26th March 2008
EASTER FOALINGS
Easter weekend brought a good fall of snow to Newmarket and a slew of foals, highlighted by ALAKANANDA’s bay filly by GALILEO. She is a three-quarter sister to 2006 Derby runner-up DRAGON DANCER and to the same year’s record-priced yearling ALBAROUCHE, son and daughter of SADLER’S WELLS who are both still in training, with Geoff Wragg and Michael Jarvis respectively. Three hours before ALAKANANDA (who now visits MEDICEAN) foaled, her close relative ALABASTRINE, the youngest daughter of ALRUCCABA, produced her fourth foal, a colt by SELKIRK. The bay is half-brother to MAGISTRATE (3yo in training with Michael Jarvis), an unnamed MONTJEU 2yo with Aidan O’Brien, and a yearling filly by ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. His dam returns to SELKIRK.

Other foalings over the weekend, in chronological order, were a filly with a big German champion page, by Deutsches Derby winner and 3yo champion SHIROCCO out of SIRENA, a half-sister to German champion SILVANO and 3 time German Group 1 winner SABIANGO; a colt by HERNANDO also out of a half-sister to a champion, this one KALDOUNYA, whose half-brother is SELKIRK’s Italian champion son ALTIERI; a WITH APPROVAL filly ex ALTER EGO, a stakes placed grand-daughter of SUSHILA, a BEAT HOLLOW half-sister to 6 winners out of the BLUSHING GROOM mare CATCH; and, the only non-Lanwades-owned foal amongst the seven, an OASIS DREAM colt out of Chris Mills’ good group winner MILLYANT.

20th March 2008
FURTHER FOALS
Two further foals to report, both chesnut colts. AFFAIRE D’AMOUR, FOREIGN AFFAIRS’ Lanwades-bred four-time winning full-sister, has an ARAAFA fourth foal, a half-brother to her first foal winner SANGFROID. She now visits HAAFHD. Chris Mills’ good producer MIDNIGHT SHIFT, dam of Group winner MISS ANABAA and the high-class handicap sprinters MOVE IT and OUT AFTER DARK, has a CADEAUX GENEREUX full-brother to that last named pair. She now goes to GREEN DESERT.

19th March 2008
TROIS ROIS COULD BE ‘MAGIC’
HERNANDO looks to have another genuine classic contender for 2008 following yesterday’s scintillating six length debut win by TROIS ROIS in the 2000 metre Prix de Frauenfeld for debutant colts and geldings at Saint-Cloud. Jour du Galop nominate the colt as their “rising star for 2008”. A homebred owned by Alec Head and trained by his son Freddie, TROIS ROIS is the first foal of TREVISE, a great-granddaughter of TRILLION whose previous claim to fame is that on her own debut she beat subsequent champion filly SIX PERFECTIONS.

TROIS ROIS joins the unbeaten three-time winner INDIAN DAFFODIL and the two-time winner TSARABI among HERNANDO’s French-trained 2008 classic hopefuls, while Dermot Weld’s sole-start winner CASUAL CONQUEST, Richard Hannon’s dual stakes placed LATIN LAD, and Ralph Beckett’s once raced winning filly LOOK HERE are others from amongst the sire’s 12 2007 juvenile winners with genuine classic pretensions.

14th March 2008
FIVE FURTHER FOALS
VIVA MARIA, whose 3yo daughter MARIA DI SCOZIA and 2yo son KIRKSON (each, as you might have guessed, by SELKIRK) are both in training with Peter Chapple-Hyam, has had a bay half-brother to that pair by AD VALOREM. As the latter is a son of DANZIG, the colt is closely related to VIVA MARIA’s champion DANZIG half-brother POLISH PATRIOT and is bred on very similar lines to the durable Lanwades-bred multiple Group winner GATEMAN, who is by a grandson of DANZIG out of VIVA MARIA’s three-quarter sister SCANDALETTE. VIVA MARIA now visits another grandson of DANZIG in dual Group 1 winning miler ARAAFA

The only other mare amongst the five recent foalers in Lanwades ownership is SICARINA, 100% Lanwades-bred but now owned in partnership with Mr Leif Wretman. An unraced HERNANDO full-sister to the very decent runner VINANDO, she has a WITH APPROVAL 3rd foal filly and now visits SIR PERCY.

Of the three boarding foalers, two are owned by Susan Roy and they contrived to produce colts within two days of each other. Nell Gwyn Stakes third HIDDENDALE has a chesnut by KYLLACHY; four-time winner MADAME MAXINE has a bay by MEDICEAN. Both mares will be covered this year by first season sire DUTCH ART, winner of the Middle Park Stakes and the Prix Morny in the Roys’ lilac colours.

The fifth arrival is a DANEHILL DANCER, the fourth foal and third straight filly for Mr John Pearce’s Listed stakes winning HERNANDO mare MISS CORNICHE, who has a SELKIRK 3yo colt, MOYENNE CORNICHE and DANEHILL DANCER 2yo filly, MISS EZE, with Geoff Wragg. MISS CORNICHE now visits GALILEO, a mating involving the same SADLER’S WELLS / HERNANDO cross as Lanwades-bred Derby runner-up DRAGON DANCER.

7th March 2008
FOALING NEWS
A steady stream of foals over the past few days has taken the 2008 foal count into the high 30’s.

A daughter and a great-granddaughter of Lanwades taproot mare ALRUCCABA foaled on the same day, both the foals, as they are by resident stallions, being very much Lanwades products. ALLEGRA, ALRUCCABA’s winning first foal NINISKI daughter has a bay filly by WITH APPROVAL; ALVARITA, a Listed winning daughter of SELKIRK and world champion ALBORADA, herself a daughter of ALLEGRA’s stakes winning ½ sister ALOUETTE, has a lovely second foal colt by HERNANDO. Both mares stay at Lanwades again for 2008 coverings, ALLEGRA returning to WITH APPROVAL, ALVARITA joining the first season book of Derby winner SIR PERCY.

The two other Lanwades-owned arrivals are also one each by the same two Lanwades resident sires. HEAT OF THE MOMENT, a SELKIRK daughter of Brazilian Group winner HOT THONG, has a first foal colt by WITH APPROVAL, to whom she returns; ETERNELLE, ½ sister to Germany champion CAITANO, has a filly by HERNANDO and now visits VERGLAS.

And it is VERGLAS who is the sire of one of the recent foals born to permanent boarding mares, Mr John Pearce’s MISS AMANPURI, ½ sister to Group winners ASIAN HEIGHTS and ST EXPEDIT, having foaled a filly by him. The other boarder to foal is Mr Chris Mills’ Group winning sprinter MISS ANABAA, who has a bay colt by GREEN DESERT.

3rd March 2008
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29th February 2008
FIRST MARE SCANNED IN FOAL TO SIR PERCY
Lanwades resident 2006 Derby Winner SIR PERCY has had his first mare scanned in foal. The mare is the winning four year old CUSHAT LAW by MONTJEU ex BLUSH WITH LOVE.

27th February 2008
SIBLING RIVALRY
Half-sisters KISWAHILI (by SELKIRK) and ROBE CHINOISE (by ROBELLINO) each produced foals yesterday on either side of the Atlantic, the latter’s by the sire of the former. Here at Lanwades ROBE CHINOISE, whose first foal 2yo SELKIRK colt MANNLICHEN is in training with Mark Johnston, produced a chesnut full sister to that horse. ROBE CHINOISE will visit ZAMINDAR in 2008. In Kentucky Listed stakes winner KISWAHILI dropped a first foal chesnut colt by DANZIG’s good racehorse and sire son, the extremely good-looking LANGFUHR. KISWAHILI will remain in Kentucky to be bred to leading young sire STORMY ATLANTIC, a mating which involves a doubling up, through two of her best lines, of the blood of the outstanding taproot ROUGH SHOD.

25th February 2008
WITH APPROVAL SUPER STATS
Few sires boast better stats in Britain and Ireland in 2007 than WITH APPROVAL, who achieved a strike rate of 80% with four winners from just five runners. Among these are the Juddmonte homebred filly OPAL HAZE, 90-rated after her two wins. And the stakes winner tally for Lanwades resident grey went up to 45 over the weekend with BROKE SHARPLY’s Listed success Stateside.

FOUR FURTHER FOALS
Four further arrivals over the last few days, two of each sex. The colts are out of half-sisters owned by Mr John Pearce – Listed winner MISS RIVIERA GOLF has a GALILEO, her DARSHAAN sibling MISS CAP FERRAT a DOMEDRIVER. Another boarder, Ptarmigan Bloodstock’s 2007 December Sales acquisition UMNIYA, a Group and stakes placed daughter of BLUEBIRD, has an OASIS DREAM bay filly second foal.

But the highlight arrival amongst this batch is the grey filly third foal out of ALBA STELLA, a dual winning NASHWAN half-sister to champions ALBORADA and ALBANOVA. She is half-sister to ALEATRICIS, a 3yo KINGMAMBO colt and ALICANTE, a 2yo daughter of PIVOTAL, both in training with Sir Mark Prescott. ALBA STELLA returns to SADLER'S WELLS in 2008

21st February 2008
FURTHER FOAL ARRIVALS
After the rush of early foals in January, February has seemed a little quiet, but there are nevertheless several further recent arrivals to report, including a pair by Lanwades resident WITH APPROVAL, one of them from the ALRUCCABA family, and a first crop filly by one of that family’s latest stars, AUSSIE RULES.

