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Sold it for $1 didn't they but voluntarily as they still had the right to do at the time without NZTR grabbing the dosh. -
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But Hokitika wasn't sold by NZTR - the Club effectively gave it away. Although they did have prior agreements with local stakeholders. -
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Constitution Hill will not run in next month's Champion Hurdle after Nicky Henderson ruled his stable star out of a jumps return, with his future now lying solely on the Flat.View the full article -
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Blue Diamond Stud encompasses approximately 40 mares split between our divisions in Newmarket and Stonereath Farm in Kentucky. In an exciting development, we are also breaking new ground this year by sending Grade I winner Abscond to Japan to visit Kitasan Black. The global operation is overseen by our CEO Ted Voute, with Andrew Rawlin at the helm of our mare division of Blue Diamond Stud and Cian Gahan the stud manager of Stonereath Farm. ABSCOND 9 m Blame – Solitary Life (Grand Slam) Visits KITASAN BLACK Winner of the GI Natalma Stakes as a two-year-old, Abscond represents our first foray into Japan. We were keen to take advantage of what the Japanese market has to offer, especially given its reputation for producing such tough and sound horses, and thereby use the country's leading stallion Kitasan Black with one of our best mares. Abscond was one of our early acquisitions in a concerted move to collect mares from the Roberto line, in particular daughters of Blame. Another of our stakes-winning Blame mares, Dancing Kiki, goes to Oscar Performance. Abscond's first foal is a Not This Time colt who has been retained and goes to Chad Brown. ATAKAMA 6 m Le Havre – Best Intent (King's Best) In foal to Not This Time. Visits FRANKEL A multiple stakes-placed mare from the Coup De Folie family, Atakama has returned from Kentucky to Newmarket in foal to Not This Time and heads to Frankel as we try to give her the best opportunity. The cross also produces inbreeding to Allegretta. BEAUTE CACHEE 7 m Literato – Sign And Seal (Hurricane Run) Visits NOT THIS TIME Winner of the GI Jenny Wiley Stakes, Beaute Cachee was bought in November 2024 having appealed as a top-performing member of the Kendor/Grey Sovereign line, something which is becoming increasingly harder to find despite having been so successful. We have used Not This Time on multiple occasions over the past four seasons and are delighted to be doing so again with this Grade I winner. CHILI FLAG 7 m Cityscape – Flag Day (Pivotal) In foal to Not This Time. Visits FRANKEL A granddaughter of brilliant two-year-old Blue Duster, Chili Flag won the GI Just A Game Stakes and is physically quite typical of the Sharpen Up/Selkirk line. Like Grey Sovereign, that is becoming increasingly harder to find despite its success. Cityscape's early daughters at stud include Give And Take, to whom Frankel produced last year's Group 2 winner Luther, while Frankel has also had success with Selkirk mares through the likes of Inspiral and Darkaniya. Blue Duster's descendants also include high-class Galileo grandsons such as Highland Chief and Euphoric, all of which makes Chili Flag a potentially good fit for Frankel. COUNTESSA 8 m Camelot – Elitiste (Danehill Dancer) Foaled bay filly by Kingman. Visits DELACROIX A young winning mare from the Miesque family who was bought in Australia. She has a very good first foal by Siyouni, now a yearling. The immediate family has worked well with Dubawi and we were keen to try the line with her; Delacroix as a top-class horse and one of the most exciting stallions to stud this season fitted the bill. FLORET 10 m Galileo – Ventura (Spectrum) In foal to Not This Time. Visits INTO MISCHIEF A half-sister to Moonlight Cloud from the Doff The Derby family. Floret has a two-year-old filly by Blame going to Francis Graffard and a good yearling filly by Justify. Into Mischief is such a versatile stallion, capable of throwing good turf horses in addition to obviously being a brilliant influence on dirt. He's proven effective with Galileo mares in the past, a case in point being the GI Ashland Stakes winner Leslie's Rose. We're also using Into Mischief on Taiga. By Bernardini, the damsire of Sovereignty, she is a close relation to Arabian Knight. FREE LOOK 6 m Tapit – Wild Mint (Medaglia d'Oro) Foaled chestnut filly by Curlin. Visits GUN RUNNER It's no secret how effective Gun Runner is with Tapit mares – the source of 10 stakes winners so far – and we'll be supporting him again with the Grade II-placed two-year-old Free Look. She is a relation to Violence and her first foal is a yearling colt by Gun Runner. HAUTE COUTURE 5 m Kingman – Pearling (Storm Cat) Foaled by bay colt by Havana Grey. Visits TOO DARN HOT Haute Couture belongs to one of the cornerstone Blue Diamond families as a half-sister to our multiple Group 1 winner Decorated Knight and a daughter of Pearling, a full-sister to Giant's Causeway. We bred one of Too Darn Hot's best horses, Group 1 winner Hotazhell, and were keen to support him again. He's obviously done particularly well with Danzig-line mares, and that includes Fallen Angel out of an Invincible Spirit-line mare. I'M WONDERFUL 10 m Giant's Causeway – Rebridled Dreams (Unbridled's Song) In foal to Gun Runner. Visits BLAME Stakes