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                        CASAMENTO                                                    CLOTH OF STARS
                 Shamardal – Wedding Gift (Always Fair)                    Sea The Stars – Strawberry Fledge (Kingmambo)
                   SUNNYHILL STUD • Fee €3,000                              HARAS DU LOGIS • Fee €7,500, Oct 1st SLF

     Casamento moves to Sunnyhill Stud for the 2019 season,           The highest-rated son by Sea The Stars with a Timeform
     where he has taken up a dual-purpose role. The Darley-           rating of 132, Cloth Of Stars boasts a high-class pedigree
     owned stallion has shown promise as a sire of National Hunt      and performance history to boot.
     horses from a handful of first crop runners to race in that         As blue-blooded as you are likely to see, the six-year-old is
     sphere. His oldest crop is now five and he is already the sire   out of a placed Kingmambo full-sister to the Gr.1 Oaks
     of Cascova, a bumper winner on debut and second in the           heroine Light Shift, dam of dual Gr.1 winner and sire
     Listed bumper at Cheltenham on New Year’s Day, Alright           Ulysses, and is a half-sister to the Gr.1-winning mare Shiva
     Sunshine a winner of two of his three bumpers and second         (Hector Protector), as well as the dual Gr.2-winning sire
     in the third, and City Dreamer, who was second in the Gr.2       Limnos (Hector Protector) and the Listed-winning grandam
     Summit Juvenile Hurdle. On the Flat, his best runners so far     of the multiple Gr.1 scorer Main Sequence. The second dam
     include Gr.2 Prix de Royallieu winner Princess Yaiza, Kings      is the European Champion Three-Year-Old and dual Gr.1
     Will Dream who has been placed in three Australian Gr.1          winner Northern Trick (Northern Dancer), who was runner-
     contests, and the Listed winner and Gr.3-placed                  up in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
     Communique.                                                         The new sire attempted to emulate his grandam in Europe’s
       Casamento was a high-class racehorse, winning the Gr.1         premier all-age contest, finishing runner-up to Enable in 2017
     Racing Post Trophy and Gr.2 Beresford Stakes at two, and the     at Chantilly, and was third behind the superstar filly and Sea
     Gr.3 Prix du Prince d’Orange as a three-year-old. He was also    Of Class (Sea The Stars) last October at Longchamp.
     second in the Gr.1 National Stakes during his juvenile season.      Winner of his first two starts as a juvenile, including the Gr.3
       His pedigree nods to success as a stallion; his half-sister    Prix des Chenes, he was runner-up in the Gr.1 Criterium de
     Wana Doo (Grand Slam) is the dam of Gr.1 Sussex Stakes           Saint-Cloud later that year. At three he won both the Gr.3 Prix La
     and Gr.1 Queen Anne Stakes winner Toronado (High                 Force and the Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe, and put behind a poor run in
     Chaparral), who made a promising start to his stallion career    the Gr.1 Derby with a third in the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris. He did
     with his first runners in 2018.                                  not reappear until next March, when racking up three Group

                                                                               132
                                                                      wins, culminating in a win over Zarak in the Gr.1 Prix Ganay.

        Casamento               16.11/2 hh   Chestnut 2008

                   Shamardal - Wedding Gift by Always Fair

         Gr.1 Winning 2yr old of 4 Races.
         Multiple Stakes sire on flat.
         Prolific Sire of winners under both rules.
         Sire of winners of over 230 races from
         first 3 crops - 42% W/R.
         Leading 3rd Crop European Sires 2018 (races won)

           Rank      Stallion                                Wins
             1       Casamento (IRE) 2008                    138
             2       Bated Breath (GB) 2007                  118
             3       Frankel (GB) 2008                       115      Since the 1980s, there’s only
             4       Nathaniel (IRE) 2008                    103      been one higher-rated horse
             5       Mayson (GB) 2008                        99
             6       Dragon Pulse (IRE) 2009                 86       to retire to stud in France.
                                                                                CLOTH OF STARS
        Michael Hickey - Sunnyhill Stud                                       The Champion older horse of 2017
        Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
        M: (353) 87 2500 686 F: (353) 45 481310                       NEW €7,500 Oct 1, SLF
        T: (353) 45 481201 E: sunnyhillstud@eircom.net
                                                                      Stands at Haras du Logis, France
                                                                      darleystallions.com

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                         COULSTY                                                               CRACKSMAN
          Kodiac – Hazium (In The Wings)                                               Frankel – Rhadegunda (Pivotal)
    NORMAN COURT STUD • Fee £4,000, Oct 1st SLF                                  DALHAM HALL STUD • Fee £25,000, Oct 1st SLF

 Coulsty, whose first crop are now yearlings, has made the                   Crowned Champion three-year-old colt in Europe in 2017,
 move from Rathasker Stud to Norman Court Stud for the                       Cracksman was rated the best colt in the world last year
 2019 breeding season.                                                       and joins the line-up at Dalham Hall Stud this year.
   Coulsty, a son of Kodiac, was sharp off the mark, scoring                    Winner of a quartet of victories at the highest level, the
 for Richard Hannon in late May on his juvenile debut and                    son of Frankel made a winning debut at two on his sole
 went on to be placed third in the Listed Prix Francois Boutin.              juvenile start. He returned at three to win the Derby Trial at
 He won the Listed King Charles II Stakes on his comeback at                 Epsom before finishing third in the Gr.1 Derby by a length
 three and finished off his year by taking the Gr.3 Prix de                  and going down by just a neck in the Gr.1 Irish Derby. After
 Meautry in August. For the third year running he won his first              landing a brace of Gr.2 victories in the Great Voltigeur Stakes
 start, winning the Listed King Richard III Stakes at four, when             and the Prix Niel, Cracksman scored his breakthrough Gr.1
 he was also second in the Gr.2 Hungerford Stakes. In 2016, he               victory when triumphing in the Gr.1 Champion Stakes by
 won again, though not on his seasonal debut, and he                         seven lengths. At four, he returned to win the Gr.1 Prix
 achieved several more Group/Stakes places, ever consistent,                 Ganay on debut before following up in the Gr.1 Coronation
 with few poor runs in 26 starts over varied ground and trip.                Cup and finishing second in the Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes.
   His sire earned his popularity the hard way, as, although he              Cracksman then signed off his illustrious career with a
 is a Danehill half-brother to multiple Champion Sire                        second victory in the Gr.1 Champion Stakes, triumphing by
 Invincible Spirit, he was only Group-placed and many mares                  six lengths.
 he covered early on were pretty ordinary, so his rise to be a                  Bred by Anthony Oppenheimer, Cracksman is a half-
 record-breaking sire of juveniles is particularly meritorious.              brother to the Gr.3 Solario Stakes winner Fantastic Moon
   Though Coulsty’s three-time winning dam Hazium is by In                   (Dalakhani), out of the Listed winner Rhadegunda,
 The Wings, this is the fast family of the sire Lugana Beach,                a daughter of Pivotal who hails from the top Hascombe
 winner of two Gr.3s and second in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye,                family of the Gr.1 1,000 Guineas heroine On The House
 and The Tatling, who took the Gr.2 (then) King’s Stand Stakes               (Be My Guest), which includes Gr.1 Derby winner
 and was placed five times at the highest level.                             Golden Horn.