The WITH APPROVAL duo are a grey colt ex ALL A DREAM, a great-granddaughter of ALRUCCABA, and a bay filly out of MISS PRISM, dam of Timeform 117 rated ISLAND LIGHT. Both of these mares return to WITH APPROVAL, as also does KILBRIDE, a SELKIRK daughter of Oaks placed KILINISKI, whose AUSSIE RULES grey filly was born on February 15. Another grey filly arrival is the DANSILI out of Lanwades-bred winning COZZENE mare CONDOLEEZZA, who now visits SELKIRK, while the fifth Lanwades owned foal is a colt by that sire out of dual stakes placed OBLIGE, whose first-foal SELKIRK full-brother to this latest arrival, YESSEL, is in training with Mark Johnston.

Two permanent boarding foalers are a colt by BEAT HOLLOW ex ELUDE, bred by Lady Howard de Walden’s Avington Manor Stud, and a first foal OASIS DREAM colt bred by Chris Mills out of MILLINSKY. ELUDE is a true Howard de Walden product, being by SLIP ANCHOR out of a half-sister to KRIS; MILLINSKY is likewise very much a typical Mills homebred, a four-time sprint winner herself out of Chris Mills’ multiple Group winning sprinter MILLYANT.

6th February 2008
FEBRUARY FOALS
Two early February foals to report. Mrs Susan Roy’s YAVARI, a winning ALZAO half-sister to Prix Morny winner TAGULA, has a TIGER HILL colt; Lanwades bred and raced MITRAILLETTE, a MISWAKI daughter of CROCKADORE, has a bay colt by DOMEDRIVER, a second foal following last year’s grey, also a colt, by LINAMIX.

1st February 2008
MORE FOALS IN JANUARY
The January foal total has grown further with two more born last night at Lanwades. KALANDIKA, an unraced DIESIS mare closely related to SELKIRK’s Italian champion son ALTIERI, produced her first, a colt by MOTIVATOR; CROCKADORE, a veteran of a dozen previous foalings, produced a filly (after 3 consecutive colts) by resident sire WITH APPROVAL. Meanwhile in Kentucky SUMMER NIGHT, half-sister to 2007 Group winning 2yo STARLIT SANDS, and dam already of Group winner SONGERIE and Listed winners SOUVENANCE and SOFT MORNING, had a filly by leading sire MR GREELEY. She now visits another of the leading stallions currently standing in Kentucky in SMART STRIKE.

31st January 2008
EXTRA EARLY ARRIVALS
Two further foals over the past couple of days have brought the number of January foals at Lanwades this year to 10. Ptarmigan Bloodstock's boarder SENSIBLE IDEA, an unraced daughter of a full-sister to Derby winner QUEST FOR FAME, has a bay filly first foal by AD VALOREM; Lanwades' 2006 December Sale purchase GRAIN ONLY, another whose dam is a full-sister to a classic winner (PURE GRAIN - Irish Oaks) has a HERNANDO colt, also a first foal.

28th January 2008
FURTHER FILLY FOALS
Three further arrivals yesterday, all fillies, two of them first foals by SELKIRK. Lanwades-bred DIABLERETTE, a GREEN DESERT 3/4 sister to multiple Group winner GATEMAN and herself a 2yo winner from just 2 starts, has a chesnut by Lanwades' champion sire; Mr John Pearce's MISS PROVENCE, a winning HERNANDO full-sister to Listed winners MISS CORNICHE and MISS RIVIERA GOLF, a bay.

CARENAGE, a winning daughter of Yorkshire Oaks winners KEY CHANGE bred on the same ALZAO / DARSHAAN cross as Lanwades champion fillies ALBORADA and ALBANOVA, produced her fourth foal. Of these this is the third by HERNANDO, all of them fillies of whom the first, CARIBANA, who gave her dam a winner with her first runner when successful in a Wolverhampton 3yo maiden only last Friday.

27th January 2008
ANOTHER 'AL'
ALBORADA, world top-rated 3yo filly in the intermediate category in 1998, produced her sixth foal, her fifth consecutive filly, when giving birth on Friday evening. The grey is a full-sister by SELKIRK to stakeswinner ALVARITA, and half-sister to ALMAMIA, placed 3 times in as many starts at 2 last year in the Rausing colours, and ALTRUISTE, a now yearling daughter of MONTJEU which has also been retained.

24th January 2008
FILLY FIRST FOALS
Two further foal arrivals, both fillies, both first foals. Ptarmigan Bloodstock’s ASAAWIR produced her first foal, by OASIS DREAM, last week. A Hesmonds Stud-bred stakes placed daughter of ROYAL APPLAUSE, ASAAWIR is half-sister to French Listed winner TRINITY JOY out of a half-sister to Group 2 Sun Chariot winner TALENTED from a top Hesmonds family. Over the weekend Lanwades-bred WHITE HEATHER produced a filly by DOMEDRIVER. By SELKIRK ex DURRAH GREEN and tracing to SPECIAL, dam of NUREYEV and grandam of SADLER’S WELLS, WHITE HEATHER will now be linebred back to that highly influential modern taproot mare by visiting SADLER’S WELLS’ grandson MOTIVATOR.

10th January 2008
FIRST FOALS
The first two Lanwades foals of 2008 have arrived - though the first one didn’t arrive at Lanwades at all, but in Kentucky. They are the Lanwades-bred Listed stakes winner HEAT OF THE NIGHT (Lear Fan – Hot Thong) produced her first foal on 8 January, a filly by leading US sire STORMY ATLANTIC. This filly is inbred to leading taproot mare ROUGH SHOD through that mare’s full-sister daughters MOCASSIN (3rd dam of STORMY ATLANTIC) and THONG, (tail-female ancestress of HEAT OF THE NIGHT). The mare now visits DANZIG’s handsome champion son LANGFUHR, sire of leading US older horse of 2007 LAWYER RON.

The other foal arrival is also a first foal, this one a SELKIRK colt out of the unraced SADLER’S WELLS mare EMINENCIA. Raised at Lanwades among the stock bred by Matthews Breeding and Racing Ltd, and purchased by Lanwades Stud as a yearling, EMINENCIA is out of MY EMMA and is a half sister to MOMENTS OF JOY, who topped the sale when, consigned by Lanwades Stud, she brought 1,650,000 guineas at Tattersalls December 2005 Sale. On the same day her Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille winning dam brought 2nd top price of 1,300,000 guineas, both mares being bought by John Magnier. This SELKIRK colt is a ¾ brother to 2008 classic hopeful PRIME EXHIBIT (Selkirk – First Exhibit), a maiden winner from 2 starts in 2007 whose dam is a MACHIAVELLIAN ½ sister to EMINENCIA.

7th January 2008
CLEAR MESSAGE
CLEAR REEF, who became HERNANDO’s 34th individual 3yo winner of 2007 with his maiden win just before Christmas, began the New Year as he had left the old one, winning the New Year’s Day at Pontins Handicap – on New Year’s Day at Southwell. The Hesmonds Stud bred colt, trained by Jane Chapple-Hyam, had broken his maiden at the same track and returns there to attempt a hat-trick on 14 January.

 

 

19th June 2008

ALBAROUCHE SCORES AT KEMPTON
Congratulations to owner Mrs Barbara Facchino of Barouche Stud for ALBAROUCHE winning her maiden by 2 ¼ lengths at Kempton last night.  Mrs Facchino purchased this filly in 2006 at the Goffs Million Sale for €2 million when consigned by Staffordstown Stud.  When purchased she was the highest priced yearling in Europe in 2006 and was the record-priced yearling filly in Ireland at the time.  ALBAROUCHE is a full sister to Listed winner and Derby runner-up DRAGON DANCER and a half sister to the four-year-old AJAAN (by Machiavellian) who has won five races including both his starts this year. ALBAROUCHE is the third foal of ALAKANANDA (by HERNANDO) who has lovely yearling colt from the very last crop of Champion Sire INDIAN RIDGE, who will be sold by Staffordstown at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale (book 1) at Newmarket in October this year.  She has a filly foal by GALILEO and is in foal to MEDICEAN.

9th June 2008

FANTASTIC WEEKEND FOR HERNANDO
The weekend which kicked off in great style with LOOK HERE’s scintillating win in the Oaks, continued through Saturday into Sunday with more classic success.

First, on Saturday, Moyglare Stud’s homebred colt CASUAL CONQUEST, the most inexperienced horse in the race with just two runs under his belt, ran a great race to finish third in the Derby, and with this further race experience behind him there must surely be a big win in store for him. Then yesterday another colt showed high class Derby form, this one TSARABI winning the Gran Premio Villapadiema, the Spanish Derby, in Madrid. TSARABI was bred by Sonia Rogers’ Airlie Stud and becomes the second Spanish classic winner this year by HERNANDO bred by a leading Irish-based lady breeder, following the Spanish 1000 Guineas and Oaks successes of the Chryss O’Reilly-bred LA GALERNA.

With LOOK HERE and LA GALERNA amongst the fillies, and CASUAL CONQUEST and TSARABI among the colts this is clearly a high-class classic crop by HERNANDO.

6th June 2008

SENSATIONAL OAKS SUCCESS FOR HERNANDO'S LOOK HERE
HERNANDO’S daughter LOOK HERE provided her sire with his third Classic winner when she strode up the Epsom hill to record a sensational victory in today’s Gr.1 Oaks. The lightly-raced filly was having only her third start for owner/breeder Julian Richmond-Watson and trainer Ralph Beckett, but showed no signs of immaturity when producing a searing burst of speed to score by three and three quarter lengths.

Bred by Jockey Club Senior Steward Julian Richmond-Watson at his Lawn Stud, LOOK HERE is half-sister to six winners out of an unraced close relative to champion 3yo sprinter PURSUIT OF LOVE.

