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GRAND TRESOR, the sire of the great chaser Edredon Bleu and Ritz Club Ascot Chase winner Tresor De Mai, died at the French National Stud at Lamballe a week ago, reports Jour de Galop.
The 27-year-old, who was still active in the breeding shed last season, was also responsible for the high-class French jumpers Harmonie Tresor, Musardo, Fair Play and Gael d'Angron, whilein Ireland he has had the useful chaser Allez Petit Louis.
Grand Tresor won four races on the Flat as a two- and three-year-old before finding his true metier over jumps, in which sphere he won seven races and earned 29 places, with his most prestigious score the Grande Course de Haies de Printemps. In all, he won 11 of 64 starts.
He entered stud in 1988 at Lion d'Angers, where he stood until he was moved to Lamballe in 1999. Over his 20-year career, he covered 940 mares, according to Jour de Galop– an average of 47 mares per season.
By far his best foal was Edredon Bleu, from his 1992 crop. Trained by Henrietta Knight and owned by Jim Lewis, Edredon Bleu, who began his career in France, entered the British scene in 1997 and won 19 chases over the next seven years.
His sublime jumping ability led to triumphs in such races as the Queen Mother Champion Chase of 2000, the ladbrokescasino.com Championship Chase at Sandown in 2001 and the King George of 2003.
A son of Grandchant, who won the Prix de Guiche and Prix Hocquart, and the lightly raced mare Clef Du Tresor, by Timmy My Boy, Grand Tresor was bred by Madame Jean Couturie in Savigne l'Eveque.
He descended from a long line of French stallions, with the most recent non-French sire in his tail-male line Lord Derby's 1936 Coronation Cup winner Plassy.
The 27-year-old, who was still active in the breeding shed last season, was also responsible for the high-class French jumpers Harmonie Tresor, Musardo, Fair Play and Gael d'Angron, whilein Ireland he has had the useful chaser Allez Petit Louis.
Grand Tresor won four races on the Flat as a two- and three-year-old before finding his true metier over jumps, in which sphere he won seven races and earned 29 places, with his most prestigious score the Grande Course de Haies de Printemps. In all, he won 11 of 64 starts.
He entered stud in 1988 at Lion d'Angers, where he stood until he was moved to Lamballe in 1999. Over his 20-year career, he covered 940 mares, according to Jour de Galop– an average of 47 mares per season.
By far his best foal was Edredon Bleu, from his 1992 crop. Trained by Henrietta Knight and owned by Jim Lewis, Edredon Bleu, who began his career in France, entered the British scene in 1997 and won 19 chases over the next seven years.
His sublime jumping ability led to triumphs in such races as the Queen Mother Champion Chase of 2000, the ladbrokescasino.com Championship Chase at Sandown in 2001 and the King George of 2003.
A son of Grandchant, who won the Prix de Guiche and Prix Hocquart, and the lightly raced mare Clef Du Tresor, by Timmy My Boy, Grand Tresor was bred by Madame Jean Couturie in Savigne l'Eveque.
He descended from a long line of French stallions, with the most recent non-French sire in his tail-male line Lord Derby's 1936 Coronation Cup winner Plassy.
A pointer to the first season sire championship in Europe this season?
Exceed And Excel progeny all the rage in Melbourne
by Nancy Sexton
DEMAND for the progeny of Exceed And Excel soared during the opening session of the four-day William Inglis and Son Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday, with five yearlings by the Darley shuttler averaging A$205,000 (£96,112/ €125,779).
They included the day's joint top lot, a bay colt out of the winning Sir Lawrence mare Oubladee, who was knocked down to leading trainer Gai Waterhouse for A$380,000 (£178,159/€233,152).
“He's a truly lovely colt. We thought he was the jewel of the sale,” Waterhouse said. “We liked him so we bought him on spec.”
Mounteroy Stud consigned the colt, who is a half-brother to two winners and from the immediate family of the Group 1-placed Zeya.