     COULSTY
     Bay 2011, 16.1hh by Kodiac (Danehill) ex Hazium (In The Wings)

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                                                                             The best            LIKE Frankel
  Won 5 races from 2 – 5 years, 5 – 7 furlongs,                              What did Cracksman have that
     £250,000 and was placed 9 times.                                        Frankel had? That amazing engine
                                                                             room and that extraordinary stride.
   FIRST YEARLINGS 2019                                                      If you watch that slo-mo of him up
  “Coulsty was a high-class sprinter, the model of                           the straight at Ascot, that is some
  soundness and honesty” Richard Hannon, Trainer.
                                                                             stride. And that’s what Frankel had.
              FEE:    £4,000 1st Oct SLF                                                                                John Gosden
                        Nominations: Tina Dawson • Tel: +44 (0)7776 165854
                                                                             NEW CRACKSMAN £25,000 Oct 1, SLF
                        Email: tina.dawson@tdbloodstock.com                  Stands at Dalham Hall Stud,

                                                                                                                      Darley
                        www.normancourtstud.co.uk                            Newmarket
                        West Tytherley, Nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 1NF
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                   DSCHINGIS SECRET                                                                                        DYLAN MOUTH
               Soldier Hollow – Divya (Platini)                                                                     Dylan Thomas – Cottonmouth (Noverre)
          HARAS DE SAINT ARNOULT • Fee €4,000, LF                                                                  WORSALL GRANGE • Fee £2,000, Oct 1st

 The 2017 German Horse of the Year Dschingis Secret will be                                                Dylan Mouth was a teak-tough performer, combining
 starting his stallion career at Haras de Saint Arnoult next                                               consistency with top form throughout six seasons of
 month.                                                                                                    racing.
    One of five Gr.1 winners by his Champion sire Soldier                                                     The son of Dylan Thomas won both his starts at two in
 Hollow, he cost €200,000 at BBAG as a yearling and retired                                                Italy when trained by Stefano Botti and extended his
 from the track with seven victories and six places under his                                              unbeaten record at three, culminating with victory in the
 belt, and earnings of some £400,000. Placed at two, he won                                                Gr.2 Derby Italiano, before adding the Gr.2 Premio Federico
 the Gr.3 St Leger Italiano at three after finishing third in the                                          Tesio and the Gr.1 (then) Gran Premio del Jockey Club to his
 Gr.2 Union Rennen and being beaten a head and a neck in a                                                 tally. He returned at four for a Gr.3 victory before scoring his
 controversial finish to the Gr.1 Deutsches Derby. At four, he                                             second Gr.1 victory by five lengths in the Gran Premio di
 beat Gr.1 winners Hawkbill and Sirius in the Gr.1 Grosser                                                 Milano, then took another Gr.2 and rounded off the season
 Preis von Berlin and also won three Gr.2 races, the Gerling-                                              with success in the Gr.1 (then) Premio Roma. Switched to
 Preis by eight lengths, the Grosser Hansa-Preis by nearly four                                            Marco Botti’s yard, he then embarked on his travels, racing
 and the Prix Foy, defeating Cloth Of Stars, Talismanic and                                                in Italy, Germany, Dubai and Britain over the next three
 two other Gr.1 winners. Last season, he added a second Gr.2                                               seasons, winning another three times, including the Gr.3
 Hansa-Preis to his cv and was a close fourth in the Gr.1                                                  Silver Cup Stakes at York last year. In all, Dylan Mouth won
 Grosser Preis von Berlin.                                                                                 14 times, nine times at Group level, winning from an
    He is a full-brother to three other smart runners, including                                           extended mile to 1m6f.
 last year’s Gr.3 winner and Gr.1 Deutsches Derby runner-up                                                   His dam, the Noverre mare Cottonmouth, was a Gr.3
 Destino and the dual Group-placed filly Diana Storm.                                                      winner in Italy at 1m2f and also won a hat-trick of Listed
 Their dam is a winning Platini full-sister to dual Group                                                  victories. Since foaling Dylan Mouth, she has produced
 winner Deva (dam of dual Group winner Devastar) and                                                       the dual Listed winner and Gr.2 Derby Italiano runner-up
 the female line traces back to the multiple US Gr.1 winner                                                Henry Mouth (Henrythenavigator), as well as the Listed
 Deceit (Prince John).                                                                                     scorer Per Un Dixir (Holy Roman Emperor).
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     SECRET                                                   GER - 2013 - 1.63m
                                                                          € 4,000 L.F.
                                                                                                                       Dylan Thomas (IRE) / Cottonmouth (IRE)

                                                                                                                   • Winner of Premio Roma GBI Racing (Gr. 1)
                                                                                                                     • Gran Premio Del Jockey Club (Gr. 1)
                                                                                              © Agence G

                                                                                                                         • Gran Premio di Milano (Gr. 2)
                                                                                                                         • Premio Federico Tesio (Gr. 2)
                      • AN   ATHLETE ABOVE THE NORM.                                                                 • John Smith’s Silver Cup Stakes (Gr. 3)
                        6 Group wins, €480,000 prize money,
                                                                                                                           • Won over 1m1/4f - 1m6f
                     voted HORSE OF THE YEAR 2017 in Germany
                                                                                                             “Dylan Mouth has proved to be very tough horse throughout
     1st Grosser Preis von Berlin (Gr.1), 1st Prix Foy (Gr.2), 1st Italian St.Leger (Gr.2),                  his career, he has always been sound and has had a great
              1st Gerling Preis (Gr.2), 1st Grosser Hansa Preis (Gr.2) (twice),                              temperament throughout. He is versatile, handles any ground
                                 3rd German Derby (Gr.1).                                                    and has been an extremely professional horse to deal with.”
                     • THE BEST SON OF SOLDIER HOLLOW,                                                       Marco Botti
                  Champion sire in Germany, with a rating of 120
                     Everything it takes to breed Classic distance                                           WORSALL GRANGE FARM
                             and National Hunt horses!                                                       www.worsallgrange.com
                                                                                                             NOMINATIONS
                                            For nominations please contact:                                  LUCY HORNER 07581107071
                                           Larissa Kneip +33 (0) 627 602 109                                 Lucy@worsallgrange.com
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                                 FALCO                                                       FRONTIERSMAN
             Pivotal – Icelips (Unbridled)                                               Dubawi – Ouija Board (Cape Cross)
    ELUSIVE BLOODSTOCK • Fee £3,000, Oct 1st SLF                                       OVERBURY STUD • Fee on application

 French Classic winner Falco, who spent six seasons at                        Frontiersman boasts the attributes for stallion success,
 Haras d’Etreham and four at Haras du Grand Chesnaie,                         combining a classy race record with a superb pedigree.
 has made the move to Elusive Bloodstock for the 2019                            Purchased privately by Godolphin as a yearling,
 breeding season.                                                             Frontiersman was forced to miss his juvenile season after
   Falco is the sire of 124 winners from 222 runners to                       suffering an eye injury. Having broken his maiden on his
 date, a strike rate of 56 per cent, while 16 have performed                  second start at three, he added a competitive handicap to his
 at Stakes level. His progeny are headlined by the Gr.1 Prix                  tally and returned at four to win another classy handicap at
 Jean Romanet and Gr.1 Premio Lydia Tesio winner Odeliz,                      Newmarket. Pitched straight into the highest level on his
 while Snowday won the Gr.3 Prix du Bois and was fourth                       next start, he finished runner-up to Highland Reel in the Gr.1
 in the Gr.1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and Xenobia won the                      Coronation Cup and went on to be placed several times in
 Gr.3 Brownstown Stakes. Several of his progeny have                          Group company, including when runner-up to Hawkbill in
 been successful over jumps, headlined by the Gr.1                            the Gr.2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes, before defeating a smart
 Triumph Hurdle winner Peace And Co.                                          field including subsequent Gr.1 winner Best Of Days in the
   Falco is one of 28 Gr.1 winners by the top sire Pivotal,                   Listed Godolphin Stakes. Last year, Frontiersman went down
 having landed the 2008 Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains,                      by just a head to his old foe Hawkbill in the Gr.2 Dubai City of
 and is a half-brother to the Gr.3 Prix Eclipse winner Iron                   Gold at Meydan.
 Lips (Iron Mask). Their dam, the winner Icelips                                 He combines two of the most potent sire lines, being a son
 (Unbridled), is a half-sister to the Gr.2 Prix de Malleret                   of the outstanding Dubawi out of the great mare Ouija
 winner and dual Gr.1-placed Legerete (Rahy). This is also                    Board, herself a daughter of the sire influence Cape Cross.
 the family of the Gr.1 Prix Lupin winner and sire Groom                      Ouija Board netted seven Gr.1 victories, including the Oaks
 Dancer (Blushing Groom) and the Japanese dual Gr.1                           at Epsom and the Curragh and a brace of victories at the
 winner and sire Kinshasa No Kiseki (Fuji Kiseki), as well                    Breeders’ Cup. She is already the dam of the dual Derby hero
 as the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud winner Plumania                        Australia, who sired three Gr.1 performers in his first crop as
 (Anabaa).                                                                    well as the Gr.2 winner Beyond Reason.

