £8,000
and Footstepsinthesand. Both strands of the line
of Oasis Dream, all are still in the early stages of Sayif 7 Kheleyf Green Desert Llety Farms £3,000
are available for under £10,000/€12,000,
their careers. Showcasing 6 Oasis Dream Green Desert Whitsbury Manor £4,500 through Footstepsinthesand himself, and
A fine example of breeding on a budget could Vale Of York 6 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Kildangan €3,000 for Shamardal, through his first-season son
well be the resulting progeny of Invincible
Zebedee 5 Invincible Spirit Green Desert Tally-Ho €5,000 Casamento.
Spirit’s son Born To Sea. Although standing at
The Kildangan Stud resident, available for
the upper end for €10,000, the Rathasker Stud €8,000. Available this year for £6,000 having 2013, and debutant sire Doncaster Rover €5,000, is one of eight Group 1 winners for his
resident boasts one of the most sought-after (Hedgeholme Stud, £2,000).
switched from Kildangan to Dalham Hall in sire, earning his own black-type credentials
pedigrees in the business as a half-brother to The more established Danzig duo of
2011, Darley’s consistent juvenile-producer when landing the Racing Post Trophy. Though
Galileo and Sea The Stars. Librettist (Yorton Farm, £2,000), sire of
remains an attractive prospect for commercial none of Shamardal’s sons have yet to see any
Tough sprinter Mayson (Cheveley Park,
breeders. multiple Group winner Libranno, and Haatef runners, foals by Lope De Vega sold for an
£8,000) is a second newcomer for Invincible
Standing for £8,000 at Highclere, triple (Derrinstown, €3,000) also offer breeders a nip average of 53,339gns last year, almost four
Spirit, while juvenile winners Vale Of York
Group 1 winner Paco Boy sits among the of the Northern Dancer line at just four figures. times his €15,000 2011 fee.
(Kildangan Stud, €3,000) and Zebedee
(Tally-Ho Stud, €5,000) will be represented by higher end of Green Desert-line sires available
for under £10,000/€12,000. However, foals by £10,000/€12,000 dAnzig line BritisH- And irisH-BAsed stAlliOns FOr 2013
their first yearlings in 2013. Invincible Spirit
the son of Desert Style commanded an average stallion age sire descending from stud fee
offspring are renowned for their precocity, a
trait that, if passed on to their own produce, will of 29,994gns last year, easily surpassing his Doncaster Rover 7 War Chant Danzig Hedgeholme £2,000
serve commercial breeders well at the current 2011 price tag of £8,500. Elnadim 19 Danzig Northern Dancer Derrinstown €5,000
fees. Grandera 15 Grand Lodge Chief’s Crown Woodlands €4,000
Kheleyf doubles up on the list, both as the Other Danzig Options Haatef 9 Danzig Northern Dancer Derrinstown €3,000
sire of freshman Sayif (Llety Farms, £3,000) Danzig, prolific in the extreme on account of
Hellvelyn 9 Ishiguru Danzig Bucklands Farm £2,500
and in his own right. Last year the son of Green Danehill and Green Desert, offers many more
routes to the Northern Dancer line through the Librettist 11 Danzig Northern Dancer Yorton Farm £2,000
Desert not only topped the two-year-old
winners table, but his yearlings averaged likes of Hellvelyn (Bucklands Farm & Stud, Mawatheeq 8 Danzig Northern Dancer Nunnery £4,000
23,011gns, an excellent return on his 2010 fee of £2,500), who welcomes his first yearlings in Mullionmileanhour 7 Mull Of Kintyre Danzig Hedgeholme £1,250

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THE LAST STALLION

SON OF DANZIG
A Group 1 performer from one
of the most prolific lines of
Classic and Group 1 performers

Higher-rated than stallions of his generation

POET’S VOICE (£12,000 - G1W),
BATED BREATH (£8,000 - G2W),
AQLAAM (£7,000 - G1W),
CAMPANOLOGIST (€7,500 - G1W),
RIO DE LA PLATA (€7,000 - G1W),
Intense Focus, a son of Giant’s Causeway who stands for €5,500, will have his first runners
this year, and (inset) Acclamation’s son Harbour Watch is a new recruit for 2013 at £7,500
JUKEBOX JURY (€5,500 - G1W), etc.

£10,000/€12,000 STORM CAT LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013
stallion age sire descending from stud fee Higher-rated than his Champion sister
Casamento 5 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway Kildangan €5,000
Footstepsinthesand 11 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Coolmore €10,000 GHANAATI, Classic and dual Gr.1 winner.
Intense Focus 7 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Ballylinch €5,500
Yorgunnabelucky 7 Giant’s Causeway Storm Cat Throckmorton Court £1,750

An interesting new recruit from the Storm Cat
line is Throckmorton Stud’s Yorgunnabelucky.
Available for £1,750, this former hurdler is a
brother to Shamardal, thus offering breeders a
much more accessible alternative to Kildangan
Stud’s €50,000 resident.
Intense Focus completes the budget
offerings from Storm Cat’s line this year,
standing at Ballylinch Stud for €5,500. The
Dewhurst winner’s first crop will make their
debut this season, having been well received at
the sales last year.
Other Northern Dancer
Options
Acclamation, a fourth-generation descendant of
Northern Dancer, is represented in this price
bracket by three sons – Harbour Watch,
Lilbourne Lad and Equiano. All boasted speed
and precocity but have yet to have runners.
Harbour Watch (Tweenhills Farm & Stud,
£7,500) is standing his first season this year,
while Lilbourne Lad (Rathbarry Stud,
€7,500) and Equiano (Newsells Park, £8,000)
welcome their first foals and yearlings
respectively in 2013.
A similar line is available through Lovelace
(Springlodge Stud, €1,000), by Acclamation’s
sire Royal Applause. A tough sprinter/miler,
Lovelace’s first foals arrive this year.
The high-class Pivotal, sire of 21 individual
Group 1 winners and a Northern Dancer
descendant under the Nureyev branch, fields
three stallions under the threshold. He is joined
at Cheveley Park Stud by his son Virtual,
available for a fraction of his sire’s price at
£3,500.
Captain Rio, from Pivotal’s second crop,
stands at Ballyhane Stud for €3,500, while new
Continues page 6

OTHER ‘BUDGET’ NORTHERN DANCER LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
Alhaarth 20 Unfuwain Northern Dancer Derrinstown €4,000
Arakan 13 Nureyev Northern Dancer Ballyhane €3,500
Azamour 12 Night Shift Northern Dancer Gilltown €10,000
Captain Rio 14 Pivotal Polar Falcon Ballyhane €3,500
Cockney Rebel 9 Val Royal Royal Academy National £2,500
Dick Turpin 6 Arakan Nureyev National £5,000
Dragon Pulse 4 Kyllachy Pivotal Irish National €6,000
Dream Eater 8 Night Shift Northern Dancer Vauterhill £800
Equiano 8 Acclamation Royal Applause Newsells Park £8,000
Foreign Affairs 15 Hernando Niniski Woodlands €1,000
Haafhd 12 Alhaarth Unfuwain Beechwood Grange £3,000
Harbour Watch 4 Acclamation Royal Applause Tweenhills Farm £7,500
Lilbourne Lad 4 Acclamation Royal Applause Rathbarry €7,500
Lovelace
Malinas
9
12
Royal Applause
Lomitas
Waajib
Niniski
Springlodge
Yorton Farm
€1,000
£2,500
MAWATHEEQ £4,000 (1ST JAN SLF)
Overbury 22 Caerleon Nijinsky Mickley £1,500 Discover more about the Shadwell Stallions at
Passing Glance 14 Polar Falcon Nureyev Pitchall £2,000 www.shadwellstud.co.uk
Pasternak 20 Soviet Star Nureyev Batsford £1,250 Or call Richard, Johnny or Audrey on