BLYTHE KNIGHT LEADS THE CHARGE IN DIOMED
LOOK HERE’s win brought up a Group race double for Lanwades sires with their only two runners on the Epsom card coming, as it did, after SELKIRK’s son BLYTHE KNIGHT’s win in the Gr.3 Diomed Stakes.  As faithful servants go, Blythe Knight has proved himself the most constant of all. He was winning this race for the second consecutive year and has now amassed career earnings of over £300,000.

2nd June 2008

HERNANDO FOUR TIMER
Runners by HERNANDO scored in four different European countries over the weekend, including BERNANDO in France, TANGIBLE in Ireland and VESOZCHI in Italy, but the highlight was the win of LA GALERNA in the Spanish Oaks. The filly is out of the COMMON GROUNDS mare ATLANTIC BLUE, which makes her three-quarter sister to that mare’s good HERNANDO son ATLANDO, a Listed winner in France and Grade 2 winner at Santa Anita. ATLANTIC BLUE is half-sister to leading young US sire STORMY ATLANTIC.

30th May 2008

ICESOLATOR OUT ON HIS OWN
ICESOLATOR, bred by Pier House Stud and trained by Richard Hannon, and who looked the best 2yo seen out so far this year when coming clear of his rivals to win the Listed National Stakes at Sandown last night, has dual connections to Lanwades; his dam was Lanwades bred and raced, his sire comes from the outstanding VALI family, a branch of which is currently doing so exceptionally well here.

ZINNIA, dam of ICESOLATOR, was bred at Lanwades by then resident sire ZILZAL out of IBTIHAJ, a RAJA BABA half-sister to champion sire DANZIG. Once raced (due to having met with an accident) ZINNIA was sold by Lanwades at the 2000 Tattersalls Newmarket July sale for 25,000 guineas to the Morrin family’s Pier House Stud, for whom she has now bred three winners.

ONE COOL CAT, for whom, ICESOLATOR was the second stakes winner in 24 hours, is a great, great-grandson of VALI, whose descendants, headed by champion racehorse and sire VAL DE LOIR (among other things damsire of SHERGAR) are legion. VALI’s grand-daughter SUSHILA became a foundation mare for Lanwades after being purchased as a yearling by Kirsten Rausing, getting King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner PETOSKI and, through his half-sister SHIMMERING SEA becoming ancestress of a raft of recent premier runners, including leading juvenile sprinter of last season STARLIT SANDS and the stakes winning siblings SONGERIE, SOUVENANCE and SOFT MORNING.

Lanwades will offer two young descendants of VALI for sale this year, both in foal to out first season horse, Champion 2 year old of 2005 and Derby winner of 2006 Sir Percy. Details of the mares may be found on our Sales page.

PICCOLO PAIR RUN LIKE THE WIND

PICCOLO had two runners at Yarmouth yesterday, both of them over the minimum trip, both of them coming home first. SIMPLE RHYTHM, owned, trained and bred by the Quinlan family, put the benefit of a previous run to good use when coming home four lengths clear of her juvenile rivals, 4 year old EQUULEUS PICTOR notched a second success when taking the sprint handicap.

28th May 2008

FIVE TO FOLLOW MONTHLY WINNER
Our first monthly prize, for the calendar month of April, has been won by a contestant from Spain, Jose Luis Ruiz Sanchez from Madrid. Well done to you, Mr Jose Luis Ruiz Sanchez, and no doubt you will be looking forward to more runs soon from Lanwades-bred AJAAN, who will have put you up amongst the leaders for the May prize also with his two good wins.

19th May 2008

TIGER ANYTHING BUT TRANQUIL
SELKIRK’s son TRANQUIL TIGER gave his rivals a galloping lesson at Newbury on Saturday, leading all the way and coming clear at the finish to take the Listed Aston Park Stakes at Newbury, adding to his Newmarket Listed win of last season, and showing the benefit of his last-start fourth in the Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes behind exciting French colt GETAWAY. The ten length win over last year’s St Leger fourth REGAL FLUSH was the start of a quick across-the-card metropolitan double for SELKIRK  4yo’s as 15 minutes later the Cheveley Park homebred filly FONDLED took a Newmarket mile handicap on her first outing of the season.

Also at Newmarket, Lanwades-bred AJAAN confirmed the merit of his controversial win at the Guineas meeting by scoring readily in the mile and six furlongs heritage handicap worth nearly £25,000 to the winner. This is the fifth win in 10 starts for DRAGON DANCER’s half-brother, and, having scored with such ease by three and a half lengths off a mark of 95, he is likely to see his handicap mark soar well above 100.

14th May 2008

ALLEVIATE MAKES IT EASY
ALLELUIA made a perfect start to her stud career with Group 1 winner ALLEGRETTO her first foal, and she has a useful follow-up in ALLEVIATE, who won her third race when making her four-year-old debut at Great Leighs last night in a manner which suggested further successes are in store. Like her Doncaster Cup-winning dam and Prix Royal Oak heroine half-sister, ALLEVIATE clearly appreciates a trip, as all her wins have come over 14 furlongs. ALLELUIA’s 3rd foal, ALVEE, a 900,000 guineas yearling daughter of KEY OF LUCK, is in training with James Fanshawe and her 4th, a full-brother to ALLEVIATE named KING’S SONG, with Sir Michael Stoute. She has a yearling filly by Dalakhani and recently produced a colt foal by GALILEO at the Airlie Stud of Sonia Rogers, co-owner of ALLELUIA in partnership with Kirsten Rausing. The mare is now due to visit GALILEO’s champion son TEOFILO.

13th May 2008

PICCOLO HAS 100 UP
PICCOLO had winners yesterday in Britain, France and Germany, but it was LUCKY LEIGH’s win at Redcar which was of way the most significance, as this filly is the 100th individual Northern Hemisphere-bred two-year-old winner by the horse. Fittingly, LUCKY LEIGH is owned and trained and was bred by Mick Channon, who trained PICCOLO himself to win races like the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes at York and the Group 2 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.

12th May 2008

HERNANDO'S BIG CLASSIC TRIAL WEEKEND
Three Derby and Oaks Trial runners for a wide margin winner and two solid seconds meant a big weekend for HERNANDO with his classic 3yo’s. CASUAL CONQUEST’s six length win in the Group 2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial at Leopardstown was undoubtedly the highlight. This race has an excellent record as a trial for the various Derbies in recent years, having been won by Epsom Derby winners GALILEO, HIGH CHAPARRAL and SINNDAR and Irish Derby winners DYLAN THOMAS and ALAMSHAR in recent years. None scored in anything like as convincing fashion as did CASUAL CONQUEST, who does not hold an Epsom Derby entry, but who will be a live contender in either or both the French or Irish equivalents. Bred by his owner Walter Haefner’s Moyglare Stud Farm, he is out of the winning KRIS mare from a family which has tasted classic success in the not-too-distant past in the form of Belmont Stakes winner GO AND GO.

The fillies LOOK HERE and SEAL BAY were both second in their respective Oaks trials, the former at Lingfield on Saturday, the latter at Longchamp yesterday. SEAL BAY, never unplaced in eight starts, has classic connections close up, her dam being half-sister to Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner TORRESTRELLA. Yesterday she ran a good length second in the Listed Prix de la Seine. LOOK HERE, who was having only her second run, and who had beaten last week’s Chester Vase winner DR FREMANTLE in winning her sole start at two, was arguable unlucky not to have won the Lingfield Oaks Trial, getting a poor run and then showing greenness in he closing stages. She will go to Epsom with a much better chance than the current long odds available about her might suggest.

DOMEDRIVER METROPOLITAN WINNER

The fascinatingly-named TITTIBA (ex STARK BALLET), placed on all three of her outings at two, became another first-crop winner for DOMEDRIVER when scoring over 1400 metres (seven furlongs) on her 3yo debut at Maisons-Laffitte on Friday.

6th May 2008

FAMILY DOUBLE ON GUINEAS DAY
Lanwades-bred AJAAN won an incident-packed final race on 2000 Guineas day to complete a last-two-races double for the ALRUCCABA clan at Newmarket on Saturday. AJAAN, bred in partnership by Kirsten Rausing and the Niarchos Family’s Course Investment Corporation, and now wholly owned by the Niarchos Family, has now won four of his nine starts. He is the second foal and second good winner for his dam ALAKANANDA, a grand-daughter of ALRUCCABA, following Listed winner and Epsom Derby runner-up DRAGON DANCER. ALAKANANDA’s 3rd foal, record-priced yearling of 2006 ALBAROUCHE, is with Michael Jarvis; she has an INDIAN RIDGE yearling colt and a GALILEO filly foal.

In the race immediately before AJAAN’s, DR FAUSTUS had shown himself to be a 3yo on the up when taking his second race from four starts with a very comfortable win in the mile and two handicap, scoring by an easy three lengths off a mark of 89. His dam REQUESTING is an unraced RAINBOW QUEST daughter of ALRUCCABA who was jointly bred by Lanwades and Airlie and purchased as a yearling by DR FAUSTUS’ owner-breeders GAINSBOROUGH for 360,000 gns. REQUESTING is half-sister to four stakes winners – LAST SECOND, ALOUETTE, ALLELUIA and ARRIKALA – and half-sister also to the dams of no less than SIX Group 1 winners.

30th April 2008
A DAUGHTER OF HERNANDO WINS SPANISH 1,000 GUINEAS
LA GALERNA, owned by Fernando Calvet’s Cuadra La Cincha, was the winner of the 1,000 Guineas run at La Zarzuela racecourse in Madrid at the weekend. This filly by HERNANDO was bred by Lady O’Reilly and is closely related to another good HERNANDO performer in ATLANDO who was a Listed winner in France and then was exported to America where he won the Gr.2 San Luis Obispo Handicap. LA GALERNA was a winner as a two year old on her second start at La Teste de Buch and judging on her performance in Spain there should be more to come from her.