           Over 180 horses aged 4 or under ready to race

      Sire of dual Gr.1              XENOBIA                 56% Lifetime
       winner ODELIZ               (Gr.2 winner)               winners to
      and Cheltenham             and BEAU GOSSE            runners, progeny

FALCO ‘‘ O
        Festival Gr.1           (Gr.2 hurdler) have        have earned over
       winner PEACE              starred for Falco          £6,000,000 in
           AND CO                     in 2018                 prize money

                                                                              FRONTIERSMAN
                                                                                  THE POWER OF PEDIGREE
                                                                                  G1 son of Dubawi and Horse Of The
                                                                                  Year Ouija Board who was faster
                                                                                  around Epsom than both his dam and
                                                                                  his half-brother, Derby hero Australia.

        B Y
                    B . 2 0 0 5 , 1 6 . 3 H H ( 1 . 7 0 M ) ,
               P I V O TA L E X I C E L I P S ( U N B R I D L E D )
                                                                              Frontiersman
                                                                              was a favourite           OVERBURY
                          Standing at Elusive Bloodstock

                      FALCO FEE: £3,000
                                                                              at Godolphin,
                                                                              possessing                Stud
                                                                              great speed                SIMON SWEETING
              CONTACT: JAMES GRAY • MOBILE: +44 (0) 7743 042742               and a wonderful            07796 174926 simon@ovstud.co.uk
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                   ELUSIVEBLOODSTOCK@HOTMAIL.CO.UK
                     WWW.ELUSIVEBLOODSTOCK.CO.UK
                                                                              temperament.               (01386) 725552 jo@ovstud.co.uk
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                         GUIGNOL                                                    HARRY ANGEL
              Cape Cross – Guadalupe (Monsun)                           Dark Angel – Beatrix Potter (Cadeaux Genereux)
            HARAS D’ANNEBAULT • Fee €4,500, LF                         DALHAM HALL STUD • Fee £20,000, Oct 1st SLF

    Available for €4,500 at Haras d’Annebault will be Guignol, a    Harry Angel retires to join the stallion ranks at Dalham
    well-related German-bred son of Cape Cross.                     Hall Stud as a world-class speedster, boasting a gleaming
      The seven-year-old did not get the recognition he             record of accolades, not least being crowned the Best
    deserved on the track, probably due to missing most of his      Sprinter by the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings
    Classic season, though he won three Gr.1 races and was          in 2017, as well as being allocated a Timeform rating of
    placed in another. On his debut, one of just two starts at      132.
    three, he beat the subsequent five-length Gr.1 Deutsches           Harry Angel broke his maiden on only his second, and
    Derby winner Nutan. Returning to action after a ten-month       final, start at two in the Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes. He went on
    break, he won by a street at Krefeld and, after places in the   to complete a stellar three-year-old season, winning the
    Gr.2 Hansa-Preis and Gr.1 Grosser Preis von Berlin, won the     Gr.1 July Cup with a devastating performance, the Gr.1
    Gr.1 Grosser Preis von Bayern, defeating Gr.1 winners           Haydock Sprint Cup by four lengths, the widest margin in
    Hawkbill, Iquitos and Sirius. At five, he beat multiple Gr.1    recent history, and the Gr.2 Sandy Lane Stakes in a track
    winners Iquitos, Windstoss and Best Solution in the Gr.1        record time. He proved as good as ever when he returned
    Grosser Preis von Baden and won a second Grosser Preis          at four to win the Gr.2 Duke of York Stakes, but an injury
    von Bayern, beating Iquitos, Dschingis Secret and               suffered in the stalls prevented him from producing his
    Waldgeist.                                                      best in the Gr.1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes. However, he
      His dam, Guadalupe (Monsun), won the Gr.1 (then) Oaks         ended his career with a fine second in the Gr.1 Champions
    d’Italia and was placed in three other Gr.1s, and has           Sprint.
    produced three other Stakes horses, including Gr.1 winner          Harry Angel, a son of leading speed influence and
    Guiliani (Galileo) and dual Listed victrix Guantana             increasingly prominent sire of sires Dark Angel, was bred
    (Dynaformer; dam of triple Group winner Guardini).              by CBS Bloodstock and is out of the placed Cadeaux
    Guadalupe is a full-sister to the dual Gr.1 winner and sire     Genereux mare Beatrix Potter, who is a half-sister to the
    Getaway and is out of a half-sister to the dual Gr.1 Ascot      dual Gr.1 Hong Kong Champions’ Mile winner and sire
    Gold Cup winner Royal Rebel.                                    Xtension (Xaar).

        GUIGNOL
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                                                                        WORLD
                                                                      CHAMPION
       Bay 2012 1.66m Cape Cross - Guadalupe (Monsun)

        NEW FOR
        2019
                                                                       SPRINTERHARRY ANGEL
                                                                                A flying machine...

         3x Group 1-winning son of Cape Cross.
         Has beaten Gr.1 winners Waldgeist,
         Iquitos, Hawkbill, Dschingis Secret, Nutan,
         Windstross etc.
         Only son of flagship sire in France.
         Dam Gr.1 Oaks winner and 3x Gr.1 placed.
         Timeform Rating: 123.    FEE: €4,500 (LF)
                                                                    NEW £20,000 Oct 1, SLF
        Haras d’Annebault (Vita & Niccolo Riva),                    Stands at Dalham Hall Stud,

                                                                                                           Darley
                    14430 ANNEBAULT, France                         Newmarket
     Niccolo Riva +33 (0)6 209 136 59 • Email: eb.mgmt@yahoo.com    darleystallions.com

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                  HAVANA GREY                                                            HAWKBILL
      Havana Gold – Blanc De Chine (Dark Angel)                             Kitten’s Joy – Trensa (Giant’s Causeway)
  WHITSBURY MANOR STUD • Fee £8,000, Oct 1st SLF                         DALHAM HALL STUD • Fee £7,500, Oct 1st SLF

 Havana Grey retires to Whitsbury Manor Stud as a Gr.1               Hawkbill combines three of the most potent sire lines of the
 winner who triumphed on six occasions over the minimum              modern thoroughbred, being a great-grandson of Sadler’s
 trip, five of which were at Stakes level. From the first crop of    Wells, Storm Cat and Fappiano.
 Havana Gold, he is one of the speediest horses coming from            A $350,000 Keeneland September yearling, he notched up
 the male line of perennial Champion Sire Galileo.                   a winning streak of six races, from his maiden success at two
    A high-class juvenile, Havana Grey highlighted his two-          through the Gr.3 Tercentenary Stakes at Royal Ascot and
 year-old season running second in the Gr.1 Prix Morny, which        culminating with his victory over The Gurkha in the Gr.1
 was his only start over 6f. He had become his sire’s first Stakes   Eclipse Stakes. At four, he won the Gr.2 Princess of Wales’s
 winner when winning the Listed National Stakes, having              Stakes and the Gr.3 Aston Park Stakes and was placed in
 previously won his maiden by five lengths on his second
                                                                     three Gr.1 contests. At five, he won the Gr.1 Dubai Sheema
 start, and also took in the Listed Dragon Stakes and Gr.3
                                                                     Classic, beating Poet’s Word, and he was third to that horse
 Molecomb Stakes in a highly productive season. At three, he
                                                                     in the Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes. Hawkbill achieved a
 won the Gr.2 Sapphire Stakes before winning at the highest
                                                                     Timeform high of 125.
 level for the first time in the Gr.1 Flying Five Stakes.
                                                                       He is one of three Gr.1-winning sons at stud in Europe by
    Havana Grey was bred by Mickley Stud and Lady Lonsdale,
 out of the six-time winning Dark Angel mare Blanc De                Kitten’s Joy, the Champion Turf Sire in North America five
 Chine. Her grandam, the unraced Bloudan (Damascus), is a            times who was crowned Champion Sire in 2018 for the
 half-sister to the Irish Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and Gr.1     second time.
 Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Al Bahathri (Blushing Groom),              Hawkbill’s Union Rags half-brother Free Drop Billy was a
 dam of the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Champion Stakes              Gr.1 winner at two and is new to stud in Kentucky this year.
 winner and sire Haafhd (Alhaarth). This is also the further         Their dam was Gr.3-placed and is a half-sister to the Gr.3
 family of the Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat winner and sire Lord Shanakill    winner Batique, out of the Gr.1 winner Serape (Fappiano).
 (Speightstown) and the Gr.1 Fillies’ Mile winner Together           Her dam, the Gr.1-placed Mochila, is a half-sister to the
 Forever (Galileo).                                                  Champion and influential sire Cozzene (Caro).

