After its popularity last year, Young Guns returns with all new questions and young professionals. Today we speak with Valentin Adam, who works on the bloodstock team at Arqana TDN: Tell us about your career to date. VA: I have always been around horses. My grandparents had a farm with National Hunt mares, which my [...]

After its popularity last year, Young Guns returns with all new questions and young professionals. Today we speak with Tom Hobbs, stud manager at Pattles Grove Stud TDN: Tell us about your career to date? TH: I've been lucky to have the opportunity to work and learn at some top farms including Juddmonte, Newsells Park [...]

  Tweenhills Stud has added a trio of intriguing sires to its roster in 2019, and one of those is Australian shuttler Zoustar (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}), who will stand his first Northern Hemisphere season for £25,000. The Group 1-winning sprinter has got off to an excellent start Down Under with just a year and [...]

Compas Stallions is a growing force among the Irish stallion ranks, with its founder and owner Micheal Orlandi adding two young sires to his roster for 2019. Micheal manages five stallions in total with the addition of Smooth Daddy (Scat Daddy) and Kuroshio (Aus) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}), who both stand at Clongiffen Stud alongside [...]

Today is the turn of Pádraic Gahan, a Bloodstock Executive at Goffs, to take the chair and answer our questions TDN: Tell us about your career to date? PG: My earliest memories are of being on foal-watch with my father, Pat, so I owe my initial introduction to the industry to him having grown up [...]

Darley and Godolphin had an excellent year in 2018 both with Group 1 winners on the track in their blue silks and for their sires. In Part 2 of this Q&A series, the TDN's Alayna Cullen catches up with members of the European nominations team to talk about the highlights (click here for Part 1). [...]

The Darley stallion roster is ever growing and with five new stallions retiring across Europe, TDN's Alayna Cullen spoke with a few members of the nominations team about the new boys on the block. TDN: How important is it to have new sires retiring each year? Sam Bullard: We run a stallion operation with the [...]

The recent foal sales have seen many freshman sires facing their first tests as their progeny go under the hammer, and the progeny of Derrinstown Stud's G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Awtaad (Ire) (Cape Cross {Ire}) have caught the eye of many judges. He has achieved prices of up to 170,000gns at Tattersalls, and €170,000 [...]

The Irish Thoroughbred Breeders' Association launched its Next Generation Apprenticeship Scheme “Supporting Employment Programme” on Nov. 14 with the aim to attract young workers to the Irish Thoroughbred industry. The TDN's Alayna Cullen sat down with ITBA CEO Shane O'Dwyer to find out more about the new programme. AC: Tell us about the new scheme [...]

I love any racehorse who shows toughness and grit with a will to win, but when that racehorse is a mare I tend to hold them in even higher regard. Over the years there have been a number of fillies and mares who have won my heart, but one of the all time greats is [...]

Waldlerche (GB) (Monsun {Ger}), who resides at Newsells Park Stud, is the dam of Group 1 winner Waldgeist (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), Group 2 winner Waldlied (GB) (New Approach {Ire}) and 'TDN Rising Star' Waldstern (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}). With Waldgeist aiming toward the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe this weekend and a Kingman [...]

TDN's Alayna Cullen paid a visit to Tweenhills Stud to speak with David Redvers about G1 Juddmonte International winner Roaring Lion (Kitten's Joy) and fan favourite and G1 Sussex S. winner Lightning Spear (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). She also caught up on the careers of Qatar Racing's stallions, Charm Spirit (IRE), Havana Gold (IRE) and Hot [...]