This hasn’t been a bad week for William Haggas. The Somerville Lodge stable cat recently AWOL out of fear that he might get a job at Catterick and would have to live with the extreme abundance currently displayed by the larger four-legged cats they brush. rubbing in the barn at night.
In the past two weeks, 41 horses have been sent by the trainer and 17 of them have returned home with a trophy to replenish the cabinet. Most impressively, 10 of those victories were in score races. Taking the place of Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars (Fr) (Adlerflug {Ger}) faces some rather fancy opposition in the G1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and Maljoom (Ire) steals G2 Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen (2,000 German Guineas) to become the winner of the Kinh first dictionary for his male Caravaggio.
Haggas is also currently the sole custodian in the UK and Ireland in horse training for the Tsui family’s Sunderland Holdings. Their five runners who have hit the track so far this season have posted some impressive results. Last week alone, half-brothers My Prospero (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}) and My Astra (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) each won the listed races – the raced later with a whopping 12 races at Ayr – and those successes followed victory at the clan’s oldest All-weather Miles Championship, My Oberon (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), 5 year old. The latter also won the G3 Earl Of Sefton S. last year before being beaten only by finishing third in the G1 Prix d’Ispahan.
Their dam My Titania (Ire) made its mark in racing history as the first black winner for her illustrious goddess and Tsuis’ pride and joy, Sea The Stars (Ire). He is also the son of one of Haggas/Sunderland Holdings’ equity winners last week, Sea Silk Road (Ire), who was bred by Kildaragh Stud and landed S Fashion listed height.
It would be surprising that no one knows exactly that Sea The Stars has the form of a decent brood, and there has been a flurry of promising activity in this regard in recent times. He is named in this category for G2 Prix winner Greffulhe Onesto (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), who was bred on the same cross as another from Haggas stables, Group 3 winner and G1 participant Queen Anne S. Mohaafeth (Ire). GIII Winner Galorette S. Saturday Technical Analysis (GB) (King {GB}) is also outside one Sea The Stars mare.
However, currently standing on the broodstock charts is Teofilo of Darley (GB), whose daughters have now produced three European Classic winners this season. After the Guineas double in Newmarket of Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}), Maljoom added the Cologne leg.
Legendary racers are remembered
William Haggas would certainly be the first to admit that his wife Maureen played a key role in the success of their stables. Her father, Lester Piggott, was saddened not to be present to watch the unveiling of his statue at Curragh on Saturday, with Maureen’s sister, Tracy Piggott, performing that honor as her father recuped in hospital. in Switzerland.
She talks about Sunday’s legendary horse stroke Car racing“He still watches the race regularly and is getting a big boost seeing how my sister Maureen and William Haggas fly together.”
Piggott, 86 years old, was at Curragh for the opening of the new stall three years ago. His image in bronze is now standing outside the weight room and looking towards the track at his request.
Thoughts also go to Pat Smullen on Sunday, the day he should have celebrated his 45th birthday. He’ll also get a boost as he watches the Classic winner flee for Eva-Maria Bucher-Haefner and Dermot Weld, whose steady Smullen has been on hold for two decades. Coach and jockey combined in Nightime (Ire)’s 1,000 Guineas win 16 years ago, who became the first of many Classic winners for Galileo (Ire).
Smullen rode his first British Classic winner, Refuse To Bend (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), in a Moyglare Stud shirt and his long relationship with the Haefner family lasted well into his retirement. from the race in 2019 when he was appointed as their operational advisor. In the year of Moyglare Stud’s 60th anniversary perhaps there is no better fitting 1,000 Irish Guineas winner than the Homeless Song (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), and Bucher-Haefner has a further shot at Classic glory as co-owner of Cheshire Oaks-like Moyglare winner, Thoughts Of June (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who is Join the Oaks and Ireland Oaks family.
Homeless songs, bred on the same Frankel-Dubawi overtakes as last year’s Derby winner Adayar (Ire), seemingly considered by her coach to be the most lightweight, and she certainly showed off a killer sprint kick in his five-and-a-half year Guineas match. Here’s to hope she shows up at Royal Ascot to face Cachet and Mangoustine (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the Coronation S. The Homeless Song also delivered her first Clasic success for Chris Hayes, who drove Moyglare Stud (Ire)’s Looking for a Song (Galileo {Ire}) in the first of two wins at the G1 Irish St Leger.
Appleby Wears The Crown
Triple Crown winners may not appear all too often in this part of the world, but Charlie Appleby personally designed a new Triple Crown to record the extraordinary feat of winning 2000 Guineas in the UK, France and Ireland with three different horses.
For Godolphin, the Dubawi ponies Coroebus (Ire) and Modern Games (Ire) would be immensely pleased, purebred offspring of the campaign’s stellar steed. But of course Godolphin was also in the business of making stallions, and the Indigenous Trail was bred by Haras d’Haspel (GB), as the son of Oasis dream (GB) from an outstanding Juddmonte family, would be a worthy addition to any stallion. Moreover, it’s good to see the 2-year-old champion continue to be given a three-year wildcard.