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Peintre Celebre 19 Nureyev Northern Dancer Coolmore €10,000
Phoenix Reach 13 Alhaarth Unfuwain Mickley £1,500
Revoque 19 Fairy King Northern Dancer Yorton Farm £1,000 Email us at: nominations@shadwellstud.co.uk
Sulamani 14 Hernando Niniski Yorton Farm £2,500
Virtual 8 Pivotal Polar Falcon Cheveley Park £3,500
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vvFrom page 5
sire Dragon Pulse, by Pivotal’s son Kyllachy, is
available for €6,000 at the Irish National Stud.
Passing Glance, by Pivotal’s late sire Polar
Falcon, currently stands at Pitchall Stud for
£2,000. The pair are just two who have helped
extend the line through Polar Falcon’s sire
Nureyev, who is also responsible for Ballyhane
resident Arakan, available for €3,500, and
Arakan’s son Dick Turpin (National Stud,
£5,000).
Not many of our ‘budget’ stallions were
represented by a Classic winner last year, but
four-time Group 1 scorer Azamour (Gilltown
Stud, €10,000) was. The son of Night Shift’s
ill-fated daughter Valyra landed last season’s
Prix de Diane.
The final strand of Northern Dancer lineage
to feature prominently is that of his Triple
Crown-winning son Nijinsky.
Nijinsky’s closest descendant on the list,
Overbury, is by his son Caerleon. Standing for
£1,500 at Mickley Stud, Overbury has sired
winners under both codes since retiring from
the track 15 years ago.
Similarly, Yorton Farm residents Malinas
and Sulamani, descendants of Nijinsky
through their grandsire Niniski, have proven
versatile at stud. The pair are both available this
year for £2,500.

Native Dancer Line Caspar Netscher (left) is the first by Dutch Art to retire to stud and Sir Prancealot is a young representative of Nayef's Mr Prospector line
Native Dancer, present throughout the offers breeders the opportunity to tap into both
aforementioned sires in his role as damsire of £10,000/€12,000 mr prOSpectOr line BritiSH- and iriSH-BaSed StalliOnS FOr 2013 a Northern Dancer-free sire line and the
Northern Dancer, is also a member of the sire stallion age sire descending from stud fee
renowned Height Of Fashion family for £9,000.
line on three counts through his descendant Archipenko 9 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Lanwades £6,000 For €6,000, Sir Prancealot represents a
Sharpen Up.
Caspar Netscher 4 Dutch Art Medicean Morristown Lattin €7,500 younger generation of Nayef’s line. By Nayef’s
Sharpen Up’s trio of sons – Trempolino, Diesis
Dubai Destination 14 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Glenview €2,500 son Tamayuz, the Tally-Ho resident retired after
and Selkirk – have in turn sired Germany
Elusive Pimpernel 6 Elusive Quality Gone West Islanmore €1,000 his juvenile season, which yielded wins in the
(Woodlands Stud, €3,000), Debussy (Llety
Listed National Stakes and Group 2 Flying
Farms, £3,500) and Denounce (Louella Stud, Fantastic View 12 Distant View Mr Prospector Throckmorton £1,500
Childers Stakes.
£650). Iffraaj 12 Zafonic Gone West Kildangan €10,000

Mr Prospector Line Lord Shanakill 7 Speightstown Gone West Irish National €5,000 Nearco Line – and the
A far more prolific source of Native Dancer Medicean 16 Machiavellian Mr Prospector Cheveley Park £10,000 rest
blood is through Mr Prospector, who has Nayef 15 Gulch Mr Prospector Nunnery £9,000 Such is the proliferation of Northern Dancer
founded one of the most influential sire lines Proclamation 11 King’s Best Kingmambo Girsonfield £2,000 that it is hard to escape the mention of his name,
after that of Northern Dancer. Sir Prancealot 3 Tamayuz Nayef Tally-Ho €6,000 and returning briefly to the 20th century
A meeting with champion European miler colossus, his sire Nearco went on to found other
Thewayyouare 8 Kingmambo Mr Prospector Coolmore €5,000
Miesque resulted in the triple Group 1 winner lines that are still valued today.
Zamindar 19 Gone West Mr Prospector Banstead Manor £10,000 Outstanding racehorse and dual champion
Kingmambo, whose sons offer four
opportunities this year to tap into the At the upper end of the scale, two stallions Medicean to join the stallion ranks. German sire Mill Reef traces his lineage back to Nearco
Mr Prospector line for under £10,000/€12,000. from the Mr Prospector line frequent the 2,000 Guineas winner Caspar Netscher will through his sire Never Bend, a son of Nasrullah.
Dubai Destination, bought as a yearling five-figure bracket, and both are proven in their command a fee of €7,500 this season, and hails Mill Reef’s son Doyoun is responsible for two
for $1.5 million, is much more breeder-friendly from the line of legendary Meon Valley Stud stallions on the list, Kalanisi (Boardsmill Stud,
second career.
priced in his second career, standing at mare Reprocolor. €4,000) and Daylami (Coolagown Stud,
Cheveley Park’s Medicean, by Mr Prospector’s
Glenview Stud for just €2,500. A second Mr Prospector representative €5,000), while Port Etienne, also by Mill Reef,
son Machiavellian, has long been one of Britain’s
Paternal siblings Archipenko (Lanwades available at the upper-end figure of £10,000 is sired Batsford Stud resident Kadastrof,
Stud, £6,000) and Thewayyouare (Coolmore, leading sires, and from a commercial point of
Juddmonte’s Zamindar, by Gone West. As the available for £1,250.
€5,000) are both members of the freshman sire view his average yearling sale figures over the Mill Reef also proliferates the list through his
past four years of 39,874gns, 29,307gns, sire of unbeaten Arc heroine Zarkava and
band whose first crop hit the track this year, the having stood at Banstead Manor for a decade, son Shirley Heights, the grandsire of
pair having won at two themselves. 31,650gns and 83,388gns should make for Desideratum (Beechwood Stud, £1,250) and
Zamindar is ranked among the most established
A second generation member of Kingmambo's pleasant reading. Josr Algarhoud (Hedgeholme Stud, £750).
stallions on the list.
clan, Proclamation, will stand his first season Available this year for £10,000, Medicean is Another grandson of Shirley Heights, Mark Of
Zamindar’s brother Zafonic is one of three more
at Girsonfield Stud in 2013 following his move also represented through a second-generation Esteem, sired Derby winner Sir Percy, who
sons of Gone West to have produced stallions
from Overbury Stud. In 2012 yearlings by the sire, Caspar Netscher. The Morristown Lattin available for £10,000/€12,000 and under. currently stands at Lanwades Stud for £7,000.
son of King’s Best made an average of 12,222gns Stud resident is the first offspring by Dutch Art Iffraaj (Kildangan Stud, €10,000), by the late Never Bend, a grandson of Nearco, is also found
off the back of a £3,000 2010 covering fee. to stand at stud, who in turn was the first son of Zafonic, remains consistently well-supported at in the lineage of Girsonfield Stud resident Bahri.
the sales and produced the Group 1 winner A dual Group 1 winner, Bahri stands this season
£10,000/€12,000 native dancer line BritiSH- and iriSH-BaSed StalliOnS FOr 2013 Wootton Bassett in his first crop. for £2,000, while his Arc-winning son Sakhee
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
Craven winner Elusive Pimpernel recently relocated from Nunnery Stud to Yorton
Assertive 10 Bold Edge Beveled Throckmorton Court £2,500 (Islanmore Stud, €1,000) and Prix Jean Prat Farm Stud, and will stand for £2,500 this season.
Debussy 7 Diesis Sharpen Up Llety Farms £3,500 scorer Lord Shanakill (Irish National Stud, The line continues to a third active generation
Denounce 12 Selkirk Sharpen Up Louella Stud £650 €5,000) are by sons of Gone West in Elusive following the retirement of Sakhee’s Secret
Quality and Speightstown. to Whitsbury Manor in 2009. The champion
Franklins Gardens 13 Halling Diesis East Lynch £1,250
Another more seasoned member who sprinter, who stands at a fee of £5,500, finished
Germany 22 Trempolino Sharpen Up Woodlands €3,000 2012 as Europe’s leading first-season sire by
re-enters the £10,000-and-under ranks is
Halling 22 Diesis Sharpen Up Dalham Hall £10,000 Nayef, a son of Gulch. The Nunnery Stud number of winners with 22 individual runners
Norse Dancer 13 Halling Diesis Littleton £2,500 resident stood for £12,500 in 2012, but this year posting a victory.