The top price was later matched by an Encosta De Lago filly, who was purchased by the session's leadingbuyer, Patinack Farm. Nathan Tinkler's newly established operation has made several notable acquisitions at the recent Australasian sales, having burst on to the scene as a leading buyer through Bertrand Le Metayer at the Arqana Mixed Sale in December.
Offered by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, the filly is the second foal out of Royal Sash, a Group 3-winning daughter of Royal Academy.
Earlier in the session, Patinack Farm had to go to A$230,000 (£107,833/€141,118) to secure a daughter of Flying Spur from the Willow Park Stud consignment. The chestnut filly is the first foal out of Miss Mocha, a winning Senor Pete half-sister to the Group 1 winner Sakana.
A Tale Of The Cat filly from the Flinders Park Stud draft also provoked spirited bidding when selling for A$340,000 (£159,405/ €208,609). Out of the Listed-placed Settain, the filly is from the family of the Group 1-placed pair Taos and Catatonic.
Not surprisingly, Exceed And Excel topped the sires' list by average, but first-crop sire Shamardal also gave Darley cause for celebration with three yearlings selling for an average of A$145,000 (£67,981/€88,965).
Galileo was the sire of four lots who sold for an average of A$123,750 (£58,018/€75,927), while another freshman sire, Elvstroem, had nine sell for an average of A$83,667 (£41,570/ €54,402). The Group 1-winning son of Danehill is strongly represented at this sale as the sire of 50 yearlings.
From 170 lots offered, 140 yearlings were sold for a total of A$12,558,000 (£5,887,695/ €7,705,067), down five per cent from last year when 183 yearlings changed hands. However, the average rose 25 per cent to A$89,700 (£42,054/ €55,036), while the median increased significantly by 40 per cent to A$70,000 (£32,818/ €42,949).
“The substantial increase in median, coupled with a clearance rate of 82 per cent, is a just reward for breeders who have supported this sale,” said Mark Webster, managing director of the sale's company.
“There was competition at all levels of business and it was very pleasing to see buyers at the sale today from Japan, Hong Kong, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Singapore, in addition to Australia and New Zealand.”
Exceed And Excel progeny all the rage in Melbourne
by Nancy Sexton
DEMAND for the progeny of Exceed And Excel soared during the opening session of the four-day William Inglis and Son Premier Yearling Sale in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday, with five yearlings by the Darley shuttler averaging A$205,000 (£96,112/ €125,779).
They included the day's joint top lot, a bay colt out of the winning Sir Lawrence mare Oubladee, who was knocked down to leading trainer Gai Waterhouse for A$380,000 (£178,159/€233,152).
“He's a truly lovely colt. We thought he was the jewel of the sale,” Waterhouse said. “We liked him so we bought him on spec.”
Mounteroy Stud consigned the colt, who is a half-brother to two winners and from the immediate family of the Group 1-placed Zeya.
The top price was later matched by an Encosta De Lago filly, who was purchased by the session's leadingbuyer, Patinack Farm. Nathan Tinkler's newly established operation has made several notable acquisitions at the recent Australasian sales, having burst on to the scene as a leading buyer through Bertrand Le Metayer at the Arqana Mixed Sale in December.
Offered by Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, the filly is the second foal out of Royal Sash, a Group 3-winning daughter of Royal Academy.
Earlier in the session, Patinack Farm had to go to A$230,000 (£107,833/€141,118) to secure a daughter of Flying Spur from the Willow Park Stud consignment. The chestnut filly is the first foal out of Miss Mocha, a winning Senor Pete half-sister to the Group 1 winner Sakana.
A Tale Of The Cat filly from the Flinders Park Stud draft also provoked spirited bidding when selling for A$340,000 (£159,405/ €208,609). Out of the Listed-placed Settain, the filly is from the family of the Group 1-placed pair Taos and Catatonic.