         The fastest horse from
                                                                     The son of Kitten’s Joy
          the Galileo sire line
                                                                     whose Eclipse win over
 HAVANA GREY

               NEW
               FOR                                                   The Gurkha was rated the
               2019
                                                                     equal of Roaring Lion’s
                                                                     defeat of Saxon Warrior

                 View him at the
               TBA stallion parade
                                                                     NEW HAWKBILL £7,500 Oct 1, SLF
  Enquiries: Phil Haworth or Ed Harper Whitsbury Manor Stud          Stands at Dalham Hall Stud,
           Tel: 01725 518254 Mob: 07778 603691
                                                                                                             Darley
                                                                     Newmarket
                www.whitsburymanorstud.co.uk                         darleystallions.com

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                    JAMES GARFIELD                                                            JUNGLE CAT
                Exceed And Excel – Whazzat (Daylami)                                Iffraaj – Mike’s Wildcat (Forest Wildcat)
                  RATHBARRY STUD • Fee €7,000                                    KILDANGAN STUD • Fee €8,000, Oct 1st SLF

  The latest recruit to stud from the increasingly potent                  Toughness, longevity and talent were the hallmarks of Jungle
  influence Exceed And Excel, James Garfield offers an                     Cat’s racing career and, remarkably, his best performances
  attractive combination of speed and pedigree.                            came last season at the age of six.
     Having finished a close third in the Listed Windsor Castle               Initially trained by Mark Johnston, Jungle Cat broke his
  Stakes at Royal Ascot on his second start, James Garfield                maiden on his second start and went on to be placed in the
  broke his maiden next time out by six lengths. Beaten a                  Coventry Stakes, July Stakes, Richmond Stakes and Gimcrack
  mere nostril in the Gr.3 Acomb Stakes, he was the impressive             Stakes, all Gr.2 races.
  victor of the Gr.2 Mill Reef Stakes in record time on his next              Transferred to Charlie Appleby, he raced just three times at
  start. He returned at three to defeat the subsequent Gr.1                three and reappeared at Meydan the following January,
  winner Expert Eye in the Gr.3 Greenham Stakes with the                   ending his first stint there when fourth in the Gr.1 Al Quoz
  Gr.1-placed Hey Gaman in third. Dropped back to sprinting                Sprint. He was runner-up in the Gr.3 Palace House Stakes to
  trips, he looked all to be the winner of the Gr.1 Prix Maurice           Profitable before following his familiar routine at Meydan
  de Gheest, only to be collared close home by Polydream,                  again at five, finishing fourth in the Al Quoz. Last year he
  finishing second by half a length.                                       racked up a hat-trick of Meydan successes which culminated
     James Garfield’s pedigree features two of the leading                 in his first Gr.1 victory in the Al Quoz Stakes. He then went to
  sires of the day in Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, both of                Australia where he triumphed in the Gr.1 Sir Rupert Clarke
  whom feature under his third dam Eljazzi, as well as fellow              Stakes over 1400m before bowing out with third place in the
  new recruit to the stallion ranks, Gustav Klimt. James                   Gr.1 VRC Sprint Classic, ahead of five Gr.1 winners.
  Garfield is out of Listed Chesham Stakes winner Whazzat                     He is one of nine individual Gr.1 winners so far by Iffraaj,
  (Daylami), a half-sister to the Gr.3 winner Whazzis (Desert              including Gr.1 sire Wootton Bassett, Hot Streak, whose first
  Prince), out of a half-sister to the Gr.1 Prix de Diane heroine          yearlings were very popular last year, and Ribchester.
  Rafha, who went on to greater fame via her top stallion sons,               His dam Mike’s Wildcat has a perfect record with eight
  as well as the dam of the Gr.1 winner Chinese White.                     winners from eight foals to race, and Jungle Cat is an ideal
                                                                           outcross as his pedigree is free from Danzig.

         JAMES GARFIELD
                    EXCEED AND EXCEL x WHAZZAT

                                                           NEW
                                                           FOR
                                                           2019

                                                                                      MORE
                                                                                  ACCOMPLISHED
                   Record Breaking Gr.2 Winning 2-Y-O
                        and Gr.3 Winning 3-Y-O
                                                                                  THAN HIS SIRE
           Out of a Stakes winning Royal Ascot 2-Y-O, from the                           JUNGLE CAT
           immediate family of INVINCIBLE SPIRIT & KODIAC                             Iffraaj’s top two-year-old,
          “I think it was obvious to everyone his will to win. He was             record-breaker and dual G1 winner
           a very precocious 2 year old blessed with a tremendous
                  amount of speed.” Frankie Dettori, jockey                NEW €8,000 Oct 1, SLF
                                                                                                                     Darley
                Rathbarry Stud, Fermoy, Co Cork, Ireland • P61 TX22
                                                                           Stands at Kildangan Stud, Ireland
       +353 (0)25 36362 • info@rathbarrystud.com • www.rathbarrystud.com   darleystallions.com

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                                           KOROPICK                                                                                                      KUROSHIO
                Kodiac – Kathoe (Fayruz)                                                                                                     Exceed And Excel – Arctic Drift (Gone West)
         HEDGEHOLME STUD • Fee £2,250, Oct 1st SLF                                                                                   COMPAS STALLIONS, CLONGIFFEN STUD • Fee €6,000, Oct 1st

 As a racehorse Koropick demonstrated the precocity that                                                                             High-class sprinter Kuroshio returns to Northern
 has made his record-breaking sire Kodiac such a highly                                                                              Hemisphere breeders at Compas Stallions, having been in
 sought-after commodity. He made a winning debut over 6f                                                                             his native Australia since standing for one season at Overbury
 and followed that up with second place in the Gr.3 Sirenia                                                                          Stud in 2015.
 Stakes to subsequent Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes winner The                                                                               His first Northern Hemisphere crop of just 22 foals
 Last Lion. At three he won the Gr.3 Chipchase Stakes, having                                                                        produced six winners from 14 runners at a strike rate of 43
 chased home another subsequent Gr.1 winner, Battaash, in                                                                            per cent. Those winners were headed by Dunkerron, who
 the Listed Scurry Stakes.                                                                                                           won twice and was second in the Gr.2 Vintage Stakes and
    Koropick was an €82,000 yearling, conceived when his                                                                             Daphinia, who was runner-up to subsequent dual Gr.2
 sire’s fee was still just €7,500 and was one of the ten most                                                                        winner and Gr.1-placed Signora Cabello in the Listed
 expensive yearlings at the 2015 Tattersalls Ireland September                                                                       Marygate Stakes.
 Yearling Sale, where he was purchased by Con Marnane.                                                                                 Kuroshio was bred by Darley and raced in Sheikh
    Koropick is bred to be sharp as his dam is a daughter of                                                                         Mohammed’s maroon and white colours, winning first time
 the speedy Fayruz. His further family is that of the Gr.1 Irish                                                                     out as a juvenile in the Listed Superracing Stakes. He also
 2,000 Guineas and Gr.1 Sussex Stakes winner and sire                                                                                took the Gr.3 Blue Diamond Prelude and added the Gr.2
 Jaazeiro, Woodstream, who won the Gr.1 Cheveley Park                                                                                McEwen Stakes to his record at three.
 Stakes and was second in the Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas and                                                                             Kuroshio is a full-brother to the Gr.3 Blue Diamond
 Welsh Charm, winner of the Listed (then) Sapphire Stakes.                                                                           Prelude winner Believe’N’Succeed, the dam of the Gr.1
 It is a family that has thrived in the Southern Hemisphere                                                                          Railway Stakes winner Bounding (Lonhro) and the Gr.2
 through the descendants of Lovely Guinevere, a half-                                                                                Futurity Stakes winner and Gr.1 National Stakes and Gr.1
 sister to Jaazeiro’s dam Rule Forni and the sire Fearless                                                                           Dewhurst Stakes-placed Anthony Van Dyck (Galileo). They
 Knight.                                                                                                                             are out of the winning Gone West mare Arctic Drift, who is
    Koropick began his stud career in Ireland last year before                                                                       a daughter of the Gr.1 Test Stakes and Gr.1 Alabama Stakes
 moving to join the line-up at Hedgeholme Stud this season.                                                                          winner November Snow (Storm Cat).