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made up to 60,000gns Group winner
Breeders Incentive Scheme leading British
and averaged ALL 18 yearlings last
and breeders' bonuses for third crop sire by 17,340 gns, almost 5x autumn were sold
over 400 races. percentage of 3yo his 2010 fee. with prices inc.
winners to runners
His largest and 34,000gns, £34,000,
Yearlings sold for up best crop are 23,000gns, etc.
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Racing Post Thursday, February 7, 2013 breeding on a budget 7

Derby winner Roberto, a descendant of

Nearco through his son Royal Charger, became
an influential sire from his base at Darby Dan
Farm in Kentucky, present here through
grandson Big Bad Bob.
The Irish National Stud resident boasts an
admirable set of statistics from limited numbers
produced during his early career, including 28
per cent winners-to-runners strike-rate for
European stakes races. He stands this year for
€6,000.
Northern Dancer aside, many of the families
descending from the Italian-bred Nearco have
flourished in Europe, offering mares already
boasting a pedigree rich in Northern Dancer
blood a number of outcrosses.
Ahonoora boasted the ‘Northern Dancer-free’
tag, his closest association with the Canadian
being his sire Lorenzaccio’s defeat of Nijinksy in
the 1970 Champion Stakes. Ahonoora’s son
Indian Ridge, a Group-winning sprinter, boasts
three sons among the British and Irish stallion
ranks available at the four-figure budget this
year.
Sleeping Indian will stand his first season
at Beechwood Grange Stud this year for £3,000
following a move from Tweenhills Farm & Stud,
while his Indian Ridge paternal siblings Indian
Haven (Withyslade Farm, £2,500) and Danehill Dancer stallion Mastercraftsman at Coolmore with Michael Power, and (inset) Count Of Limonade, a son of Duke Of Marmalade
Dabbers Ridge (Norton Grove Stud, £1,000)
provide further options for those in search of a And those a snip over STALLIONS STANDING FOR €12,500 IN 2013
Northern Dancer outcross. budget . . . stallion age sire descending from stud fee
Bahamian Bounty, hailing from the legendary
THOSE searching for a stallion around the Dark Angel 8 Acclamation Royal Applause Morristown Lattin €12,500
Hyperion line, is joined at the National Stud by
his son Pastoral Pursuits, available at £5,500. upper price range may also wish to take note of Duke Of Marmalade 9 Danehill Danzig Coolmore €12,500
Babodana (East Lynch Stud, £1,000), whose the five Irish-based sires standing for a snip over Lope De Vega 6 Shamardal Giant’s Causeway Ballylinch €12,500
first crop turn three this year, provides another budget at €12,500.
Mastercraftsman 7 Danehill Dancer Danehill Coolmore €12,500
source of Bahamian Bounty’s line, and proved Sophomore sire Duke Of Marmalade, a
five-time Group 1 winner, is the first of three Power 4 Oasis Dream Green Desert Coolmore €12,500
durable in the extreme following seven years on
the track. from Coolmore at this fee. The son of Danehill
French Classic winner Lope De Vega for 2013, juvenile season, the Middle Park Stakes winner
Another successful European sire line lost one sired 12 juvenile winners last year, including
having stood his initial two years for €15,000, was among the leading first-season sires in
of its most cherished members last year the Group-placed Count Of Limonade. 2011 and last year repeated that feat in the
offering another route to Northern Dancer via
following the death of Monsun. Fortunately for The remaining Coolmore duo are both also Giant’s Causeway and Storm Cat. second-season sire division. Standing at
breeders he left a solid legacy behind, including members of the Northern Dancer tribe, Irish Dark Angel, the only member of the group Morristown Lattin Stud, Dark Angel joins the
three sons available for under £10,000/€12,000 Guineas winner Mastercraftsman, by represented by runners, boasts some impressive above in descending from Northern Dancer, a
– Shirocco (Dalham Hall, £7,000), Danehill Dancer, and freshman sire Power, the credentials in that sphere. Retired after his fourth in the feature for his sire Acclamation.
Schiaparelli (Overbury Stud, £2,000) and only son of Juddmonte’s Oasis Dream to land a
Arcadio (Arctic Tack Stud, €2,000). Group 1 event at two and three.
Susan Corbett interview, page 8 Ballylinch Stud has reduced the fee of its dual

NEARCO AND OTHER ‘BUDGET’ LINE BRITISH- AND IRISH-BASED STALLIONS FOR 2013
stallion age sire descending from stud fee
Arcadio 11 Monsun Konigsstuhl Arctic Tack €2,000
Art Connoisseur 7 Lucky Story Kris S Irish National €4,500
THE AGA KHAN STUDS
Avonbridge 13 Averti Warning Oakgrove £3,000