21st April 2008
SUPERB DOUBLE FOR MR PEARCE
Mr John Pearce who has boarded his mares at Lanwades for many years celebrated a wonderful double on Saturday when his homebred colts, MOYENNE CORNICHE won at Newbury and ST JEAN CAP FERRAT won at Nottingham. These colts are both three year olds winning their maidens, both are first foals of their dams who are half-sisters. First up was MOYENNE CORNICHE, a colt by SELKIRK having only his second run after finishing fourth in his only start as a two year old at the backend of last year. He has obviously strengthened up over the winter and won this very competitive Newbury mile maiden in convincing style by 4 lengths. He does hold an entry in the 2,000 Guineas to be held in two weeks time which will be up for consideration by Mr Pearce and Mr Wragg. MOYENNE CORNICHE is out of MISS CORNICHE (by HERNANDO), a winner at two and winner of a Listed race at three earning a timeform rating of 104. MISS CORNICHE has a two year old DANEHILL DANCER filly named MISS EZE also in training with Geoff Wragg, a yearling filly by SELKIRK, another DANEHILL DANCER filly foal and she visits GALILEO this year.

Next up was ST JEAN CAP FERRAT; this three year old colt by DOMEDRIVER deservedly won his maiden at Nottingham after having been placed in his previous two runs this year. ST JEAN CAP FERRAT is from the first crop of Gr.1 Breeders’ Cup Mile Winner DOMEDRIVER and is the first foal of MISS CAP FERRAT. She, like MISS CORNICHE, is the daughter of the remarkable MISS BEAULIEU who spent her entire breeding career at Lanwades and is the dam of 11 winners. MISS CAP FERRAT has a two year old NAYEF colt named ROYAL RIVIERA also in training with Geoff Wragg, a DOMEDRIVER colt foal and she visits HERNANDO this year.

16th April 2008
EXCITING PROSPECT FOR HERNANDO
The three year old HERNANDO colt named TROIS ROIS impressively won his second race of his career when scoring by 2 lengths in the Prix de Ferrieres at Longchamp over 11f. He now remains unbeaten (2 wins from 2 starts) having previously won the Prix de Frauenfeld at Saint-Cloud by six lengths on the 18th March. He is owned and bred by Mr Alec Head and trained by his son, Freddy Head who said “He won in very good style for what was only his second run. He is still showing some greenness so hopefully there is room for improvement. I am thinking about taking him to the Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe back at Saint-Cloud on 12th May”.

7th April 2008
MORE STAKES SUCCESS FOR SELKIRK
SELKIRK's 3-year-old son MASTROIANNI was an impressive 2 1/2 lengths winner of the LISTED Premio Daumier over 1500m at Capannelle yesterday. MASTROIANNI was bred by Azienda Agricola Rosati Colarieti and is owner and trained by Bruno Grizzetti. Yesterday's win was his 2nd of 2008.

1st April 2008
ETERNELLE’S PERFECT START
Lanwades-bred ETERNELLE made a perfect stud to her stud career on Sunday when her HERNANDO first foal daughter SASSICAIA won on her debut, a 1500 metre (seven and a half furlong) maiden at Madrid in Spain. ETERNELLE, a maiden winner at 3 herself, and a half-sister to Germany champion 3yo and older horse CAITANO, has a retained 2 year old full-sister to SASSICAIA named ELOISE, in training with Sir Mark Prescott, and a filly foal full-sister too, and a DOMEDRIVER yearling, also a filly.

DOMEDRIVER himself had a smart winner when OUTER CONTINENT won by two lengths on his seasonal debut in Fontainebleau yesterday. Once-raced at two, OUTER CONTINENT was bred by Lady Chryss O’Reilly’s Skymarc Farm and races for DOMEDRIVER’s breeders Niarchos Family, having been purchased by them as a yearling. The Niarchos family now have DOMEDRIVER himself back in France as well, standing at their Haras de Fresnay le Buffard.

20th November 2008

ANOTHER LANWADES-BRED TWO YEAR OLD WINNER
Lanwades-bred MANNLICHEN was an impressive winner of the mile maiden race for two year olds at Great Leighs yesterday.MANNLICHEN is by Lanwades sire SELKIRK and is the first foal of out of the ROBELLINO mare ROBE CHINIOISE. He was sold at Tattersalls October Yearling Sales Part one for 160,000 to Mark Johnston who trained him to this victory.

19th November 2008

ANOTHER STAKES WINNER FOR HERNANDO
TROIS ROIS a three year old colt by HERNANDO won the Listed Grand Prix de Marseille over the weekend in good style.  He had previously been third in Gr.2 Prix Greffulhe at Longchamp and here he was registering his first black type win.   TROIS ROIS' win was very much a family affair as he is bred and owned by Alec Head and trained by his son Freddy.  HERNANDO is now the sire of 33 individual Group/Stakes winners

12th November 2008

MORE FAME AND GLORY
The 2008 flat season has ended spectacularly for Lanwades-breds with the win today of the Aidan O'Brien-trained FAME AND GLORY in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. The MONTJEU colt, who  is out of the SHIRLEY HEIGHTS mare GRYADA, was bred in partnership by Kirsten Rausing and Ptarmigan Bloodstock.. FAME AND GLORY was consigned by St Simon Stud and sold to his present connections for 190,000 gns at the 2006 Tattersalls December Sales. He is now unbeaten in two starts.

27th October 2008

FAME AND GLORY BIDS TO LIVE UP TO NAME
FAME AND GLORY, bred in partnership by Lanwades Stud and Ptarmigan Bloodstock made a winning debut at Navan, leading all the way to defeat his more fancied stablemate, SIRGARFIELDSOBERS (a full brother to Derby winner AUTHORIZED) in the one mile maiden.  The son of MONTJEU is the sixth winner out of the Shirley Heights mare GRYADA, and is also the 7th individual Lanwades-born two year old winner of 2008.  FAME AND GLORY was consigned by St Simon Stud and sold to his present connections for 190,000 gns at the 2006 Tattersalls December Sales.  St Simon Stud will be consigning 11 foals at this year’s Tattersalls December Sales including an OASIS DREAM half-brother to this year’s unbeaten two year old winner ALCALDE.

23rd October 2008

NEW STALLION FOR 2009
Lanwades Stud is pleased to announce the retirement to stud at Lanwades in 2009 of VITA ROSA, a Group 2 wining son of super-stallion SUNDAY SILENCE. Please click here for details.

9th October 2008

ANOTHER TWO-YEAR-OLD WINNER
Lanwades-bred ALANBROOKE won his maiden at Nottingham yesterday on his second attempt.  This good looking son of HERNANDO was sold in the Staffordstown draft at the 2007 Tattersalls October Sales for 380,000 gns.  He is a half-brother to World Champion ALBORADA and German Champion ALBANOVA. He is the tenth foal out of the wonderful broodmare ALOUETTE of which eight are winners. His half brother yearling by SELKIRK was bought by John Ferguson at Tattersalls yesterday.  His close relative the four year old ALGARADE (by GREEN DESERT ex ALEXANDRINE) who has won 3 times and has a Timeform rating of 96 will be sold as a filly out of training on Tuesday, 2nd December at Tattersalls December Sales.  This was HERNANDO’s 60th individual two-year-old winner.

8th October 2008

THREE WINNERS IN ONE DAY
Lanwades celebrated yesterday as three Lanwades bred/raised animals won at three different racetracks in England.  The afternoon started with ALCALDE a two year old colt by HERNANDO ex ALEXANDRINE won his second race to make it two from two.  Here he won a Conditions race at Leicester following on from his winning debut at Brighton on 11th September.  ALCALDE is the fourth foal and fourth winner out of four-time winner ALEXANDRINE and the fifth foal a now yearling filly foal by DUBAWI sells today as lot 347 of the Staffordstown draft at the Tattersalls October Sales.

Next up was Lanwades long standing client Mr John Pearce’s bred and owned two year old filly MISS EZE winning her maiden first time out at Folkestone.  She is by DANEHILL DANCER out of MISS CORNICHE (by HERNANDO).  The winner is a half sister to Newbury Maiden winner MOYENNE CORNICHE (by SELKIRK) and is the second foal of MISS CORNICHE, a ten furlong listed winner.  MISS CORNICHE has a yearling filly by SELKIRK and a full sister foal to MISS EZE.

Third up was CAPAL DUBH ALAINN who won a fourteen runner handicap at Catterick.  This three year old gelding is by KALANISI and is the first foal of the winning mare TARIFANA.  He was sold as a yearling in the Staffordstown draft at the 2006 Goffs Million Sale.

7th October 2008

A SECOND WIN FOR MARIA DI SCOZIA
Lanwades-bred and owned three year old MARIA DI SCOZIA notched up her second win of the year by just holding on in the 10f Racing Here Friday 17th October Handicap at Redcar.  This was a good performance having just returned from a long layoff and also being dropped 4f in trip.  She won her maiden at Leicester in June over 12f and then she had not run since being beaten over 14f in Nottingham in July.  MARIA DI SCOZIA is by SELKIRK out of the HERNANDO mare VIVA MARIA, who is an unraced half sister to top-class sprinter POLISH PATRIOT. MARIA DI SCOZIA is VIVA MARIA’s second foal and she remains in training next year. Her half brother foal is by first season sire AD VALOREM and will sell from “St Simon Stud” at this year’s Tattersalls December Sales.

3rd October 2008

GR.2 WIN FOR TAM LIN
SELKIRK’s British-bred son TAM LIN won the Gr.2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont on Sunday.  This was adding to his previous Gr.3 Winter Hill Stakes win at Windsor in 2006 and two previous listed wins at Hamilton and Newbury. TAM LIN is a now five year old and he won this latest race in good style by four and quarter lengths.