                                          NEW to                                                                                                 KUROSHIO
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     KOROPICK     Bay 2014, 16.2hh, Kodiac ex Kathroe (Fayruz)
         Group 3 winner of the Betfred TV                                                                                                                                                 S TA L L I O N S

         Chipchase Stakes at Newcastle (6f).
                                                                                                                                          HIGH-CLASS JUVENILE AND SPRINTER BY

                                                                                                                                        EXCEED AND EXCEL
         Group 3 second to Group 1 winner
         THE LAST LION in the Sirenia
         Stakes (6f), on just his second start.
         Listed second to Group 1 winner
         BATTAASH in the Scurry Stakes (5f).                                                                                              22% Black-type horses to runners in 2018
         Winner of the British Stallion Studs
                                                                                                                                          from a limited first crop of 2yos inc:
         EBF Maiden at Thirsk (6f) on debut.                                                                                              Dunkerron    2nd Gr.2 Qatar Vintage Stakes,
                                                                                                                                                       4th Gr.2 Arqana July Stakes
         Achieved RPR of 113.                                                 Fee:      £2,250 (1              st
                                                                                                                    Oct)
                                                                                                                                          Daphinia     2nd L Marygate Stakes

                          FIRST FOALS 2019                                                                                                Kurious      4th L “Bosra Sham” Fillies’ Stakes
                                                                                                                                          Plus winners Big Ace, Kapona & Special Stars
     • “Koropick was a joy to train. If his offspring are like him,
       they will be tough, sound, genuine and very fast”                                                                                  Gr.3 5.5f winner at 2, Gr.2 5f winner at 3
             - Hugo Palmer.
                                                                                                                                                      Micheál Orlandi, Compas Stallions
     • Currently only ONE of four sons of KODIAC at stud in
       England for 2019.                                                                                                                               + 353 (0)83 809 2299
                                                                                                                                                       compasstallions.com
  HEDGEHOLME STUD , WINSTON, DARLINGTON, CO. DURHAM, DL2 3RS
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  F : 0 1 3 2 5 7 3 0 7 6 9 • E : a n d r ew @ h e d g e h o l m e s t u d . c o. u k • w w w. h e d g e h o l m e s t u d . c o m                    Co. Meath, Ireland

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              LANCASTER BOMBER                                                    LIGHTNING SPEAR
            War Front – Sun Shower (Indian Ridge)                         Pivotal – Atlantic Destiny (Royal Academy)
         THE NATIONAL STUD • Fee £8,500, Live Foal                   TWEENHILLS FARM AND STUD • Fee £8,500, Oct 1st SLF

    Nobody could doubt Lancaster Bomber’s heart, as the Gr.1         Lightning Spear’s victory in last season’s Gr.1 Sussex Stakes
    Tattersalls Gold Cup winner showed up for every ballgame,        was one of the most popular results of the Flat season. After
    giving his all each time. The son of War Front was quick         16 races at the highest level and six placed finishes, the son
    enough to lead Churchill in the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes and         of Pivotal earned a much-deserved success. Toughness,
    tough enough to beat the rest of the field to finish second.     soundness and a genuine nature allowed him to race 27
    Despite a busy season at the highest level, he performed to      times over six seasons, winning seven times, including two
    his usual high standard when finishing second in the Gr.1        renewals of the Gr.2 Celebration Mile, and finishing on the
    Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. At three, he displayed his          podium on a further eight occasions.
    customary class and courage in the Gr.1 St James’s Palace           Crowned Champion Older Miler, the chesnut was a
    Stakes when runner-up to Barney Roy in the fastest ever          standout from the beginning as a 280,000gns purchase at
    running of the 1m race. He was also second in the Gr.1           the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 by David Redvers
    Woodbine Mile to World Approval and occupied the same            from breeder Newsells Park Stud. Lightning Spear is one of
    position behind that horse in the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile,       28 individual Gr.1 winners by Pivotal, one of which is the
    ahead of Gr.1 winners Roly Poly, Zelzal, Ribchester and          leading young sire Siyouni, responsible for the brilliant
    Suedois. He was third to Rhododendron in the Gr.1                Laurens, who was one of 24 Stakes winners for him in 2018.
    Lockinge Stakes at four before signing off with that             Pivotal is also an outstanding broodmare sire with 16
    thoroughly deserved Gr.1 triumph.                                individual Gr.1 winners helping him land the title of
       He is a half-brother to the multiple Gr.1-winning miler and   Champion Broodmare Sire in 2017 and 2018.
    Gr.1 sire Excelebration (Exceed And Excel), out of the              Lightning Spear’s dam Atlantic Destiny is a daughter of
    Indian Ridge mare Sun Shower. She is also the dam of the         Breeders’ Cup hero Royal Academy and was a multiple
    triple Gr.3 winner Mull Of Killough (Mull Of Kintyre). Her       Listed winner in the US. She is a half-sister to the Gr.2 winner
    dam is a Warning half-sister to Gr.1 Irish Oaks winner           and Gr.1-placed Make No Mistake (Darshaan). His third
    Princess Pati, out of the Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas and Gr.1      dam is a half-sister to the outstanding sire Be My Guest.
    Yorkshire Oaks heroine Sarah Siddons.

     THE                                                                 CHAMPION
                                                                         OLDER
     FASTEST                                                             MILER
     MILER    OF
     ALL THE NEW
                                                                                                                    Group 1 winning
                                                                                                                     son of Pivotal

     STALLIONS
     THE G1 WINNER WHO BEAT
     CHURCHILL
     RIBCHESTER
     BLUE POINT
     THUNDER SNOW
     LIGHTNING SPEAR
     AND WHO WAS FASTER OVER A MILE THAN
                            ROARING LION
                              EXPERT EYE
                          SAXON WARRIOR

                      LANCASTER
                      BOMBER.                         £8,500

                      HE FLEW!
                                                      LIVE FOAL           Timeform 124, higher than Pivotal’s
                                                                          Champion stallion son Siyouni

                                                                                                             Contact Hannah Wall or Alex Lowe
                                                                                                         at Tweenhills on T: +44 (0) 1452 700177
                                                                                                      E: alex@tweenhills.com tweenhills.com

                        www.nationalstud.co.uk

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              LUCK OF THE KITTEN                                                            MASSAAT
             Kitten’s Joy – Anura (Giant’s Causeway)                              Teofilo – Madany (Acclamation)
             HARAS D’ANNEBAULT • Fee €3,500 LF                                 MICKLEY STUD • Fee £5,000, Oct 1st SLF

    Luck Of The Kitten, a Stakes-winning son of Kitten’s Joy,          During his three seasons of racing, Massaat garnered Gr.1
    has moved to France this spring, having spent his first season     placings at two, three and four.
    in Italy in 2018.                                                     Beaten only a head by the subsequent Gr.1 runner-up
       The chesnut won or was placed in 10 of his 15 outings over      Cymirc on debut, Massaat broke his maiden on his next
    four seasons. Successful on his second start at two, he later      start before being pitched straight into Gr.1 company. He
    won the Zuma Beach Stakes over a mile at Santa Anita before        performed with aplomb, finishing second to Air Force
    finishing second to Hootenanny in the Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup           Blue in the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes, before filling the same
    Juvenile Turf at the same track. At three, he was runner-up in     position in the Gr.1 2,000 Guineas, behind Galileo Gold, on
    the Gr.3 Transylvania Stakes and fourth in the Gr.2 American       his debut at three. He returned at four after over a year off
    Turf Stakes, while his subsequent runs included four places        the track to win first time out, defeating the Gr.1 winner
    between 7½f and an extended mile.                                  Librisa Breeze and five other Group winners in the Gr.2
       Raced by his breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey, he is a full-       Hungerford Stakes. Massaat followed up that victory by
    brother to Empire Builder, a triple Stakes winner who was          finishing third to Ribchester in the Gr.1 Prix du Moulin and
    also twice placed in Gr.3 contests. They are out of the Stakes-    rounded off his racing career when runner-up in the Gr.2
    placed Anura, a Giant’s Causeway half-sister to the French         Challenge Stakes.
    Gr.2 winner and German Gr.1-placed State Shinto (Pleasant             Massaat is a half-brother to the 2018 Gr.1 Commonwealth
    Colony). His third dam, Sha Tha (Mr Prospector), was Classic-      Cup victor Eqtidaar (Invincible Spirit), out of the dual 6f
    placed in France before scoring at Gr.2 level in the US, and the   winner Madany (Acclamation). She is a half-sister to the
    further family includes the sires One Cool Cat and Aragorn.        Gr.3 winner Dolled Up (Whipper) and the Listed winner
       His multiple Champion turf sire is responsible for last         Zeiting (Zieten), whose leading performers include the
    season’s Champion three-year-old and four-time European            Gr.1-placed Scottish (Teofilo), Gr.3 winner Royal Empire
    Gr.1 hero Roaring Lion, along with six other multiple Gr.1         (Teofilo), Gr.2-winning miler Combat Zone (Refuse To
    winners, including Big Blue Kitten, Hawkbill and Oscar             Bend) and the dam of the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches
    Performance.                                                       heroine Precieuse.