Not surprisingly, Exceed And Excel topped the sires' list by average, but first-crop sire Shamardal also gave Darley cause for celebration with three yearlings selling for an average of A$145,000 (£67,981/€88,965).
Galileo was the sire of four lots who sold for an average of A$123,750 (£58,018/€75,927), while another freshman sire, Elvstroem, had nine sell for an average of A$83,667 (£41,570/ €54,402). The Group 1-winning son of Danehill is strongly represented at this sale as the sire of 50 yearlings.
From 170 lots offered, 140 yearlings were sold for a total of A$12,558,000 (£5,887,695/ €7,705,067), down five per cent from last year when 183 yearlings changed hands. However, the average rose 25 per cent to A$89,700 (£42,054/ €55,036), while the median increased significantly by 40 per cent to A$70,000 (£32,818/ €42,949).
“The substantial increase in median, coupled with a clearance rate of 82 per cent, is a just reward for breeders who have supported this sale,” said Mark Webster, managing director of the sale's company.
“There was competition at all levels of business and it was very pleasing to see buyers at the sale today from Japan, Hong Kong, Ireland, the United Kingdom and Singapore, in addition to Australia and New Zealand.”
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An Exceed and Excel topped the sales yesterday at AUD$750,000.
Its a sure sign of things to come with him.
Its a sure sign of things to come with him.
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Pyro, one of the leading Kentucky Derby candidates this year, has been snapped up by Darley.
by Rachel Pagones
SHEIKH MOHAMMED is set to complete the biggest bloodstock deal in history with the purchase of the entire holdings of Bob Ingham's Woodland's Stud, Australia's largest and most successful owner-breeder operation.
The deal, which is subject to approval by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, includes around 9,000 acres and 1,000 horses, for a reported A$400-500 million (approx £229m).
The purchase dwarfs the Aga Khan's purchase of the Lagardere family's operation in 2005 for an estimated €40-50 million (approx £38m) and previous catches by Sheikh Mohammed's gilded net, such as the sweep of the late Gerald Leigh's bloodstock - including 22 mares, 11 yearlings and 16 horses in training - for an estimated £35 million in 2003, or the acquisition of the late Fahd Salman's yearlings following the Saudi Arabian prince's death in 2001.
It also vastly increases the scope of the Sheikh's global racing ambitions, which enjoyed significant expansion in Japan and the United States last year.
The racehorse holdings, estimated at 300-400 horses by Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock adviser John Ferguson, are highlighted by last season's Golden Slipper winner Forensics, who resumed her winning ways in the Group2 Golden Rose Stakes this month.
Another potential star, Camarilla, defeated the sheikh's ill-fated private purchase Meurice in the Group 1 AJC Sires Produce Stakes last year.
The purchase also includes around 300 broodmares, 200 foals and 200 yearlings, as well as several stallions headed by Commands, a current top-ten sire and son of Danehill, and Woodlands' homebred Horse of the Year Lonhro. Lonhro's esteemed sire Octagonal is also part of the package.
The property comprises twostuds in New South Wales - the main Woodlands Stud, spanning 6,200 acres, a stud of 2,500 acres in Cootamundra, Crown Lodge training centre at Warwick Farm in Sydney, and two pre-training centres.
Peter Snowden, who took over from John Hawkes as Woodlands' private trainer in October, will continue in that capacity for Sheikh Mohammed, in whose familiar maroon and white silks the newly acquired horses will compete. The 230 staff employed by Woodlands will all be offered jobs by Darley.
SHEIKH MOHAMMED is set to complete the biggest bloodstock deal in history with the purchase of the entire holdings of Bob Ingham's Woodland's Stud, Australia's largest and most successful owner-breeder operation.
The deal, which is subject to approval by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, includes around 9,000 acres and 1,000 horses, for a reported A$400-500 million (approx £229m).