30th March 2007
HERNANDO NOW HAS FOUR FOR 2007
HERNANDO had his fourth individual 3yo winner of the year yesterday when the Aga Khan’s SHABAHAR won the mile maiden at Thurles. Out of a KAHYASI mare from the family of SHERGAR, SHABAHAR is bred to go further, so this win held out a lot of promise. Interestingly, all four of these 3yo winners for HERNANDO have scored at around 8 or 9 furlongs.

26th March 2007

FORTY FOALS
Four new arrivals – two Lanwades mares, two boarders - have brought the total number of foals born at Lanwades so far this year to 40.

The earlier of the two boarding foalers was KARLIYNA, Ptarmigan Bloodstock’s stakes placed RAINBOW QUEST half-sister to Group 2 Doncaster Cup winner KASTHARI. She had a chesnut colt by PIVOTAL and now visits MEDICEAN.

Chris Mills’ MIDNIGHT SHIFT, dam of four winners from her first four foals, has a bay filly by GREEN DESERT, a half-sister to Group 3 winner MISS ANABAA. She now returns to CADEAUX GENEREUX, sire of her other good two sprinters MOVE IT (Timeform 107 rated and a winner in Hong Kong this year) and 112 rated Portland Handicap winner OUT AFTER DARK.

ENTENTE CORDIALE, dam of five winners from six runners including HERNANDO full-brothers multiple stakes winner FOREIGN AFFAIRS and 11 time scorer BIEN ENTENDU, has foaled a filly by Derby winner MOTIVATOR. She goes this year to DOMEDRIVER, sire of the fourth recent foal, a half-sister to six winners out of the BLUSHING GROOM mare CATCH, who will now visit WITH APPROVAL.

HERNANDO HAS DEBUT STAR
SONGE, a 3yo son of HERNANDO bred and raced by Alec Head, won on his debut at Saint-Cloud on Friday, bringing to three the number of individual 3yo winners his sire has had in France already this year. The first foal of a winning ANABAA daughter of the Head family’s Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner SILVERMINE, SONGE was reported in post-race comment on French racing channel Equidia as being the best 3yo in Criquette Head’s yard.

21st March 2007

ALRUCCABA FAMILY DUO
Two more foals have arrived, both fillies tracing to ALRUCCABA. The first, a chesnut daughter of WITH APPROVAL, is out of ALL IS FAIR, a winning daughter of SELKIRK and ALLEGRA (NINISKI – ALRUCCABA). Already the dam of 2 winners, ALL IS FAIR now visits DOMEDRIVER, sire of her 2006 colt. The second filly is a bay by ROCK OF GIBRALTAR out of ALRUCCABA’s GREEN DESERT daughter ALABASTRINE. This is her third foal; her first is a NAYEF colt now aged two, named MAGISTRATE, and in training with Michael Jarvis, and her second a MONTJEU colt which realised 285,000 guineas at last year’s Tattersalls December Foal Sale. She now visits SELKIRK.

19th March 2007

2007 FIVE TO FOLLOW COMPETITION
Very regrettably we have been advised by Ballydoyle that ABLE SEAMAN (2004 colt by SADLER’S WELLS ex ALOUETTE) is now dead.

If you have included him in your list of horses, we are now giving you the chance to replace him with another animal. We will be sending out individual emails to everybody who has entered the competition so far who have included him.

For those of you that have not yet entered, please note the closing date for the competition is Tuesday, 27th March.

13th March 2007

SUBLIME RESULT FOR SELKIRK
SUBLIMITY, a Listed stakes winner on the flat when trained by Sir Michael Stoute, became the first Cheltenham championship winner for his sire SELKIRK when coming home an easy winner in today's Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle. Now at the top of the hurdle tree, he was being quoted as short as 5/1 for next year's Champion Hurdle after his facile win.

12th March 2007

SELKIRK’S EARLY STRIKE
SELKIRK, sire of no less than 15 individual Group or Stakes winners in 2006, has made an early start in his quest for similar success in 2007 with the win of his son BORDER MUSIC in the Listed Lady Wulfruna Stakes over seven furlongs at Wolverhampton. It was the ultra-consistent gelding’s seventh win in 32 starts (in which he has also run minor placings in a further 13) and a triumph for the Balding family as he is trained by Andrew, was bred by the trainer’s mother Emma and races in the black and yellow colours of the Balding family’s Kingsclere Stud.

8th March 2007

HERNANDO DOUBLE
HERNANDO had a double on the opening day of 2007 at Deauville today with a colt and a filly who were both making their 3yo debuts. KARESUANDO, out of the SELKIRK mare HARBOUR ISLAND, and who had won a Longchamp maiden in October on his previous appearance, took the Prix Bacchus over 1900 metres (nine and a half furlongs) and LA HERNANDA, a daughter of the SHIRLEY HEIGHTS mare La Peregrina, also a winner last year at two, scored over the same trip in the Prix Nubienne.

7th March 2007

FIVE FOALS
Five more foals to report, three colts and two fillies by five different sires.

Lanwades-bred winners AFFAIRE D’AMOUR and I DO each have fillies. AFFAIRE D’AMOUR’s, her third foal, is a chesnut by ORATORIO; I DO’s, also her third, is a grey by WITH APPROVAL. AFFAIRE D’AMOUR, a four-time winner and a HERNANDO full-sister to multiple stakes winner FOREIGN AFFAIRS, now visits ARAAFA. I DO, a dual juvenile winner from the family of RAINBOW QUEST, WARNING, et al, goes to DOMEDRIVER this year.

The third of the Lanwades-bred and owned foalers, SICARINA, another HERNANDO full-sister to a very useful runner in VINANDO, has a DOMEDRIVER this year, a colt full-brother to last year’s first foal filly. She visits WITH APPROVAL.

Two boarders to foal are the ‘Misses’ RIVIERA GOLF and ANABAA. John Pearce’s MISS RIVIERA GOLF, dam of two winners with her first two foals, has a DANEHILL DANCER full-brother to her 2yo of this year, MISS ST TROPEZ, who is in training with Geoff Wragg. She nows visits GALILEO. Chris Mills’ Group 3 winning sprinter MISS ANABAA has an OASIS DREAM colt third foal, a full-brother to the filly which realised 260,000 guineas at the 2006 Tattersalls December Foal Sale. MISS ANABAA will be covered in 2007 by OASIS DREAM’s sire GREEN DESERT.

6th March 2007

ANOTHER CLASSIC ARRIVAL
ALAKANANDA, dam of last year’s Derby runner-up DRAGON DANCER, produced a bay colt foal by leading sire INDIAN RIDGE this morning. In addition to DRAGON DANCER, ALAKANANDA, who is half-sister to World Champion ALBORADA and German Horse of the Year ALBANOVA, was also notable in 2006 as dam of the European record-priced yearling filly SADLER’S WELLS full-sister to the Derby runner-up, bought by Barbara Facchino of Barouche Stud for €2 million. Now named ALBAROUCHE, she is in training in Newmarket with Michael Jarvis. Between this pair ALAKANANDA produced AJAAN, a MACHIAVELLIAN colt who looks a highly promising 3yo prospect this year for the Niarchos Family and Henry Cecil after an impressive win on one of only two starts at two. ALAKANANDA, who has no yearling, now visits GALILEO.

5th March 2007

FIVE TO FOLLOW TIME AGAIN
Our Five To Follow Competition, which proved so popular last year, is back for 2007.

This year cash prizes are on offer for the first six places, with a First Prize of £2,500.00.

Check out the Rules, and the list of horses from which you must choose your five, by clicking now on the COMPETITION button on our home page - GOOD LUCK!

2nd March 2007

FURTHER FOALS
Six further foals have arrived through the week, four of them by our own Breeders’ Cup Mile winner DOMEDRIVER, whose first runners we are looking forward to seeing out shortly.

Paul and Susan Roy’s MADAME MAXINE, a half-sister to last year’s leading first season sire in France, PANIS, has a brown DOMEDRIVER colt fourth foal. MADAME MAXINE, a four-time winner herself and whose first two foals are with Jeremy Noseda and Ed Dunlop respectively, now visits MEDICEAN.

The other three DOMEDRIVER’s are all Lanwades homebreds and all bay – a filly ex ETERNELLE and colts out of HOT TO TANGO and MISS PRISM. This is a third filly from as many foals for ETERNELLE, a winning GREEN DESERT half-sister to Germany champion CAITANO – her first pair are both fillies by HERNANDO and she revisits him.

HOT TO TANGO, owned in partnership with the Niarchos Family, is a winning KINGMAMBO mare out of a stakes winning DANZIG mare tracing to GREY FLIGHT. This is her second foal following a HERNANDO colt and she returns to DOMEDRIVER. MISS PRISM, already dam of three winners and another who traces to a major 20th century taproot (in her case SELENE) also remains at Lanwades, visiting WITH APPROVAL.

SLEW THE MOON is another Lanwades mare staying at home to be covered – after foaling a colt by HERNANDO yesterday she will return to him. A Grade 1 winner in her native Argentina, SLEW THE MOON traces to MRS PETERKIN, grandam of SHAREEF DANCER and MIZZEN MAST. Yesterday’s is her third foal; her first died unraced at two and her second, a COZZENE filly named LUZ DE LA LUNA, is in training in Ireland with Jim Bolger.

The most exciting of this week’s new arrivals though is the GALILEO grey filly first foal out of ALVARITA. A Listed stakes winner at Saint-Cloud at three in 2005, ALVARITA (by SELKIRK) is the only runner to date out of Lanwades-bred world champion ALBORADA, dual winner of the Champion Stakes and the top-rated filly in the world in 1998 over intermediate distances (see Lanwades news item 26 January for ALBORADA’s own foaling details). ALVARITA now visits HERNANDO.