Azamour
Babodana 13 Bahamian Bounty Cadeaux Genereux East Lynch £1,000
Success Breeds Success
Bahri 21 Riverman Never Bend Girsonfield £2,000
Bahamian Bounty 19 Cadeaux Genereux Young Generation National £10,000
Big Bad Bob 13 Bob Back Roberto Irish National €6,000
Compton Place 19 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Whitsbury Manor £6,500
Dabbers Ridge 11 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Norton Grove £1,000
Daylami 19 Doyoun Mill Reef Coolagown €5,000
Desideratum
Double Eclipse
11
21
Darshaan
Ela-Mana-Mou
Shirley Heights
Pitcairn
Beechwood Grange
Deelside
£1,250
€500
You can tell a stallion’s quality
Double Trigger
Firebreak
22
14
Ela-Mana-Mou
Charnwood Forest
Pitcairn
Warning
Clarendon Farm
Bearstone
£1,750
£3,500
by the company he keeps...
First Trump 22 Primo Dominie Dominion Walton Fields £1,250
Fleetwood 18 Groom Dancer Blushing Groom Coolagown €1,000
Leading Active Sires in GB & Ire
Gamut 14 Spectrum Rainbow Quest Sunnyhill €2,000
from 2009-2012
Indian Haven 13 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Withyslade Farm £2,500 by percentage of Stakes Horses to runners
Intikhab 19 Red Ransom Roberto Derrinstown €5,500
RUNNERS %SH/RNRS
Josr Algarhoud 17 Darshaan Shirley Heights Hedgeholme £750
Kadastrof 23 Port Etienne Mill Reef Batsford £1,250
1 DUBAWI 303 21.12%
Kalanisi 17 Doyoun Mill Reef Boardsmill €4,000 2 GALILEO 651 20.74%
Major Cadeaux 9 Cadeaux Genereux Young Generation Bearstone £3,500 3 DANEHILL DANCER 618 16.18%
Milk It Mick 12 Millkom Cyrano De Bergerac Kelanne £1,500
4 OASIS DREAM 547 15.90%
Millkom 22 Cyrano De Bergerac Bold Lad Girsonfield £1,000
Notnowcato 11 Inchinor Ahonoora Stanley House £5,000 5 SHAMARDAL 335 15.22%
Pastoral Pursuits 12 Bahamian Bounty Cadeaux Genereux National £5,500 6 LAWMAN 108 14.81%
Piccolo 22 Warning Known Fact Throckmorton Court £3,000
7 AZAMOUR 157 14.65%
Resplendent Glory 11 Namid Indian Ridge Saywell Farm £2,000
Royal Applause 20 Waajib Try My Best Royal Studs £9,000
8 PIVOTAL 533 14.07%
Sakhee 16 Bahri Riverman Yorton Farm £2,500 9 DANSILI 512 13.67%
Sakhee’s Secret 9 Sakhee Bahri Whitsbury Manor £5,500 Minimum of 70 runners. Statistics by Hyperion Promotions
Schiaparelli 10 Monsun Konigsstuhl Overbury £2,000
Shirocco
Sir Percy
12
10
Monsun
Mark Of Esteem
Konigsstuhl
Darshaan
Dalham Hall
Lanwades
£7,000
£7,000
Real value at €10,000
Sleeping Indian 12 Indian Ridge Ahonoora Beechwood Grange £3,000
Superior Premium 19 Forzando Formidable I Bridge House €500 GILLTOWN STUD
Tagula 20 Taufan Stop The Music Rathbarry €4,000 www.agakhanstuds.com
Winker Watson 8 Piccolo Warning Norman Court £2,500
8 breeding on a budget Thursday, February 7, 2013 racingpost.com

Dedication and
hard work the
key components
for burgeoning
family operation Susan Corbett with resident stallion Ferrule at her Girsonfield Stud in Northumberland

Katherine Fidler talks to Susan Corbett, decade, the stud already has
much history behind it.
whose Girsonfield Stud may be remote “We started with the
little-known Respect and
but has a strong hand of value stallions Endoli. They did us no harm
in search of Bahri’s services, as
proven by Blandford Lodge
manager Rupert Chennells’
decision to send five mares to
the son of Riverman this
“Coupled with a younger son
who wanted to be a jockey, I
Greece before winning for us
over hurdles, and Cogolie, a
decided to go for my permit.
Over the last year I’ve learnt so
nice, big French mare by
Cyborg.
much, and we’ve had three “The rest of the stud is taken

S
and Endoli has some good season. winners and ten places, all up with boarders and
UPPORTERS of the been left to chance – the result stock behind him, not least our Newmarket is not the from inexpensive or homebred youngsters for other clients
old adage ‘everything of a sturdy work ethic clearly own homebred Dun To furthest clients have travelled horses. who live as far away as
happens for a reason’ instilled in Corbett from an Perfection, who won at 40-1 at to visit one of the Girsonfield “My eldest son said, ‘Mum, Newmarket and London.”
may be inclined to use early age. Carlisle in November,” she residents either. Bahri has also most people have a dream. You Now juggling boarders,
the history of Susan “My parents told me when I says. welcomed a walk-in mare from had a dream of running a stallions, the stud’s own
and Frank Corbett’s was three I could never own a “Millkom came next – our Cheltenham. thoroughbred stud, got there, broodmares and a rapidly
Girsonfield Stud as a prime pony because my father only first Group 1 winner. Ferrule “We got her in foal – phew!” loved it – and then decided to filling racing barn, Corbett

example.
An unexpected broodmare
band, followed by a short-term
resident stallion who never
left, set the wheels in motion
for what has become one of
northern England’s most
successful breeding
operations.
“We were offered the
stallion Respect for the short
term – we thought – and said
we’d buy him if he covered 20
mares. He covered 19!,” says
manager Susan.
Nevertheless, Respect
remained at the stud for many
years to come, joined on the
picturesque Northumberland
property by the operation’s
first broodmares, Corbett’s
former point-to-pointers.
“One season all of our
point-to-point mares got
unrelated problems and we
ended up with a broodmare
band by default,” she says.
Girsonfield may have been
born out of fickle fate, but
since its formation nothing has
worked in a factory, so I saved joined us via Hong Kong – he’s
up and bought my own when I a strapping son of Danehill,
just without any great
was 13,” she says.
opportunities so far.”
“Years passed and I met my
However, Corbett points to
husband Frank, a farmer with
recent addition Bahri as the
one hunter, by which time I
catalyst behind the venture’s
had started breeding from my
recent rise in fortune. A dual
own thoroughbred mare. We
Group 1-winning miler, Bahri
then got into point-to-pointing
is best known as the sire of
and loved it.”
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero
And so it was through this
Sakhee.
affiliation with
“Our lives changed when we
the hunt-racing
got Bahri,” she says. “It was
scene that
one of those moments you
Girsonfield first
remember exactly where you
evolved. Now
were – I remember saying to
entering its
second our agent Edward Daly:
‘Bahri? You mean the Bahri?’
“I’d asked him to be on the
lookout for a new stallion, but
he had to have a name – we’re
too remote from Newmarket
to ‘make’ a new stallion.”
Not so remote,
however, that
Newmarket
Bahri: “Our residents are not
lives changed willing to make the
when we 260-mile journey
got him” up to Girsonfield
laughs Corbett.
Boasting 160 acres of
Northumberland’s finest,
Girsonfield is also more than
able to offer boarding for
mares, and in recent years the
property has seen gradual
additions to its real estate in
the form of extra barns, a
horse-walker, round pen,
all-weather paddock and an
all-weather gallop.
This latest investment gives
a clear indication as to how the
business is currently evolving.
With the stud now established
and commercially viable,
Corbett has leapt on the
opportunity to re-join the
training ranks.
“Basically, Frank and I loved
point-to-pointing but it got
left behind when the stud
needed so much development.
One day we decided it was
time to go back, especially
when we had so many
youngsters with no
commercial value due to the
downturn in the economy
– what else would they do?
A
change the dream’!”
LTHOUGH
currently in the
process of
applying for her
full licence,
Corbett still devotes plenty of
time to continuing the stud’s
expansion. One such
development comes in the
form of another new addition
to the stallion roster, crack
miler Proclamation.
She says: “Edward [Daly]
came up trumps again with
Proclamation. He’s such a
lovely stallion – excellent
temperament, strong and
plenty of bone. We love him!”
Corbett’s enthusiasm for the
family’s burgeoning business
is clear, but she is realistic in
terms of what is best for the
future.
“We’ve downsized our own
mares over the years as we
started out with too many
– the benefit of hindsight. We
now have two National Hunt
mares – Penteli, who raced in
admits the early years were a
huge learning curve, “helped
by Thoroughbred Breeders’
Association courses and
self-education”.
More than ten years on,
tricks of the trade help keep
the operation running
smoothly, particularly during
tough Northumberland
winters.
“We sleep with the hosepipe
in the house!”, she says.
However, Corbett is quick to
point out the success is not
hers alone.
“I manage two full-time jobs
due to two things – my
husband Frank, who is always
working and keeping me
right, and my excellent team of
staff.
“Things like this don’t
happen by accident!”
Indeed, while the story of
Girsonfield may well have
started through an
unexpected series of events, as
far as ‘things happening for a
reason’ go, that reason is
evident. Sheer hard work.