        LUCK OF
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                                                                        MASSAAT                                           NEW
                                                                                                                           FOR

       THE KITTEN
                                                                                                                           2019
                                                                         TEOFILO - MADANY (ACCLAMATION)
                                                                         16.1 (1.65m) Fee: £5,000 1st Oct. SLF

      Ch. 2012 1.65m Kitten’s Joy - Anura (Giant’s Causeway)

    FIRST FOALS 2019

      STAKES WINNER & GR.1 PLACED AT TWO
        Winner of 2 races, 7-8f and placed 2nd                           Classic placed Gr.2 winner, rated 122
        three times from just 5 starts at 2 years.
        BY A MULTIPLE CHAMPION TURF SIRE.                                Half brother to 2018 Gr.1 winner Eqtidaar

        Close 2nd in Breeders Cup                                                                            y booked
                                  FEE: €3,500                  (LF)                       p e m ares alread           UT!
        Juvenile Turf, Gr.1.                                                12 bla c k ty
                                                                                               o o k - D O N’T MISS O
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        Haras d’Annebault (Vita & Niccolo Riva),                          Strictly lim
                                                                                      MICKLEY STUD • www.mickleystud.com
                    14430 ANNEBAULT, France                                           Richard Kent T: +44 (0)79 73 315722
     Niccolo Riva +33 (0)6 209 136 59 • Email: eb.mgmt@yahoo.com                      John Walsh T: +353 (0)86 2558945

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               MASTER CARPENTER                                                          MILLOWITSCH
        Mastercraftsman – Fringe (In The Wings)                                     Sehrezad – Muriel (Fath)
  GG BLOODSTOCK AND RACING • Fee £2,000, Oct 1st SLF                      GESTUT ROTTGEN • Fee €3,500, Oct 1st free return

  From the first crop of Gr.1 winner and sire Mastercraftsman,          Joining the line-up at Gestut Rottgen this year is the classy
  the eight-year-old Master Carpenter retires to stud in 2019           sprinter-miler Millowitsch.
  after a racing career that began at two and ended at the age             A winner on debut at two, Millowitsch won three of his
  of seven last October, racing on 53 occasions and winning             four starts as a juvenile, finishing third in Gr.3 company on his
  seven times and being placed another 12 times.                        only other start. He returned at three to land the Gr.3 Dr
     A winner over 5f on his debut, he won twice during his             Busch-Memorial at Krefeld over 1700m and finished fourth in
  juvenile season and was placed a further three times. He was          the Gr.2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen on his only other start that
  third to Kingman in the Gr.3 Greenham Stakes on his seasonal          season. He resumed winning ways at four in a Listed contest
  reappearance at three and filled the same position when               over 1600m and added two further Gr.3 victories to his tally
  stepped up in trip for the 1m2f Gr.3 Classic Trial, before            that season, over 1200m and 1700m respectively. At five, he
  finishing runner-up in the Listed Fairway Stakes. He earned           triumphed in a further pair of Gr.3 races, winning over 1600m
  his first black-type success by seven lengths on his next start,      at Dusseldorf on his seasonal debut and also claiming the
  the Listed Heron Stakes over 1m, and went on to win the Gr.3          Silberne Peitsche at Baden-Baden over 1200m. In addition to
  Prix Daphnis over 1m1f at Chantilly, then was third in the Gr.2       his victories, he was also placed in Group company on a
  Prix Eugene Adam. At four he won the competitive John                 further five occasions.
  Smith’s Cup at York and was second in the Gr.3 Rose of                   Millowitsch is a half-brother to the Gr.3-placed Ming Jung
  Lancaster Stakes. Third in the Gr.3 Huxley Stakes at five, he         (Kallisto) and the Listed-placed Maha Kumari (Soldier
  won in both his six and seven-year-old seasons as well.               Hollow). Their dam, the Fath mare Muriel, was a smart
     His family is that of leading sires Invincible Spirit and          performer herself in a light career, placing in the Gr.3 Silberne
  Kodiac, as his winning dam Fringe is out of an unraced full-          Peitsche and in Listed company, and winning at two over
  sister to their dam, the Gr.1 Prix de Diane winner Rafha (Kris).      1200m. She is a half-sister to Gifted Girl (Azamour), a Listed
  This is also the family of the Gr.2 winner and Gr.1-placed            winner and Gr.1-placed in the Beverly D Stakes in the US.
  Gustav Klimt, also new to stud this year, as well as another          Their unraced dam is a half-sister to the Gr.1 Irish Oaks heroine
  new recruit for 2019 in James Garfield.                               Margarula (Doyoun).

      NEW for 2019
      MASTER CARPENTER
      Mastercraftsman ex Fringe (In The Wings)

                                      £2,000 (Oct 1, SLF)

      Sprint Winning, Group Winning and only son of 2,000 Guineas
           winner MASTERCRAFTSMAN to stand in the UK
      “he has the credentials to put many current stallions to shame”
                           Rod Millman, Trainer

                                    To Stand At:
                GG BLOODSTOCK AND RACING
                              Parsonage Farm, Kirtling,
                                      Newmarket
                    Contact +44 (0)1638 484697 / +44 (0)7580 948206
                         ggbloodstockandracing.co.uk

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                     POET’S WORD                                                                     RAJASINGHE
           Poet’s Voice – Whirly Bird (Nashwan)                                         Choisir – Bunditten (Soviet Star)
         NUNNERY STUD • Fee £7,000, Jan 1st SLF                                   THE NATIONAL STUD • Fee £5,000, Oct 1st SLF

 Trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Poet’s Word was forward                     Pure speed was the hallmark of Rajasinghe’s racing career
 enough to run at two, and broke his maiden at three. Brought               and is also the stamp of his pedigree.
 along slowly, he developed into a top Gr.1 performer. That                   A graduate of both the Goffs November Foal Sale and the
 became apparent during his four-year-old season when he                    Goffs UK Premier Yearling Sale, Rajasinghe made a winning
 was second in his first Group race and won the Gr.3 Glorious               debut in May of his two-year-old career, storming clear to
 Stakes. He announced himself to the world on his next run,                 win by four lengths in novice company at Newcastle. Just
 finishing second to Decorated Knight in the Gr.1 Irish                     over a month later he ran the fastest time ever recorded for
 Champion Stakes and filling the same position in the Gr.1                  a two-year-old over 6f at Ascot to win the Gr.2 Coventry
 Champion Stakes behind Cracksman.                                          Stakes. Behind him that day were the subsequent multiple
    Second to Hawkbill in the Gr.1 Dubai Sheema Classic on
                                                                            Gr.1 winner U S Navy Flag, last year’s Gr.1 Irish 2,000
 his first start at five, he ran up a sequence of Group wins
                                                                            Guineas winner Romanised and the Gr.3 Horris Hill Stakes
 starting with the Gr.3 Brigadier Gerard Stakes, and his
                                                                            winner Nebo. Rajasinghe went on to be a good third in the
 breakthrough Gr.1 victory came in the Gr.1 Prince of Wales’s
                                                                            Gr.2 July Stakes on his next start.
 Stakes, defeating Cracksman and Hawkbill. Stepped up to
                                                                              Choisir has enjoyed success as a sire of sires courtesy of
 1m4f for the Gr.1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes,
 he added a second top-level triumph to his cv and was then                 his top sons Olympic Glory, who made a good start with
 second to Roaring Lion in the Gr.1 International Stakes,                   his first crop last year, and the Gr.1 sire Starspangledbanner.
 ahead of Saxon Warrior and Latrobe.                                        Rajasinghe is out of the Soviet Star mare Bunditten, also
    His half-sister Malabar (Raven’s Pass) won the Gr.3                     dam of the Listed-placed Kurland (Kheleyf). Bunditten is
 Prestige Stakes while another half-sister is the dam of Gr.2               herself a daughter of the Listed winner Felicita, from the
 Railway Stakes winner Beckford, who was placed in two                      family of the multiple Gr.2-winning Australian sprinter
 juvenile Gr.1 races. Their second dam is a winning half-sister             Super Cash and Batavian, a Gr.2 winner and Gr.1-placed in
 to dual Gr.1-placed Inchinor, who was a growing stallion                   New Zealand, from the family of the Gr.1 1,000 Guineas
 influence before his untimely death.                                       winner Caergwrle.