27th February 2007

MORE FOALS
Mr John Pearce’s stakes winning HERNANDO mare MISS CORNICHE has produced a bay filly by SELKIRK, a full-sister to the mare’s first foal 2yo MOYENNE CORNICHE, who has gone into training for her breeder with Geoff Wragg. Between this brother and sister MISS CORNICHE had a now yearling filly by DANEHILL DANCER, and she returns to that horse.

The other recent arrival was a brown or grey colt by NUMEROUS out of KALDOUNYA. A winner, and dam of a first foal winner last year in the USA, KALDOUNYA is half-sister (by KALDOUN ex MINYA, by BLUSHING GROOM) to ALTIERI, a son of SELKIRK who was champion older horse in Italy in 2004 following the second of his two wins in the Group 1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica. KALDOUNYA now visits HERNANDO.

21st February 2007

ROSA DE MI CORAZON'S HATRICK
Lanwades homebred 3yo ROSA DE MI CORAZON maintained her unbeaten record with a gutsy win at Southwell yesterday, her third win in three starts. The half-sister to two time winner and dual stakes placed FLOR Y NATA is the second foal of ROSE OF ZOLLERN, winner of the Henkel Rennen, the German 1000 Guineas, and second in their Oaks, the Preis der Diana before being multiple Graded placed in the USA. ROSE OF ZOLLERN is out of a half-sister to Lanwades-bred European champion 2yo KALA DANCER, a son of Lanwades foundation sire NINISKI.

DOMEDRIVER FIRST CROP AT BREEZE-UP
Four 2yo’s from the first crop of DOMEDRIVER, two of them bred at Lanwades, are included in the line-up of 220 juveniles in the 2007 Doncaster Breeze-Up sale 4-5 April.

Solitary colt amongst them is the Lanwades-bred chesnut first foal of the winner CONDOLEEZZA, a €46,000 yearling, while the other Lanwades-bred is also a first foal, this one a daughter of the unraced SELKIRK mare KILBRIDE, a full-sister to 2006 stakes winner KISWAHILI from the family of NUREYEV and SADLER’S WELLS.

The two other fillies are a half-sister to stakes winner TERFEL and a half-sister to Group placed HECTOR’S GIRL from an outstanding speed family which includes MUMMY’S PET, PARSIMONY and COLLEGE CHAPEL.

20th February 2007

FOAL IN KENTUCKY
Lanwades-bred and raced Group performer NADESZHDA has produced her first foal, a bay colt by PULPIT born this morning at Brookdale Farm in Kentucky. A daughter of NASHWAN, NADESZHDA won three races as a 3yo when trained by Sir Mark Prescott before taking an allowance and running 2nd in both the Grade 2 Santa Barbara Handicap at Santa Anita and the Listed Hermosa Handicap at Hollywood Park in a Californian career with Neil Drysdale foreshortened through injury. She now visits MARIA’S MON.

PULPIT, sire of her first foal, is a dual Grade 2 winning son of A P INDY and one of the leading young sires in the US, earnings of more than $22 million from his first six crops justifying a fee of $80,000 this year at Claiborne Farm.

NADESZHDA’s dam, Italian stakes winner and Lancashire Oaks placed NINOTCHKA, is among the mares at Lanwades, due this year to WITH APPROVAL and visiting HAAFHD.

19th February 2007

EVEN SCORE
The count of foals born at Lanwades in 2007 has now reached 20 with five foals, four of them colts, over as many days.

Lanwades-bred half-sisters ROBE CHINOISE and KILBRIDE, two of the four to produce colts, foaled on consecutive days, the former a chesnut by SELKIRK, the latter, who is by SELKIRK, a chesnut or grey by WITH APPROVAL. This is a second foal, and second chesnut colt, for ROBE CHINOISE, who revisits the same horse. KILBRIDE, whose first foal DOMEDRIVER yearling filly sells in April’s Doncaster Breeze-Up sale, and who has also a DOMEDRIVER yearling colt, visits AUSSIE RULES.

KILBRIDE and ROBE CHINOISE are full and half-sisters respectively to KISWAHILI, a Lanwades homebred stakes winner last year (and who visits LANGFUHR in 2007) out of high-class NINISKI mare KILINISKI from the immediate family of NUREYEV and SADLER’S WELLS.

Two of the other foalers are boarders – Professor Carlsoo’s Danish Oaks winner HERTHA, by HERNANDO, who has already had a winner in 2007 with her 3yo MEDICEAN filly CAREFREE, a grey filly by WITH APPROVAL; Mr John Pearce’s MISS AMANPURI, a half-sister to high-class colts ASIAN HEIGHTS (by HERNANDO) and ST EXPEDIT, a bay colt by TIGER HILL.

The fifth new arrival is an intriguingly-bred first foal brown colt from the ALRUCCABA family, by ALAMSHAR out of ALL A DREAM. A 2yo winner herself, ALL A DREAM is by DESERT STORY out of ALIOLI, by NISHAPOUR out of ALRUCCABA’s NINISKI daughter ALLEGRA. As DESERT STORY, NISHAPOUR and ALRUCCABA all trace to NUCCIOLINA, a great-great-granddaughter of MUMTAZ MAHAL, ALL A DREAM carries three crosses of NUCCIOLINA. And, as European Champion 3yo ALAMSHAR is himself out of a half-sister to DESERT STORY, this colt has four crosses of the influential daughter of NUCCIO.

15th February 2007

NEW ARRIVALS
Three new arrivals, two colts and a filly, bring this year’s tally so far to 15. The filly is a lovely grey by MEDICEAN, a third foal for the Lanwades-bred COZZENE mare CONDOLEEZZA, a winning daughter and the only foal of the Listed winner ROSABELLA, herself a daughter of NINISKI and Italian 1000 Guineas winner and Oaks runner-up ROSANANTI. CONDOLEEZZA’s first two foals are a 2YO colt by DOMEDRIVER which goes to this year’s Breeze-Up sales and a yearling full-sister which is being retained by Lanwades; she visits DANSILI.

SHIMMERING SEA has a HERNANDO bay colt, a three-quarter brother to the colt by the same sire out of SHIMMERING SEA’s daughter STORMY WEATHER which was foal number two at Lanwades in 2007. He is also, more importantly, a three-quarter brother to the classy HERNANDO fillies out of another of SHIMMERING SEA’s daughters, SUMMER NIGHT – SONGERIE, winner of the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs at two and Group placed, including when fourth in the Gr.1 Nassau Stakes, at three, and SOUVENANCE, third at Gr.1 level in the Italian Oaks in 2006 and remaining in training in 2007 with Sir Mark Prescott, who also has the pair’s 2YO half-sister by OASIS DREAM, STARLIT SANDS. SHIMMERING SEA visits SHIROCCO.

SHIMMERING SEA’a ‘niece’ SKIMRA (SUSHILA, besides being dam of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner PETOSKI also bred both SHIMMERING SEA and SKIMRA’s dam SKULD) has a chesnut colt by WITH APPROVAL, the second arrival by our new sire this year. A daughter of HERNANDO, SKIMRA has a 2yo filly from the first crop of yet another Lanwades sire, DOMEDRIVER, named SKYNDA, in training with Rae Guest and now visits DOMEDRIVER’s paternal half-brother SLEEPING INDIAN.

12th February 2007

LANWADES CLEAR TOP BREEDERS
Lanwades Stud has soared to the top of the table of British-based National Hunt breeders after a Graded race hurdle double at the weekend by horses bred at the stud.

In Ireland, CONVINCING showed himself to be the toughest juvenile hurdler about when taking his record over hurdles to three from four with his hard-fought win in testing ground in the Grade 2 Cashmans Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown. His SELKIRK full-sister HEAT OF THE MOMENT is still at Lanwades, due to be covered this year by WITH APPROVAL, while his stakes winning half-sister HEAT OF THE NIGHT, still-Lanwades owned also, is in Kentucky visiting STORMY ATLANTIC. With LIBERATE also amongst the very top rated juvenile hurdlers this season, and also Triumph Hurdle bound despite not having run since December, Lanwades can lay claim to two of the very top 4yo hurdlers in the British Isles. Incidentally ETERNELLE, LIBERATE’s winning half-sister still in the Lanwades broodmare band, has a HERNANDO first foal 2yo filly gone into training in France with Carlos Laffon-Parias, a yearling filly also by HERNANDO and revisits him this year.

Lanwades-bred 5yo HEATHCOTE, whose dam CHERE AMIE is now in Japan, having been sold in the Lanwades consignment at the 2003 Tattersalls December Sale, won one of the biggest purses in hurdle racing when he collected over £85,000 for his win in the Grade 3 Totesport Trophy at Newbury. He is now the winner of four races over hurdles. With HERNANDO’s 6yo son DE SOTO among the best novice hurdlers as well, Lanwades looks like being a big presence amongst hurdlers at the top level for the rest of the season.

7th February 2007

FOAL COUNT HITS ONE DOZEN
The two latest arrivals have brought to 12 the number of foals on the ground at Lanwades in 2007, and coincidentally the pair, both fillies, represent the two best families developed at Plantation Stud by the late Lord Howard de Walden.

LA PERSIANA, a DAYLAMI half-sister to Lord Howard de Walden’s European 2yo champion GRAND LODGE, produced a bay first foal by ROCK OF GIBRALTAR. A dual Listed winner and twice Group 3 runner-up in the colours of her still owner Lady Howard de Walden, LA PERSIANA will now visit PEINTRE CELEBRE.