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Racing Post Thursday, February 7, 2013
Cathal Gahan selects ten
inexpensive stallions aged 18 or
older whose lustre has not faded
Alhaarth
Age: 20; pedigree: Unfuwain-Irish Valley
(Irish River)
Standing at Derrinstown Stud at a fee of €4,000
No. of mares covered in 2012: 21
Alhaarth was the outstanding two-year-old colt
of 1995, his finest moment coming in the
Dewhurst Stakes when thrashing Danehill
Dancer and Tagula. His pedigree ticks all the
boxes; he is by the high-class Unfuwain and his
dam Irish Valley is an unraced half-sister to
top-class racehorse and stallion Green Dancer.
This is also the family of 2,000 Guineas hero
Makfi and last year’s Arc heroine Solemia.
Alhaarth’s influence is more stamina-based
– perhaps it is Unfuwain’s middle-distance
influence coming through. His progeny have
run over 5-6f 722 times and over 7f and beyond
3,554 times. At Tattersalls last year, Alhaarth’s
unbeaten Listed winner Seolan sold for
320,000gns out of Paddy Prendergast’s yard.
Alhaarth stands this year at just €4,000, a
fraction of the €30,000 he commanded in 2005
and 2006, when the exploits of his best offspring
Bandari, Dominica, Haafhd and Phoenix Reach
were fresh in the memory.
Bahamian Bounty
19yo; ch Cadeaux Genereux-Clarentia
(Ballad Rock)
National Stud, £10,000
Covered 2012: 97
Bahamian Bounty enjoyed a fine 2012 with his
two-year-olds, with cheap buy
Sendmylovetorose winning the Cherry Hinton
Stakes, Cay Verde scoring in the Prix d’Arenberg
and Baileys Jubilee winning at Listed level and
finishing third in the Cheveley Park Stakes.
Racecourse success translated into strong sales
and he had 51 of his 61 yearlings offered in
Europe last year sell for an average of
31,239gns.
He is primarily a speed source, with his
progeny in Britain and Ireland having made
6,080 starts over 5f-1m1f compared with just
435 over 1m2f and further.
Compton Place
19yo; ch Indian Ridge-Nosey (Nebbiolo)
Whitsbury Manor Stud, £6,500
Covered 2012: 77
A July Cup winner on good to firm ground, this
son of Indian Ridge is still going strong with 77
coverings last year. One benefit of choosing an
older stallion is his record is there for all to see
and one thing is for sure, Compton Place
habitually stamps his stock. His progeny in
Britain and Ireland have run 5,140 times over
5-6f and 2,340 times at 7f-plus. His best-known
performers – the redoubtable Borderlescott,
Boogie Street, Deacon Blues and Intrepid Jack
– have taken after their father by winning big
sprints.
His stock are still trading solidly and at
Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling sale
he had two lots sell to David Redvers (who also
bought Compton Place’s exciting son Pearl
Secret for £90,000) and Peter and Ross Doyle
for £70,000 and £62,000. Standing at £6,500,
his price has not fluctuated too much over the
years, reaching a high of £10,000 during 2007,
having started his career at just £3,500.
Elnadim
19yo; Danzig-Elle Seule (Exclusive Native)
Derrinstown Stud, €5,000
Covered 2012: 46
Another July Cup winner to make the list,
Elnadim began his career in the US standing at a
fee of $15,000. Since his arrival at Derrinstown
Stud his fee has changed little, with a high of
€7,000 and low of €5,000 for the past two years.
The son of Danzig has done well with his
sprinters, even as far afield as New Zealand
through his Group 1-winning son Culminate,
while Elnawin, Wi Dud and Smarty Socks have
been flying the flag for him in Britain and
Ireland.
Over 5f-1m1f his progeny have had 1,784
runs, in stark contrast to 133 beyond 1m1f.
Elnadim’s stock is still in demand and BBA
breeding on a budget 9
further. He is also held in some esteem with
buyers, with 14 yearlings from 19 offered in
Europe last year sold for an average of £9,121.
Royal Applause
20yo; b Waajib-Flying Melody
(Auction Ring)
The Royal Studs, £9,000
Covered 2012: 125
Royal Applause has founded a successful sire
line in recent years, with his son Acclamation
churning out lots of precocious and fast winners
and Acclamation’s son Dark Angel making a
good start with his first crops. The son of Waajib
is also a consistent source of good winners on
Snow Fairy (centre), flanked by (left) Sendmylovetorose and Hoyam: by veteran sires the track, including last year’s Roses Stakes
winner Hoyam and the smart Dance And Dance.
Golden oldies showing
Because he excels at producing sharp and
speedy stock – his progeny have run 8,197 times
over 5f-1m1f compared with just 1,382 times
beyond that – he has retained his popularity at
they’re no back numbers
the sales. Last year in Europe he had 67 of his 82
yearlings offered sell for an average of
43,984gns. Shadwell paid a high of 220,000gns
for a half-brother to Listed winner Kingsgate
Prince.
Ireland went to €825,000 for the seven-year-old Piccolo Tagula
Queen Mary Stakes winner Elletelle at Arqana 20yo; b Taufan-Twin Island (Standaan)
22yo; b Warning-Woodwind
in December. The agency also spent €120,000 (Whistling Wind) Rathbarry Stud, €4,000
on a yearling sister to Pasar Silbano, a high-class Covered 2012: 55
Throckmorton Court Stud, £3,000
two-year-old in Ireland before racing in the US,
Covered 2012: 45 A longstanding resident of Rathbarry Stud,
at the Goffs Orby sale in 2012. Elnadim looks a
Awarded the 1994 Nunthorpe Stakes as a Tagula is best known for siring the brilliant
value option for breeders looking to tap into the
three-year-old, Piccolo bagged a big prize on miler Canford Cliffs.
Danzig line.
merit in the King’s Stand the following year. He is largely a speed influence; over 5-6f his
progeny have had 3,200 runs compared to
Halling Those wins may be a distant memory but at the
2,743 over 7f and further. The son of Taufan has
22yo; ch Diesis-Dance Machine age of 22 he is still popular and last year he
covered 40 mares. Piccolo’s reputation has, by been holding his own at the sales too; at last
(Green Dancer)
and large, been made by sprinters – the likes of year’s DBS Premier Yearlings sale Peter & Ross
Dalham Hall Stud, £10,000
La Cucaracha, Picaday, Temple Of Boom, Doyle, the purchasers of Canford Cliffs, spent
Covered 2012: 30
Tiddliwinks and Winker Watson all having £70,000 on a colt of his out of a Dr Fong mare.
Durable and progressive on the track himself competed at the top level over the past few years. Despite his advancing years, Tagula still
– he developed from a Cambridgeshire winner Evidence of his speed influence can be seen in covered 55 mares in 2012 and stands for
into a five-time Group 1 scorer – Halling also his stud record; between 5-6f his progeny have €4,000. Tagula won the Group 1 Prix Morny
produces industrious offspring. His Group had 5,212 runs compared to 2,977 over 7f and over 6f as a two-year-old for Ian Balding.
winners, headed by Cavalryman and Cutlass
Bay, who scored at the top level, have averaged
27 career starts.
Top sprinters are rare – his progeny have
made only 252 starts over 5-6f compared with
4,046 starts over 7f and beyond, but clearly he is
a good stallion to establish a mare. Halling’s
£10,000 fee leaves room for profit – in Europe
last year he had 36 yearlings from 45 offered
sell at an average of 25,332gns.
Intikhab
19yo; b Red Ransom-Crafty Example
(Crafty Prospector)
Derrinstown Stud, €5,500
Covered 2012: 79
Intikhab could not have asked for a better
ambassador than Snow Fairy, his six-year-old
daughter who has won eight of her 21 starts
over four seasons, six at the top level, including
the Epsom and Curragh Oaks double and last
year’s Irish Champion Stakes. The fact Snow
Fairy is not a one-off – think of Paita, Red Evie
See you
and Glen’s Diamond – makes Intikhab’s €5,500
seem even more of a bargain.
He is capable of getting winners over any
distance, although most of his progeny’s starts
in Britain and Ireland – 1,620 out of 3,076
– have come over 7f-1m1f. Considering he has
no Sadler’s Wells or Danehill in his pedigree, he
later,
allows breeders plenty of leeway. Last year in
Europe Intikhab’s yearlings achieved a good
clearance rate at public auction (26 sold from 30
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Coolmore Stud, €10,000
Covered 2012: 44
The 1997 Arc winner was an outstanding
middle-distance colt and began his stud career
with high expectations, standing at Ir£65,000 in
his first season. He will command a fee of only
€10,000 this year, despite producing 12 Group 1
winners, including stars such as Byword, Pride
and Vallee Enchantee.
Peintre Celebre is primarily a middle-distance
influence and his progeny have run 2,023 times
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Purchased for a song

