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By Chief Stipe · Posted
What is more sad is that miserable old bustards have nothing better to do than post vitriolic jabs at those who are successful in the game. Ultimately it is that sort of negativity that will kill the game in NZ. -
By Chief Stipe · Posted
Yeah @Huey probably got out bid in the festival sale 2 decades ago and has never got over it. -
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6th-FG, 58K, Msw, 3yo/up, 6f, 4:15 p.m. The half-brother to MGISW Matareya (Pioneerof the Nile), DARROW (Uncle Mo) debuts at Fair Grounds Sunday as a Godolphin homebred for trainer Brad Cox. Out of GSW Innovative Idea who already has three winners from three runners, the colt goes back to third dam Caress who Godolphin picked up for $3.1m out of Keeneland November back in 2000. That Storm Cat mare produced GISW and sire Sky Mesa (Pulpit) as well as Velvety (Bernardini) who became the dam of MGISW and young stallion Maxfield (Street Sense). TJCIS PPS 7th-FG, 58K, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 4:45 p.m. One race later, Susan's Boy (Candy Ride {Arg}) will route on debut for C R K Stable and Cherie DeVaux in his first start since bringing $850,000 at Keeneland September last year. He is out of a half to MGSW Private Mission (Into Mischief) and to the dam of GISW Dunbar Road (Quality Road). This is the family of GI Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Status (A.P. Indy) and her son Dunkirk (Unbridled's Song) who sold for $3.7m as a yearling before finishing runner up in both the GI Belmont Stakes and the GI Florida Derby. TJCIS PPS The post Sunday Insights: Uncle Mo Half To Matareya Debuts At Fair Grounds appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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Continuing our series, Emma Berry rambles on about cakes, why she loves Baden-Baden, and her favourite BBAG graduate. Horse of the year: Tamfana There is a certain appeal to the BBAG September Yearling Sale. Nothing against Tattersalls, Goffs or Arqana, but I've spent so many hours in their sales rings over the years that, to a degree, familiarity breeds contempt. Not so at BBAG, where an eclectic eve-of-sale singalong with 'German Elvis' and a decent selection of Kuchen are guaranteed for the one day a year on which I am fortunate enough to be reporting from Germany's leading sale. It's not just the cakes, of course, that make this a favourite. Being able to take in a decent couple of days' racing at the next-door racecourse at Iffezheim is an extra draw, as are the pedigrees on offer, which offer a refreshing departure to those more regularly found a bit closer to home. There's a fine line to be drawn when it comes to putting in vital sales research and generally annoying consignors on their busy inspection days. I long ago worked out that it is better to pester a bloodstock agent and tag along on their rounds, hoping to gain an insight on what's in store once the sale begins while not being branded a tyre-kicker for going around solo and pulling out horses you have no intention of buying. My regular victim at Baden-Baden is Jeremy Brummitt. No better man to follow at this particular sale, especially if one can cope with his unique brand of humour and ferocious work ethic which ensures that he sees every horse on the sale ground. One brief lunchtime stop for Maultaschen at the stable cafe is permitted. Brummitt's diligence paid off particularly well this year when his €20,000 purchase in 2022, Tamfana (Ger), won the G1 Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket. I'd love to claim some kind of credit for this lovely daughter of Soldier Hollow (GB) but my only tenuous link is having been there when she was bought, and on the Rowley Mile to witness the unbridled joy of her owners in the Quantum Leap Racing & Friends syndicate. A vicarious thrill it was, too. The credit must all go to her breeders Gestut Etzean and Hans-Helmut Rodenburg, trainer David Menuisier, whose star rises year on year and, of course, Brummitt, the man in the hat, who declined to join the winners' photo at Newmarket but was nevertheless plainly delighted. Beyond the Sun Chariot, Tamfana has done little wrong in her two seasons of racing. A winner on Kempton's Polyrack on her second start last October, she made light work of the heavy going at Chantilly to land the G3 Prix Miesque as her two-year-old bow. Her Classic trial came in the G3 Prix Impudence on debut this year, in which she was only half a length behind Ramatuelle (Justify) when third, beaten a length in total. Those two fillies met again next time in Newmarket in the 1,000 Guineas, the form of which now reads very well. One length separated the first five home. Tamfana, who was blocked in her eye-catching late run, was fourth, with subsequent Group 1 winners Porta Fortuna (Ire) (Caravaggio) and Ramatuelle only narrowly separating her from the winner Elmalka (GB) (Kingman {GB}). The Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Fallen Angel (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}) was back in eighth that day and the Oaks runner-up Dance Sequence (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) was ninth. Third in the Prix de Diane, just three-quarters of a length off the winner, Tamfana got her head back in front in the G3 Atalanta Stakes as a confidence-booster prior to the Sun Chariot, and she ended her year with another Group 1 placing in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes when third to Charyn (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) and Facteur Cheval (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}). There was some poignancy to her good year on the track as her sire, the former multiple German champion, died in May just a few days after the Guineas. Soldier Hollow did his bit to silence the doubters of small horses. Barely bigger than a pony, he was by the similarly diminutive and successful In The Wings (GB) and he was beloved by his owner Helmut von Finck, another of the country's leading breeders through his Gestüt Park Wiedingen, who regarded him as “the German Galileo”. Reduced foal crops are a feature of most breeding nations, but the shrinking of the Thoroughbred population in Germany is becoming of great concern. Stallions in the country covered only 629 mares this year but, still, Germany punches above its weight. Tamfana hails from one of the country's leading farms, Gestut Etzean, where the horsemanship of manager Ralf Kredel shines through in the presentation of his sale yearlings, which are shown in head collars with no bits. Recent graduates from the farm include Miss Yoda (Ger) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) and Palmas (Ger) (Lord Of England {Ger}), consecutive winners of the G1 Preis der Diana in 2020 and 2021. All of these factors combined made Tamfana my horse of the year in 2024, and I hope to be shouting her home again next year. One for next year: Seaplane I remain convinced that Golden Horn (GB) will eventually be represented by a Classic winner. Whether or not that will be Seaplane (GB) will be seen in the coming season but, either way, Paul and Oliver Cole look to have a smart colt on their hands in this homebred for Ben and Sir Martyn Arbib. His dam, Seaduced (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), has already provided the Arbib family with notable success as her first foal was Sumo Sam (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}), winner of the G2 Lillie Langtry and G2 Park Hill Fillies' Stakes in 2023. Her next was the dual winner and 93-rated Sun God (GB) (Fastnet Rock {GB}). Stallion to follow: Ubettabelieveit It is easy to believe that this young son of Kodiac (GB) could get off to a fast start in the first-season sires' championship. Standing at Mickley Stud, which breeds plenty of winners year after year, including, most notably, Havana Grey (in partnership with the late Lady Lonsdale), Ubettabelieveit will be one to watch in the early skirmishes. He had some well-made youngsters at the sales who looked, perhaps unsurprisingly, as if they could be early sorts, just like him. His yearling average of just over £21,000 for 40 sold, was more than four times his fee. The post Horse Of The Year; One For Next Year appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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