Havana Ball
When TDN visited Karl Burke in Middleham in January 2018, Havana Gray (GB) about a month before his third birthday but pleased his coach ahead of the season in which he will win the Team title 1 in the Flying Five.
“Havana Gray was nail-biting at the time,” says Burke. “He is a great character and he loves his job. From day one, all he wanted to do was gallop… he was a real fighter with natural speed. ”
Havana’s son Gold (Ire) at that stage proved himself to be a tough 2-year-old, winning four of the eight junior starts, including the G3 Molecomb S., and finishing in the finish. in second place overall. -Unfortunately (Ire) teammate in G1 Prix Morny. His original prowess is now being reflected — and some — by members of his first crop.
Havana Gray, who stands at Whitsbury Manor Stud, has now topped the freshman rankings with 14 winners. The most recent came on Sunday for Michael Bell and Middleham Park Racing with Maylandsea (GB), grandson of the increasingly influential Broodmare Hill Welcome (GB) of Fiona Denniff (Most Welcome {GB}. represented by the highest number of athletes, with 35 members of his first case getting on the right track, giving Havana Gray a 40% strike rate at the start of this year.
Another successful freshman this week is Cracksman (GB), with two quick-winners and two of the first-season breeding males responsible for the hatchlings that have earned the coveted Rising star TDN this season.
Follow performance by Tajalla (Ire), son of Tally-Ho Stud’s Kessaar (Ire), at Newmarket in April a gold star went to the 2-year-old, who was arguably the most impressive win of them all so far in the season. this. Bradsell (GB), by Shadwell’s Tasleet, fire along Knavesmire on Saturday to claim a nine-stage victory for Archie Watson. Bred by Deborah O’Brien, who has had the Bradsell family for three generations, he was sold for 12,000gns as a wish and was later brought back to dizzying sales by Mark Grant , who sold him for £47,000 to Tom Biggs at Goffs UK. The headgear is definitely being prepared by his owner, Primavera.
Trading classics
While William Haggas was robbing a German Classic on Sunday, German coach Markus Klug traveled to Rome and returned home with the Derby Italiano trophy courtesy of Ardakan (GB). It would have been more appropriate if Ardakan had won the Mehl-Mulhens-Rennen, the race named after the founding family of Gestut Rottgen, near Cologne, where he trained and bred, and where his offspring are located. Trusted Man (GB) .
This pony however does not bear the colors of Rottgen, who has been owned by the family for a century. Ardakan was sold to Holger Faust on behalf of Darius Racing for 40,000 euros at the BBAG Yearling Sale and, clearly appreciating the Italian Classic’s 1m3f, he became the second black category winner for his smash, who winning in the list Alaskakonigin (Ger) (Sternkoenig).
Klug also coaches Ardakan’s half-sister, Alaskasonne (Fr) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), who was a List winner in her hometown and entered the G2 Prix Corrida at Saint-Cloud. on Tuesday.
Another star for the international family
Outstanding jockey Stacelita (Fr) (Monsun {Ger}), Group/Class 1 winner in both France and the US, provided Frankel with their first senior winner and first Classic winner as their daughter Soul Stirring (Jpn) won the GI Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) in 2017.
Five years later, the same family returns to prominence with that same Classic as the daughter of Stacelita Stars On Earth (Jpn) takes another step forward in the Fillies’ quest for the Three Crowns after adding Yushun Himba on her victory in the GI Oka Sho (Japanese 1000 Guineas). As well as both being bred by Shadai Ranch, Soul Stirring and Earth Stars are connected by their rider, the Frenchman Christophe Lemaire.
Further enhancing the family’s wide international reach, the dam of Stars On Earth’s Southern Stars (GB), the daughter of Lane’s End Farm Smart Strike’s last stallion, was trained in Newmarket by John Gosden for Teruya Yoshida, and won a Sandown maiden.
While, Frankel bandwagon has been active at a rapid pace and he is now the son of 21 Group/Class 1 winners in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada and Dubai.
No Squiggle for Sieglinde
When the Time Form announced in October 2020 that Racehorse Outgoing publication editor Geoff Greetham said, “When the history of the pandemic is written down, the fall of the Timeline years will be no more than a footnote, but to the average audience. City and generations of writers and photographers have worked with the ‘racing bible’, which is certainly a low point.Nothing lasts forever but the Timeform chronologies have stood the test. of time longer than most and will remain as a long written history of the sport.”
Indeed, they will, and the watches that date back to 1948 and are collectors’ items, have been greatly overlooked.
Entering the breach, however, is Irish genealogy analyst and writer, Dr Sieglinde McGee, who recently published The best racehorse of 2021. This is her second annual, which includes essays, pedigree notes and breeding details of the top 220 horses in Europe as well as a review of the season. It is not only a true labor of love but also an incredibly valuable addition to the racing library and breeding buffs. Copies can be ordered via Amazon.