but making sweet
music on course
Cathal Gahan highlights the
cheaply bought horses from last
season who show you don’t need
bottomless pockets to buy a star
Belle Royale
Age: 5; colour/sex: bay/brown mare
Pedigree: Val Royal-Kahyasi Moll
(Brief Truce)
Price: 800gns (2009 DBS October Yearling)
Vendor: Houghton Bloodstock
Buyer: Mark Brisbourne
Earnings: £198,430
Belle Royale’s price did not get off the minimum
bid when she was offered at Doncaster in 2009
– evidently it was only Mark Brisbourne who
saw something in her. His opinion was proved
right when he trained her to win seven races
between 5f-1m, graduating from sellers to
valuable handicaps. Those exploits alone would
merit being called a bargain buy. However, last
season she did even better, racing for Simon
Callaghan and Michael Tabor in America. She
showed a superb turn of foot to land the Grade 1
Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park and was
subsequently sold – presumably for a large
multiple of her yearling price-tag – to become a
broodmare in Japan.
A half-sister to two minor Flat winners out of
an unplaced half-sister to two hurdles winners,
she is by former National Stud stallion Val
Royal, who died at stud in 2008. Val Royal’s son
Cockney Rebel continues his father’s work at the
National Stud.
Gordon Lord Byron
5yo b g Byron-Boa Estrela (Intikhab)
Price: €2,000 (2008 Goffs November Foal)
Vendor: Owenstown Stud
Buyer: Jessica Cahalan
Earnings: £375,188
Jessica Cahalan landed herself a bargain at the
foal sale in 2008 when buying Gordon Lord
Byron for just €2,000. Expertly handled by Tom
Hogan, it was only as a five-year-old that his raw
speed and ability came to the fore in a 13-race
campaign, winning four times between 5-7f,
including the Group 1 Prix De La Forêt. In the
process he became the first Group 1 winner for
his sire Byron.
Byron, a dual Group 2 winner, was bred by
Cheveley Park Stud and raced in the colours of
Godolphin, winning the Group 2 Mill Reef as a
two-year-old and the Group 2 Lennox Stakes at
three. Byron began his stud duties at Kildangan
Stud but later switched to Dalham Hall before
taking up residence at Woodlands Stud, where
he stands for a small fee. Gordon Lord Byron is
the only winner from two foals of racing age out
of his unraced dam Boa Estrela, a half-sister to
Group 3 winner Cheyenne Star.
Lethal Force
4yo gr c Dark Angel-Land Army
(Desert Style)
Price: €9,500 (2009 Goffs November Foal), €8,500
(2010 Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling)
Vendors: Rathasker Stud/Timogue Stables
Buyers: John Egan/Clive Cox
Earnings: £91,490
Although a maiden going into his three-year-old
campaign, Lethal Force had finished fourth in
the Coventry and Vintage Stakes at two.
Lethal Force is out of the Desert Style mare Land
Army, a sister to Ascot Family, a 7f Listed winner
in France who produced Prix Robert Papin
winner Family One. Land Army’s half-sister
Flanders was fast and precocious as a juvenile,
winning the Hilary Needler Trophy, Weatherbys
Super Sprint and Windsor Castle Stakes; she has
since produced Stakes winners Laajooj and
Louvain. Lethal Force is by Dark Angel, a
brilliantly fast two-year-old who won the
St Leger Yearling Stakes, Mill Reef and Middle
Park Stakes. He was subsequently retired that
season to stand at Morristown Lattin Stud at a
cost of £10,000. Dark Angel is a good source of
inexpensive sales horses who belie their
price-tags – another son, Tough As Nails, cost
owner Laurence Mulvany only €3,000 but went
on to finish third in the Phoenix Stakes.
Maureen
3yo b f Holy Roman Emperor-Exotic Mix
(Linamix)
Price: €20,000 (2011 Goffs Orby)
Vendor: Osberstown Stud
Buyer: Michael Halford
Earnings: £44,813
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first three races before finishing sixth in both

Group 1s she contested.
The dual Group winner is the second stakes
performer to be produced by multiple winner
Windy Gulch following 1m5f French Listed
scorer Windya (by Linamix). Furthermore, she
is from the family of South Ocean, the dam of
Storm Bird and Prix du Bois winner Snowday.
When Sendmylovetorose won the Group 3
Grangecon Stud Stakes she became the seventh
Group winner for her sire Bahamian Bounty.
The son of Cadeaux Genereux is best known for
his juvenile winners over 5f-6f and also Group 3
winner Cay Verde flying his flag last season.