The purchase dwarfs the Aga Khan's purchase of the Lagardere family's operation in 2005 for an estimated €40-50 million (approx £38m) and previous catches by Sheikh Mohammed's gilded net, such as the sweep of the late Gerald Leigh's bloodstock - including 22 mares, 11 yearlings and 16 horses in training - for an estimated £35 million in 2003, or the acquisition of the late Fahd Salman's yearlings following the Saudi Arabian prince's death in 2001.
It also vastly increases the scope of the Sheikh's global racing ambitions, which enjoyed significant expansion in Japan and the United States last year.
The racehorse holdings, estimated at 300-400 horses by Sheikh Mohammed's bloodstock adviser John Ferguson, are highlighted by last season's Golden Slipper winner Forensics, who resumed her winning ways in the Group2 Golden Rose Stakes this month.
Another potential star, Camarilla, defeated the sheikh's ill-fated private purchase Meurice in the Group 1 AJC Sires Produce Stakes last year.
The purchase also includes around 300 broodmares, 200 foals and 200 yearlings, as well as several stallions headed by Commands, a current top-ten sire and son of Danehill, and Woodlands' homebred Horse of the Year Lonhro. Lonhro's esteemed sire Octagonal is also part of the package.
The property comprises twostuds in New South Wales - the main Woodlands Stud, spanning 6,200 acres, a stud of 2,500 acres in Cootamundra, Crown Lodge training centre at Warwick Farm in Sydney, and two pre-training centres.
Peter Snowden, who took over from John Hawkes as Woodlands' private trainer in October, will continue in that capacity for Sheikh Mohammed, in whose familiar maroon and white silks the newly acquired horses will compete. The 230 staff employed by Woodlands will all be offered jobs by Darley.
crazyhorse
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one starts wondering whether HORSEracing has to be re-named in something like "SheikmoRacing" - he will need his own handicap-rating like arkle soon. surely any "critics" will be billed as envy - but I really feel he seems insatiable and wonder where the satisfaction does come from. surely financial-wise he is in his own league by far.....
I can't see what possible pleasure Sheikh Mo gets out of just buying up everything, even if he can easily afford it.
I used to think that David Robinson was a bit of a weirdo when he had over 100 horses in training about 40 years ago, but Mo is in a league of his own.
I used to think that David Robinson was a bit of a weirdo when he had over 100 horses in training about 40 years ago, but Mo is in a league of his own.
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If Sheik Mo continues to buy as he does, surely one day it might get to the stage where other owners/breeders don't have the financial scope to compete (with the possible exception of another big opperation e.g. Coolmore). Personally if I owned all the best bloodstock and racehorses (I wish :nuts: ) I don't think I'd get anywhere near as much pleasure out of it as, effectively, I'd only be competing against myself.
Maybe someone should speak to him about overproduction!
Maybe someone should speak to him about overproduction!
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On pedigreequery.com you could get a good overview on Storm Cats progeny:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?que...ll%20Horses&cf=
Another useful link:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/stallion-...llion_no=935962
I think his next best turf horses are Black Minnaloushe and One Cool Cat in Europe, After Market and Good Reward in the states.
Unbelievable his influence as sire of sires:
A true sire of sires Storm Cat has more than 150 sons at stud including 25 which have sired Grade I winners, including Giant’s Causeway, Stormy Atlantic and Storm Creek.
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?que...ll%20Horses&cf=
Another useful link:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/stallion-...llion_no=935962
I think his next best turf horses are Black Minnaloushe and One Cool Cat in Europe, After Market and Good Reward in the states.
Unbelievable his influence as sire of sires:
A true sire of sires Storm Cat has more than 150 sons at stud including 25 which have sired Grade I winners, including Giant’s Causeway, Stormy Atlantic and Storm Creek.
Sheikh
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I'm not sure he's a great sire of sires, His most prominent stallion is Giants Causeway who covers huge books of well bred mares with limited success. Bluegrass cat does quite well and forestry has had good ones (except for the Green monkey obviously) Plenty fancy One cool cat to be top first season sire but if he doesn't produce a a good group horse he's commercial history and he won't get the good mares.
by Rachel Pagones
SHEIKH MOHAMMED has purchased Speirbhean, the dam of champion two-year-old Teofilo, from Jim Bolger for an undisclosed sum.