SPRY, sold by Lady Howard de Walden in the Lanwades draft at last year’s Newmarket December Sale, and still a boarder at Lanwades, though now in the ownership of David Oldrey and George Hartigan, has a chesnut filly by NAYEF. A daughter of SANDY ISLAND, Lancashire Oaks winning three-quarter sister to Lord Howard de Walden’s runaway Derby winner SLIP ANCHOR, and already dam of a five-time winner with her first foal, and who has 2yo (STOW) and 3yo (BAJAN PRIDE) colts by SELKIRK to run for her this year, SPRY visits CACIQUE.

2nd February 2007

FURTHER FOALS
Two further filly foals arrived overnight on Wednesday, bringing to 10 the number born so far this year at the stud.

OBLIGE, a Lanwades-bred ROBELLINO mare from the family of RAINBOW QUEST and WARNING, produced a bay filly by the Aga Khan’s Prix du Jockey Club and Arc winner DALAKHANI. This is the second foal for OBLIGE, a dual winner at 2 and stakes placed twice at 3, and whose first foal, a now 2yo colt by SELKIRK, is in training with Mark Johnston. She returns to SELKIRK.

The other filly, a bay from the first crop of ORATORIO is also the first foal born to EYEQ, a CADEAUX GENEREUX mare who was champion older mare in Scandinavia in 2004 after winning the Group 3 Fahrhofer Stutenpreis over a mile in Hamburg. The filly, bred by Mr and Mrs Bernt Dahl’s Light Valley Stud, carries four crosses of ALMAHMOUD, two through ORATORIO’S sire DANEHILL (inbred 3 X 3 to NATALMA) and two through EYEQ’s dam SANS PRIX, who has both NATALMA and her half-sister COSMAH in her pedigree.

1st February 2007

BOARDERS FOAL
BLUE OASIS, the second Ptarmigan Bloodstock-owned mare to foal already in 2007, has produced a bay colt by PIVOTAL. A stakes placed SADLER’S WELLS full-sister to Listed winners STAGE CALL and HUMILIS, and closely related to 1994 European Champion 3yo, Oaks and Irish Derby winner BALANCHINE, BLUE OASIS now visits GREEN DESERT. Her PIVOTAL colt is her second foal – the first, a colt from the second crop of DALAKHANI, brought 120,000 guineas when sold in the Lanwades/St Simon Stud draft at the 2006 Tattersalls December Foal sale.

Another boarding mare to foal is Lady Howard de Walden’s ELUDE, an unraced half-sister by Lord Howard de Walden’s runaway Derby winner SLIP ANCHOR to Group 2 winners PRISMATIC and PERPENDICULAR out of a half-sister to KRIS and DIESIS. She has a lovely bay colt by Lanwades sire SELKIRK (a full-brother to her winning daughter BAFFLE) and now visits BEAT HOLLOW.

29th January 2007

FIRST APPROVAL
The first foal to be born at Lanwades by our newest stallion recruit, WITH APPROVAL, has arrived. The filly, born on Friday, and who shares her grey coat with both her parents, is out of BALLYMAC GIRL, a five-time winning daughter of NINISKI and ALRUCCABA. She is a half-sister to the good-class 10 furlong handicapper (Timeform 106) and hurdler COAT OF HONOUR. BALLYMAC GIRL, the second member of the ALRUCCABA tribe to foal at Lanwades in 2007 after ALBORADA, visits DOMEDRIVER.

Earlier that same morning Ptarmigan Bloodstock’s boarding mare COMPOSE, an ANABAA daughter of Lancashire Oaks runner-up TOTALITY, who is herself full-sister to dual Derby winner COMMANDER IN CHIEF and half-sister to dual European champion WARNING, produced her first foal, a bay colt by DUBAI DESTINATION. She visits DIKTAT.

26th January 2007

ALBORADA FOALS
Lanwades World Champion ALBORADA produced her fifth foal, and fourth filly, yesterday, a bay or grey daughter of leading sire MONTJEU.

ALBORADA’s first foal, the unraced DANZIG colt ALADO, is at stud in South Africa where his first foals were born to SH time in 2006; her second, the stakes winning (Prix Petite Etoile at Saint-Cloud) SELKIRK mare ALVARITA, is back at Lanwades and due to foal for the first time this year – to another leading son of SADLER’S WELLS in GALILEO; her third foal is a daughter of SADLER’S WELLS himself, the as yet unraced 3yo ALTA MODA and her fourth a HERNANDO 2yo filly called ALMAMIA and both of those are in training with Sir Mark Prescott, who produced ALBORADA herself to win back-to-back Champion Stakes in 1998 and 1999.

ALBORADA and ALVARITA both stay at Lanwades to be covered, the former by SELKIRK, her daughter by HERNANDO. ALBORADA's own-sister, Triple Group 1 winner and German Horse of the Year ALBANOVA, is also at Lanwades where she is expecting her second foal by SELKIRK this year. Her first is a yearling filly by SADLER'S WELLS.

23rd January 2007

ONE DAY – TWO FOALS
The second and third foals of 2007 arrived here at Lanwades on Monday 22 – colts by HERNANDO and LINAMIX.

First to arrive was the HERNANDO second foal of STORMY WEATHER. Though unraced herself, STORMY WEATHER is half-sister to SEA DANE (winner of the Listed Chipchase Stakes here before export to Scandinavia, where he won eight times and became champion sprinter in 1999), and full-sister to SUMMER NIGHT, dam of Group 3 winner SONGERIE and Classic-placed SOUVENANCE, to which pair, since they are both by HERNANDO, this colt is a full-brother in blood. STORMY WEATHER’s first foal is the 2yo DOMEDRIVER colt SHAKEDOWN, in training with Alan Swinbank. She returns to HERNANDO.

MITRAILLETTE, a 2yo winning daughter of MISWAKI and the Grade 2 Orchid Handicap winner CROCKADORE, produced a grey (what else?) colt by LINAMIX, her first foal. She stays at Lanwades also, visiting SELKIRK.

WITH APPROVAL DAMSIRE OF CHAMPION
WITH APPROVAL, whose daughters’ progeny’s excellent year saw him reach number six on the US Broodmare Sire List in 2006, above the likes of STORM CAT, SECRETARIAT, MISWAKI and AFFIRMED, had his status as a broodmare sire of significance confirmed by the Eclipse Award received by MIESQUE’S APPROVAL. A son of MIESQUE’S SON and the minor-winning WIN APPROVAL, MIESQUE’S APPROVAL was a revelation in 2006, winning five or his seven starts, culminating with a clear-cut success in the Breeders’ Cup Mile, a record which saw him crowned Champion Turf Male of 2006.

18th January 2007

FIRST FOAL FOR 2007
CARENAGE, who has been first to foal amongst the Lanwades mares for each of the last two seasons, brought up the hat-trick last night when producing a bay filly by Lanwades sire HERNANDO. A winning daughter of ALZAO out of Yorkshire Oaks winner KEY CHANGE, from the family of Derby winner KAHYASI and St Leger winner MILAN, CARENAGE now has the super-enviable high-fertility record of three January produce with her first three foals. CARIBANA, the first of them and a full-sister to yesterday’s foal, is a 2yo who goes into training with Michael Jarvis shortly, and in-between she had a colt, now yearling, by DOMEDRIVER. She returns to HERNANDO.

15th January 2007

TWO LANWADES-BRED WINNERS BY SELKIRK
The Lanwades good run of three year old fillies winning continued yesterday when FAIRNILEE won her maiden at Kempton on her second lifetime start. FAIRNILEE is by SELKIRK out of FANTASTIC BELLE and maintained the dam's 100% record of runners to winners. FANTASTIC BELLE was actually sold by Lanwades at the 2006 December Sales to Count and Countess von Stauffenberg, but Lanwades retain not only FAIRNILEE but also her two year old half sister FANDANGERINA (by HERNANDO) who like FAIRNILEE is in training with Sir Mark Prescott. The 2006 DOMEDRIVER colt heads to the Tattersalls February Sales next month.

The second winner of the weekend was Lanwades-bred CONVINCING who won a Grade 3 Juvenile Hurdle at Punchestown. He is a four year old by SELKIRK out of HOT THONG and has won a total of two wins on the flat and now two wins from three starts over hurdles and joins LIBERATE as a Lanwades-bred top juvenile hurdler. His sisters HEAT OF THE NIGHT (Listed winner) and HEAT OF THE MOMENT (unraced) both join the Lanwades broodmare band this year and visit STORMY ATLANTIC (in Ky) and WITH APPROVAL, respectively. Their dam HOT THONG was a Group 3 winner in Brazil.

9th January 2007

THE GOOD START CONTINUES
The good run of Lanwades-bred 3yo fillies in 2007 continued yesterday with SOFT MORNING’s easy maiden win at Wolverhampton. The fourth foal of the NASHWAN mare SUMMER NIGHT, SOFT MORNING (by PIVOTAL) kept her dam’s record intact by becoming her fourth winner. SUMMER NIGHT’s second and third foals are the high-class HERNANDO full-sisters SONGERIE and SOUVENANCE. The former, winner of the Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs at two, is a maiden visiting ARCH in 2007 while her Prix des Reservoirs and Italian Oaks placed sister stays in training at 4 this year.

SUMMER NIGHT, who has a 2yo DOMEDRIVER filly, SOURIRE, in training with Sir Mark Prescott (who has handled all three of her half-sisters) and a yearling colt by FALBRAV who will be sold in the Staffordstown consignment at one of this year’s major yearling sales, was not covered in 2006 but travels to Kentucky with her daughter to visit leading US sire MR GREELEY.

Also at Lanwades is SUMMER NIGHT’s dam SHIMMERING SEA, Group-placed at two in Ireland, dam already of six winners, due to HERNANDO in 2007 and visiting SHIROCCO. Her OASIS DREAM 2yo daughter STARLIT SANDS has been retained and is in training with Mark Johnston. SUMMER NIGHT’s full-sister STORMY WEATHER, whose 2yo DOMEDRIVER colt first foal is in training with Alan Swinbank, is also due to HERNANDO and returns to him.