                                                                                RAJASINGHE       CHOISIR X BUNDITTEN | £5,000*
                                                                                    Defeated Classic winner ROMANISED and Gr.1
                                                                                      winner US NAVY FLAG when winning the
                                                                                        Gr.2 Coventry Stakes in a record time

    POET’S WORD
    Poet’s Voice - Whirly Bird (Nashwan)

    The ONLY horse to DEFEAT
    Cracksman in 2018
    129 Timeform rating - following victories in the
    Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and King George VI
    and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
    Closely related to Group-winning juveniles Beckford
    and Malabar from the family of Group 1sire Inchinor
    £7,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)
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                                                                                                                                                             *October 1st SLF
                                                                            AMY LANIGAN 07903 233489 TIM LANE 07738 496141 JOE CALLAN 07872 058295   Breeding rights available

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                            SEABHAC                                                                   SMOOTH DADDY
              Scat Daddy – Curlin Hawk (Curlin)                                                 Scat Daddy – Prairie Maiden (Badger Land)
          HARAS DE SAINT ARNOULT • Fee €5,000, LF                                       COMPAS STALLIONS, CLONGIFFEN STUD • Fee €5,000, Oct 1st

 Haras de Saint Arnoult will stand the US-bred Seabhac on its                           New to the stallion ranks in Ireland in 2019 is Smooth Daddy,
 2019 roster at a fee of €5,000.                                                        a son of the late sire sensation Scat Daddy, the sire of world-
    The son of Scat Daddy was a $170,000 yearling purchase                              class speed merchants Lady Aurelia, Caravaggio and No
 from the Keeneland September Yearling Sale and was                                     Nay Never. Scat Daddy, although he died at the age of 11,
 trained in the US by Todd Pletcher. He ran three times at two,                         has made a good start as a sire of sires, with No Nay Never
 winning the Gr.3 Pilgrim Stakes over an extended mile on                               producing the likes of unbeaten Gr.1 Middle Park Stakes
 turf at Belmont Park and finishing fourth behind the                                   winner Ten Sovereigns in his first crop. Several other sons of
 subsequent dual Gr.1 winner Catholic Boy in the Gr.3 With                              Scat Daddy have retired to stud across Europe, including
 Anticipation Stakes.                                                                   Caravaggio, Sioux Nation, Seabhac and Seahenge.
    He is the first foal out of a once-raced Curlin half-sister to                         Smooth Daddy was tough and consistent, racing no fewer
 the dual US Classic winner and sire Afleet Alex and Stakes                             than 31 times and winning or being placed in 16 of them. The
 winner Unforgettable Max (both by Northern Afleet) and                                 highlight of his career came when winning the 1m1f Gr.3 Fort
 to a Stakes-placed daughter of Storm Cat. His winning                                  Marcy Stakes, in which he defeated Gr.1 performers Time
 grandam is also the second dam of Stakes winners Cash’s                                Test and Messi.
 Girl and Topic, while his third dam is the US Gr.1 victrix                                Smooth Daddy was bred by Richard Lueck and is a half-
 Qualique (Hawaii), who became the grandam of five other                                brother to the triple Listed winner Prairie Charm (Silver
 Stakes winners.                                                                        Charm), out of the multiple Listed scorer Prairie Maiden, a
    Scat Daddy was a Gr.1 winner at two and three and had                               daughter of the Gr.1 Flamingo Stakes winner Badger Land.
 made a terrific start to his stallion career before dying at just                      Her own dam, the winner Will Patricia (Bellypha), is a half-
 11. A multiple Champion sire in Chile, his northern hemisphere                         sister to the dam of the Gr.3 Ballyogan Stakes winner and Gr.1
 runners include the lightning-fast pair Caravaggio and Lady                            Sprint Cup-placed Catch The Blues (Bluebird), herself the
 Aurelia, last year’s leading first season sire No Nay Never, the                       grandam of the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes winner and sire Sioux
 Gr.2 UAE Derby winner Mendelssohn and last year’s unbeaten                             Nation (Scat Daddy). This is also the family of the Gr.1 Derby
 US Triple Crown hero Justify.                                                          winner Secreto (Northern Dancer).

        USA - 2015 - 1.67m                                                                   SMOOTH DADDY
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                                                                                             Tough & Consistent Group Turf Winner
                                                                                             Won/placed 22 times from 31 starts
      € 5,000 L.F.
                                                                                             Won Gr.3 Fort Marcy Stakes 3rd Gr.3 Hill Prince Stakes
                                                                                             2nd Gr.3 Saranac Stakes    3rd L    Tropical Park Derby
                     • A TOP-RATED JUVENILE
                                                                                             2nd Gr.3 Fort Marcy Stakes 4th Gr.2 Monmouth Stakes
            Gr.3 winner on the turf in the US as a juvenile.
                                                                                             Out of a proven Stakes winner
                   • ANEXTRAORDINARY PEDIGREE                                                and producer
                                                                                             Dam of 3 Stakes horses from the family of
        Son of the phenomenal SCAT DADDY, out of a half sister                               Catch The Blues & Sioux Nation.
              to AFLEET ALEX, by the Champion CURLIN.
                                                                                                          Micheál Orlandi, Compas Stallions
                                                                                                           + 353 (0)83 809 2299
                                                                                                           compasstallions.com
                                           For nominations please contact:
                                          Larissa Kneip +33 (0) 627 602 109                               Standing at Clongiffen Stud, Enfield,
            www.haras-de-saint-arnoult.com - info@haras-de-saint-arnoult.com                              Co. Meath, Ireland

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                            TASLEET                                                       UNFORTUNATELY
         Showcasing – Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux)                                   Society Rock – Unfortunate (Komaite)
         NUNNERY STUD • Fee £6,000, Jan 1st SLF                                 CHEVELEY PARK STUD • Fee £7,500, Oct 1st SLF