producer I'm Wonderful, a full-sister to Carpe Diem, is one of four mares we are sending to Blame this season alongside Arwa (Holy Roman Emperor), a half-sister to Order Of St George, Chantry View Road (Quality Road), a member of the Best In Show family, and Honey Ryder Stakes winner Ocean Safari (Temple City), who has just foaled a lovely filly by Tapit. Blame represents affordable yet proven access into the Roberto sire-line and if you get a filly, then even better given his record as a brilliant young broodmare sire. I'm Wonderful already has a nice two-year-old colt by Blame set to go to Brad Cox and a yearling colt by Tapit. NASHWA 7 m Frankel – Princess Loulou (Pivotal) Foaled bay colt by Dubawi. Returns to DUBAWI Our champion, multiple Group 1-winning mare Nashwa foaled a very smart foal by Dubawi on January 27, a good-sized, strong, attractive colt, and it made sense to send her back to him, especially given his record with Galileo-line mares. Her Dubawi half-brother, Nebras, won the Listed Quebec Stakes for us at the end of last year and hopefully will continue to progress further this season. PENLIGHT 10 m Shamardal – Porto Roca (Barathea) Visits KINGMAN We have two mares going to Kingman; Penlight and Rose Of Miracles. Penlight is a strong mare by Shamardal – the damsire of Field Of Gold – who is a half-sister to G1 Dubai World Cup winner Monterosso. She has already produced a fast horse in Milford, a stakes-placed two-year-old, and Kingman should complement her on paper and physically. Rose Of Miracles, a Dalakhani relation to Goldikova, has produced several highly-rated horses for us including Royal Ascot winner Amtiyaz. She appears most effective when sent to stallions with pace so Kingman should suit, especially as Dalakhani can be found in the background of his Group winners such as Zardozi and Cormorant. PRINCESS LOULOU 16 m Pivotal – Aiming (Highest Honor) In foal to Dubawi. Visits SEA THE STARS Produced our multiple Group 1 winner Nashwa and Listed scorer Nebras, who stays in training for us as a four-year-old this season. She has a Frankel full-brother to Nashwa named Nasheed, is back in foal to Nebras's sire Dubawi and she'll now visit Sea The Stars. He's obviously a sire of the highest order who had a brilliant year in 2025 and going to him taps into another strain of Urban Sea. ROMINA POWER 6 m Le Havre – Rockatella (Rock Of Gibraltar) In foal to Night Of Thunder. Visits TOO DARN HOT Winner of the Listed Diana-Trial, Romina Power belongs to the Reprocolor family via the branch responsible for G1 winner Puchkine. She's in foal to the champion sire Night Of Thunder and now goes to another son of Dubawi in Too Darn Hot. We also have Princess Nadia, a homebred winning daughter of our G3 Princess Margaret Stakes winner Princess Noor, in foal to Too Darn Hot. The daughter of Sea The Stars now goes to Night Of Thunder; it's notable how effective Night Of Thunder can be with mares that provide him with more Urban Sea and/or Allegretta, and Sea The Stars has contributed to that as the damsire of his stakes winners Thunder Sea, Night Tornado and Tuscan Hills. SOUND THE TRUMPETS 13 m Bernardini – My Flag (Easy Goer) In foal to Cody's Wish. Visits GUN RUNNER A daughter of champion My Flag and granddaughter of champion Personal Ensign. It's a phenomenal Phipps family and we were delighted to buy into it in November, particularly through a mare like Sound The Trumpets whose first foal Miles D was a stakes winner and placed in the GI Travers Stakes. Gun Runner's affinity for mares carrying A.P. Indy is well known, including through Bernardini, and the mating also produces inbreeding to Quiet American, also found in five of Gun Runner's stakes winners including Grade I scorer Gun Pilot. TISA RIVER 12 m Equiano – Senta's Dream (Danehill) Visits CAMELOT A half-sister to Grade I winners Iridessa, Order Of Australia and Santa Barbara who has already added her value to our broodmare band by producing the stakes two-year-old Bolt Action and four-time winner Enchanting (Blue Point), a very fast filly for us who goes to Havana Grey. Tisa River has a very good-looking two-year-old colt by Camelot named National Anthem heading to John and Thady Gosden. Camelot has worked well with the family before through Santa Barbara and so it was a cross we were keen to repeat. Our Listed winner Dawn Of Hope (Mastercraftsman), the dam of four winners who is in foal to Blame, has returned to Europe from Stonereath and is also going to him. We have retained Dawn Of Hope's daughter Gaugamela (Sea The Stars) and she is one of three mares that we have going to Sands Of Mali alongside Juri (Invincible Spirit) and Najeeba (Dansili) ZOTILLA 15 m Zamindar – Louvain (Sinndar) Visits DARK ANGEL The dam of G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Mangoustine and it made sense to go back to her sire Dark Angel. A half-sister to champion Flotilla from the successful Flanders family, Zotilla also has a yearling colt by Dubawi. Her daughter Sandirella (Too Darn Hot), who was placed on her only start, has also joined the band and goes to Baaeed. The post Blue Diamond Stud Branching Out With Kitasan Black In Japan appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Murray Fish · Posted
If we can get @Chief Stipe on course then I am sure we can arrange that sort of thing! Though, don't think Chief has ever come this far South....
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