Gordon Lord Byron (left), Maureen and
Reckless Abandon (right) were just three
cheap purchases who recouped their
purchase price many times over in 2012
in running twice last season, in the Cherry
Hinton and Cheveley Park Stakes, but put
matters to rights in the Group 3 Princess
Margaret Stakes, in which she slammed
Sandreamer by more than two lengths. Her sire
Holy Roman Emperor has a habit of producing
brilliant fillies – others include the tough Irish
Oaks runner-up Banimpire, easy 1,000 Guineas
winner Homecoming Queen and Jersey Stakes
scorer Ishvana – so it might be difficult to buy
his daughters as cheaply again as Michael
Halford did with Maureen.
Maureen is out of Exotic Mix, a daughter of
Linamix who was placed over 1m1f as a
three-year-old in France. The dam’s sister Belle
Famille was Listed-placed over 1m4f, her
half-brother Shot To Fame was a Group 3
winner over 1m and her half-sister Spinola won
the Cherry Hinton Stakes. Maureen is a
half-sister to Roedean (Oratario), a winner at
plating level over 7f-1m1f, and Glass Mountain
(Verglas), a low-grade handicap winner over
1m-1m2f.
Reckless Abandon
3yo b c Exchange Rate-Sant Elena (Efisio)
Price: £24,000 (2011 DBS Premier Yearling)
Vendor: Car Colston Hall Stud
Buyer: Clive Cox
Earnings: £358,917
Another Clive Cox buy to make the list from last
season. Remarkably, Reckless Abandon and
Lethal Force combined cost the trainer just
£32,500. Possibly the buy of 2012, Reckless
Abandon was purchased at Doncaster for a
modest £24,000. Having scored on his debut
over 5f at Doncaster, Reckless Abandon went
from strength to strength as the season
progressed, adding a further four Group races to
his tally, including the Norfolk Stakes, the Prix
Robert Papin, the Prix Morny and Middle Park
Stakes to amass £358,917 in prize-money, and
was then snapped up by Darley as a future
stallion. In the meantime he will be leased
back to his owners and remain in training with
Cox.
Exchange Rate, a relatively unproven sire in
Europe at the time, started his career in Florida
but was moved to Three Chimneys Farm in
Kentucky after a strong start at stud. His best
performers are headed by the Grade 1-winning
fillies Ermine and Swap Fliparoo. A son of
Danzig, Exchange Rate stands this year at
$30,000. Reckless Abandon is the second foal
out of the 6f-winning mare Sant Elena, who also
finished placed over 1m4f in a Canadian
Stakes race. By Efisio, she is a half-sister to
Grade 1-winning filly Ticker Tape and from the
family of Racing Post Trophy winner Crowded
House.
Sendmylovetorose
3yo b f Bahamian Bounty-Windy Gulch
(Gulch)
Price: £5,000 (2011 DBS Premier Yearling)
Vendor: Trickledown Stud
Buyer: McKeever Bloodstock
Earnings: £74,883
It cost McKeever Bloodstock only £5,000 to buy
Sendmylovetorose at the 2011 DBS Premier
Yearling sale. County Tyrone trainer Andy
Oliver, a qualified vet, did a superb job of
handling this filly – sending her out to win her
Temida
5 b m Oratorio-Interim Payment
(Red Ransom)
Price: 13,500gns (2009 Tattersalls October
Yearling Book 2)
Vendor: Cooneen Stud
Buyer: Litex Commerce AD
Earnings: £157,000
This mare cost her owners just 13,500gns but is
now worth an awful lot more as a breeding
prospect after winning at Group 1 level in
August. She had just one start as a two-year-old
and it took six races for her to get off the mark.
But her crowning glory came as a four-year-old in
the Group 1 Grosser Preis Von Bayern, in which
she beat Derby Italiano winner Feuerblitz. By
Oratorio, a son of Danehill who was sold to stand
in South Africa this year, she now ranks among
his top performers, who include Manawanui,
Beethoven, Lolly For Dolly and King Torus.
Temida’s dam Interim Payment, by Red
Ransom, won two races over 1m2f as a
three-year-old but was later sold by Juddmonte
for just 9,000gns. Interim Payment is out of the
Sadler’s Wells mare Interim, who finished second
in the Lancashire Oaks before being sent to
America, where she won the Grade 2 La
Prevoyante Handicap over 1m4f. She is also dam
of Grade 1 Charles Whittingham Memorial
winner Midships and 1m2f Listed scorer
Principal Role.