 New to Nunnery Stud for 2019 is Tasleet, a tough and                       Unfortunately has proven anything but for all connected
 consistent sprinter who maintained a high level of form from               with him as the winner of the Gr.1 Prix Morny and the highest-
 two to five.                                                               rated son of Society Rock who left just three crops prior to
    Tasleet received an official rating of 109 when coming                  his premature death.
 second in the Gr.2 Richmond Stakes, having previously won                     Bred by Tally-Ho Stud, he was a bargain purchase for trainer
 the Listed Rose Bowl Stakes and his maiden by three lengths                Karl Burke from his sire’s first crop at the Tattersalls Ireland
 on what was just his second start. He ended his juvenile                   September Yearling Sale in 2016. Out early in his two-year-
 campaign with second placed in the 7f Gr.3 Somerville                      old season, he won on his second start before stepping up to
 Tattersall Stakes. He returned at three to win the Gr.3                    Listed level for the Prix La Fleche in which he finished second
 Greenham Stakes, also over 7f, but a cut to the knee suffered              by a head, before landing the Gr.2 Prix Robert Papin. He
 after the race limited him to one more start that year. At four,           followed up with his victory in the Gr.1 Prix Morny over stable
 he announced himself as a leading 6f sprinter, winning the                 companion Havana Grey who went on to be a Gr.1 winner
 Gr.2 Duke of York Stakes, for which he received an official                himself. Unfortunately ended his career with victory over St
 rating of 116, and running second in the Gr.1 Diamond                      Patrick’s Day, a full-brother to American Pharoah, in the
 Jubilee Stakes, Gr.1 Haydock Sprint Cup and the Gr.1                       Gr.3 Renaissance Stakes at Naas.
 Champion Sprint. He maintained his form at five, coming                       Cheveley Park Stud snapped him up after his Prix Morny
 third in the Gr.2 Greenlands Stakes, still rated 116.                      success and he fits the mould of speedy sires with commercial
    Tasleet was bred by Whitsbury Manor Stud, home of his                   appeal that have been so successful for the operation.
 own burgeoning speed sire Showcasing, out of the Cadeaux                      He is a half-brother to the classy sprint filly Look Busy
 Genereux mare Bird Key. She is a half-sister to the Gr.2                   (Danetime), who counts the Gr.2 Temple Stakes and Gr.3
 Champagne Stakes winner and Gr.1 July Cup-placed Etaala                    (then) Flying Five Stakes amongst her 12 victories. Their
 (Selkirk), as well as Anna Law (Lawman), the dam of                        second dam Honour And Glory is a half-sister to Gr.3
 superstar sprinter Battaash, who won the Gr.1 Prix de                      Cornwallis Stakes winner and sire Singing Steven and Listed
 l’Abbaye for Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum.                                     winner and sire General Streak.

                                                                              Unfortunately
                                                                                The only 2yo Group 1 winner
                                                                              retiring to stud in Britain in 2019

    TASLEET
    Showcasing - Bird Key (Cadeaux Genereux)

    Group 1 sprinter from the immediate                                             A Champion 2yo Colt and winner of the
    family of BATTAASH                                                          Prix Morny in the 2nd fastest time for 50 years
    RATED HIGHER than his red-hot sire SHOWCASING,
    who is standing at £55,000 in 2019                                             By the dual Group 1 winning sprinter and
    A stakes winner at 2, 3 and 4                                                  Champion First Crop Sire SOCIETY ROCK
    £6,000 (Jan 1st, SLF)
    NOMINATIONS STILL AVAILABLE
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                   WASHINGTON DC                                             WASHINGTON DC
                                                                                Champion 3yo sprinter
              Zoffany – How’s She Cuttin’ (Shinko Forest)
                                                                                 with a sire’s pedigree
              BEARSTONE STUD • £6,000, Oct 1st SLF
                                                                                                                                                         NEW
 Bearstone Stud has gained a tough and consistant sprinter in                                                                                            FOR
 the shape of Washington DC to join Fountain Of Youth on its                                                                                             2019
 stallion roster for 2019. A Royal Ascot-winning juvenile and Gr.3
 winner, Washington DC was also placed three times at the
 highest level in a career that spanned four seasons and 32 starts
 in five different countries.
    Washington DC won the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes at
 Royal Ascot before ending his juvenile season running second
 in the Gr.1 Phoenix Stakes. At three, he claimed two Listed
 contests and was third in the Gr.1 Commonwealth Cup and
 second in the Gr.1 Prix de l’Abbaye. At four, he won the Listed
 Woodlands Stakes and the Gr.3 Phoenix Sprint Stakes, while he
 returned at five to run second in the Gr.2 Temple Stakes, going
 down by a head to one of Europe’s leading sprinters, Battaash.
    Washington DC is a son of the Gr.1-winning juvenile and           VIEW HIM AT THE TBA STALLION PARADE AT TATTERSALLS
 sprinter Zoffany, out of the Listed-placed How’s She Cuttin’
 (Shinko Forest). Her own grandam, the unraced Magic Garter               In a star-studded career, he defeated
 (Precocious), who is also the grandam of the Gr.3 Firth of Clyde      20 individual Gr.1 winners of 35 Gr.1 races
 Stakes winner and Gr.1 Cheveley Park Stakes second Aspen
 Darlin (Indian Haven), is a half-sister to the unraced La                     Limited Breeding Rights Available
 Papagena (Habitat), the dam of the Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes                    Enquiries: Bearstone Stud Office: 01630 647197
 winner and sire Grand Lodge (Chief’s Crown).                         See our 2019 brochure online at www.bearstonestud.co.uk

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   NEW & MOVED EUROPEAN STALLIONS FOR 2019
   Stallion                         2019 Fee        Stud                                                   New / Relocated
   AMARILLO                           €3,000        Gestuet Helenenhof                                             Moved
   ARRIGO                             €2,000        Haras du Mazet                                                 Moved
   ASK                                £2,000        Dunraven Stud                                                  Moved
   AXXOS                              €2,500        Coolagown Stud                                                 Moved
   BATTLE OF MARENGO                  €2,500        Haras des Granges                                              Moved
   BORN TO SEA                        €4,000        Haras des Faunes                                               Moved
   BRAVE MANSONNIEN                   €1,500        Haras de Talma                                                 Moved
   CASAMENTO                          €3,000        Sunnyhill Stud                                                 Moved
   CHANDLERY                          €2,800        Haras de la Bareliere                                           New
   CHANDUCOQ                          €1,400        Haras de la Barbottiere                                         New
   CHARM SPIRIT                      £17,500        Tweenhills Farm and Stud                                       Moved
   CHEMICAL CHARGE                    €4,000        Haras de Grandcamp                                              New
   CLOTH OF STARS                     €7,500        Haras du Logis                                                  New
   CLOVIS DU BERLAIS                  €2,500        Haras du Lion                                                  Moved
   COCKNEY REBEL                      £2,500        Batsford Stud                                                  Moved
   COULSTY                            £4,000        Norman Court Stud                                              Moved
   CRACKSMAN                         £25,000        Dalham Hall Stud                                                New
   DE TREVILLE                        €3,000        Haras du Mezeray                                               Moved
   DESINVOLTE                         €1,500        Haras du Saz                                                    New
   DIOGENES                           €1,000        Haras de la Croix Sonnet                                       Moved
   DOHA DREAM                         €2,500        Haras du Hoguenet                                               New
   DSCHINGIS SECRET                   €4,000        Haras de Saint Arnoult                                          New
   DYLAN MOUTH                        £2,000        Worsall Grange Stud                                             New
   EXPERT EYE                        £20,000        Banstead Manor Stud                                             New
   FALCO                              £3,000        Elusive Bloodstock                                             Moved
   FRONTIERSMAN                          o/a        Overbury Stud                                                   New
   GUIGNOL                            €4,500        Haras d’Annebault                                               New
   GUSTAV KLIMT                       €7,500        Coolmore Castlehyde Stud                                        New
   HARBOUR LAW                        £4,000        Batsford Stud                                                   New
   HARRY ANGEL                       £20,000        Dalham Hall Stud                                                New
   HAVANA GREY                        £8,000        Whitsbury Manor Stud                                            New
   HAWKBILL                           £7,500        Dalham Hall Stud                                                New
   HELMET                             €8,000        Gestuet Fahrhof                                                Moved
   HIGH ROCK                             o/a        Haras de l’Abbaye                                              Moved
   HOLY BALLET                        €2,500        Scuderia Andy Capp                                              New
   HONOLULU                           €1,200        Haras de la Haye Pesnel                                        Moved
   IQUITOS                            €6,000        Gestuet Ammerland                                               New
   ITO                                   o/a        Gestuet Erftmuhle                                              Moved
   JAMES GARFIELD                     €7,000        Rathbarry Stud                                                  New
   JEU ST ELOI                        €1,800        Haras de Cercy                                                 Moved
   JUNGLE CAT                         €8,000        Kildangan Stud                                                  New
   KESSAAR                            €8,000        Tally-Ho Stud                                                   New
   KOROPICK                           £2,250        Hedgeholme Stud                                                Moved
   KUROSHIO                           €6,000        Compas Stallions/Clongiffen Stud                               Moved
   LANCASTER BOMBER                   £8,500        National Stud                                                   New
   LAWMAN                            €15,000        Haras de Grandcamp                                             Moved
   LIGHTNING SPEAR                    £8,500        Tweenhills Farm and Stud                                        New

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