Last August the sheikh secured the rights to stand Teofilo, the unbeaten winner of five races, including the National Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes, under the Darley banner as the property of Bolger and his wife Jackie.
“Speirbhean has been purchased by Sheikh Mohammed,” Darley adviser John Ferguson said yesterday. “Naturally a mare of that quality was of interest to us – she has not only produced the champion two-year-old but an outstandingindividual in Teofilo.”
Ferguson said the ten-year-old daughter of Danehill and the Majestic Light mare Saviour, who won the Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial for the Bolgers in 2001, would probably be bred to Authorized this year. The Derby winner, now in his first term at stud for Darley, was one of a spate of top colts purchased by Sheikh Mohammed last year from Britain, Ireland, the US, Australia and Japan.
Darley also bought Group 3 winner Creachadoir and this season's leading Classic prospect New Approach, who now runs in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed's wife Princess Haya, from the Bolgers last year.
SHEIKH MOHAMMED has purchased Speirbhean, the dam of champion two-year-old Teofilo, from Jim Bolger for an undisclosed sum.
Last August the sheikh secured the rights to stand Teofilo, the unbeaten winner of five races, including the National Stakes and Dewhurst Stakes, under the Darley banner as the property of Bolger and his wife Jackie.
“Speirbhean has been purchased by Sheikh Mohammed,” Darley adviser John Ferguson said yesterday. “Naturally a mare of that quality was of interest to us – she has not only produced the champion two-year-old but an outstandingindividual in Teofilo.”
Ferguson said the ten-year-old daughter of Danehill and the Majestic Light mare Saviour, who won the Derrinstown Stud 1,000 Guineas Trial for the Bolgers in 2001, would probably be bred to Authorized this year. The Derby winner, now in his first term at stud for Darley, was one of a spate of top colts purchased by Sheikh Mohammed last year from Britain, Ireland, the US, Australia and Japan.
Darley also bought Group 3 winner Creachadoir and this season's leading Classic prospect New Approach, who now runs in the colours of Sheikh Mohammed's wife Princess Haya, from the Bolgers last year.
Chesham Stakes winner Star Way has died at the age of 31 in New Zealand.
A really good sire, his greatest genetic legacy is most likely to be through Encosta De Lago, of whom he is the broodmare sire.
He was still successfully covering mares last year!
A really good sire, his greatest genetic legacy is most likely to be through Encosta De Lago, of whom he is the broodmare sire.
He was still successfully covering mares last year!
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And Star Way was a son of Star Appeal. Didn´t know such thing still existed 
(Will Germany ever have another Arc-winner?)
(Will Germany ever have another Arc-winner?)
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Rags to Riches has been determined to be in-foal X Giants Causeway.
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Star Way was one of the best stallions to have stood in New Zealand post World War 2, and still covering with zest at age of 30 last spring. I believe, despite his book being restricted, he was happily covering up to 25 mares a season.
He sired 18 Group 1 winners, including Sky Chase; Filante; Bonanova, Smining Like, Waverley Star etc. He left over 60 individual stakes winners, and was crowned champion sire and broodmare sire on several occasions.
Windsor Park Stud, where he stod for all 27 seasons of his stallion career capped it off by saying "a life changing experience for all associated with him."
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Hmmm... While I welcome anything thats not Northern Dancer line, his pedigree on face value doesn't look like it will be an influence for soundness. He raced only 7 times and is inbred to Secreteriat, 3x4 (which on its own would be fine by me) but also to Buckpasser,4x4 (not so good for the knees) and Bold ruler 4x5x5. Eleven of his sixteen sires in his 5 generation pedigree trace to phalaris.
Might be one to cover a sturdy National Hunt mare.