Shrewd judgement and a THE AGA KHAN STUDS

Success Breeds Success

little luck can pay dividends
T
HE accompanying review of cheaply
bought superstars shows with the
right judgement (and a bit of luck)
there is talented youngstock at the
sales for all price ranges. But
breeding is still the sole preserve of the
ridiculously wealthy, right? Wrong.
If you can find a stud that will keep and look
after your mare at a reasonable rate – and if you
read through our stallion focus for a cheaper
stallion and get a deal – there are mares
available at breeding-stock sales who make
producing your own horse look affordable.
Perhaps the best example of how an
inexpensive mare can come to be worth much,
much more is Alruccaba, bought by Kirsten
Rausing and Sonia Rogers for just 19,000gns in
1985. Alruccaba is one of the best blue hens of
recent decades, featuring in the female line of
stars such as Allegretto, Albanova, Alborada,
Quarter Moon, Yesterday, Aussie Rules and
Last Second.
Rausing repeated the trick when she bought
the Affirmed mare Entente Cordiale as a
three-year-old for just 2,000gns at Tattersalls.
She later produced stakes winners Foreign
Affairs and Motrice and her progeny were
always popular in the sales ring.
Then there is Lagrion, a daughter of Diesis
who struggled to a best Racing Post Rating of 70
after finishing placed in a couple of low-grade
middle-distance contests at Wexford and
Gowran Park. If you looked past her race
record, you could have bought the future dam of
Group 1 winners Dylan Thomas, Homecoming
Queen and Queen’s Logic for Ir3,000gns as a
three-year-old at Goffs in 1992, or for 22,000gns
three years’ later at Tattersalls.
Sinndar
Leaping Water, subsequently the dam of
champion St Nicholas Abbey and Grade 1-placed
Grammarian, was sold for 3,200gns at the 1993
Tattersalls July sale, while Emeraled Bloodstock
needed to part with just 3,000gns at the 2000
Tattersalls December breeding-stock sale for
Acidanthera – a winning daughter of Alzao and
a Shirley Heights dam no less! – before she
produced last year’s Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere
Sire of 4 Gr.1 winners,
winner Olympic Glory. including the dual Gr.1 winner
Europe nearly lost Sun Shower in the year she
foaled top miler Excelebration when she was SHARETA in 2012.
sold to continue her breeding career in India
for €10,000 at the 2008 Goffs November
breeding-stock sale. Coolmore had to rescue her Sire of 52% lifetime
from Asia after the emergence of Excelebration,
leaving the mare’s new owners with a healthy
winners to runners.
profit, no doubt.
Coolmore also recently privately purchased
Danedrop, who before her daughter Danedream Broodmare sire of 2012
won the Arc and King George went through the Gr.1 winners ENCKE
ring four times as a breeding commodity – for
€21,000 at Goffs the first time, then not sold at and FLOTILLA.
Tattersalls for 40,000gns, sold to BBA Germany
for €47,000 at Goffs and lastly moved on to Tony
Clout for just €17,000 at Arqana in 2008.
Easy to say in retrospect, but those prices for Consistency & Quality
Danedrop seem crazy – she is, after all, a
daughter of the great Danehill out of a at only €6,000
Listed-placed High Top mare from the
immediate family of Group 1 winners Groom
Dancer, Indian Rose and Vert Amande.
The lesson? With a little imagination, placing
your trust in tried and tested bloodlines and HARAS DE BONNEVAL
keeping an eye on conformation, there are www.agakhanstuds.com
bargains to be had at the breeding-stock sales.
Martin Stevens
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Pat Flynn
EXPERT Trainer
JURY
Which sires with Choisir was a tough racehorse
and gets genuine stock. I have
runners who four by Footstepsinthesand, all
fillies, and they’re progressing
stand for under nicely, although I’d love to
train a few of his colts. Big Bad
£10,000/€12,000 Bob is capable of upgrading his
mares and is breeding horses
are the best who are tough and talented.
Captain Rio is good value and
value for money? gets winners year after year,
while Clodovil’s stock are nice
and they run and sell well.
. . . and, in the Mastercraftsman could be
the business. A serious
same price racehorse, he had good size
and is well worth a visit with
bracket, which
a nice mare. Thewayyouare
is an attractive Group 1
sires yet to have
winner by Kingmambo. Lope
De Vega is a strong-looking
horse with a good pedigree,
runners?
while Bushranger’s stock
look great and sold well. I
think they’ll make good
racehorses.
Which older sires I’ve always wanted to train an
Alhaarth and now we have a
are still worth colt by him who cost €42,000.
The sire is capable of getting a
using? nice one. Peintre Celebre was a
very good racehorse and is still
getting big winners, as is
Intikhab. Danehill Dancer is
more expensive but, with the
right mare, he can get a star,
while Canford Cliffs’s
(pictured
(pictured) sire Tagula is still
turning out the winners.
What would Bad conformation – for
example, curbs on hocks
you never and offset knees, or if
they’re turned out badly in
compromise front or upright on their
front legs. I also can’t
when breeding
forgive most stable vices or
a weak dam line.
or buying on
a budget?
Which sort of The breeze-ups offer good
value as the horses are broken
sales offer the and riding, and you can view
them cantering over two
best value? furlongs. There is value at
most sales if you sit and wait
long enough.
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Cathal Gahan
Reporter
Choisir, who stands at €10,000,
is very good value. Last year
was arguably his best with
Olympic Glory and Obviously
doing very well. Medicean
would be another at
£10,000, especially if you
have Danehill blood
somewhere in your
broodmare’s pedigree.
He churns out top-class
horses year on year.
Commercially, Bushranger
is a no-brainer. His progeny
have sold well and to the
right people, so he has every
chance. The progeny of
Myboycharlie – also by
Danetime – have been selling
well too. Although he’s part
of Coolmore’s jumps roster,
Yeats was a two-year-old
winner before he became
one of the best stayers of
recent times.
Bahamian Bounty had a great
2012 and his progeny are
popular in the sales ring. At
£6,500, you can’t go far wrong
with Compton Place,
particularly if you’re looking to
establish a young mare. Many
of his progeny are progressive,
speedy sorts. Alhaarth is
interesting. When you consider
he once stood for €30,000, his
fee of €4,000 appears good
value.
Buying-wise, at the lower
end of the market pedigree
becomes less relevant and a
buyer will inevitably look at
the individual. I’d avoid
light-boned horses, bad
walkers and would never
touch one with bad knees.
Some people may have been
sceptical about breeze-ups at
first, but the auction houses
have sourced well in recent
years and there’s very good
value to be had there. Other
than that, you have to be
patient and make yourself
available to go to plenty of
sales. There are many good
horses offered at auction – you
just need to be in the right
place at the right time.
Stephen Hillen
Bloodstock
agent
Sleeping Indian is great value
at £3,000. He produced the
Royal Ascot winner Hototo
pictured and was ninth in
(pictured)
the table of two-year-old
sires in Britain and Ireland
last year. Choisir is a proven
Group 1 sire, Sir Percy
upgrades his mares and
Tagula is underrated,
while Bahamian Bounty
is a solid sire in the sales
ring.
Bushranger stamps his
stock well. I’ve never seen a
first-season sire produce so
many good-looking, athletic
yearlings. Paco Boy’s foals
look like racehorses, while
Harbour Watch was an
exceptional two-year-old
who should get quality,
precocious stock. Dragon
Pulse is a stunning
individual who was a very
good two-year-old.
Danehill Dancer has been a
most consistent sire of stakes
winners and is tremendous
value at €40,000 – not within
‘budget’, I know, but if you’ll
indulge me? Peintre Celebre
and Halling appeal to me, as
does Zamindar, who is an
excellent choice for an
owner-breeder for getting a
mare started.
I won’t buy a poor walker, a
very narrow or weak
individual, nor a horse with
a short length of rein. I’d
definitely buy an offset
yearling providing it’s
athletic and appears sound.
When breeding I’d never
select a sire who doesn’t
match the mare physically.
Nearly every sale produces a
good horse. If you work any
sale hard enough you can
often come across a bargain
– although sometimes patience
is required! The breeze-up
sales represent great value, as
an owner can save up to eight
months’ keep. Also, buyers get
to see the horses gallop,
making the elimination
process easier.
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Robin O’Ryan Katie Walsh
Assistant Jump
trainer to jockey
Richard and sales
Fahey consignor
Dark Angel has had two crops
who are good to train and are
Bahamian Bounty and Choisir
are two who spring to mind in
sound. We’ve had luck with
him, while Iffraaj had a
that price range. They’re both
proven sires who are popular
wonderful first season,
including with Wootton
with trainers and capable of
getting fast and sound
Bassett, whom we bought.
Pastoral Pursuits has been very
two-year-olds who continue to
improve with age – and they
lucky for us and the five we
bought last season all won.
win over a wide range of
distances and ground.
Bahamian Bounty and
Kyllachy also represent good
value.
We bought three by Aqlaam
at Newmarket – they’re sound
Judging by last year’s sales,
Bushranger and Dandy Man
with good temperaments
and I like them a lot. Dandy
look value. Of this year’s
sires, I have a soft spot for
Man was a good, hardy horse Caspar Netscher, whom I
– we bought four of his and consigned to the breeze-up
they’re very tough and look at Tattersalls. He was a
like two-year-olds. fast, sound and honest colt
Bushranger was popular at from day one. Harbour
the sales with some very Watch was another brilliant
good-looking, sound horses, two-year-old with looks to
and we were lucky enough to match who should be very
buy three by him. popular.
Bahamian Bounty and
Kyllachy, who give you good,
Dansili, Danehill Dancer,
Royal Applause and Pivotal are
sound, hardy horses, and also
Compton Place and Royal
all great sires who are more
than capable of getting
Applause. We always look at
progeny by them at the sales as
brilliant racehorses any year.
They still have a certain magic
they’re all capable of getting a about them.
good horse. We’ve had plenty
of winners by all of them.
If the horse is an athlete and
has a good outlook and
Conformation is always
important. A good-looking,
presence, I’d forgive a lot of
faults but try to avoid buying
correct horse will always
catch someone’s eye.
horses with open knees,
and/or are light of bone.
Stallions seem to go in and
out of fashion – I don’t know
Breeding-wise, I favour a why – but to have one by the
proven six-furlong-to-mile stallion everybody wants at
stallion, as they’re popular a sale is a big advantage. A
with prospective buyers, or a
first-season sprinting sire
stallion isn’t as important
once the horse has proved
who might do well at the
sales and get early winners.
he can run.
I think sales companies do a
good job sorting yearlings out.
The breeze-ups give buyers a
clearer picture because there’s
DBS, Tattersalls and Goffs sell
plenty of winners. In recent
another six months of work in
the horse they may want to buy
years the breeze-ups have sold
a lot of winners and represent
and by that time a lot of hidden
problems you didn’t see as a
good value. We’ve been very yearling can surface. On the
lucky at the breeze-ups, buying other hand, a lot of trainers
winners including Alben Star, like to start from scratch and
Marine Commando, Rose any of the sales fit that criteria.
Blossom, Garswood (a private Bonus schemes and sales races
sale), Heaven’s Guest and are a big help but I don’t think
Strange Magic. it’s a huge deciding factor.
Fee: £5,500 Oct 1st NFFR