8th January 2007

ROSA DE MI CORAZON WINS FIRST TIME OUT
Lanwades-bred and owned ROSA DE MI CORAZON got off to a good start when winning first time out at Southwell yesterday. This recently turned three year old filly although running a bit green still managed a winning debut. She is the second foal of Classic-winner (German 1,000 Gns) ROSE OF ZOLLERN and is trained by Sir Mark Prescott as is her half sister the stakes-placed dual winner FLOR Y NATA (by FUSAICHI PEGASUS) who remains in training in 2007 as a four year old. ROSE OF ZOLLERN has a yearling colt by WAR CHANT who was purchased by Corduff Stud at the Keeneland November Sales in 2006, she is due to FUSAICHI PEGASUS in 2007 and visits KINGMAMBO.

4th January 2007

FIRST WINNER OF 2007
At just turned three CAREFREE becomes Lanwades first winner of the year after scoring at Southwell on 2nd January. This filly by MEDICEAN ex a Danish Oaks winning daughter of HERNANDO, HERTHA, was bred by Professor Carlsoo and born at Lanwades as was her mother. In her previous start she had been well beaten by Lanwades-bred and owned ALGARADE. CAREFREE's half brother by DOMEDRIVER is currently at Staffordstown being prepared for the sales later in the year.

3rd January 2007
DE SOTO POTENTIAL STAR
Lanwades-bred HERNANDO six-year-old DE SOTO looks to be a potential star recruit to hurdling ranks after two impressive novice wins in December. The son of the winning LAHIB mare VANESSA BELL from the family of Lanwades champions ALBORADA and ALBANOVA has been lightly raced since finishing a close second in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper in March 2005 on only his second racecourse appearance. Now, with wide-margin successes at Taunton and Kempton he has put himself right in the picture for one of the big championship novice events at this year’s Cheltenham festival, where he could perhaps emulate the 2005 Royal and Sun Alliance Hurdle win of one of HERNANDO’s other National Hunt stars, NO REFUGE.

25th June 2007
WORLDLY A HOLLYWOOD STAR
WORLDLY, a 3yo son of SELKIRK bred and owned by Chris Wright, took his overall record to four wins in six starts, and kept his strike rate since being exported to the US at a perfect 100 per cent – three from three – when winning the Grade 3 Cinema Handicap at Hollywood Park on Saturday. He was adding the nine furlong Cinema to his one mile Will Rogers Handicap win at the same track last month, completing a double which for old-style cowboy movie fans would have seemed a given, but which has actually not been achieved since 1996.

The versatile WORLDLY, whose three US runs have all been on grass, set a new track record when breaking his maiden on the Wolverhampton polytrack last August.

Another winner over the weekend for SELKIRK was the Lanwades-raised and Matthews Breeding and Racing Ltd –bred COME WHAT MAY, a 3yo full-sister to the high-class, but ill-fated Group 2 Champagne Stakes winner ETLAALA, who scored over five furlongs at Newmarket.

22nd June 2007
HERON WINGS IN
HERON BAY became the 18th individual 3yo winner this season for his sire HERNANDO when showing great courage to regain the lead after being headed to win the King George V Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday. The Gordon Stakes and then the St Leger is now the plan for this progressive colt bred by Car Colston Hall Stud.

Earlier yesterday COPERNICAN became the second HERNANDO 3yo this week to score a hat-trick, his Ripon win, his third in 14 days, coming just two days after French filly SUMAROCCA posted her third win, all three of which have been at Longchamp.

21st June 2007
STARLIT BRIGHT
Lanwades homebred STARLIT SANDS (OASIS DREAM – SHIMMERING SEA) ran a great race to finish second yesterday in the Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes, leading from the start until about 30 yards from the line where she was reeled in by the half-length winner ELLETELLE. She is the seventh winner and second black type performer for her dam, who sadly died this spring, but for whom STARLIT SANDS will, in time, be a more than adequate replacement. See News of 21 May for further pedigree details.

18th June 2007
SUPERMODELS AT STAFFORDSTOWN
Irish supermodel Jasmine Guinness and Lanwades star Sadler’s Wells – Albanova yearling filly (currently resident in Ireland at Staffordstown) star together in a photo to publicise the 2007 Goffs Million Yearling Sale. The human model may not be gracing the ring at Goffs in October, but our grey daughter of Albanova certainly will, and she is certain to be amongst the most sought-after lots on offer; not only is she the first foal of a three-time Group 1 winner and German Horse of the Year, she is also a close relative (3/4 sister) to last year’s Goffs Million sales topper, the €2 million Sadler’s Wells – Alakananda filly who was also Europe’s highest-priced yearling of 2006.

15th June 2007
FIVE TO FOLLOW COMPETITION
Interim leader lists are now available by going to the competition page. These lists cover racing to 14th June; the competition runs through to 30th November.

4th June 2007
HERNANDO 3YO’S KEEP ON WINNING
The winning streak of HERNANDO’s 3yo’s continues, particularly in France, with CAPTAIN ALATRICE’s win there over the weekend bringing to 14 the number of individual 3yo winners for him this year. Also in France on Saturday LA HERNANDA, a winner twice already this year, went within a nose of Pattern success when she was edged out of the Group 3 Prix de Royaumont for 3yo fillies at Chantilly on French Derby weekend.

SKY THE LIMIT?
Lanwades homebred STARLIT SANDS, SHIMMERING SEA’S daughter by OASIS DREAM (see News 21 May) booked her place in the line-up of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot by leading all the way at Catterick on Friday, bringing her record to two from two. STARLIT SANDS is yet to see an opponent in two racecourse runs, leading all the way to break a minute for five furlongs each time.

BLYTHE KNIGHT GETS IT ALRIGHT ON THE DAY
SELKIRK’s son BLYTHE KNIGHT, a good handicapper for Ed Dunlop when raced as a younger horse by his breeder Gainsborough Stud, and a Listed winner last time out, bridged the gap to Group class with his win in the Group 3 Diomed Stakes on Derby Day. Durable and versatile, and in that respect very typical of the stock of his sire, BLYTHE KNIGHT, now a seven-year-old, is also much improved since joining the Malton sable of John Quinn, for whom he has also won the Lincoln Handicap (run last year at Redcar) and a Grade 2 Hurdle at Aintree.

30th May 2007
HERNANDO HITS HEIGHTS
DE SOTO, HERNANDO’s high-class hurdler son, brought the second highest price in the history of Doncaster Bloodstock Sales when selling for 360,000 guineas at the DBS Spring Sale last week. The 6yo, bought by Jonjo O’Neill on behalf of Gay Smith, was also bred at Lanwades, and comes from the family of disqualified Oaks winner ALIYSA and 2003 champion 3yo ALAMSHAR, a branch of the MUMTAZ MAHAL family closely related to Lanwades’ outstanding taproot mare ALRUCCABA.

Meanwhile HERNANDO, whose 4yo daughter SOUVENANCE has scored two wide-margin wins in conditions races in Ireland in the past fortnight, continues to chalk up winners from his 3yo crop, wins by HANDO and ANTHOLOGIE in France over the past week bringing to 11 his tally of individual 3yo winners in 2007.

ALLEGRETTO ANOTHER FOR ALRUCCABA
ALLEGRETTO, winner of the Gr 2 Lancashire Oaks and third in the Gr 1 Yorkshire Oaks last season, posted yet another Pattern win for the ALRUCCABA family when showing great determination to take the Gr 2 Henry II Stakes at Sandown last night. ALLEGRETTO is the first foal of Gr 3 Doncaster Cup winner ALLELUIA, whose second and third produce, both fillies, are in training in Newmarket with Sir Mark Prescott (ALLEVIATE) and James Fanshawe (ALVEE, a 900,000 guineas yearling by KEY OF LUCK) respectively.

29th May 2007
DOMEDRIVER HAS SECOND WINNER AND 50% STRIKE RATE
DOMEDRIVER posted his second winner, from just four runners, when ALCA DRIVER won on his debut in Italy today, scoring by two lengths in a newcomers’ race over 1400 metres (7 furlongs) in Rome.

ALCA DRIVER was bred by Razza Spighe d’Oro, having been in utero when his dam LA LEGERE was purchased from Petra Bloodstock, through the Haras de la Louviere consignment, at the 2004 Deauville December Sale.

With DOME ROCK having run a promising close-up sixth on his debut for Luca Cumani last week, DOMEDRIVER has made an excellent start overall with his early runners.

21st May 2007
GOOD WEEKEND ON THE TRACK
A good weekend on the track on both sides of the Atlantic for Lanwades-bred horses and those with Lanwades connections. Firstly, here at Thirsk, STARLIT SANDS made all to win a five furlong 2yo maiden, providing her owner-breeder Kirsten Rausing and her trainer Sir Mark Prescott a debut double with their only juvenile runners of the season to date.

STARLIT SANDS is the seventh winner from eight runners for her dam SHIMMERING SEA, a SLIP ANCHOR half-sister to Lanwades-bred King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes winner PETOSKI. SHIMMERING SEA’s six previous winners are by six different sires, horses as diverse as DANEHILL (SEA DANE, Champion sprinter in Scandinavia), NASHWAN (SUMMER NIGHT, a 3yo winner over six furlongs and dam of the high-class HERNANDO sisters SONGERIE and SOUVENANCE) and SADLER’S WELLS (SOUTH ATLANTIC, a Timeform 105-rated dual mile winner here subsequently successful also in South Africa). Surprisingly for a mare bred as she is, only the miler SOUTH ATLANTIC,