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Five supplementary entries have been added to the Goffs February Sale Feb. 7 to 9, including three flat-bred weanlings. They are lot 158A, a colt by Casamento (Ire) from the family of G1 Oaks winner Light Shift; lot 388A, a Dandy Man (Ire) colt out of a sister to stakes winner and Group 2-placed Mister...
The first reported foal for G1 2000 Guineas and G1 Lockinge S. winner Night of Thunder (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}–Forest Storm {GB}, by Galileo {Ire}) is a filly born at Oghill House Stud in Ireland. The chestnut filly is out of Giveupyeraulsins (Ire) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}), making her a half-sister to dual Group 3 winner...
Treble Group 1 winner Phoenix Reach (Ire) (Alhaarth {Ire}–Carroll's Canyon {Ire}, by Hatim) has moved to his owner Andrew Christou's Winterbeck Manor Stud in Nottingham, where he will stand the 2017 stud season at a fee of £3,500. Throughout five seasons in training, Phoenix Reach, trained initially by Ian Balding and later by his son...
Tim Lane, who managed John Deer's Oakgrove Stud since 2004, has been appointed stud manager of the National Stud in Newmarket. Lane succeeds Brian O'Rourke, who has been manager of the National Stud since 2008, shortly after its acquisition by The Jockey Club. Lane has also served as an assistant to Malcolm Bastard at Baydon...
The first foal born by G1 Prince of Wales's S. winner Free Eagle (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}) is a filly. Bred by Gloria and Stephen Seymour of Bickfield House Farm, the bay filly is out of Al Kahina (GB) (Mark of Esteem {Ire}), an unraced half-sister to the Listed Flame of Tara S. winner Kanisfluh...
REALLY SPECIAL (GB) (f, 3, Shamardal–Rumh {Ger}, by Monsun {Ger}), the winner of Newmarket's Listed Montrose S. last out Oct. 29, kept her unbeaten record intact in Thursday's UAE 1000 Guineas trial in her first try on dirt. Saving ground on the fence just off the pace, the bay switched out for running room in...
Stakes-winning sprinter and G1 Diamond Jubilee S.-second Due Diligence (<a href="https://claibornefarm.com/stallions/warfront/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">War Front</a>) is represented by his first foal, a filly born Jan. 19 at Whitsbury Manor Stud where the sire stands. The filly is the first foal out of Free Entry (Ire) (Approve {Ire}), a 2-year-old winner and a half-sister to the Group 3-placed Golden Destiny...
It would be impossible to see 23 stud farms and 100 stallions over the course of two days, even if they were all bunched together, never mind spread out over the vast landscape that makes up the Norman breeding region, but that's the annual challenge thrown down by the organizers of La Route Des Etalons,...
Fair Eva (GB) (<a href="https://bit.ly/2KNga16 " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Frankel</a> {GB}), the first stakes winner for her sire last summer, has wintered well, according to trainer Roger Charlton, and is considered a Guineas possibility. Fair Eva won on debut in the Juddmonte colours at Haydock last June before taking the G3 Princess Margaret Juddmonte S. the following month, but suffered defeats...
Blissful Beat (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}), the dam of Group 3 winner Home of the Brave (Ire) (<a href="https://coolmore.com/en/ireland/stallion/starspangledbanner/ " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Starspangledbanner</a> {Aus}), was bought by agent Justin Carthy's RJB Bloodstock for €235,000 on Arqana Online. The 10-year-old mare was offered by Haras du Grand Chene in foal to leading French sire Le Havre. Carthy, who bred last year's...
This time last year, the TDN asked industry figures to name a sire that could feature prominently in 2016. Today we look back on agent James Delahooke's outlook on <a href="https://bit.ly/2KNga16 " class="horse-link" target="_blank">Frankel</a>. James Delahooke: Rewind to the early 80's when the death of Jock Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and a confirmed anglophile, brought an...
3.20 Cagnes-sur-Mer, Debutantes, €24,000, 3yo, f, 8f (AWT) GHURFAH (GB) (Tamayuz {GB}) is a daughter of the 2006 G1 Cheveley Park S. and 2007 G1 Coronation S. heroine Indian Ink (Ire) (Indian Ridge {Ire}) who starts out for Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum and Jean-Claude Rouget. Also emanating from that stable is Joseph Allen's...
